General Travel Planning
Resources from Book OceanNomad
Preparation
Pack for a purpose Use available space in your luggage to provide supplies to communities you visit
Numbeo Largest database on cost of living in different places around the world
Finding Travel Buddies
- MeetUp
- Couchsurfing
- Facebook groups
- In the Ocean Nomad community
Finding Accommodation
Check couchsurfing.org, TrustRoots, workaway.info, helpx.net Wooffing , Trusted HouseSitters to find free or work/exchange accommodation.
Best: Ask around locally! 2n best. Check these websites that have large database of places to stay.
Homestay Stay with locals
Trivago Compares multiple booking sites for the best deal
Booking.com Homestays Homestay accommodation collected by booking.com
Hotels.com has a huge database of places to stay around the world
Hostelworld Most comprehensive hostel booking website.
AIRBNB Rent a room or home from a local (<- with 35 euro discount if it’s your first booking)
Flipkey Huge database of holiday rentals around the world. Linked to tripadvisor.
Atraveo More than 20.000 holiday houses to choose from in Europe
HomeAway Another big database of rental holiday houses around the world (popular in both Caribbean and Europe)
Perfectplaces Holiday rentals around the world from supercheap to unique and expensive
ElizaWasHere (Dutch!) Unique holiday housing, packages and deals
AIRBNB Rent a room or home from a local (with 30euro discount if it’s your first booking)
Finding Transport
The best: find another boat!
BusTransport: Flixbus!
Flight search tools
Rome2Rio, and Flightconnections.com, are helpful tools to find out the existing flights connections.
My next favourite flightsearch tools: Google Flight Search, and Skyscanner
Kiwi.com Search a cheap flight to anywhere!
Hopper Low fare scorer
Skyscanner To compare and pick the right flight.
Momondo Another flight comparison website with different search options then Skyscanner
Cheapflights Finds you a cheap flight 
Corendon has good flight deals as well as flight & accommodation bundels.
Thomas Cook Airlines has good deals during the season.
Check out XL airlines. A fellow crew member found a Martinique-Paris flight for just €200, just two weeks in advance.
Tips on flying with the least impact on the environment
Caribbean Travel
10 Caribbean Budget travel and accommodation tips
Europe Travel
Hostel Recommendations for Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)
Homelidays has the most extensive database of rental houses in Spain
On Blablacar.com you can reserve a seat in someone’s car. Works particularly well in France, Spain, and Portugal.
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