Farebones
What your trip will actually cost
4 followers
What your trip will actually cost
4 followers
Free AI travel budget calculator. Get honest daily cost breakdowns for any destination — Bangkok, Tokyo, Lisbon, Bali and 80+ more. Includes visa info, best months, and money-saving tips.
Big update shipped today.
New: Travel Destination Quiz — 6 questions about how you travel (pace, budget, climate, interests, who you're with, dealbreakers) → 3 personalised destination matches with honest budgets, best months, and vibe tags.
New: Women's Solo Safety Ratings — every destination in the quiz results now shows a green/amber/red safety rating with specific practical notes. Not generic warnings — actual useful context about neighbourhoods, transport, and what to know.
Also added since launch:
Return flight estimates built into the total cost
Full home currency conversion (CAD, GBP, EUR, AUD, JPY and more)
Per-person breakdowns for couples and groups
170+ destinations in the calculator
Still completely free. No affiliate links. No incentive to make travel look cheaper than it is.
Try the quiz: farebones.com/quiz
Shipped Phase 3 of Farebones. 🗺
Multi-Destinations are here!
After Phase 2 (the destination quiz + women's safety ratings), the most common ask was: what about multi-city trips?
Most people don't go to one place. They go to Paris → then Berlin → then Prague. Or Tokyo → Kyoto → Osaka. Or a full Southeast Asia circuit.
So I built it.
Farebones now does multi-destination budgets.
Add up to 10 destinations, set nights for each, and get a full trip breakdown, not just one destination at a time.
Here's what makes it different from just adding up costs yourself:
→ Inter-city transport estimated per leg : the AI knows whether you're taking a bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto ($35) or a budget FlixBus from Paris to Berlin ($48). It factors that in per transition, not as a flat fee.
→ Per-destination cost cards : each city gets its own breakdown. Bangkok budget vs Zurich luxury look very different, and now you can see exactly why your trip is costing what it is.
→ Grand total across everything: accommodation, food, transport, activities, all transit between stops, one honest number at the end.
Still built as a single HTML file. Still free. Still no affiliate links.
Traffic wise faring all right so far: 187 active users in 28 days, mostly direct and organic. US leads with 103, Canada 19, India 12, UAE 8.
Next up: packing lists per destination, and a way to save/share itineraries.
Try the multi-city builder: farebones.com
Would love to know: what's a multi-city trip you've done (or dream of doing)?
Shipped Phase 4 of Farebones. 🧮 The "Should You Go?" calculator is live.
After the multi-destination builder, the most common thing I kept seeing wasn't "what will this trip cost" — it was "but should I even take it right now?"
So I built the honest answer to that question.
farebones.com/worth-it — a Trip Regret Calculator that looks at your actual financial situation and tells you whether a specific trip makes sense right now.
You put in: → The destination and estimated cost → Your monthly take-home (stays local, never stored) → Your rough savings level → How many trips you've already taken this year → How long since your last real break → Vacation days left
It gives you one of four verdicts:
🟢 Green — the math works. Go. 🔵 Blue — you're overdue for a break and can afford it. Stop overthinking. 🟡 Amber — finances are ok but you've been travelling a lot. Reconsider. 🔴 Red — wait. The numbers don't support this right now.
The Blue verdict is the one I'm most proud of. Most "should I travel" tools either guilt you or just validate whatever you want to hear. This one sometimes tells you to stop being sensible and book the flight — because 14 months without a break is its own kind of problem.
Tested against 12 edge cases before shipping, including a person eyeing Miami on $2,400/month with zero savings (Red), and someone 14 months without a break who can easily afford it (Blue — basically told to stop overthinking).
Also shipped in this update: → 439 destinations in the autocomplete — city or country search, with full alias support (type "utah", "texas", "georgia" and it knows what you mean) → Searchable currency dropdown — 55 currencies, not just the big 4 → Hamburger nav on mobile — all three tools accessible → New favicon — the F monogram, finally not a tiny dark plane
Farebones is now three tools:
Budget Calculator (any destination, any style) → farebones.com
Find My Destination Quiz (6 questions, 3 honest recommendations) → farebones.com/quiz
Should You Go? (financial gut-check) → farebones.com/worth-it
Still a single HTML file per page. Still free. Still no affiliate links, no ads, no signup.
Traffic since last update: growing steadily, US and Canada leading, starting to see organic search clicks coming in consistently.
Would love to know: has a tool ever talked you into a trip you were second-guessing? Or out of one you really wanted to take?