These are the game-changing apps that helped us to thrive on just £10 a day each for nearly a year in Southeast Asia — and we’re confident they’ll be your secret weapon for budget travel too! 😆
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Finding accomodation 🏠
Apps for getting around! ✈️
Just a few more, extra helpful apps! 📱
Finding accomodation 🏠
These apps should help you to find places to stay at any price range 😛
Hostelworld will help you to find hostels at varying prices all over the world! A super easy app to use.
Hostelworld
This is a great app to allow you to meet and stay with locals in plenty of countries- we utilised this everywhere we could!
Couchsurfing
My favourite app to find hotels at affordable rates, sort by price and wallah!
Agoda
This app supposedly has the largest selection of hotels, homes, and vacation rentals- like agoda but sometimes has more/less
Booking.com
Air bnb has plenty of accommodation options for every budget, usually nicer places that Agoda…
Airbnb
Apps for getting around! ✈️
Apps to help you find the best travel options, from flying to local busses, train etc
Use this to help you find the cheapest flights- then book them through the companies website to get them even cheaper!
Skyscanner
Want to keep an eye on flight prices over time? This is the app for you.
Hopper
Find the best way to travel to your destination, plane? Bus? Train? etc
Rome2Rio
This is the no.1 taxi service in Asia, its so easy to use 😀
Grab
For bus ticket booking online, we didn't use this too much but when we did it was very helpful
RedBus
To find plenty of travel options in Asia! Super super handy.
12Go Asia
For easily navigating the amazing bus system in Hanoi 😊
BusMap Hanoi
This one is for navigating the busses in Kuala Lumpur- there's even a free bus service!!
Go KL City Bus
This handy app provides offline maps using OpenStreetMap data!
MAPS.ME
Just a few more, extra helpful apps! 📱
Anything else that could be helpful on your travels! Budget trackers, and more!
Find volunteer opportunities- we LOVE this app and use it all the time
Workaway
This is an amazing budget tracking app 🙏
TravelSpend
Find the ATM's with the lowest withdrawal fees- more handy than you imagine
ATM Fee Saver
For quickly converting prices and exchange rates on the go 🏃
