Travel organization

Buying tickets

• Aviasales and Skyscanner are air ticket search engines. According to travelers, the first is better looking for tickets in Europe and Asia, the second in the Americas and Latin America.

• Momondo - considered the best airline booking system in the world.

• Cheapflights - cheap flights around the world.

• Kayak is a search engine for air tickets, hotels and car rental services. Shows how much the cost of renting a home differs from prices on other aggregators.

Very often the cheapest can be bought directly on the websites of well-known airlines. Find in well-known aggregators, for example, www.momondo.com or www.expedia.com, which airlines fly to the airport you are interested in and check on the airline's website.

• AlphaFlightGuru.com are unique offers for tickets to business class (only to business class, you don't even need economy there). You leave a request for the desired international flight, they send the best offer on this route during the day. Savings from public prices on airline websites up to 70%.

• Omio Cheap ticket search service across Europe for trains, buses and planes. Offers convenient options for moving within countries: buses in Germany, trains in Spain, etc.

• SeatGuru is a useful service for large aircraft passengers. And those who like places at emergency exits, where there is a lot of legroom. Choose the airline and flight number (or specify flight dates) and book the best seats.

Hotel reservation

• Booking.com is one of the best and most promoted booking systems around the world. Does not always offer the best prices, but it is convenient to choose a hotel by rating, and then punch it for the best price in Hotelscombined

• Airbnb is a rental service for apartments and houses.

• Homes & Villas by Marriott International - analogue. Airbnb At the time of the launch of the project in 2019, more than 2 thousand premium and luxury real estate properties are offered for lease, which are located in Europe, USA the Caribbean and Latin America.

• Expedia is the most popular and very promoted American booking system for hotels, air tickets, cars. We act as in www.booking.com - we choose a hotel by rating, and then break through it for the best price in www.hotelscombined.com

• Hotelscombined is the best price comparison system for booking hotels and hotels around the world - prices are often better than directly in the hotels themselves.

• Luxurylink [1] and Mrandmrssmith are a collection of specially selected hotels around the world with special chic and charm.

Europe

• HotelChains.com - as of August 2015, the site combines offers from 802 chains with a total of more than 16,000 hotels in 32 countries.

Thailand

• Sawadee.com is the best hotel booking site in Thailand.

Car rental

• Rentalcars - finds profitable offers from rental companies in 160 countries. Please note: some rental services charge insurance if you are under 25-30 or over 65.

• Auto-europe.co.uk is the best car rental aggregator in well-known companies (Europcar, Avis, Hertz, Budget). Remember to check the Irish version of the site may differ in more deals and lower prices (Autoeurope.ie). For example, I rented an Audi Q5 for the New Year for 55 euros per day at Europcar.

• Carrentals.co.uk is an analogue of the above car rental aggregator.

Festivals

• World Festival Calendar

TAdviser has prepared the world's best calendar of world festivals.

Sights

• Whc.unesco.org - The UNESCO World Heritage List includes 725 cultural, 183 natural and 28 mixed sites. This is the wealth of our civilization, having seen which you can safely say that you have learned all the beauty of the world.

• Thesalmons.org - a link to another version of the World Heritage List display.

• 360 Cities - Spherical panoramas from around the world

Maps

• Maps.me are detailed maps that work well without the Internet. Using GPS, they will take you all over the world, the main thing is to download maps of the desired area in advance. Don't forget to tag the places you want to visit. The application builds the shortest route for walking and driving by car, train, bicycle.

• Yandex.Maps - for adherents of services from Yandex. There are different layers of maps, notifications about the road situation in the cities of the CIS. Work without the Internet if you downloaded maps of the region of interest in advance or viewed the area online.

• Google Maps is convenient if for some reason you do not like the previous option or you have everything synchronized between Google services . Note that these cards take up a lot of space, and the cache is stored for 30 days. In order not to spend all mobile traffic on them, in the settings allow updating only over Wi-Fi. In Google Street View, you can see a three-dimensional projection of the streets of the city you are going to.

Travel Guides: Internet and Audio

• izi.travel - 10 thousand free audio guides to different cities and sights of the world. The guide understands the location of the person and at the right time plays audio or video, shows a picture or map of the area.

• Extractide - excursions in 113 countries in Russian. Prepayment by card - 20%, the rest - in cash on the spot. The service guarantees the security of payments and the reliability of guides. Group, individual, walking, cycling, thematic, "Instagram" - excursions for every taste and wallet.

• Страна.ру is a guide to Russia.

• Perito-burrito - guides and tips for those who have already seen enough of the cathedrals and crowds of tourists in museums. Here, for example: Parisian Art Nouveau architecture; flowering places of lavender, poppies and lotuses in Russia; abandoned sites of Northern Italy.

Restaurant guide

ViaMichelin.com - many other excellent establishments are recommended for every taste and color. You can also ask local residents about the most popular restaurants - they usually call really worthy establishments filled with the local population.

Entertainments

Attractiontix.co.uk is the world leader in entertainment ticket sales, including Disney World Florida, Alton Towers, Siam Park, Universal Studios, London Eye, Disneyland Paris, Port Aventura. Best price guarantee.

Translators

• Google Translate - use voice input and freely communicate with a Korean, Finnish or Mexican.

Long-term residence

Nomadlist - A database with 2,300 + cities around the world. You can choose a place ideal for relaxing or prolonged stopping during "digital nomadism." Cities are ranked by cost of living, internet speed, temperature, air purity, etc.

Chronicle

2024: Besttrip travel management service launched. Investments are estimated at 0.5 billion rubles

In early April 2024, Denis Remenyako, owner of the large pharmaceutical distributor FC Grand Capital, launched the Besttrip online service (Besttrip LLC) for organizing travel. Investments in the project are estimated at at least 500 million rubles. Read more here.