We’re committed to reducing the impact of travel on your budget and on the environment. With budgetplaces.com, you can make your stay carbon neutral when you make your reservation.
Your stay in a hotel, hostel, apartment or B&B has a carbon footprint – the quantity of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other climate change-causing greenhouse gases emitted in the burning of fossil fuels for electricity, heating and other activities. You can reduce the footprint of your stay by turning off lights and appliances when not in use, turning off heating/air conditioning when you’re not in the room and reusing towels and linens.
budgetplaces.com has partnered with Offset Options to give you the choice of making your stay carbon neutral by purchasing a carbon offset to address remaining emissions.*
On the budgetplaces.com “Reserve Accommodation” page, just tick the box indicating your desire to go carbon neutral. In the next step of the reservation process, you can choose the carbon offset project you want to support from a list of verified, high quality offset projects including wind farms, solar plants, and others. Offset Options offers only the best to ensure you’re making real impact. And, since everything’s more fun with friends, get your travel buddies to go carbon neutral too – share your action on facebook and twitter and see the positive impact grow.
We at budgetplaces.com are doing our part too. Our team is working to identify ways to reduce our own footprint by reducing our carbon emissions, increasing the energy efficiency of our operations, using more sustainable supplies, and reducing our waste. In addition to these reduction measures, we’re going carbon neutral too!
Stay tuned as we continue this quest. And,
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*Carbon offset quantities available on budgetplaces.com are a standard quantity representing 29kg CO2e per room per night. More information on footprint calculation can be found on our page about carbon offsetting. Or click here to visit our Offset Options partner page.