There's a VPN travel hack doing the rounds again -- mostly thanks to a viral X post . Supposedly, if you set your VPN to a cheaper country, flights and hotel prices become cheaper.

So I tried it. Properly.

I used a VPN to switch my location to Brazil, Vietnam, Taipei and India. I used three of the best VPN providers -- ExpressVPN , NordVPN and Proton VPN -- and made sure I wasn't logged into any accounts. Every search was in a fresh Incognito tab, and I verified that the websites I visited, including Google Flights and Skyscanner, correctly detected my spoofed location and showed the appropriate local currency.

My results might surprise you: I didn't actually see meaningfully cheaper flights, although it did work better on another front.

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