I am not much of a travel planner and my biggest travel challenge was searching for china travel information when I went to adopt my two children. I am not generally much of a budget travel planner either, but I did do what you would consider Spain budget travel. I was getting frustrated looking for Hawaii travel deals to get out of the cold one winter, so when my mother booked us on a trip to Spain to stay in a time share exchange in the middle of winter I gladly accepted. Everything went smooth with our flight reservations and we arrived in Spain with expectations of sunny beaches and golf. We did not make car reservations and instead opted to take taxies. That turned out to be a big mistake. First the taxies were too small to fit our hard golf cases and so they took forever to strap them on the top of a taxi for our ride to the resort. It also turned out that everything in the Costa del Sol area is accessible from one main highway that follows the coast so we really could have navigated a rental car. Perhaps next time I travel out of the country I will be smart enough to get a travel agent to find me the best travel packages to Italy . I'm sure they have small taxies too.