A Traveller's Guide to Booking Hotels, Flights, Rail and Bus Trips with Gift Cards on CardsRelay

Hotels and accommodation, from global chains to short stays

Accommodation is usually the single largest line in a travel budget, and the CardsRelay catalogue reflects that with a broad Travel & Tourism category. You will find Accor Hotels, one of the largest hotel groups in the world with brands spanning Ibis, Novotel, Mercure and Sofitel, which gives you flexibility across price points in a single loyalty ecosystem. For self-catered stays and longer trips, Airbnb covers apartments, houses and unique listings in most destinations. Alongside these sit aggregators such as Almosafer, which is particularly strong across the Middle East and pilgrimage travel, plus a wider selection of accommodation and travel brands within the same category. Because these are stored-value gift cards, a practical approach is to load the exact amount you expect to spend on a specific booking, then apply it at checkout on the operator's own site. CardsRelay simply supplies the code, so you keep control of the booking itself and any reward points the operator offers.

Flights and airline coverage

Air travel on CardsRelay runs from single-carrier cards to flexible flight vouchers. Air India Airways is a direct option if your route centres on India or connecting long-haul services through Delhi and Mumbai. For travellers who do not want to commit to one airline, AirlineGift and the broader Air and AirlineGift-style products act as multi-carrier vouchers, letting you redeem value against a range of airlines and travel providers rather than a single frequent-flyer programme. This is useful when fares shift and you want to book whichever carrier is cheapest on the day. The Travel & Tourism category holds these alongside further airline and travel brands, so it is worth browsing the full list before you commit. A sensible workflow is to price your route first on the airline or comparison site, confirm the total, then buy a matching gift card on CardsRelay. Because you settle in cryptocurrency, you avoid card foreign-exchange surcharges that often appear on international airline bookings.

Rail, bus and last-mile transport

Getting between cities and around them once you arrive is where the Transport category on CardsRelay earns its place. Buser is a strong pick for intercity bus travel in Brazil, connecting major routes at competitive fares, which makes it handy for overland trips across a large country. For local movement, ride-hailing is well represented: Bolt operates across Europe, Africa and beyond, Cabify is widely used in Spain and Latin America, DiDi Rideshare covers markets including Mexico and parts of Asia, and OLA Cabs serves India. Loading a Bolt or DiDi balance in advance is a tidy way to cap your ground-transport spend for a trip and avoid repeatedly entering payment details on your phone abroad. Together these operators cover the airport transfer, the daily commute and the intercity leg, letting a single visit to CardsRelay stitch together several stages of a journey rather than just the headline flight and hotel.

Paying in cryptocurrency, including Monero, Zano and Zcash

Every travel and transport brand above is purchased with cryptocurrency on CardsRelay, and the range of accepted coins is wider than most digital goods marketplaces. You can pay with mainstream options such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), Litecoin (LTC) and Dogecoin (DOGE), along with several stablecoins including USDC and USDT across the Ethereum, Solana and Tron networks. What stands out is that CardsRelay also accepts Monero (XMR), Zano (ZANO) and Zcash (ZEC), which very few travel-facing retailers support. If you already hold any of these, you can convert them directly into a hotel, flight or bus gift card without an extra exchange step. Stablecoin settlement is often the most predictable choice for travel budgeting, since a USDT or USDC amount maps cleanly to the fiat price of a booking. Whichever coin you choose, the model is the same: pick your operator from the CardsRelay catalogue, pay in your preferred cryptocurrency, and receive a redeemable code to use on the provider's platform.