Free Travel Services
Do you think free is impossible? Nothing is impossible! Discover a bunch of free travel services to use for your upcoming trip. Me and many friends of mine have used most of these and keep telling their successful travel stories.
Free Accommodation:
- Couchsurfing.com – a website that provides its members to “surf” on couches by staying as a guest at a host’s home, host travelers, or join an event.
- Home Swapping (Homeexchange.com, Stay4Free.com, Homeswapper.co.uk) – also known as house swapping, is a type of travel accommodation, when two parties agree to swap their homes for a set period of time, without any monetary exchange.
- Globalfreeloaders.com – an online service that helps matching guests and hosts for accommodation exchange.
- Hospitalityclub.org – a community that offers free accommodation, advice and help for travelers.
- Workaway.info – a volunteer and cultural exchange.
Free Transportation:
- Hitchhiking – a means of transportation that is gained by asking people for a ride in their vehicle.
Free Travel Guides:
- Wikitravel.org – a project where users create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide.
- Frommers.com – an online service that offers information on destinations around the globe. Includes activities, feature articles, guidebooks and message boards.
- Tripadvisor.com – a travel website company providing reviews of travel-related content and travel forums.
- Virtualtourist.com – free, travel-oriented community website featuring user-contributed travel guides.
- Lonelyplanet.com – the largest travel guide book publisher in the world.