Top 35 Travel Blogs

There are plenty of lists out there of popular travel sites and interesting travel blogs, but our list pretty much covers it all. Use this as a resource for all your travel needs.

Almost Fearless – General

Almost Fearless is a blog about a new mother who decided to drop sedentary life in favor of wandering the globe as a freelance writer. She has hit 17 countries and 25 cities since setting out in 2008. In addition to writing about the places she’s visiting she helps others learn from her experiences living on the road and traveling with an infant.

Anders Meanders – General

Anders Meanders is a blog written by an older woman based out of Austin, Texas. Its target demographic is likely for middle-class folks looking to stretch their dollar on a nice vacation. Full of heads-up deals and reasonable travel destinations, it takes a practical approach to vacationing.

Art of Backpacking – Advice

With intent to capture the snapshots of simple and minimal backpacking travel adventures, the Art of Backpacking was created by friends Michael and Theresa with contributing stories from travelers around the world. The blog does a great job of demonstrating how to have fun, have adventure, while traveling in style.

Brilliant Trips – General

The Brilliant Trips blog aims to talk about just that, brilliant trips. With stunning photography from beautiful locations around the world, this blog is sure to inspire wanderlust in anyone passing by. Luckily, they include subsequent cheap hotel information for all those amazing spots.

Business Week’s Airline Blog – General

Business Week’s airline blog is well structured and offers enough variety in its content that it won’t cater to just one kind of traveler. Find out about airline business news, safety, and all kinds of issues in the world of air travel.

Consumer Traveler – General

Consumer Traveler lays claim to being “the oldest continuously published travel news and commentary site.” It shows, with a vast collection from different writers dishing out a wide variety of travel content daily.

Frommer’s Travel Blog – General

This blog is purportedly penned by the famous Arthur Frommer of the super-famous Frommer’s travel guides. Once the Internet came along, Frommer kept up, with timely blog posts about his travels along with pictures, links, and videos.

Gadling Travel Blog – General

Gadling is a good site for the young, modern traveler. Full of nightlife reviews and the latest technology for travel, this one is sure to keep your jet setting in the now.

Go Green Travel – General (Eco)

There’s no travel list these days that doesn’t mention eco-travel. Looking for green hotels, eco tours, local food, and public transportation? Look no further than this blog.

Hotel Blogs – Hotels

There aren’t many bloggers out there with a more specialized background in the hospitality, and more specifically, the hotel industry. This French Londoner’s blog pairs his passion for travel with his expertise for the industry, featuring photos, videos, reviews, and industry as well as traveler interactions.

Hotel Chatter – Hotels

As part of the Conde Nast group, Hotel Chatter covers all things hotel and lodging, including deals, reviews, celebrities, news, booking tips, etc. The site is updated daily and accepts readers submission.

In Transit (The New York Times) – Advice

Leveraging the already supreme writing of New York Times reporters and editors, In Transit features travel news, deals, and tips. The blog is also home to Globespotters, which features travel blog posts about news and events from 10 international cities.

Jaunted – General

Think pop culture and online entertainment magazine meets travel site; that’s Jaunted. It gives the new generation of travelers the quick, witty, and dirty lowdown on everything you can get in a monthly travel magazine and more.

Legal Nomads ­– Destinations

Jodi did corporate law in a previous life who saved up her big lawyer salary for five years to begin traveling around the world in 2008. Fortunately for us, she decided to blog about it. With an image dominant-format and chock-full of poignant stories from Africa and the Far East, this is a blog that isn’t to be missed.

Lonely Planet – Destinations

You know Lonely Planet to offer some of the best travel literature out there, but did you ever think the Lonely Planet team might also produce an excellent blog? Yeah, we did too. Founded by two newlyweds almost 30 years ago, the Lonely Planet team is now made up of professional writers, authors, and journalists who are known for practical travel information meshed with insider tidbits.

Nomadic Matt’s Travel Site – General

The images are awesome. The blog posts aren’t short but they’re well worth it as the trips are broken down into perfectly manageable chunks by this 20-something blogger who travels the world and chronicles it for a “living.”

Old World Wandering – Destinations

It’s a story of two travelers taking international trips – London to Shanghai and Shanghai to Cape Town. Think 20 countries in 18 months. The blogs is broken into world regions from trips: British Isles, the Continent, the Near East, the Middle East and North Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and the Far East and features 25,000 photos.

Peter Greenberg – General

What’s a travel list without the name Peter Greenberg? The travel journalist king launched petergreenberg.com in 2007 to become one of the most visited travel sites on the Web for travel news and analysis.

Rick Steves Blog – General (Europe)

Anyone whose ever traveled to or wanted to travel to Europe has heard of Rick Steves. His books are the best travel guides in the industry, and his blog is no exception.

Ship Critic – Cruises

Ship Critic is easily one of the most popular cruise-related travel blogs out there brought to us by Anne Campbell, a journalist who has been covering the cruise industry since 1993. Her posts are in depth, insightful, and interactive.

The Cheapest Destinations Blog – General

It’s nothing fancy aesthetically, but if you’re looking for tips and information on how to save money on travel, this is the place to look. Tim Leffel is the author of The World’s Cheapest Destinations and Make Your Travel Dollars Worth a Fortune: The Contrarian Traveler’s Guide to Getting More for Less, among other titles and publications.

The Cruise Log – Cruise

USA Today’s cruise blog allows you to search for cruises, read about the latest cruise news, views, and updates, and read the most recent reader commentary.

The Middle Seat Terminal – Airlines

The Middle Seat Terminal is written by the Wall Street Journal’s well-traveled Scott McCartney who has “been on the airline beat since 1995.” This blog combines both up to date critical economic coverage and anecdotal story telling.

This Just In – General

Budget Travel is already one of the most valuable travel resources, but since 2005 the Frommer’s blog has been covering every possible travel topic on the Web for all to benefit. Known for its in-depth and unbiased coverage this blog is a must bookmark.

Travel Babel – General

Though this blogger is based out of Colorado, her blog writing takes you all over the world and offers real world advice for every type of traveler. It was also recently named one of the Top 25 Awesome Travel Blogs on Cheaphotels.net.

Travel-Best Destinations – Destinations

If you’re looking for a great travel photography blog, look no further than this Croatian Web developer’s blog. Featuring slideshows and country-by-country stats it’s the perfect blend of beauty and simplicity.

Travel Maven – Cruises

For more than 25 years, David Molyneaux has covered the travel industry as a columnist and journalist and is president of the Society of American Travel Writers. Basically, what we’re saying is, this guy knows travel and you should read what he has to say.

Travel Rants – General (UK)

Ever wished there would be someone who could speak your concerns and complaints to the masses about the travel industry? Darren Cronian is your guy. Plus when you’re not complaining, the stories are pretty good entertainment.

Traveler 2.0 – General

If you’re looking for anything tech and travel you’ll find it here. This blog gives you travel advice related to technology and features new technologies to make your travel life easier.

Travellious – General

This is the radical blog on the list. The founders consider themselves one part rebel and one part travel writer (hence the name). This blog will show you how not to follow the travel guidebook by sharing off-the-beaten trail experiences and resources.

Upgrade: Travel Better – General

This blog offers to help you live “the first class life at coach prices.” In addition to giving advice on topics such as pre-booking and baggage fees, there are plenty of fun articles and multimedia to keep you entertained.

Up Take – Hotels

Up Take does the research on accommodations so you don’t have to. The blog’s hotel information spans the globe to give the true inside scoop on a broad spectrum of hotels.

USA Today Hotels Blog – Hotels

This is USA Today’s blog all about the latest in hotel news. Topics covered include hotel, construction, business dealings, scandals and hassles. It offers a well-blended mix to make for easy reading.

World Hum – General

World Hum boasts the “best travel stories on the Internet.” Whether or not that’s true, it is safe to say the site has a huge volume of content from all kinds of writers vacationing and traveling through all kinds of destinations around the globe.

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