FAQs

Only connect with people you’ve met or interacted with enough to trust. While the vast majority of travellers are wonderful,

Absolutely. Making and keeping friends should not cost anything. The Travel Mates feature is provided to enrich the VanLife community

Yes. If you no longer want someone in your Travel Mates list, you can remove them. They won’t be notified

Travel Mates is a mutual connection – both people agree to it. Messaging in the app might be restricted if

No, your list of Travel Mates is private to you (and similarly for others). It’s not like everyone knows who’s

By design, Travel Mates share more info with each other than strangers do, to facilitate meetups and communication: Location/status visibility:

Typically, you send a Travel Mate request through the app: If you meet a fellow traveller you get along with,

Travel Mates is a social feature within VanLife Connect that lets you connect and keep in touch with other travellers.