A roundup of useful travel resources and applications we’ve come across.
Cheap Flights & Mistake Fares
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YEG Deals
Automated aggregation of cheap flight offers departing YEG (has sister sites for all major flight hubs in Canada, eg. YULdeals.com, YYCdeals.com, etc).
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Mighty Travels
Provides real time notifications of error fares and hotel rates for subscription fee of $6.20 per month.
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Next Departure
Provides updates on price drops for airfare, subscription fee of $4.49 per month or $35.99 per year.
Award Search Engines
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Expert Flyer
Premier award search engine, user friendly and cost effective. However cannot search award space for Cathay, Japan (JAL), or Qatar Airlines.
Cost: $4.99 (basic) or $9.99 (premium) monthly.
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Award Nexus
Search Engine for finding First class, Business class, or complex route flight mileage awards.
Cost: $59-249 USD, based on points not time.
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KVS Availability Tool
Desktop application. Uses airline reservation systems to view available award seats across all 3 major airline alliances.
Cost: $35-75 USD annually.
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AwardLogic
Award search engine that lets you see the number of points required for a specific route, across multiple loyalty programs.
Cost: $4.99 USD (daily), $19.99 USD (monthly), or $199 USD (annually).
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Point.me
Find the lowest cost in points to travel between any two airports. Large number of results. Search day-by-day.
Cost: $129 USD annually.
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Roame Travel
More airline programs than seat.aero, but fewer than point.me. Results are fast and you can search whichever date you want.
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SeatSpy
A tool for finding awards on select airlines. The tool is quick and displays a full year of results all at once.
Cost: $3.99 USD monthly for Premium, $9.99 USD monthly for First Class.
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Seats.aero
Seats.aero is a mostly free tool which makes it easy to find close-in awards on long-haul flights.
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AwardHacker
AwardHacker is a free tool which displays best possible fixed redemption flight options (does not show seat availability).
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MaxMyPoint
Check award availability across Hilton, Hyatt, and Marriott hotels. Shows standard room availability for the entire year, particularly useful for Hyatt.
Hotel Aggregators, Discount Sites, & Sharing Economy
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Agoda
Online travel agency and metasearch engine for hotels, vacation rentals, flights, and airport transfer.
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Holiday Swap
“Tinder of travel”, lets you match with other vacation homes and swap houses with each other for specified dates.
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Priceline
Priceline.com is an online travel agency for finding discount rates for travel-related purchases such as airline tickets and hotel stays.
Travel Planning
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FlightConnections
Powerful, interactive, and filterable search engine that displays specific airline routes between major airports.
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Notion
Not specifically a travel planning app, but a highly versatile and customizable app that can be configured as a one-stop wiki page for your trip plans.
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TripIt
TripIt and TripIt Pro consolidates all your bookings into one itinerary, sends reminders and updates, and even offers alternative options.
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Wanderlog
Use as a route map showing directions, distances, and driving times between different attractions you might want to visit.
Currency Conversion & ATM Services
See our travel tutorial on foreign cash and currency solutions for a discussion of the best credit cards, prepaid cards and conversion services available.
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Revolut
Currency conversion service and reloadable prepaid debit Visa Platinum card. Access to interbank currency exchange rates, free ATM withdrawal (up to $400/$800 monthly).
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Stack
Re-loadable prepaid debit Mastercard with no foreign ATM withdrawal fees or foreign currency exchange fees.
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Wise
Currency conversion service for sending money abroad. Money can be loaded with various methods but must be transferred to a bank account.
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Conotoxia
Polish competitor to Revolut and TransferWise. Has a payment card like Revolut but only for Poland residents.
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Paysend
PaySend is a global fintech company that provides international money transfer services, allowing individuals and businesses to send money to recipients in different countries quickly and conveniently.
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Xe
Xe is a Canada-based foreign exchange services company offering international money transfers, and other currency-related services.
Bill Payment Services
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PaySimply
Pay bills to the CRA, municipalities, colleges and universities, and utility companies using their credit cards at a 2.50% fee.
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Plastiq
Pay your bills using Visa, MasterCard, or American Express, charging no more than 2.85% for every transaction to a recipient in Canada.
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PayTM
PayTM has a large database of major billers like the CRA, municipalities, universities, and utility companies. Available via mobile app only.
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Melio Pay
Free and easy to use payment solution allowing US small businesses to pay any domestic business expense by credit card, even where cards are not accepted.