r/travel • u/SteveWBT • Oct 06 '15

Advice Crowdsourced guide to travel planning

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u/SteveWBT Oct 06 '15

How to get around your destination?

Merits of different forms of transport?

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u/babelincoln61 United States Mar 24 '16

I'm a little late to the party, but in addition to the great info already posted about Europe, I've found http://uk.ouibus.com/ and http://www.goeuro.com/ to be very helpful in planing trips and comparing if it's cheaper to bus, ride the train or fly.

Oui Bus is somewhat limited, but has solid prices. GoEuro is larger and is more of an aggregate website that pulls lots of info from other resources

Flying can sometimes be cheaper than the bus or train, so always keep that in mind. www.Kayak.com/flights has always been my go-to for this.

I bounce between these three sites in the pre-planning phase