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.
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
Tranportation – or you choose public transport for more convenience
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
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.
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