Add destination, dates, travellers and travel method. The app prompts only for what matters.
Free travel readiness account
Before You Travel
Before you travel... check your passport.
Plan every trip from one calm place: passports, visas, insurance, documents, reminders and the home checks before you leave.
The promise
Know you are ready to go
Before You Travel turns a messy pre-holiday checklist into a personal readiness plan based on where you are going, when you leave and how you travel.
Prepare passports, visas, GHIC/EHIC, insurance, driving details and confirmations in one place.
Use timestamped home checks for doors, windows, oven, alarm, medication, passports and chargers.
Web now, iOS next
A travel organiser built for your pocket
The website starts with free trip planning and passport checks. The iOS app will bring scan-only passport OCR, optional NFC reading, offline documents and departure-day checks.
- Passport checked
- Insurance needed
- Weather reminder set
- Home checklist ready
Free sign up
Create your travel space
Use a username and password to open your travel workspace, then complete each readiness area before you go.
Signed-in workspace
Your travel readiness plan
Choose each area, add the details you know, and mark the section complete when it is ready for travel.
Account settings
Your details
Update the account details used for your travel workspace.
Trip
Where are you going, and when?
Answer the first few details and Before You Travel builds the readiness journey around that trip.
Guided journey
Your readiness prompts
Passport checker
Am I ready to travel?
Use the checker on its own, or save the result against the trip. You can also run a quick standalone check at UK Passport Checker.
Family profiles
Travellers
Profiles
Last checks
Home departure checklist
Document vault
Trip documents
Saved documents
Helpful extras