Find the best guides, blogs, and videos to help you plan your next trip
Indie Travel Guides has curated high-quality hotel guides, travel blogs & guides, and YouTube travel channels, to help travellers find the information to make their next vacation or trip truly magical.
What you'll find here
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Hotel guides
Specialist hotel guide websites to help find the best places to stay.
Travel blogs, guide sites, and articles
Independent articles, practical destination guides, and established guide sites with useful planning detail.
Travel videos
Travel creators and destination videos embedded on relevant place pages.
Featured travel videos
Karl Watson: Travel Documentaries
Karl Watson: Travel Documentaries is a YouTube travel channel featuring Karl Watson’s long-form films about his travel adventures. This itinerary video is especially useful for first-time Japan planning, comparing 14-day, 21-day, and one-month routes across Tokyo, Hakone, Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, Hiroshima, Nagano, and Kanazawa.
Gabriel Traveler
Gabriel Traveler is a YouTube travel channel by Gabriel Morris, sharing travel adventures and practical information from many destinations. This helpful video uses daily expenses in San Cristobal de las Casas to make Mexico budget travel feel practical and easy to understand.
Joel and Emilia
Joel and Emilia is a YouTube travel channel by Joel Friend and Emilia Beattie, focused on world travel and remote places. Their Egypt guide video is a practical overview for first-time planning, covering safety, scams, timing, transportation, food and drink, and places to go.