Question 1

What is Your Travel Pals?

Accepted Answer

Your Travel Pals is the world's first trusted social travel platform — one home for solo travelers to discover destinations, plan trips with AI, join real destination communities, and safely meet compatible pals to travel with. Think of it as the social layer that's been missing from the travel journey: verified people, meaningful connections, and a safety net built for the modern solo traveler.

Question 2

When will Your Travel Pals launch?

Accepted Answer

We're in pre-launch. Founding travelers on the waitlist get priority access to our private beta, followed by a phased public launch. Waitlist members are always first in line — for beta invites, feature previews, and lifetime founding-member perks.

Question 3

How does the solo traveler matching layout work?

Accepted Answer

Matching starts with your Travel Profile — your destinations, dates, pace, budget band, interests and non-negotiables. When another verified traveler's plans overlap with yours, our compatibility engine surfaces you to each other with a match score, shared interests and mutual communities. You choose whether to say hello. No swiping, no ghost accounts, no pressure — just genuinely compatible people going to the same place at the same time.

Question 4

How does verification work?

Accepted Answer

Every traveler completes a three-step check before their profile becomes visible: a government-issued ID scan, a live selfie liveness match against that ID, and a linked social account. Only accounts that pass all three earn the Verified badge and unlock companion matching. Verification data is processed by a certified identity partner and deleted from our systems within 30 days.

Question 5

Is Your Travel Pals free?

Accepted Answer

Yes — the core experience is free forever. That includes destination communities, the AI trip planner, companion matching, and our full safety toolkit. A premium tier for advanced trip tools and priority support is planned for late 2026, but nothing that keeps you safe or connected will ever sit behind a paywall.

Question 6

How do you keep travelers safe?

Accepted Answer

Safety is layered. Every profile is verified. Direct messages are monitored for harmful patterns. Live location sharing, an SOS panic trigger, trusted-contact alerts and one-tap reporting are built into every trip. A dedicated Trust & Safety team reviews high-risk reports round the clock. Read the full breakdown on our Trust & Safety page.

Question 7

What is the AI Planner?

Accepted Answer

A conversational trip planner that turns a few sentences — destination, dates, budget, travel style — into a day-by-day itinerary with restaurants, hidden gems, transport suggestions and a realistic budget breakdown, usually in under twenty seconds. Every suggestion is editable, saveable and shareable with the pals you're traveling with.

Question 8

How is Your Travel Pals safer for women?

Accepted Answer

Our safety architecture was co-designed with a Women-First Advisory Board of female solo travelers, safety researchers and survivors' advocates. Women can enable women-only communities, women-only matching, and stricter verification requirements for anyone who wants to contact them. Behavioural red flags — unsolicited messages, off-platform contact attempts, abusive language — are treated as high-priority incidents by default.

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What kind of traveler are you?

Join the waitlist

Get AI Personlised Itinerary

How it works

Community Feed & Trips — Feature Preview

Join the waitlist

Travel Better.
Together.