The sections
The menu grew over the years: Articles, Landscape Photos, Videos and Travel goods (with Amazon and iTunes sub-categories) in 2015; Hotel booking and Car rental in 2016; Flight Reservation in 2018; a Privacy Policy in 2019. Two author archives — admin and TravelAdvices — alternated as bylines. A contact form sat behind a simple arithmetic captcha.
The posts
Articles were generic travel advice (packing, off-season flights, cruises, travelling with children) in the unmistakable cadence of machine-rewritten text — “You can fill up those seriously discounted chairs and giggle right up towards the financial institution.” Landscape Photos were other people’s photographs reposted with a one-line credit (“Image by enigmabadger”). Videos were embedded YouTube travel guides with their original descriptions and channel links. Travel goods were product listings — backpacks, RFID sleeves, cable organisers, DK Eyewitness guides, romance novels with “travel” in the title — with “View on eBay” or Amazon links and prices.
The booking pages
Hotel booking offered to “find cheap housing by comparing hotels, apartments, hostels or bed and breakfast” through an embedded Dohop comparison widget; Car rental and Flight Reservation worked the same way. These were affiliate placements: the site earned a commission on bookings made through them and sold nothing itself.
Beyond the site
A free Android app called “BookCheapTravels.com”, by a developer account named swissglobaldistribution, was listed on the Amazon Appstore in February 2016 as a flight, hotel and car-rental comparison tool. A Facebook page (about 980 likes) and an X account (@bookcheaptrave1) reposted the site’s content, and posts carried dlvr.it tracking parameters from automated syndication. Who operated it is not recorded on the site; the Swiss labels on the 2014 blog and the developer name are the only hints.
This site is an archive of a domain name. It sells and compares nothing and carries no advertising or affiliate links.