Resources Best Travel Sites and Mobile Apps

This is a growing list of my favorite resources that I’ve found during my travels.  The websites and other resources are hand picked I use on a daily basis.

I will over time remove links to websites as well as adding the latest and greatest apps and website resources.  My goal is to make this a ongoing growing list of online resources with only the freshest and best content and usable information.

Sometimes a company that I used in the past will be on this list but will has become stale or not very useful.  If that is found,  I’ll revamp and remove that link and resource from the list.

I’ll have everything from the best websites for booking that amazing cheap flight to resources for finding jobs as a digital nomad.  One of the things to understand that as a traveler you sometimes need a way to replenish that bank account.  So you need to find ways of generation some money while on the road.  So i’ll also include links for finding international work and volunteer opportunities.

As a digital self-employed nomad, i’m sure you will have questions about how it’s done and how to best manage the digital life.  I have a seperate How to Become a Digital Nomad page as a resource for you to bookmark and share.

So without further ado here is the list.

FLIGHT RESOURCES

Hopper

This is my go to mobile app these days.  It’s a flight search and notification app that tells you the best times to buy a flight.  One of the cool key features is that it seems to be very honest in letting you know that it’s not a good time to book that flight.  If you are looking for hard to find destinations, this app might not fit the bill.  At this point it seems like it’s mostly for top destinations.  As this app grows in iterations I’m sure it will improve.  For now it’s a go download

My Rating: (4.5 / 5)

Skiplagged

Now this is a very interesting site and associated apps.  It has been in trouble in the past with the airlines trying to sue the company.  The main reason is that it has the ability to find really low cost flights by “gaming” the system with alternative routes.  It claims and rightly so, to expose the secrets of the industry by finding flights that are not found anywhere else.  It’s worth a try.

My Rating: (4 / 5)

BootsnAll – One-Stop Indie Travel

Let’s first start about what this blog and travel site is all about.  The focus from the creators of this site was to solve the complex travels that you might find when traveling around the world.  They provide you with some great travel search tools along with inspiration to get you out there.  Around the world travel is the key here.  The main tool is Indie. It’s billed as the world’s first tool that allows the user to search, price and book multi-stop and around the world tickets online.  They call it complex airfare.

My Rating: (3.5 / 5)

ITA Matrix

Built on the back of Google, this is a heavy duty search site for travel.  It has so many unique filter features like Cost per mile, Geosearch, Interactive Calendars and Color-coded time bars for comparing flights.  It does require some getting used to all the search filters but in the end it’s a pretty heavy duty search tool.  You cannot book flights on this tool.  You will have to go directly to the airline site for that part.

My Rating: (4.5 / 5)

WhichBudget

Sometimes you need to find a flight that you just can’t seem to locate on the major search aggregators.  This typically happens when you are traveling within a country that has local budget airlines.  These airlines are typically not easy to find.

My Rating: (4.5 / 5)

Airfare Watchdog

The main selling point of this site is the newsletter and alerts.  In fact my personal experience is that this search tool does find some good deals, but it does not that I’ve seen, have all the major OTA company feeds.  So this means that you might get a good deal but you also might not.  It’s a good tool to keep and use but don’t depend on this one alone.
My Rating: (3 / 5)