Traveling from place to place with BlaBlaCar

Thanks to its international network BlaBlaCar is the number one shared-car travel site in Spain and Europe.

If you are a fan of HostelsClub you know that on our pages you can always find news and views about travel themes and if you have been following us for a long time you know that we have an eye for ecotourism (just remember our articles about sustainable hostels and the map of these on Pinterest).

Precisely because of these two factors we could not help but share with our readers the activities of a company that we believe will solve many problems for backpackers and revolutionize the concept of traveling.

We're talking about BlaBlaCar.com, a site dedicated to organizing car trips. A few years ago the classic backpackers used to travel with no money and no plans and hoped for a lucky hitchhiking lift to get from one place to another. This was certainly an unusual and exciting experience, but at the same time the problem was to keep in the endless search for a friendly driver who would possibly head to the desired direction. And it was risky too (think of how many horror movies start with a hitchhike). Hitchhiking has been banned in many states.

Said that, if you want to travel cheap, ecological and at the same time entertained, choose BLABlaCar. Does this new way of traveling actually work? Sure it does! The site brings together drivers and passengers, in order to connect people traveling along the same route.

Join BlaBlaCar now. Create a free account, search your trip and start saving!

If you go from Barcelona to Madrid by car you can offer a lift to a user who wants to go there on the same day, and vice versa. By sharing petrol and highway costs you can save up to 75% and enjoy somebody's company.

And the best part is that it is a safe and reliable system, all users of the site need to register their full name (no nicknames or fake names are acceptable). Contact details and photos are checked before being published. A feedback system allows you to have an idea about the reputation of a user and, of course, the drivers and passengers are in no way obliged to accept a carpooling request, but may choose to accept it after having carefully read the user's profile.

In conclusion, a simple and effective system which is so popular that more than three million travelers from all over Europe have decided to use it. You can subscribe for free in a few seconds (through your Facebook profile) in order to offer or find a car ride. And here we go: savings, less waste and less pollution!

And now watch our video which explains how fantastic it is to share a journey. We hope this will help you! Put savings from BlaBlaCar together with savings on accommodation from HostelsClub, and that's your deserved holiday!