On this page we collected for you the most useful resources which we used and are currently using to book and plan all our travels, as well as purchase items for our trips. We highly recommend these websites and encourage you to check every website out and see what they can offer for your travel needs. These resources will help you plan your next trip, buy those needed travel essentials and show you what you absolutely need to see along the way.
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Whether we search for the cheapest flights, or book our next trip, we always do it with Skyscanner. We love that they compare all flights with every possible airline provider out there.
The search engine of Google Flights between hundreds of airline providers is amazing!
One the best companies that provides package deals, like flights and hotels in one. They are the experts in comparing everything you need to plan your travels + you get it at the lowest prices!
Momondo
Another great booking engine that compares different airlines and gets the cheapest prices for you. We love how simple the website is and how easy it is to use.
Emirates is our favorite airline in the world! It has a lot of seating space, a big tv screen with thousands of movies to choose from, good food and everything is included in the price. Booking directly through their site is really easy.
One of our favourite sites for booking our accommodation. Wherever we go, we always book our hotels with booking.com. The site has a great interface and it easy to use and it assures you of the lowest prices!
The biggest search engine to find a hostel everywhere over the world. We used this site many times for all our budget travels.
Our favourite way of staying somewhere is through Airbnb. By staying at someone’s house you get a real feeling for the culture, plus you get all the luxury of a house for often a cheaper price than hotels!
We really recommend housesitting. Housesitting means that you take care of someone’s pet and house in exchange for a free stay! So you get all the luxury of your own house, while people are away on holiday, and even have the company of a cute furry friend: what isn’t there to love?!
Hotels.com
We love this site as well to book our hotels. It’s a very extensive website with lots of filters to search. They often have deals going on, so it’s worth checking out the website regularly.
What we love the most about this website is that it compares hotels on other search engines so that you can be assured of the lowest price! The site is really easy to use and it forwards you directly to the website where the hotel is found on.
Discovercars.com is the best car booking platform out there and offers cars from all over the world. They make hiring a car easy by connecting customers all over the world with hire cars and making sure the price they see is the price they pay. We always check this website first when renting a car!
Rental Cars
Rentalcars.com is another great car booking platform and also offers cars from all over the world. We often check this website together with Discover Cars, to find the best prices for rental cars.
Whenever we want to hire a car in a certain country, we often use Hertz. Hertz is available literally everywhere over the world and you are assured of great quality cars for a good price.
Bookaway is an online ground transportation booking platform that takes the stress out of travel so you can enjoy the ride. We love using them on our trips!
Ferryscanner is the best ferry booking platform. There are so many ferry companies around the world but this website makes it easy to see them all and to book your ferry quickly!
12Go is the best transport booking platform for Asia. Here you’ll find all the tickets you need. From trains to buses to ferries and flights!
We use Amazon to buy all our travel necessities. From guidebooks to camera equipment to other travel gadgets. You can literally find everything on this website!
We ALWAYS buy our travel guides from Lonely Planet. We will never use other ones, because we love the extensive information they offer specially focused on backpackers, and we love how they organise their guidebooks.
This one is for the Dutchies: we regularly use bol.com to buy all our travel needs. You can find anything on this website, as you may all know.
When we want to go on a guided tour or try some other activities, we often book it through GetYourGuide. This site offers every possible activity you can think of.
Another great travel company where you can book really cool activities and even multi-day trips! They have lots of activities and tours to choose from, everywhere around the world.
This website is packed with deals! Whenever we want to visit an attraction or want to do a tour, we always check Klook to see if there is a discount. You can save lots of money by booking activities through this website!
Tripadvisor
When looking for the best places to visit or the coolest activities, we always check Tripadvisor. It has the most reviews about hotels, destinations and things to do.
Whenever we want to transfer money from our Dutch bank account to our International bank account or vice versa, we always use Transferwise, because this service offers you really low transfer costs!
BONUS: Use this link and you don’t pay any transfer costs!
We currently use Siteground as our website hosting and absolutely love it! After trying several other hosting platforms, which were way too slow for our website, we are finally happy with Siteground. It keeps our website fast and data safe.
Want to know our secret of how we build this website?! We did the ‘Business of Travel Blogging Course’ from Nomadic Matt! We loved it. It gave us all the practical things we needed to start our own blog and gave us tons of information about travel writing, SEO and even about how to make money with our travel blog! And he has even more courses focused on photography, videography and travel writing! Trust us: this is the course you need!
This is the tool we use to organise everything for our business! You can make different boards to organise tasks, information, your content schedule and much more. Since we discovered Trello, we can’t live without it anymore. We definitely recommend it to everyone and it’s free to use!
We recently switched to Convertkit and just love their email program! If you want a complete email program where it’s super easy to create different kinds of email sequences and send all your emails automatically, then definitely choose Convertkit! This program seriously makes creating sales funnels easy!
BONUS: you can even get a free plan with Convertkit!
We use Keysearch Pro to choose which keywords to add to our blogs. This really helps with SEO and makes sure your website ranks better in Google.
BONUS: Use this link to sign up and get a 20% discount!
Use discount code KSDISC
Envato is a great source for buying themes, graphics, plugins, fonts and literally anything you could think of for your website and graphic designs! We bought a lot of stuff through this website.
Grammarly
While blogging you’re writing a lot which means you’re probably going to make a lot of spelling mistakes. With Grammarly you no longer have to worry because this program checks your spelling ánd grammatica everywhere you write online. Good news is: you can start for free!
Hostgator is the hosting we started out with for our website. It’s a great host, especially when you are just starting out.
Lightroom is THE program that we use to edit our photos. You can literally change everything in your photo with this program and you can also create great presets. But it’s not only for editing, it’s also the best tool to sort through and organise your photos!
One option to earn money online is to sell your photos! We have been using Shutterstock for a few years now already to sell our photos, and it works very well! For us, this is the stocksite that earns best, so we definitely recommend it. TIP: See our portfolio on Shutterstock here!
- Polarsteps: We use this app to automatically track our travels. Polarsteps follows exactly your travel route through GPS and you can also show it to your friends who follow you! For every stop, you can add a description and photos. Sort of a social media but then with your travel route, always automatically updated! We absolutely love using this app. Without noticing, we keep track of everywhere we’ve been. The tracking even works offline!
- Maps.me: The offline GPS navigation you need! When we have internet, we mostly use Google Maps, but since we are often going to remote places as well, we need an offline solution as well. That is maps.me for us! Just download the maps the want to use and then you can always use it offline!
- Tripcase: When you’re traveling you make tons of bookings at all kinds of different websites. Hotels through booking.com, flights through Skyscanner etc. How nice would it be if you can have all your bookings together in one app? With Tripcase you can!
- Travello: A social media app specially for travelers! On Travello you can post photos and stories, just like you would do on Facebook or any other social media, but what is most unique on this app is that you can easily find people that are close to you or that are also traveling to the same country as you. It is a great way to meet new people and there is even a section with meetups you can attend!
- Travelibro: Also a sort of social media app for travelers, but then really focused on trip itineraries. On this app, you can share your journey per day with the world, so other people can really follow your itinerary and get inspiration for themselves!
- Wikicamps: A super useful app (especially for Australia) to find every campground close to you or in the whole country. When we were roadtrippin’ through Australia we used this app all the time. You can literally find all the paid and free campsites in Australia and you can also see reviews from other people and what the price per night is.
- Flight Tracker: With this app, you can exactly follow a flight. Just type in the flight number or the destination and airline and you’ll find the flight in the app! It shows you at what time the flight is scheduled, if it’s on time or delayed and you can even see where the plane is right now on a map!
- Campermate: A bit the same as Wikicamps, but then for more countries and sometimes a bit more detailed. You can also find every paid and free campsite in a country. Plus from this app is that there are also private places listed, for example when you can stay on a driveway at someone’s home!
- GoHype: A very cool app on which you can book exactly the same trips as your favorite travel bloggers! Travel bloggers add information about the trip they did, hotels they stayed in and activities they did and you can book exactly the same hotel, activities etc. Great inspiration for your next trip!
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