Research before you travel, and learn to save money & time

Planning a trip takes a lot of time and effort. You waste days planning where to stay, finding places to eat, wondering what the cost would be and how big the language barrier is. Another thing people worry about when traveling is their safety. Most of the popular cities nowadays are safe even during the nighttime but there are exceptions. Some places in the world are unsafe, others are not as friendly to visitors, lgbtq+ members or even women. Trip planning is a whole job in itself, the things listed above are just a small portion of it all, weather, wifi speed, nightlife, things to do and places to visit, it takes a lot of work to make the best out of your visit.

We recommend you use WeNomad to scout the place before you go, and MaxTravel if you want to save some money and earn some discounts.

WeNomad will help you:

Choose a city

If you haven’t planned on visiting a specific country or a city and you just want to find a fun and nice place to go for a holiday with friends or with a loved one, you can always scroll through all of the cities or just play around with the map. WeNomad offers filters to help you find what you need, whether it be a populated or a small city. You can include your budget and the continent you want to visit.

Find out more about the city

After you’ve chosen the place you want to visit you are met with a small description, an overall score and different ratings of 1 to 5 stars of the most important things, such as popularity, weather, wifi speed and reliability, English speaking, nightlife, and much more.
WeNomad also helps you explore the area before you go there, it gives you lists of things to do, co-working spaces, recommended restaurants and cafes to work from. You can also check out the city research so you know how the transportation and the nightlife is, or whether you’ll be able to interact with other people in English. They even go as far as providing info about things such as tipping, drinkable tap water, power plugs, ordering things online and apps to download for your trip there.

After choosing a city with WeNomad, you can start working on the booking with MaxTravel.

Max is a free to use, travel booking app with access to exclusive discounts at over 800 000 hotels. By using the app you earn points that grow over time. You earn 10 points for every dollar you spend when booking travel, they grow by 3% a year and you can track them in real-time. On your next booking you will get 1$ off for every 100 points redeemed.
MaxTravel’s plan is to expand and feature bookings for rental cars, activities, shopping, transfers, credit cards and more. They have a goal set in mind and are trying to reach it and expand, a part of that goal is to help people save money and have easier bookings.

These are the two things I’ve found in the recent months that I plan on using on my next trip. I really like WeNomad, and as they continue to expand there will be more information on even more cities, which is great. Max on the other hand is a new app and doesn’t yet have the features they plan on having, but as they continue to expand it will become a must have for trips, and I plan to stay around and see.