7 useful sites for a traveler

Our lives are spinning at tremendous speed, but digital life on the Internet is much, much faster. Thousands of new projects and startups appear and die every day. They behave like moths, soaring into the sky and falling on a flat surface.

The seemingly endless Internet is already full of various travel services that promise invaluable help, but in fact floundering in a shallow warm pool, pushing among their clones. Trying to fill niches that are already full. But there are pearls in a haystack. I'll share a few recently found pearls. The review is devoted to new, but already proven and useful services for travelers.

BUSBUD http://www.busbud.com/en

If you want to get from Madrid to Porto, from Warsaw to Prague, or from Saigon to Hanoi, use Busbud. The service will help you find a bus in 89 countries. It is especially useful in developing countries, where schedules are often not available online. The site stores the schedule, routes, prices and, if necessary, help to buy a ticket. This unique site is a great assistant to backpackers around the world.

TRIPEXPERT http://www.tripexpert.com/

Hotel reviews are a good thing, everyone needs them. But the problem with TripAdviser or TopHotels is that anyone can leave a review there. You need to shovel all the reviews, throw out the crazy, always dissatisfied, choose the average arithmetic of the remaining and still can not be sure. Why? Writing praise for a gift or money has become the norm. But the owner of the hotel will definitely write himself and his friends will ask for relatives. Reading reviews has become too tedious, and you can’t trust them anyway.

Tripexpert makes a difference. The site collects scores from all available travel guides, magazines and other trusted travel media. Its concept is that industry professionals give a more balanced assessment than non-professionals. In my opinion, it is a good alternative to existing services.

AIRHELP https://www.getairhelp.com/en

Suiting an airline is pointless. They have a huge staff of lawyers. You spend a lot of time and they'll still win the lawsuit. This is a myth that airlines like. It allows you not to waste time in court and save huge money.

If over the past three years, the flight you were flying was delayed, canceled, you were refused to board - Airhelp will gladly engage in hoaxing instead of you, for a small percentage of the compensation. The site is Russified, ask, I highly recommend.

TRIPPING www.tripping.com/

Apartments are a good alternative to hotels and hostels. But it can be difficult to find them, the information is motley, scattered and processing takes a lot of time. Sure, there's Airbnb, it's good, but we needed an alternative. She showed up, Tripping. The service brought together all the disparate suppliers of villas, apartments and apartments. These include: HomeAway, VRBO, FlipKey, Housetrip, Interhome, Roomorama and Booking.com.

HOLIDAYPIRATES www.piratesru.com/

After Britain, Germany and the United States came pirates. The site contains a lot of finds of cheap air tickets, composite routes, tours with a discount from different cities of Russia. If you have not yet decided where to go and are looking for an idea of where to go or how to hack an inexpensive trip, the site may come in handy for you.

SKIPLAGGET skiplagged.com

This site is an alternative to the existing flight search engines that we all know and love. But it works a little differently. He counts not only official connections, but is looking for combined routes. This is known as hidden city ticketing. Airlines are struggling with this, it's best not to abuse this trick, but sometimes you can. What is hidden city ticketing? For example, the cheapest Moscow-New York ticket costs $ 700, and a special offer Moscow-Boston (via New York) is issued - $ 600. Buy a $600 flight to Boston. We're going out in New York. Save $100. Important: in this way you need to buy a one-way ticket, the return ticket, if you bought it, is automatically canceled if you did not board one of the segments of your flight.

GRANSJOY gransjoy.com

The last service is a child from Russia. This creative site was made by guys from Siberia. In general terms, the service can help you save a little money, get a gift, or just give someone a positive emotion if you’re willing to take something with you and transfer it to where you’re going. Gransjoy - delivery of parcels by travelers.

Source: betraveling.ru



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