Our resources for planning a trip from scratch

Finding comfortable, well-located places to stay is one of our priorities when we plan our trips. To find a place to stay we use:

Booking.com and Agoda

You can find most of the world's accommodation on Booking.com and Agoda, from guesthouses to hostels and apartments. Best of all, the more you book through their apps, the bigger the discounts you can get.

Hostelworld

A website devoted entirely to finding and booking hostels!

Airbnb

If you're going to stay for longer periods, it's best to book through Airbnb to get long-stay discounts.

To stay connected on our trips, we buy an eSIM. They're a convenient, flexible way to have internet abroad without any hassle.

Holafly

Holafly offers eSIMs in more than 100 countries, so you can get online easily and cheaply. You can manage everything directly from its app.

If you have questions about eSIMs, we have an article where we tell you more.

Travel insurance is one of the first things we buy before every trip.

Heymondo

This travel insurer offers options for short stays as well as specialized insurance for digital nomads. And if you travel with a lot of tech, it lets you insure it, which takes one worry off your mind.

With our Heymondo link you get a discount on your travel insurance.

Assist 365

Another travel assistance provider we've tried and recommend is Assist 365. The good thing is that if you buy from Argentina, they usually offer interest-free installments, although the medical coverage tends to be lower than Heymondo's and the prices are quite similar.

You get 5% off Assist 365 using our link.

Saving on a plane ticket makes a big difference to your budget. There are several tricks for finding the cheapest plane tickets, but it all starts with research.

Google Flights

We almost always start by looking at flights on Google Flights to get an overall picture of prices. It also lets you search for flights from, say, Argentina to Europe as a whole, so you can see the price of a flight to each European country and choose based on price.

Skyscanner

This is our favorite tool for booking flights, since it lets you compare flights with some very useful features.

Depending on the type of trip, sometimes we get around by rental car, bus, train or ferry, and we have a tool for each.

discovercars.com

To rent a car we use the discovercars.com search engine, which shows you everything on offer and often has deals.

12Go

To buy bus, train, ferry or van tickets we use 12Go, especially when we're in Asia.

Omio

For train and bus tickets around Europe, Omio is the best search engine we've found.