29 convenient services that make the life of any traveler easier

Travel planning is a very pleasant experience, but sometimes it can be very troublesome. Specifically, to make life easier for travelers, we have put together the most convenient services that will help you get the most out of your money and also save some money.

Compare prices, tickets, hotels

Services Momondo.ru and Kayak.com help to compare the information of many sites from the tourism sector. Here is the cost of tickets, and all the pros and cons of hotels, and car rental companies. So the traveler can only choose the option that suits him.

Finding a cheap flight is easy!

Another useful service is Flywithalex.club. It is easy to find a cheap plane ticket to anywhere in the world. To do this, it is enough to subscribe to the newsletter, and several times a week, favorable offers will come to the mail. Moreover, they are all carefully chosen manually by the author of the service. Ticket prices are on average twice lower, but sometimes you come across really tidbits: discounts on tickets up to 75%. And it’s better to save on flights than on exploring a new city. Yes, and often tickets are the most expensive trip.

For those who are easy to climb

For those who love spontaneity, there is also a great site - Lastminute.com . If you suddenly woke up early in the morning and decided that you urgently need to meet the next dawn on the ocean or wander in the jungle of the Amazon, this service is ideal: using Lastminute.com you can organize a profitable trip literally at the last minute.

We choose transport: trains, buses, ferries, cars

Traveling by train is very romantic, agree. No, of course, this is not about the Russian railways, where the journey from point A to point B takes several days (although this has its own share of romance). But trains in Europe are a completely different matter. You can get from one city to another in a few hours, while ticket prices are very attractive. And to find the ticket you need just go to the site Raileurope.com.

Well, for those who do not want to be limited only to Europe, or only by train, there is an excellent solution - Rome2rio.com. Here you can find information on buses and even ferries. In addition, there is a Russian-language site, which greatly simplifies the search.

And of course, where on a trip without a car. On the site Autoeurope.com You can find a car of any price category. This is a great solution for those traveling with a company or family.

We are looking for travel companions

For those who need a company on a trip, there are several excellent services at once. So, dating site Poputchik.ru - A whole social network for finding fellow travelers. Here it is easy to find a company for a joint trip to anywhere in the world.

Another similar Russian-language service is Prosto-poputchik.ru. Well, only the lazy did not hear about Blablacar - here you can join a trip from one city to another, or take a companion on the road, while significantly saving on a ticket or gasoline.

The best services for finding housing

One of the most popular services for finding housing is Airbnb.ru. The most ordinary people rent their apartments on the site, the resource works in 190 countries of the world, and the number of cities can not be counted. Well, the most attractive thing is that on Airbnb you can find any kind of housing: from a room in an apartment to a real castle.

A service Couchsurfing.com in general, it provides an incredible opportunity for practically free living: the site was created in order to acquaint travelers with the local culture. Everyone can invite a tourist to their house for a couple of days absolutely free of charge. But some national gift to thank the owner for hospitality is still worth it.

Or maybe you have a desire not only to visit someone, but also to exchange housing for a while? There is a home exchange resource for this: HomeExchange.com. About 65 thousand houses from 150 countries of the world are registered in the database. Suddenly, some foreigner dreams of a harsh Yakut winter or the beauties of Kamchatka? Do not miss this chance.

Another great service with which you can find hotels and cheap guesthouses is Agoda.com. It is especially good for those who plan to go to Asia. You can book a room for a couple of days or take a long-term rental.

Also, tourists traveling to Asia, should look at the site Hotellook.ru. Here you can see all the hotels that are registered on various resources, including the aforementioned agoda and booking. The service is convenient in that it has a map, so it’s enough to note the area you are interested in, and the site will select you hotels within it.

Do not miss the fun part

So, we safely reached the destination, so what next? What to do in a particular country or city? On Vinsky forum collected tips from true professionals, reports of avid travelers and many all sorts of usefulness. Information from living people who tell what and where to look. True, the site will have to tinker with, finding the right information is not so easy, but it's worth it.

Another major Russian-language resource for travelers is Tourister.ru. It has collected a lot of practical information: reviews of cities and countries, interesting articles, as well as mini-blogs of travelers who share their experiences.

On a relatively new service www.oddviser.com You can find information on what to do in different countries. The site has appeared recently, there are not many articles here, but all of them are for 2016-2017, which means that there is no outdated information, unlike previous sites. The service operates under the motto "What to do in the world - step-by-step instructions on adventure."

The most convenient cards

Service Tripomatic.com helps to think through the route of travel in detail. Here you can find detailed maps of cities where it is easy to mark everything that you are interested in in a new place, supplementing each attraction with photographs and a description.

It is not necessary to resort to the services of local guides, buy maps and guides, because all information can be obtained on the network. There is a convenient service for this. Stay.com: just select the places of interest for you in the new city, and the site will form a detailed guide based on your request with descriptions and marks on the map. The undoubted advantage of this service is that all data can be printed or downloaded to your smartphone, in which case the application will work in offline mode.

Another mega-convenient application - Maps.me. It is enough to download a city map on your smartphone, and all its infrastructure will be at your fingertips. The card works offline, so it is indispensable in countries where expensive Internet or poorly catches the connection.

Free Internet

As you know, roaming in another country is not a cheap pleasure. But here for travelers there are life hacks.

For example, an application Instabridge It’s simply irreplaceable: it will help you find the nearest free WiFi, and will also provide automatic connection to public networks.

On another service Wifimap collected more than 100 million wireless Internet access points in different parts of the world. There are both free points and passwords for private WiFi.

For those who go to a country where some sites are blocked (for example, China), there is also a trick: just install the application Seed4Me VPN on your iPhone, and you have access to closed traffic, and your favorite Facebook and Google are always at hand. How is that? In fact, everything is very simple: the application will only change your IP address to another country.

And other utility

Countries where you do not need a visa

Foreign embassies and their addresses in Moscow

A convenient site with which you can easily prepare a list of things on a trip.

Numbeo - The world's largest database, which collects information about the cost of living in a particular city. Here you can find the average income per family, food prices, transportation costs, average check in a restaurant, etc.

application Foreign Assistant - A service specially developed by the Russian Foreign Ministry. With its help, you can contact the authorities, find out where the nearest embassies are located abroad, and also get timely information about emergency situations.