We all love to travel, to see new cultures, meet new people, eat some delicious food, enjoy breathtaking scenery. But the key to a good vacation includes a little bit of planning, which sometimes might be stressful. Good thing there are tricks that you can follow in the preparation and travel period that will make your trip much more easier and even cheaper.

VPN for traveling

VPN is a number one tool for traveling for several reasons:

Block trackers. Every page you visit, ever click you make on the internet you leave your digital footprint. And companies such as accommodation companies takes advantage of this footprint. For example if you are searching for tickets to France such pages as Booking.com will see that you will be traveling to France soon and will rise prices for accommodation in France for you. Sounds obscure, but this is true. You can always use incognito mode or such browsers as Brave that blocks trackers, but the most ensuring way to ensure that you leave no digital footprint is with a VPN.

Every page you visit, ever click you make on the internet you leave your digital footprint. And companies such as accommodation companies takes advantage of this footprint. For example if you are searching for tickets to France such pages as Booking.com will see that you will be traveling to France soon and will rise prices for accommodation in France for you. Sounds obscure, but this is true. You can always use incognito mode or such browsers as Brave that blocks trackers, but the most ensuring way to ensure that you leave no digital footprint is with a VPN. Get cheaper plane tickets, hotels and even cars. Airlines, hotels and many more rise prices when they see you are planning a vacation somewhere, since they know that you will need to book something no matter the price. This is the thing discussed above. But these services also tend to change prices based on your location. The average income is calculated of the country from which you are searching and changed to higher or lower. A VPN can easily change your location to whatever region (depends on the VPN) and you can bypass these price changes and find cheaper tickets, book hotels and cars in lower costs. One more thing how you can save money with a VPN — by using a VPN with a built in ad-blocker. This way you will use less of your mobile data while traveling and don’t need to pay extra, since ads not just irritates us but also uses our cellular data.

Airlines, hotels and many more rise prices when they see you are planning a vacation somewhere, since they know that you will need to book something no matter the price. This is the thing discussed above. But these services also tend to change prices based on your location. The average income is calculated of the country from which you are searching and changed to higher or lower. A VPN can easily change your location to whatever region (depends on the VPN) and you can bypass these price changes and find cheaper tickets, book hotels and cars in lower costs. One more thing how you can save money with a VPN — by using a VPN with a built in ad-blocker. This way you will use less of your mobile data while traveling and don’t need to pay extra, since ads not just irritates us but also uses our cellular data. Stay safe. It is normal that when we are traveling we always try to use public wifi, on the streets, in cafes, in the mall, where we find it we use it. But did you know that using public wifi can cause a lot of damage? Well it can. It is very easy to get hacked, to get your personal information like banking account stolen while you are connected to public wifi, since if a hacker manages to hack the public wifi he can easily access all the information of people using that wifi. A VPN, by encrypting your internet traffic, can easily secure you from such threats.

It is normal that when we are traveling we always try to use public wifi, on the streets, in cafes, in the mall, where we find it we use it. But did you know that using public wifi can cause a lot of damage? Well it can. It is very easy to get hacked, to get your personal information like banking account stolen while you are connected to public wifi, since if a hacker manages to hack the public wifi he can easily access all the information of people using that wifi. A VPN, by encrypting your internet traffic, can easily secure you from such threats. Opens up the internet. One last thing talking about a VPN, this may not be relevant to all of you, but if you are traveling to countries such as China it will. In China many websites, even social channels are geo-blocked, the government of theirs doesn’t want their citizens to see specific information and wants to simply control them. If you travel to China you will meet the same borders. A VPN by changing your IP address and encrypting your internet traffic can help you bypass it. Also if you want to watch some sports game or a movie while travelling, for example on Netflix, there is a possibility it won’t be available in the country you are visiting. VPN will help you bypass geo restrictions put on streaming platforms by once again changing your IP address.

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Surfshark is a secure VPN that uses industry leading encryption and has many fast servers worldwide. It has a built-in adblocker, supports an unlimited number of devices, is very easy to use and has a 30-day money back guarantee.

Choose smart: places to visit

There are so many things to see when you are traveling to a new country. Every country has its museums you must visit, parks, cute cafes, festivals, events and it is hard to choose what to see, and sometimes (it happens to me most of the times) when you come back you see that you missed some breathtaking place of the city and you want to go back. Well don’t worry, there are many things to find the best places for you to visit.

Use Instagram to find places. Instagram could be a perfect tool to find places like cafes or parks to visit in the city. Just go to Instagram and look for photos taken at a certain location. You will definitely find places that will be worth picturing and putting on your instagram both from locals and tourists.

Get a Tinder date with a tourist attraction. Blink is an app that uses Tinder swiping left or right technique. Just instead of choosing the boy or girl you like, you choose a place you like and would like to visit. It is both fun to do and will make your destination searching much easier. On the app you can find information about every object and save it by swiping to your list.

Get your traveling map. Sygic Travel is a perfect app to both find destinations to visit and both create your custom map with your chosen destinations. What is the feature I love the most about Sygic is that it makes your daily trip plan and even shows how much time you will need to get to the destination, when you need to leave and how to travel there. It even makes the order which place you need to visit first, what second and so on. Also a very useful feature is that you can download the map, so you won’t need to use your mobile data.

Just some basic tips to make your trip more comfy

Organize emails. All the flight tickets, booking information, tickets to tours are sent into your mail. And it could be hard to find them, especially if you are a businessman and get a lot of emails, or you are just love to subscribe to all sorts of newsletters. To make your booking more accessible to you and easier to find you can use labelling in you mail platforms. Just create a label “vacation to France” for example, and find all the needed emails in one place.

All the flight tickets, booking information, tickets to tours are sent into your mail. And it could be hard to find them, especially if you are a businessman and get a lot of emails, or you are just love to subscribe to all sorts of newsletters. To make your booking more accessible to you and easier to find you can use labelling in you mail platforms. Just create a label “vacation to France” for example, and find all the needed emails in one place. Set up flight alerts. Flight prices fluctuate constantly, that is why setting flight alerts is a useful tool if you want to find cheaper tickets. The most comfortable flight alerts is Google flights that will send you emails as soon as the price for you preferred flight changes.

Save money for your trip in advance. There are many saving apps that could help you save money for your trip. For example Digit. Digit takes into consideration your income and expenditures like rent and figures out how much you can set aside for savings every month. This app has a one month free trial and after the trial you will need to pay $2.99. You can also use Revolut to open a saving account and fro example from any purchase set aside $0.50 to savings.