Students, now hear this! It’s a great time to be traveling the world on an AirTreks around the world ticket. You might know that AirTreks uses a selection of partners to get special deals for our customers. Recently our student fare provider has come through with some seriously incredible student rates on a cool selection [...]
Ah, the 21st century. It doesn’t seem possible we made it through the stone ages of the nineties without the online conveniences we currently have. But we did, and now here’s a list of the best travel websites to use as tools to enhance your trip, as a modern international traveler. Make your traveling life, [...]
Note: this is not a sponsored post. Just a personally recommended resource for our blog readers and savvy AirTreks customers. There were times when travelers had to do all sorts of unpleasant things to find accommodations on a multi-destination trip: flip through pamphlets, pickup telephones, actually talk to people. The horror! These days the Internet [...]
I’m not sure if everyone caught it but a couple weeks ago we had a nice promotion going on our Facebook page: everyone who became a fan received a free $150 coupon to use toward the purchase of their very own AirTrek: **One week only!** AirTreks is giving away our special $150 coupons to every [...]
Even with the TSA hang-ups, the cattle-calls, all the other people, the act of taking a flight is not terribly hard. You show up, you wait, you fly. What is difficult though is the logistics of getting to and from the airports, navigating the miles of corridors and counters and actually finding what you’re looking [...]
When traveling on around the world plane tickets some things are a given: accruing frequent flier miles, lower back pain, and stopovers at airports. Since all long flights can’t be non-stop flights, you’ll need to connect somewhere. The trick is make your stopover work for you, not against you. I’ve compiled a list of options [...]
Because you’ve done enough research on your big around the world trip to fill a medium-sized gymnasium and because you’ve already done a good deal of traveling in your life (an around the world trip is usually “the next step” in a travel obsession) you’ve found yourself questioning the worthiness of so-called beaten path destinations, [...]
The Silk Road in China, the network of trade routes between Europe and China in the first millennium, usually brings up a romantic vision – long ambling camel caravans traversing great deserts with the crescent moon looking down on a line of weary and ancient travelers. And why not, it’s a part of our collective [...]
Trying to hash out a big around the world trip is serious business. One Google search reveals pages upon pages with which to research, plan and pull your hair out. If you’re looking to simply nail down a travel budget, to just get a get price for your around the world ticket, right now, there [...]
An airport taxi ride in a new city could be one of the most exciting parts of your arrival – you’re almost guaranteed a hair-whitening, eye-opening, heart-stopping gallop – but taxis can be as expensive and potentially dangerous as they are thrilling, depending on where you are. They can also be an unexpected budget-killer if [...]
