Whitelist of travel sites for searching and booking

To minimize the risk of being deceived when buying air and railway tickets, tours, excursions and other tourist services, remember a very simple rule: do not buy on unverified sites, social networks, messengers. Whatever benefits you are promised there, the chance of being deceived on unverified sites is huge.

And where to buy and which sites can be trusted? Here is a white list of verified travel sites where you can safely pick up and buy tickets, tours, excursions, etc. *:

✈ flights

• Aviasales.ru - domestic ticket search engine, one of the best in the world. We advise you to use it, it looks for everything and everywhere.
• Skyscanner.ru - a foreign proven search engine, but in our opinion not as convenient as Aviasales. But if you like, you can safely use it, it is also safe.
• Kayak.ru - an old proven international search engine.
• Momondo.ru - another global flight search engine

🚆 railway tickets

• rzd.ru - official website of Russian Railways. Tickets for the Russian Federation are best purchased here, and this is without options. On all other sites, the price will be at a mark-up, and if it is cheaper, then it means they are scammers.
• Poezdtavrida.ru/ - website for buying train tickets to Crimea.
• Grandtrain.ru/ - another carrier site for buying tickets to Crimea.
• 12go.asia – train and bus tickets in other countries.

🌴 tours

• Travelata.ru — safe and convenient online search for tours to 68 destinations from Russian tour operators.
• Onlinetours.ru - online service for the sale of tours from leading tour operators in more than 80 countries.
• Level.travel - another service for finding tours from tour operators, it is distinguished by a convenient search for burning tours.
• Fly.Ru - reliable tour search service, on the Russian market since 2010. There are incl. tours without flights.
• Big country.Som - unique tours in Russia directly from local tour operators.

🚢 Cruises

• Cruis Online - search and sale of sea and river cruises from global companies.
• Cruise House is the leading Russian tour operator for sea and river cruises in Russia and the CIS.
• Dolphin Tour Operator is a reliable tour operator for cruises within the Russian Federation.

📷 excursions

• Tripster.ru - online search for excursions mainly in Russia.
• Sputnik8.com - another domestic search engine for excursions mainly in Russia.
• Klook.com – one of the world's most popular excursion search engines, which has almost everything and very low prices.
• Tezeks.com – excursions from the old reliable tour operator TezTour.

🚗 Car Rental

• Rent a car on Discover Cars - search and compare on a variety of distributors around the world, and our choice of price/quality ratio.
• Rent a car on Economy Bookings - also searches around the world, and the lowest prices are most often found here.
• Rent a car on Rental Cars - not very many countries and high prices, but the best Russian-language support.

☂ travel insurance

• Sravni.ru - search and compare travel and other insurance from different insurance companies.
• Cherehapa.ru - specialized travel insurance search engine.
• Cherehapa - verified search for travel and other insurance.

🚖 tourist transfers

• Kiwitaxi.ru - the most popular search for tourist transfers, a lot of destinations.
• Intui.travel – there are slightly fewer destinations in this service, but sometimes prices are lower than in the previous search engine.

🛌 hotels

• Booking.com – the most popular search engine in the world, there are all countries and cities.
• Hotellook.ru – metasearch engine that searches for hotels in several systems at once, including the two mentioned above, but does not always give "fair" prices.