Intro

Do you love to travel and enjoy helping others travel smarter, cheaper, and with less stress?
If you’ve got real‑world experience and practical advice to share, we’d love to feature your tips, stories, and guides on Trusty Travel Tips.

We’re Rob & Nawa – long‑term travellers who created this site to share honest, down‑to‑earth advice from the road. Now we’re opening our platform to a small number of guest writers who can bring fresh perspectives, destinations, and ideas to our readers.

If that sounds like you, read the guidelines below and send us your pitch.

What Kind of Guest Posts We’re Looking For

Our readers are everyday travellers who want practical, trustworthy advice. We’re especially interested in:

• Cruise travel tips
  
  • How to get the best value from a cruise
  • Port‑by‑port guides
  • Budgeting for cruises (gratuities, drinks, excursions, etc.)
• Destination guides
  
  • Honest, first‑hand guides to cities, regions, or countries
  • “How to spend 3 / 5 / 7 days in…” style itineraries
• Budget travel & planning
  
  • Saving money on flights, accommodation, and activities
  • Trip budgeting, packing tips, and planning checklists
• Practical on‑the‑road advice
  
  • Transport tips (trains, ferries, local buses, etc.)
  • Safety, scams to avoid, cultural etiquette
  • Travelling as a couple, family, or solo

We’re not the right fit for:

• Purely promotional or salesy posts
• Thin “SEO content” written just to build backlinks
• Topics unrelated to travel or personal experience

Our Quality Guidelines

To keep Trusty Travel Tips genuinely helpful, all guest posts must be:

• Original – not published anywhere else (including your own blog or Medium).
• Experience‑based – ideally drawn from trips you’ve actually taken.
• Well‑structured – clear headings, short paragraphs, and logical flow.
• Specific & actionable – real prices (approximate), places, apps, routes, and examples wherever possible.
• Proofread – minimal spelling and grammar errors.

Word count:
We generally look for 1,200–2,000 words, depending on the topic. Shorter is fine if it’s tight and highly useful.

Photos & Media

Strong images really bring a post to life.

• You may submit 3–10 photos you’ve taken yourself (landscape orientation preferred).
• Please only send images you own the rights to use.
• Include a short caption for each photo (where it is / what’s happening).

We may also add our own photos if they better match the layout of the site.

Links, Affiliates & Your Own Promotions

We’re happy for guest authors to benefit from their work, but we must protect our readers and the integrity of the site.

What we allow:

• An author bio at the end of your post (2–3 sentences) with:
  
  • 1 link to your website or blog
  • 1–2 links to your social profiles (Instagram, YouTube, etc.)
• A small number of contextual links in the article itself, where they:
  
  • Genuinely help the reader
  • Point to high‑quality, relevant resources

What we don’t allow:

• Spammy or irrelevant links (casinos, adult, crypto, loans, etc.)
• Obvious “link building” anchor text that looks unnatural
• Affiliate links that we haven’t approved

If you’d like to include affiliate links:

• Please mention this in your pitch.
• In many cases we prefer to use our own affiliate programs and still give you full credit and links in your bio.

We reserve the right to edit, remove, or add nofollow to any links that don’t fit our guidelines.

Our Editorial Process

To keep things simple for everyone:

1. Send a pitch first
   Please don’t send full drafts upfront. Email us:

   • A short intro about who you are and your travel experience.
   • 2–3 headline ideas you’d like to write.
   • 3–5 bullet points of what you’d cover in each article.

2. We’ll review your idea
   If it’s a good fit, we’ll usually reply within 7–10 days and:

   • Approve one topic, or
   • Suggest tweaks so it better fits our audience.

3. Write your draft

   • Use Google Docs or Word.
   • Include headings, subheadings, and image placement ideas (e.g. “[Photo: view from the deck in Santorini]”).
   • Add your author bio (2–3 sentences) and links at the end.

4. Editing & final approval

   • We may edit for clarity, structure, SEO, and tone.
   • We’ll send you a final version for a quick check before publishing.

5. Publication & promotion

   • Your post will go live on Trusty Travel Tips under your name.
   • We may share it via our email list and social channels.
   • You’re welcome to share it with your own audience as well.

Important Notes

• We can’t guarantee that every pitch or draft will be accepted.
• Once published, the article becomes part of Trusty Travel Tips and:
  
  • We may update or edit it over time to keep information current.
  • We generally don’t allow reposting the full article elsewhere (you can share excerpts with a link back).

How to Submit Your Pitch

If you’ve read the guidelines and still feel this is a good fit, we’d love to hear from you.

Please email us at traveltipsbus@gmail.com with the subject line:

 

Guest Post Pitch – [Your Proposed Title]

Include:

• A short introduction (2–3 sentences about you).
• Links to 1–3 examples of your writing (if you have them – blog posts, social captions, etc.).
• Your 2–3 article ideas with a few bullet points for each.

We’re looking forward to reading your ideas and sharing more trustworthy, practical travel tips with our readers.

Rob & Nawa
Trusty Travel Tips