Cool Travel Tools

Megan and I have used two cool tools for booking travel that we want to share with everyone.  The first is Flocations.  It’s a search engine that has you input a starting point, dates, and flight costs and returns a map of destinations with flights that meet your criteria.  This tool is absolutely perfect for comparing multiple travel options for a particular weekend.   We choose our flights to Kuching and Penang using this tool.  

Flocations results for round trip flights from Singapore for $260 or less

Flocations is Southeast Asia specific but don’t fret because Kayak has an unknown feature that’s similar and available globally.  The Kayak feature I’m talking about is Explore.  It’s hidden away but you can get to it by clicking on More in the top tool bar and then Explore in the Find Travel options at the bottom of the next page.  Alternatively, here's the link.  Like Flocations, Kayak will let return different flight options that meet your budget from a particular destination.  Kayak doesn’t quite have as much date input specificity as Flocations, but it’s still a great tool for researching trip options.

Kayak Explore shows there are plenty of flight options from Chicago to some place warm this winter

Knowledge is power, so go forth and travel to some place cool in the next couple months.  All we ask is a simple thanks on a postcard J.