About TravellerSpy
Planning a trip usually starts with a scatter of half-answered questions. What will this actually cost once flights, food, and a place to sleep are all added up? How far is it, really, from one city to the next? What time is it back home when it’s 9pm here? Will the connecting flight leave enough of a buffer? What belongs in the bag for a week of hiking versus a week in an office town? How much do you tip in a country where the custom isn’t what you’re used to? Is a visa needed at all, and in what form? None of these questions are hard on their own, but answering all of them by hand, for every trip, is where planning turns into a chore.
TravellerSpy exists to take that arithmetic off your plate. Instead of long guides you have to read end to end, the site is built around a set of small, single-purpose calculators, each aimed at one part of the planning process. The Travel Budget Calculator adds up accommodation, food, activities, transport, and flights across your dates and travelers, and shows the total per person and per day. The Distance Calculator works out the great-circle distance between two points from their latitude and longitude, in kilometres, miles, and nautical miles, which is useful for comparing routes as much as for curiosity. The Time Zone Converterconverts a clock time between two UTC offsets and tells you whether it lands the previous, same, or next day, which matters more than it sounds like when you’re booking a call home. The Flight Time Calculator estimates airborne time from distance and cruise speed, then adds a ground-time buffer for a door-to-door figure. The Packing Checklist Generatorbuilds a list scaled to a beach, city, hiking, business, or winter trip and your actual dates, so you’re not reinventing it from scratch each time. The Tip Calculatorsplits a bill and a tip evenly across a group, which is handy in an unfamiliar currency where the going rate isn’t obvious. The Currency Convertergives an indicative rate across 30 major currencies for rough budgeting, or takes a rate you paste in from your bank for an exact figure — it is not a live feed, so check it against your bank or card issuer before you rely on it for a transaction. And the Visa Requirement Checker gives a quick read on whether a passport typically needs a visa, a visa on arrival, or an eVisa for a given destination, as a starting point to confirm with the relevant embassy or consulate.
Beyond the calculators, the blog and learn section cover destinations, trip planning, and the reasoning behind the numbers the tools produce, and the Wonders & Destinations Museumis a browsable collection of the world’s landmarks, natural wonders, and cities, with every entry, image, and fact drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
A few things worth stating plainly. TravellerSpy is an independent site, not affiliated with any airline, visa authority, tourism board, or currency-exchange provider. It is supported by advertising, which is how the tools stay free with no account required. Every result the tools produce — a budget total, a distance, a converted time, a flight estimate, a tip split, a currency figure, a visa status — is a general estimate built on the numbers you enter and on common travel conventions, not a professional or official determination. For anything that actually matters to your trip — entry requirements, visa rules, exchange rates, and flight schedules in particular — verify with the airline, the relevant embassy or consulate, or your bank before you rely on it. If something looks off in a tool or an article, or you think a calculator is missing that would help, the contact page is the place to say so.