Travel essentials

Sunnoro plans your days. These are the five things you still have to book yourself β€” and the sites we send you to when you tap "Find hotels", "Book tickets" or "Compare rental cars" in the app.

How we make money here: if you book through one of these links we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes the price you pay, and it never changes your itinerary β€” partners cannot pay to be included in a plan. We picked these five because they're the ones we'd use ourselves; where we think a partner is the wrong choice for your trip, the pages below say so.

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Where to stay

Booking.com β€” the widest family-room coverage, and the only one of the big sites that lets you filter by your children's ages.

How to choose well β†’

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Tours & tickets

GetYourGuide β€” skip-the-line tickets and guided tours, with free cancellation on most of them up to 24 hours before.

How to choose well β†’

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Car hire

DiscoverCars β€” compares the local agencies most big sites leave out, which is usually where the cheap island rentals are.

How to choose well β†’

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Data abroad

Airalo β€” an eSIM you install before you fly, so you land with maps and messaging already working.

How to choose well β†’

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Travel insurance

SafetyWing β€” cheap, monthly, and will cover you after you've already left home, which most policies won't.

How to choose well β†’

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The plan itself

That part's ours. Tell Sunnoro who's coming and where you're going, and get every day planned around your pace.

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Book in this order

After enough trips you learn that the order matters more than the sites:

  1. Accommodation first, because it decides everything else β€” which neighbourhood you walk from, whether you need a car, how far the good restaurants are.
  2. Car hire second, and only once you know where you're staying. Prices climb steadily in the last month, and automatics sell out first in Europe.
  3. The two or three tickets that actually sell out β€” the Alhambra, the Sagrada FamΓ­lia, the Vatican, Pompeii with a guide. Everything else can wait until you're there and know how everyone's holding up.
  4. Insurance on the day you pay a deposit, not the week you fly. Cancellation cover only helps if it starts before the thing you'd be cancelling.
  5. An eSIM the night before, which takes five minutes and saves you hunting for airport Wi-Fi with tired kids.

What we don't link to

No flights. Flight affiliate programmes pay poorly and the comparison sites are already good β€” use Google Flights or Skyscanner directly, and book with the airline rather than an agent so that changes are survivable.

No hotel "deal" aggregators that quote a price and add fees at the end. The numbers on the pages above are the ones you pay.

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