Eighteen months ago Bernie Tschirren and I returned to Australia from the US, where we had both worked at Microsoft,…
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We are excited to announce that Rome2rio has just closed a $450,000 seed funding round. Investors in the round are the Melbourne entrepreneurs Guy King & Bevan Clark — founders and former owners of RetailMeNot, which was acquired recently by…
Rome2rio boasts the largest repository of transport routes available online, and we are continuing to add more transport regularly. This week we completed the addition of all bus routes operated by Greyhound Australia to the site. Greyhound cover ...
We are continuing to work hard at adding more train, bus and ferry routes across the globe to rome2rio. This week's addition is a big one - the entire rail network of Japan has been added to the site. Japan…
Today we launched the first non-English version of rome2rio. Thanks to the efforts of rome2rio fans Markus Teuber and Bodo von Billerbeck, we have translated the site for German speaking users: If you'd like to try the site out in…
We're continuing to build out rome2rio to offer a complete travel product to our users. This week's addition is rental car search, which is offered through a partnership with Car Trawler. To search for rental cars, select the cars window…
We've added a new feature to rome2rio that makes it easier to explore your transport options. To activate the feature, click on the Transport button at the top-right corner of the map. This will activate a new transport view, where…
Yesterday the one millionth query was issued on rome2rio since we launch the site in April last year. A user from Portland, Oregon searched how to get from Portland Airport to Pistol River. Rome2rio nailed the query by presenting several…
We're excited to launch a new hotel search component of rome2rio today. When you do a search from, say, New York to Amalfi you will now have the option of viewing accommodation options at your destination. Hotels are listed as…
It's been an exciting past month for us as we steadily improve rome2rio. Our transport coverage is continuing to increase; we've lately improved our rail and bus coverage in Australia, Taiwan, India, and parts of Europe. We've also added more…
In the last week we've pushed out several changes to the site's user interface. We redesigned the experience so that flight schedules and transport information are no longer displayed using pop-outs over the map. Instead, clicking on each leg of…
Last week, we launched North America rail and bus coverage on rome2rio. As part of that release, we also pushed out a new welcome screen experience with a high resolution image of Kleine Scheidegg in Switzerland. Today we begin daily…
As reported by The Next Web - Brilliant visual travel search service Rome2Rio adds US and Canadian train and bus routes - we launched US/Canadian surface transport coverage on rome2rio. Here's a map of the new coverage: Coverage in North…
Whilst rome2rio is well known for its ability to show you how to get from A to B by searching various modes of transport, we have implemented several features that are not immediately obvious to users. Here is a summary…
Last weekend I mentored the participants of the Startup Hackathon here in Melbourne (startuphack.org). In theirs words, "Startup Hackathon is a 48 hour marathon of coding, pizza, and red bull". When we moved to Melbourne to start www.rome2rio.com,...
Morocco is a fascinating place to visit, and it's just a 1-hour ferry ride away from Europe by crossing the strait of Gibraltar from Algeciras, Spain to Tangier, Morocco. Morocco was once a French protectorate, and the influence is still…
The Caribbean is littered with fascinating islands, and hopping between them makes for a unique travel experience. The islands are not as well connected by ferry as, say, the Greek islands. This is largely due to the greater distances between…
It's been a busy week for the rome2rio team. After a bunch of engineering groundwork over the past two months we've been shipping a bunch of changes to the site and adding more transport coverage (mostly trains) around the globe.…
We pushed out another rome2rio release this week. Amongst the changes were the addition of the NYC subway, San Francisco BART and Seattle airport lightrail. We made more routing engine improvements, especially the handling of travel between island...