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Access Travel SolutionsRoutes · Destinations · Guides
Tell you the truth about where to go and how to get there cheaply — then get out of your way so you can book it yourself.
Access Travel Solutions began with a frustration that anyone who travels will recognise. The web is awash with travel content, yet so little of it is actually useful. Listicles rewrite one another. "Best of" pages rank whoever pays the most. Fare-finding advice is either ten years out of date or so vague it could apply to any trip on earth. We wanted a single place that did two honest things well: help you find a genuinely good flight in seconds, and tell you — at length, with reporting behind it — what to do once you land.
So in 2023 we set up shop in Denver, Colorado, a fitting home for a travel publication. Denver International is one of the busiest and fastest-growing hubs in the country — a true crossroads between the coasts and the gateway to the Mountain West; from our windows you can watch the wide-bodies bank west toward the Rockies every evening. We are a deliberately small operation — a handful of writers and editors who travel, argue about itineraries, and publish only when we have something worth a reader's time.
Two things, and we try to do both without compromise.
We run a flight search. It is a metasearch interface: you tell us a route and dates, and we open a live results page that compares more than 700 airlines and online travel agencies, ranked by price. We don't sell tickets, we don't handle your money, and we never add a fee. When you find a fare you like, you book it directly with the airline or agency that offers it. That's it. The search exists because the single most common travel question — "how do I get there without overpaying?" — deserves a fast, fair answer.
We publish long-form travel journalism. Destination dispatches reported on the ground. Practical guides to the unglamorous parts of travel: visas, insurance, the anatomy of a cheap fare. Features on the things changing how we move around the world, from reborn night trains to airports being rebuilt as places worth lingering in. We would rather publish eight pieces a season that we stand behind than eight hundred we don't.
Make the good decisions easy: the right flight, the right place, the right preparation — without the noise, the markups, or the pay-to-play rankings that define so much of travel media.
Good travel journalism has to be paid for somehow, and we believe in telling you exactly how. Access Travel Solutions earns money in two transparent ways. First, affiliate partnerships: when you use our flight search or follow certain links and go on to book, a partner may pay us a small commission. It never changes the price you pay, and it never decides what we cover or how we rank a result — fares are sorted by price, full stop. Second, reader support and the occasional clearly-labelled sponsorship.
What we don't do: we don't take payment to place a destination in a "best of" list, we don't let a commission rate move a hotel up a page, and we don't publish "advertorial" dressed as reporting. If a partnership ever influenced a piece, we'd tell you in the piece. Our full affiliate disclosure spells all of this out.
The desk is run by a founding editor with fifteen years of travel writing behind them, supported by contributing writers covering deals, destinations and the business of getting around. We keep bylines on every article and an open inbox; if you want to pitch, correct, or just argue about the best way to cross Europe by rail, we're listening.
Thanks for reading. The fastest way to see what we're about is to run a flight search and then dig into a story or two. If you like what we do, the weekly Dispatch is the best way to keep up.