1. Tell us your trip
Pick your destinations, dates and how many of you are travelling. It takes a couple of minutes and costs nothing. You will see an indicative estimate straight away so you know roughly what to expect.
2. Local agents quote you
Vetted agents in that country see your request and send binding quotes, usually within a few hours. We email you the moment the first one lands — you do not have to sit refreshing a page.
3. Compare and choose
Every quote shows the agent's rating, reviews from real travellers, how many trips they have completed, and exactly what the price includes and excludes. Choose on merit, not just on price.
4. Travel
Accept a quote and you get the agent's direct contact straight away. They arrange your driver and vehicle, you can track your trip on the day, and afterwards you review both the destination and the agent.
Two ways to tell us the trip
Step one has a shortcut. If you already know where you want to go, pick your destinations and dates yourself — it takes a couple of minutes. If you do not, the AI trip planner works it out with you: describe the getaway you want in your own words and it picks the places that fit, orders them into a route you could really drive, and lays them out day by day on your dates.
It plans against the same published destinations you can browse yourself, measures the driving between them from their real coordinates, and estimates transport only — accommodation, activities and food are left for your agent to price, because a plausible invented total is worse than no total. From there it is the same three steps as any other trip: agents quote it, you compare, you choose. A plan is a draft, and nothing is booked until you accept a quote.
What it costs you
Nothing. Requesting a trip and receiving quotes is free, and MyGetawayBuddy does not add a booking fee or commission to the price you are quoted. When you accept a quote you arrange payment directly with that agent on their terms — we never take your card details or hold your money.
The flip side of that is worth being clear about: because payment is between you and the agent, MyGetawayBuddy is not a party to it and cannot refund you. That is why every quote carries the agent’s cancellation terms, and why agent ratings come only from travellers who actually booked.
How we vet agents
Agents apply to join per country and are approved by our team before they can quote. Agents who supply a tourism licence or business registration number that we have checked carry a Verified badge on their quotes. Ratings and review counts come only from travellers with a real booking behind them — we never seed or invent them, so a new agent honestly shows “no reviews yet” rather than a flattering fake number.
Cancelling
You can cancel a trip yourself from My Trips at any point before it starts, including after you have accepted a quote. We will let the agents who quoted know. Whether any money you have already paid an agent is refundable is governed by that agent’s cancellation terms, shown on their quote.
Where you can travel
MyGetawayBuddy is a multi-country travel agent marketplace, live today in Sri Lanka. More countries open as local agents join, and the platform runs each one on its own destinations, currency and vetted agents.
A country opens once enough licensed local agents there are approved that you get a real choice of quotes rather than one — the whole point of the four steps above. If you run a travel business somewhere we have not opened yet, apply as an agent and tell us where you operate.
