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About Journey Finder™

Our Mission

Journey Finder™ was created with one simple goal: to make travel planning free, intelligent, and accessible to everyone. We believe the best journeys are the ones where planning is part of the adventure, not a source of stress.

Our suite of tools - Route Finder, AI Trip Planner, Budget Calculator, and Smart Packing List - are designed to work together seamlessly, giving you a complete picture of your journey before you even pack your bags.

What Makes Us Different

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Eco-First

We show CO2 emissions for every route so you can make informed, sustainable travel choices.

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AI-Powered

Our AI Trip Planner uses Google Gemini to create personalized itineraries that match your style.

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100% Free

All tools are free to use. No sign-up, no premium tier, no hidden costs.

The Team

Journey Finder is a small team and we all still travel. Every guide on the site is written and kept up to date by one of us, each of us sticks to the topics we know best, and every article carries the name of the person who wrote it.

  • Tomass Baumanis, founder of Journey Finder, on a sunny afternoon in Pisa

    Tomass

    Founder and CEO

    Tomass started Journey Finder and runs it day to day, from the tools to the data behind the guides. The aim has not changed since the first page went up: give people the honest version of what a trip costs and what is actually worth booking.

  • James, who writes the Journey Finder cruise guides, sitting on a rock above a harbour with a cruise ship anchored behind him

    James

    Cruises and port days

    James has lost count of his port days, and nearly all of them ran against the clock. He writes the cruise guides: what you can genuinely reach in six hours ashore, what the ship's own excursion charges you double for, and what is fine to skip.

  • Emma, who writes the Journey Finder hotel guides, standing on a Paris street with the Eiffel Tower behind her

    Emma

    Hotels and neighbourhoods

    Emma takes cities apart by neighbourhood: where paying more actually buys you something, where it buys you nothing, and which streets go dead after ten. She has checked into more forgettable hotels than anyone should have to.

  • Oliver, who writes the Journey Finder city guides, holding a paper map under palm trees

    Oliver

    City guides and things to do

    Oliver still travels with a paper map and gets lost on purpose. He writes the things-to-do guides, and he has very little patience for attractions that only work as a photo.

  • Alice, who writes the Journey Finder trip planning guides, standing with a backpack at a viewpoint over a lake

    Alice

    Trip planning and when to go

    Alice works out when to go. The weeks when the weather has settled but the crowds have not turned up yet are her whole thing, and she plans almost everything around shoulder season.

  • Sophie, who writes the Journey Finder transport guides, waiting on a train platform with her suitcase

    Sophie

    Flights, trains and transfers

    Sophie covers getting from A to B: how long the flight really takes gate to gate, which days are cheaper to fly, which train beats the plane, and when an airport transfer is worth booking ahead. She spends a lot of her life on platforms.

  • Harry, who writes the Journey Finder budget travel guides, carrying a backpack in the late afternoon sun

    Harry

    Budget travel and saving money

    Harry travels cheap and writes down what it cost. Hostels, night buses, street food, and the small daily spending that quietly wrecks a budget nobody thought to check.

How We Make Money

When you click a booking link on our site and go on to book a hotel, flight, tour, cruise or car through our booking partner, we earn a small commission. You pay the same price either way. This is standard practice and it is what keeps every tool and guide here free.

Important: what we recommend is never decided by that commission. We rank routes and places on price, time and emissions, and our guides say plainly when something is not worth booking or not worth your time.

Privacy

We take your privacy seriously. Journey Finder™ does not require an account, does not sell your data, and uses only essential cookies for site functionality. Your packing lists are stored locally in your browser and never sent to our servers.

If you enter our giveaway, we store your name, email address, the link to your post, any screenshot you upload, and the IP address the entry came from. That is used only to run the draw and contact the winner. It is never sold or added to a marketing list, and it is all deleted once the winner is confirmed, by March 31, 2027 at the latest. The official rules cover this in full.