Family Vacation
A picture from my family's vacation to Puerto Rico last year.
Jillian D'Onfro
An amazing feature on a lesser-known travel website just saved my family's vacation plans.

For the past several years, my sisters, mom, and I have traveled together after Christmas.

We had discussed going to Mexico City this time around after finding some cheap flights, but we all slacked off these past few months and didn't actually book anything.

So, when we got together for Thanksgiving, our hearts plummeted when we discovered how high the cost of flying there had crept up. It had become too expensive to justify, as were flights to every other warm place we could think to search on our staple travel site, Kayak.

But just in time to fend off the doldrums, I remembered a suggestion that my coworker Harrison Jacobs had made last year to check a site called Skyscanner.

Though Skyscanner works like Kayak in many ways — it automatically searches a bunch of airlines at once to find the best price for a given destination and date — it has one magical, unique feature.

You can choose your departure city and then select an "Everywhere" option that will show you a list of the cheapest flights possible, to anywhere in the world.


Thanks to Skyscanner, we booked flights to the French Caribbean island Martinique for an absurdly lower price than anything we'd searched for on Kayak.

Here's how Skyscanner ranks flights:


With a still-smoldering volcano, gorgeous beaches, and a mix of French and West Indian culture, Martinique sounds like a gem.

But never in a million years would we have thought to search for flights to go there.


If you're trying to book a last-minute vacation and don't really care where you go, I thoroughly suggest trying out Skyscanner's Everywhere feature. Maybe you'll find the perfect destination too!