Points.com is a frequent flyer rewards-management portal where members can trade and exchange points/miles between their registered reward programs. For example, you can convert credit card points into flight miles on any number of top airlines. Member Benefits: Membership is free. Exchange miles or points between programs Shop using miles or points instead of dollars […]
HotelsCombined
HotelsCombined.com is a hotel aggregation site that searches room availability and rates from all major travel websites at the same time. Instantly compare hotel details, rates, availability and taxes from such websites as Hotels.com, Travelocity.com, Expedia.com, Booking.com (and many more) all in one set of search results. www.hotelscombined.com HotelsCombined.com searches the following hotel sites: AccorHotels.com […]
Worldnomads
Worldnomads offer travel insurance that caters for backpackers and long term RTW travel. Unlike many online travel insurance agents there is no restriction to your country of origin (available to residents from over 150 countries.) You can also extend your policy while you are travelling. www.worldnomads.com
Hostelworld
Hostelworld.com is the worlds largest online hostel booking site. The site enables online confirmed bookings for backpacker hostels around the world. which beats the old way of hostelling where you would just show up to town and hope there was a spare bed. Hostelworld.com also features city guides, sightseeing tour bookings and backpacking information for […]
Skyscanner
Most flight search engines will only provide a search for scheduled flights, leaving you to look and compare the budget airlines yourself. Skyscanner searches both scheduled and budget airlines (such as Ryanair and AirAsia.) The price of the budget fares takes into account compulsory fees such as taxes and airport charges, but you will need […]
FlyerTalk
FlyerTalk is the world’s most popular frequent flyer community, where frequent travelers around the world come to exchange knowledge and experiences about everything miles and points related. www.flyertalk.com
Degree Confluence Project
The Degree Confluence Project aims to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. www.confluence.org
The Bathroom Diaries
The Bathroom Diaries is the world’s largest database of toilet locations. It rates over 12,000 public bathrooms in more than 120 countries. Handy for finding public toilets in new locations. www.thebathroomdiaries.com Travel Directory: Toilet Finders
Luggage Limits
Luggage Limits details baggage allowance information on all routes and ticket classes for over 60 airlines. Avoid expensive airline luggage fees by preparing before you go. www.luggagelimits.com
Airbnb
AirBnB is an online marketplace that can turn your place into a B and B. Anything from a spare room to an entire apartment can be listed. You can set your own price and you can accept or decline each application. For prospective lodgers, you can search for destinations and read user reviews of listed […]