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Trains, planes and delays: what we learn when travel tests us

Try as we might, travelling doesn't always go to plan. Whether we travel by land, air or sea, we learn little lessons when our modes of transport test us.

Posted October 6, 2022 Read more ›

Build, save and share a multi-hop trip with Rome2Rio

Since we launched rome2rio last year, support for multi-hop trips has been the single most requested feature. Our users wanted to be able to construct a complex journey, visiting several destinations by combining various modes of transport, and sa...

Posted July 27, 2012 Read more ›

Browse train, bus, ferry routes with new transport view

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…

Posted February 16, 2012 Read more ›

North America buses and trains added to Rome2Rio

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…

Posted September 28, 2011 Read more ›

Moroccan trains added to Rome2Rio

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…

Posted August 13, 2011 Read more ›

Irish trains, carbon offsets and the iAwards

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.…

Posted August 5, 2011 Read more ›

Epic land campaigns

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...

Posted July 21, 2011 Read more ›

New Rome2Rio features, better data and UI improvements

We pushed out a new version of rome2rio this week. Here are some of the improvements we made: Support entering a country, state or airport code We regularly analyze our search logs to see what sort of queries users are…

Posted July 13, 2011 Read more ›

France’s incredible mechanical elephant at Les Machines de l’île in Nantes

The French are known for some pretty impressive engineering feats, such as the Eiffel Tower or TGV Train network. Less well known however is the amazing engineering accomplished by the Les Machines de l'île, an artistic and tourist project based…

Posted June 4, 2011 Read more ›

France's incredible mechanical elephant at Les Machines de l'île in Nantes

The French are known for some pretty impressive engineering feats, such as the Eiffel Tower or TGV Train network. Less well known however is the amazing engineering accomplished by the Les Machines de l'île, an artistic and tourist project based…

Posted June 4, 2011 Read more ›

Rome2Rio launch analysis

A few weeks ago Bernie and I visited San Francisco to kick off the launch of the beta version of rome2rio. The launch went well and we received a healthy spike in traffic, some great user feedback, and interest from…

Posted May 5, 2011 Read more ›

Rome2Rio can save you a lot of money

rome2rio can save you money. A lot of money. I'm going to show you how. Image you live in Quebec City. You need to travel to Brussels for business. You do a search on a travel search site like Orbitz…

Posted April 1, 2011 Read more ›