The Best Travel Websites

Flights

Trip.com - One of the largest online travel agencies, with over 2 million individual flight routes available, plus 1.2 million hotels spread across 200 countries and regions. 

CheapFlights - A beautiful looking website. I love the way the picture of your destination comes up when you search. Makes me excited for the trip. It's an aggregator site that includes a lot of the budget airlines.

Kayak - Find and book cheap flights, hotels, holidays and hire cars. Great for flights leaving the United States, using a variety of airline websites and other flightbrokers.

CheapOair - One of the bigger platforms offering flights, hotels and cars. Use our exclusive discount coupon for a $40 automatic flight discount (on up to 4 passengers): "TWB40".

Travelocity - One of the bigger travel agencies, with a well-deserved reputation for their easy-to-use website and top notch customer support. They offer discounts when booking flights and hotels together or whole vacation packages.

Farecompare.com - Search, find and compare the cheapest travel deals on cheap flights, hotel deals, and vacations.

FlightList - A super useful flight search tool designed for digital nomads or those with flexible flying dates and locations. The most powerful way to score a bargain flight.

Vayama - International flights from the US. A great place to start. 

Flights.com - Great travel booking sites that offers the best rates available for flights around the world.

TUI - The UK's leading travel brand, specialising in creating hassle-free holidays for millions of travellers.

Accomodation

Booking.com - My favourite platform for accommodation all over the world.

TripAdvisor - The world's biggest source for hotel and destination reviews.

Agoda - Another good one for Southeast Asia, although I can’t stand that there is no option for choosing the number of people needed for the room.

Flatio - A large selection of high quality apartments and rooms perfect for digital nomads.

Coliving - A interesting concept focused on monthly stays that will suit remote workers and digital nomads - covering 300+ cities in over 60 countries. 

HostelWorld - Over 30,000 low-cost accommodation options in 180 countries.

Transport & Storage

RentalCars.com - One of the biggest selections available and no credit card fees.

Turo - a leading peer-to-peer car rental platform.

Compare and Choose - specialises in comparing prices on campervan hire, hotels, adventures and car rental on a global scale.

Hotwire - One of our favourite car rental sites with low prices.

Cruise Plotter - A destination-based interactive map for finding and booking upcoming international cruises.

LuggageHero - Before you head to the airport, if you have a few hours free, drop off your luggage at a secure peer-to-peer storage facility and free up your hands.

Stasher - Store your luggage in one of 3,000 locations across 600 cities at competitive rates.

Tours & Services

Find a local guide to help you get immersed in an exotic culture. Or perhaps you'd just prefer someone else to do all the hard work for you. 

Rakuten Travel (formally Voyagin) - A huge range of tours in hundreds of destinations run by experienced guides.

Viator - Owned by TripAdvisor, this platform offers many tours with transparent reviews.

Tours By Locals - Find unique tours here that you won't find anywhere else.

Klook - A popular tour platform in Southeast Asia.

Intrepid Travel - One of the world's largest small group tour companies covering over 100 countries.

CityPass - the most popular discount booklet for attractions in the United States and Canada.

House Sitting

Who doesn't want free accomodation? Check out out useful guide to get started with house sitting.

TrustedHousesitters - We are a member of this site, which has FREE house sitting opportunities all over the world. It's a yearly fee, which in the end could save you thousands. 

MindMyHouse - Another house sitting site that is good to check out. 

Airlines We Like

Yes, it's true. There are actually airlines we look forward to flying with.

Emirates - Another UAE airline, and first class service. We flew with them from Dubai to Perth. Surprisingly, their prices are very good considering the excellent service we've received. Their routes also cover a lot of Asia and Europe which means less transiting, and getting to your destination faster.

Qatar - We've only flown once with Qatar from Romania to Bali, and it was a really enjoyable experience. Very good food, plenty of space and friendly service.

Research

VisaHQ - find out if you need a visa before you travel on your next holiday. It's a great place to start for visa requirements. For in-depth details, it's always safest to check the official embassy website for the specific country you are visiting.

WeatherSpark - Get detailed weather averages for individual months anywhere around the world. This helps you to plan to bring the right clothes with you. I use this all the time.

Numbeo - when we decide where to travel, I look at the cost of living there to determine how much we need to budget. This website takes the guesswork out and provides surprising detail from accomodation to food to entertainment and even utilities. The "consumer price index" is a magic number that makes it even easier to compare side-by-side various cities and how much it costs to live there.

AreaVibes - helps its searchers find the best places to live in America. Simply enter an address, zip code, neighbourhood or city and AreaVibes will return a livability score. The score breaks down into grading’s for amenities, cost of living, crime, education, employment, housing and weather to ensure that you are fully informed on the location you are interested in. 

Shopping/Services

Whether you need to buy luggage for your holiday or get a package shipped to you in Timbuktu, these will help.

Holafly - An easy-to-use eSIM provider so you can get the best data rates wherever you go (available on supported phones). No need to switch physical SIM cards anymore!

Saily - An eSIM marketplace with decent pricing, covering a large number of countries. Run by the same team as NordVPN.

ReShip - Some merchants only ship within the US. No worries. Simply place your online order as usual and have the delivery sent to ReShip and they'll send it onto you. Easy.

Travelex Insurance - Get travel protection from one of the biggest names in the travel world.

Pimsleur - The best way to learn a new language, hands down.

Audiobooks.com - I find the best way to read while travelling is with an audiobook. Try it free for 30 days.

Money

In line with our interview series, Show Me The Money, here are some useful websites that will help you generate a location-independant income.

Wise (formerly TransferWise) - Money transfers that are up to 8x cheaper than typical banks. Get first transfer free (up to £500) using our link.

Payoneer - For non-US citizens getting a US-based account with an ATM card that can be used anywhere in the world sounds too good to be true... but it's not.

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