Tools that help plan your trip
When planing a trip use of online tool is a must these days. Below I will enumerate links to online tools that I use most often grupped by category they are in. If you click on link provided here and further on buy services they provide I get some comission (Affilate) while you pay same price as if you opened page from another link. Please do use links and help me finance my travels.
Table of Contents
General – here you can find flight tickets, hotels, car rental … easy spot
- Trip.com – best prices, extra coins you can use, great services
- Omio – big provider, many options
- Kiwi – used it once
- Expedia – didn’t used it yet
Flight – find flight for your next destination is usualy first step in planing
- Skyscanner – most popular and probably best place to search for flights
- AviaSales – booked few flights lower prices I could find
- PrioriyPass – lounge reservation at airports
- WayAway – search for cheap tickets, didn’t used it yet
Accomodation – next you will need to find a place to sleep
- Booking – biggest name in the game, this is first place to strart looking for room
- Agoda – few times I found cheaper rooms here
- Hotellook – used it twice for rooms that had extra discounts
- Hostelworld – it was biggest name for hostels, but as booking offers now hostels as well they are not that good
Car rental – when you settle in you would like to move around, driving yourself gives you flexibility
- DiscoverCars – I got best service from them
- Rentalcars – biggest name in car rentals, used it few times, no problems
- GetRentacar – option I didn’t use
- AutoEurope – option I didn’t use
- Localrent – option I didn’t use
- Economybookings.com – option I didn’t use
- QEEQ – option I didn’t use
Tranportation – or you choose public transport for more convenience
- Flixbus – bus transport
- Busbud – bus transport
- Kiwitaxi – taxi
- GetTransfer – transfer from airports and similar
- Welcome pickups – transfer from airports and similar
- intui.trtavel – transfer from airports and similar
- Trainline – train transport
- RailEurope – train transport
- SeaRadar – charter yachts
- BikesBooking.com – bikes
Attractions – when you are at new location you want to explore what they offer, so buy tickets and tour online and don’t what in lines
- GetYourGuide – wide range of attractions they cover
- Klook – also similar to previous
- Viator – big name but not best service
- Ticketmaster – ticket for big concerts, used it twice, ok
- TicketNetwork – ticket for big concerts
- WeGoTrip – didn’t used it yet
eSIM – on destination you don’t need to buy phisical SIM card, bit more expensive but easier to use
- Yesim – used it most of times as it was cheaper
- Airalo – most popular, I tried it, it works
- Drimsim – you buy eSIM and pay data you use, no packeges
Insurance – in case something hapens on the road
- World Nomads – biggest name for travel insurance
- EKTA – option I didn’t use
Other – misc things connected with traveling
- AirHelp – help you get compensation for delayed flights
- Compensair – help you get compensation for delayed flights
- Radical storage – you can find storage place for your luggage on the go, very useful
Affiliate – how it works
I will try to explain how it works. For example Booking.com sell room for a hotel and they get comission for it. But if you go to their page through my link they see it as I brought them customer and give me a share of comission they get. In table bellow you can see example.
| Parties involved | Without my link | With my link |
| You as customer | 100 $ | 100 $ |
| Booking.com | 20$ (20% commission) | 16 $ (commission minus my cut) |
| Me | 0 $ (I am not involved) | 4 $ (20% commission from Booking) |
| Hotel | 80 $ | 80 $ |
For You and hotel there is no difference, just in second case Booking gives me share of their income. It is not big amount, I would need to “sell” 1250 $ worh of rooms to get commission of 50$ (that is minimum amount they pay out). With flight is even less and would need 5000 $ sold tickets before gettring any money out of it. But I am not greedy, slowly it will accumulate. I otherwise use TravelPayouts, that privdes system with all of provider in one place and I don’t need individual work with them. If you have blog or Instagram account with some traffic you can try to monetize it.
