GlobTravels is a practical travel site. It exists to answer the awkward, specific questions that come up when you are actually booking a trip, rather than the easy ones that everybody already covers.
Who writes this
GlobTravels is written and run by Francis B.
Let me be straight with you about something. I am not a full-time traveller. I do not live out of a backpack, and I am not going to claim I have been to eighty countries. I take trips when I can, like most people.
That is precisely why this site covers what it covers. The trouble I have run into on trips has never been finding a good restaurant. It has been the logistics. Flights delayed. Flights cancelled because of weather. And on one trip, a check-in queue that crawled so slowly I watched my flight leave without me, then spent the evening buying a seat on the next day’s departure.
A friend nearly lost a trip entirely because he did not know the entry paperwork for his destination had to be completed online before departure. Nobody told him. He found out at the airport, which is the worst possible place to find out.
None of that is exotic. It is the ordinary machinery of travel going wrong, and it is the part almost nobody writes about properly, because researching it is tedious and the rules keep changing. So that is what gets written about here: the fifteen-day booking window, the six-month passport rule, the authorisation you have to apply for before you fly. Dull details, right up until one of them costs you a day of your holiday.
What this site covers
The recurring theme is the administrative layer of travel: the part where rules are specific, easy to get wrong, and change without anyone announcing it.
- Entry requirements and travel authorisations. Visas, the electronic permissions increasingly replacing them, passport validity rules, and the paperwork that has to be completed before you leave rather than on arrival.
- Booking systems that are awkward from abroad. Ticket release windows, foreign card rejections, identity verification, and platforms built on the assumption that you hold a local phone number.
- Money that works where you are going. Card acceptance, foreign transaction fees, whether a destination still runs on cash, and where the exchange rates are worst.
- Staying connected. eSIMs, local SIMs and roaming, decided before departure rather than in an arrivals hall.
- When things go wrong. Delays, cancellations, missed connections and lost bags, and what you are actually entitled to when they happen.
How this site makes money
Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you book through one, we may earn a commission from the provider. It costs you nothing extra, and the price you pay is the same either way.
That arrangement only works if the recommendations are honest, so affiliate links are marked as such and never added to an article simply to fill it. Where a free or official option is better than a paid one, we say so. The full affiliate disclosure explains the details.
How the guides are put together
- Operational details are checked against primary sources. Booking windows, entry requirements and fees are verified against official operators and government sites, not copied from other blogs.
- Uncertainty is stated, not hidden. Where a rule varies by airport, airline or nationality, we say so rather than giving a confident answer that is wrong for half of readers.
- Guides get updated. Travel rules change constantly. Where a guide depends on a rule that moves, it carries a note telling you to confirm before you travel.
- No invented statistics. If a number appears here, it comes from somewhere identifiable.
Corrections and contact
If something here is out of date or simply wrong, please tell us. Travel rules shift faster than any site can track alone, and corrections from readers who have just made the trip are the most valuable feedback we get. You can reach us through the contact page.