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As every married couple knows through talking to their friends and watching wedding plans go awry at other people's weddings, you always need to be prepared for unexpected expenses. When it comes time for their honeymoon though, they relax. They believe that they've done all the planning they need to do. They stretch out on a beautiful beach somewhere. Well, for any honeymoon on a budget (which would be practically every honeymoon), you always have to be prepared for the unexpected.

When you're traveling to a distant location, you can never know for sure that everything's going to go according to plan. You always discover that you've underestimated something or that some someone's neglected to tell you about a few costs.

For instance, it's easy to decide that you'll fly to the Bahamas and since that's a six-hour flight away, that you don't really need to work in any extra money for food at the airport. The thing is though, that you could easily forget that you've booked a flight that's not all that direct. To save on expenses, you could have booked a flight that included a layover. What do you do then?

You keep seeing these travel deals all the time on Facebook and Twitter – flights at $10 a night, hotel rooms at $90 a night, car rentals a $10 a night, trips to the Far East where you get a seat for your wife for free – are these cheap travel deals for real?

Not only are there real, everyone already knows they are real, too. Internet-savvy holidaymakers and travelers have known for quite a while that the social networking sites – Foursquare, Facebook, Twitter and the others – make all kinds of exclusive deals available to anyone who's willing to follow them on the social networking sites. You get cruise line deals, restaurant deals, chores, car rentals and so on.

Every travel industry company has a Facebook page and a Twitter presence. If you're interested in cheap travel deals and don't have an account on the social media places, you’d better get started right now. Once you're there, look for all the travel companies that you know of and do what you can to follow them on Twitter or like them on Facebook. Right away, the cheap travel deals will come to you.

Know what it feels like to work all year to put a sum of money together for your yearly family vacation and then when it actually starts, to see it nickeled and dimed down to nothing? Hidden fees are the bane of dealing with the travel industry as far as today's travelers are concerned. It may have just started out with the airlines charging you for the bags you check in. But now, the entire travel industry seems to have caught on to how this nickeling and diming habit can be very profitable. Let's take a look at what the hidden fees are and what you can do about them.

It's getting ridiculous how the service businesses hate to pay any employee at all to serve their customers. These days, they want you to pay a $10 reservation convenience fee when you call the reservation center and make a booking through an agent. You're supposed to just use the website, and spare them the expense of employing someone to talk to you. American, United, Southwest – every manner of airline does this these days.

There is a great sneaky way to get around this fee. They can only charge you anything if you call and then buy from the agent. Instead, just call to ask questions. Ask all you want. When you have information you need, book on your favorite Internet booking website instead. That should teach them.

The travel industry is getting better at raising its prices. They've learned that they can easily raise prices if can cut down on capacity – the warplanes if your hotels – they can easily raise prices. What this means for you and me though is that from now on, we are going to have to work harder to find our discounts. While being creative and original is always going to bring you better results than simply following a formula, these discount travel websites we have below should certainly get you started off in solid fashion.

Let's start with discount travel websites that help you hunt those airfare discounts down. Whether you're looking for cheap flights to a specific destination or you're just hoping to travel somewhere nice in general, AirfareWatchdog is a great way to track down those discounts that the major travel websites won't talk about.

They look in all kinds of obscure places, too. They look in those e-mail newsletters that the airlines only send to subscribers, these look for special discounts that the low-cost airlines put out from time to time, and so on.