When you’re heading off on the family holiday of a lifetime, there’s a whole lot of planning and researching involved.
Before you leave, you’ll need to do things such as figure out what car to buy for your travels. You’ll need to buy a caravan or other accommodation. When you’re on the road you’ll want to know where to stay, especially if you’re wanting to free camp your way around Australia. If you’re working you’ll need to know the best way to find jobs.
The list of things you’ll need to know are endless, so here’s a round up of our favourite tools to plan and undertake your around Australia road trip.
Buying or Selling a Car or Van to Travel Australia:
There’s a bit of a chance that when you decide to do your big lap of Australia you’ll need to sell your car in order to upgrade to another that’s suitable for towing. There are a few sites that work really well for this.
Carsales: We bought our car using Carsales as it seemed to have the best variety.
Ebay:is also a great option especially if you’re able to find something close to you that you can check out before the auction ends if it’s being sold that way.
Gumtree: Also give Gumtree a try, there can often be great deals to be had on there for both cars and caravans.
Caravan & Camping Sales: You’ll probably want to head to Caravan and Camping Sales to track down a van, there always seems to be lots on there for sale.
Trading Post: Also try Trading Post, again for cars and vans, there’s lots of both on there.
Great Apps for on-the-go Travel Info
When it comes to some information we need on the road, you really can’t beat a good app! Most these days are available for iPhone and Android, as well as windows apps for computers and windows devices.
Wikicamps: This is our go-to app for where to stay when we travel. We love to free camp, and the community on wiki camps work hard to update site information, features and important info that just isn’t available out of a book.
Gumtree for Job Searching: This one is really important, you’ll find lots of jobs on Gumtree and using the App is just convenient, although you’ll get the same results searching online.
Seek: Another great app that is much easier to use than the main website. You can search via location you are, or where you’re headed as well as by relevant skills.
Kindle: So not quite a travel related app or website, but this is one of my most used apps on my phone, I couldn’t bring my books with me, and sometimes there’s unexpected delays so I don’t have my kindle handy, but I always have my phone so can catch up on some reading wherever I am!
We’d love for you to add any great websites or apps you use to either get ready for travels or while you’re out on the road!
