Elon Musk demands his employees return to the office and work there for at least 40 hours per week, or else they can quit their job. Meanwhile, in early May, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky unveiled policies that allow employees to live and work from anywhere in their country without a change in pay.

This contrast shows the two critical parts of how the world is divided after the pandemic. The number of employees working remotely before the pandemic was 30%, compared to 48% now. The same percentage will keep working remotely at least some of the time after COVID-19. Modern employees would spend 40% of their time working from home. 

The statistics clearly show that working remotely is more sufficient and most people found the new working style, which we call workation. The workation definition is simply a combination of work and vacation. It’s taking a trip while continuing to work online. However, even though many companies allow people to work from anywhere in the world, they don’t compensate for these trips. And for the past couple of years, travel hacking has become a new normal. 

Travel hacking is a series of methods to save money mostly, and sometimes a time when searching for flight or accommodation deals as the whole idea of travelling is slowly changing from believing that travelling is for the rich to now understanding that it can fit all budgets. 

For most people hotel is the most important part while travelling because this is the place where people spend most of their overall vacation time. Having said that, COVID-19 had a significantly big impact on hotel prices worldwide, there is certainly a price increase. Therefore, finding the best deal for the hotel is getting pretty challenging. However, this is where the newly launched travel technology takes over the stage. 

What is RatePunk? 

RatePunk is a free browser extension to hack travel spending. It automatically compares hotel rates and finds the best price on the web while browsing your favourite booking site. 

Let’s go through it

Go on Chrome or the Apple web store and install the extension into your browser. RatePunk runs on all major browsers, including Mozzila, Firefox, and Edge. 

And you’re set. Now you can go to your preferred booking site, whether it’s Agoda, booking.com, Expedia, etc., and choose your wanted hotel for the upcoming vacation. Once you click on the hotel, RatePunk will automatically pop up, showing you the rates other online travel agencies offer. 

Let’s assume you’re travelling to Majorca in July. Great location, well-rated hotel, and 733€ for 3 nights on booking.com seems fine if you didn’t know that Agoda offers the same only 251€ cheaper.

That’s how easy, without changing your booking habits, RatePunk works, and when you click on Agoda’s offer, you are redirected to its website and ready to reserve your stay. The photo below shows how the deal looks when you’re landed on Agoda.

161€ per night equals 483€ per the whole stay, which seems to be 1€ more expensive than RatePunk displayed. However, this is only because Agoda shows rounded prices. Once you get to the checkout page, you’ll see that the total is 481.95€. It is the real price RatePunk extension indicated before. 

Summary

Travel hacking is the new normal because everyone is now seeking money to go a long way, adding even more vacations or workations into their life yearly. Nevertheless, it doesn’t matter what your next destination is, it’s always easy to save a penny or two using RatePunk. You’re only one install away → https://www.ratepunk.com/TravelFree