Travel ResourcesFor The Perfect Trip
Airfare & Flights
Skyscanner
I recommend starting your flight search here. Even if you’ll eventually book through another website (there are several I love working with), this is a great place to start and find the cheapest flight. If you plan enough time in advance, you can set a price alert and book the flight when the price drop.
Expedia
Expedia offers great flight deals and packages, including flight, accommodation, transportation, and more. Excellent interface, application with your booking information, and great service.
Google Flights
Google Flight offers a few unique features. First, it lets you see flight prices on a map view so you can pick your destination based on flight costs. You can also set the price range and trip duration; if you’re flexible, you can search for flights on specific dates, months, or in the next six months.
SeatGuru
SeatGuru is a handy tool for selecting your flight seats. You find all the information you need on each seat of your flight so you can pick the best one for your needs.
earoLOPA
It is similar to SeatGuru, with one main benefit: the ability to see a more detailed view of the plane, including the exact window location. I like to check both SeatGuru and aeroLOPA when looking for which seat to book.
Sleeping in Airports
Life happens, and sometimes you’ll get stuck at the airport and need to sleep in the airport. Sleeping in Airports tells you the best places to rest or sleep at each airport.
You can also check out our guide for the best airports and find places to rest or activities to do at different airports.
Accommodation
Booking.com
Booking.com is my go-to for hotel searches around the world. They have accommodations almost everywhere you pick on earth, including all types of properties. It had an excellent interface and endless reviews and ratings from real users.
airbnb
Airbnb is where I go when I’m looking for unique accommodation, where I take care of everything on my own, without the crowd you find in hotels. I love that you can find places by filters like beach, island, design, amazing views, and other unique filters.
HostelWorld
HostelWorld is the best place to find hostels, with tens of thousands of hostels and millions of users’ reviews.
Trivago
Unlike the rest of the booking sites, Trivago is a price comparison site. It’s an accommodation aggregation engine that presents results from different websites, including the hotels’ websites. It’s a great place to start your search and look for deals.
Expedia
Like flights, Expedia also offers great accommodations directory, including special deals of rooms or combinations of flights, rooms and even car rental.
Agoda
Agoda is a great place to find different types of accommodations. It’s growing fast with offers all over the world, but still, its real benefit is for booking in Asia.
CouchSurfing
This site is for those who are looking for a different travel experience. CouchSurfing lets you stay on people’s couches or spare rooms for free, almost anywhere. It’s a great way to save money and meet other people, especially locals. Of course, finding the right couch will require some time and flexibility, but it’s definitely possible.
Transportation
Rentalcars
Rentalcars.com provides car rental services with competitive prices in almost any location and from the biggest brands. But, most important, you have a big brand you can trust.
The Man in Seat 61
The Man in Seat 61 website covers every aspect of train travel worldwide.
It has comprehensive information on routes, times, prices, and train conditions. So if you plan a train journey or some epic trip by rail, check out this website before you go.
Cruise Sheet
A comprehensive cruise search engine. Easily find the cruise that fits your needs at the lowest price. More important, you’ll find a lot of information on each cruise company and the different ports.
Google Maps
I always use google maps when traveling. It’s a great tool to navigate everywhere and in any way (car, walk, bike, train). Make sure to pre-download the map of your trip area to save on data and make certain data is available even when you have no internet connection.
Citymapper
Citymapper app helps you easily find the best route using public and shared transit. Then, easily navigate by combining bus, subway, train, ferry, cabs, ride share, car share, and bike.
Cruise Critic
The best website to find great cruise deals and learn everything you need to know before going on a cruise. Tips, reviews, news, and an excellent cruise search engine.
Travel Insurance
Visitors Coverage
Using patented online search, compare, and purchase technology, VisitorsCoverage partners with the world’s top insurance underwriters and providers, offering hundreds of tailored policies to their customers.
Insubuy
The largest provider of visitor insurance which provides medical coverage as well as emergency medical evacuation, repatriation of remains, and travel-related coverages.
