Plane ticket, hotel, car rental… How to use a VPN to travel cheaper?
We often talk to you about VPNs to highlight their many advantages: anonymity, encryption, circumvention of censorship, the possibility of accessing certain hidden content from Netflix, of watching normally paid sports competitions, etc. But there is a less known, but just as practical aspect: paying less for your holidays! It all starts with the famous cookies that sites place on your computer or smartphone. Thanks to these small files, the sites can know you are interested in a particular product (flights, rentals, etc.). If you connect the next day, you will sometimes have a surprise: the price will have increased by a few euros! The goal is to get you to buy, because after all, you don’t know what the next day will be like. Of course, not all sites play this little game, but it can happen.
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A Norwegian on iOS will pay more than a Moroccan on Windows…
Because even without cookies, merchant sites have certain tricks to find you anyway. There are also sites that will look if you log in from a Mac or PC. A user of macOS or iOS will be considered to be “richer” than a proletarian under Windows and there too the prices may be revised upwards. But where the sites abuse it is at the level of where you connect. You are more likely to get a good price with a Tunisian or Polish IP than with your “rich” French IP. We will see that going through a VPN can save you money… Of course, this is all legal!
A cheaper plane ticket in 2 clicks!
1/ With your French IP
Looking for a Paris-Warsaw plane on a well-known site, the cheapest ticket costs €155 with your French IP.
2/ Change country with CyberGhost
Let’s now change our IP for a direct debit in Poland with CyberGhost. Do not forget to delete the cookies of the site on which you are looking to put the odds on your side! Note that if you want to go to Thailand, it is better to pretend to be Thai, etc.
3/ With a Polish IP…
The ticket price is now €125. That’s a saving of €30! It happens that by changing the IP, the price is the same, but it’s worth a try, isn’t it? It also works with car rentals and hotel reservations etc.
The cheapest VPN: CyberGhost at €1.99/month!
For this example we did a test with CyberGhost. Of course this trick works with all VPNs, but CyberGhost is the cheapest, it offers a lot of servers in 90 different countries, it is very fast, it offers a 45-day money back guarantee and it is possible to install on 7 devices at the same time. To take advantage of the promo at €1.99/month, click below!
