Last year I happened to stumble upon this indispensable tool for us, crazy travelers. If you are a backpacker at heart and love to make out-of-the-box travel plans, here is a website you ought to know about!
Rome2Rio is a multimodal transport search engine created by an Australian startup company. Simply input any address, town or landmark in the world as the origin and any destination and it lists all the possible routes - air/rail/road - to get there, for every leg of your trip. Not just that, it also gives you an estimate of the fares and time each possible route will cost you. Pick your route and get, set, go!
Let’s see an example of how this works.
I performed a search to get me to Bangkok from Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Rome2rio listed down all the possible options I have.
Say, I would like to fly and get there in the least time, the first option suits me. On clicking that option, I am provided with a step by step way to get to the Airport, what subway to take and how much it is likely to cost me.
Going another level deeper, if you select any leg of this, you have additional info like subway details and images, local booking options. How much would it rather cost you to take a taxi instead?
If you plug in the dates of your travel, you can get real-time quotes on airfares and flight schedules as you can see below:
The level of details simply blows my mind!
This kind of information is traditionally restricted only to the locals of the city or country. With Rome2rio, it is at your fingertips. International travel is no longer so uncertain..
MakeMyTrip.com’s RoutePlanner is similar to Rome2rio in many aspects.
But it is restricted only to Indian cities currently:
There are a lot of other features like Multi Destination Search I am yet to explore myself. Perhaps you should stop reading this right now and make your way to Rome2rio.com and see it all for yourself! There is also an iOS app you can download for iPhone.
I can’t wait to use this on my upcoming trip to Malaysia and Thailand!
How about you?
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