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Hotels have followed the airlines' lead into adding fees to make up for low prices. While room rates have floundered for years, fees have risen at a fast clip. Before, you book your next cheap hotel room, you should pay attention to these 5 hotel fees:

So you're tired of battling the Great Recession which seems to linger on longer than you'd care. Even with your penny pinching, your monthly expenses leave next to nothing in savings. You still dream of travelling around the world, but that's a luxury reserved to the upper crust. Right? Wrong. Even if you don't have a rich uncle that favors you, you can still go on what the Aussies call “The Great Overseas Experience."

For young Australians and Kiwis, the 'Great OE' is a rite of passage. As soon as they graduate college, they work a bit to save just enough change to take care of the first leg of their trip. From there, they hustle their way around the world, working at an odd job here or there or securing temporary or seasonal employment. But in today's economy you don't have to be straight out of school to jet overseas, people of all ages can become world travelers on the cheap.