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5 tips to make your next workation successful 🌴
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5 tips to make your next workation successful 🌴

Five practical tips from real experience to help you plan a successful workation — stay productive while working remotely and enjoy your destination.

No More Internet Struggles: Get an eSim for your Workation
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No More Internet Struggles: Get an eSim for your Workation

Working From a Hostel on a Workation: My Honest Experience
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Working From a Hostel on a Workation: My Honest Experience

Can you really work from a hostel? Here's my honest experience — covering wifi quality, noise levels, shared spaces and what I'd do differently next time.

A Large Time Difference on a Workation: How I Make It Work
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A Large Time Difference on a Workation: How I Make It Work

Working across a large time zone difference is one of the hardest parts of a workation. Here is how I manage my schedule, meetings and energy levels abroad.

Bali or Thailand for a workation? I did both
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Bali or Thailand for a workation? I did both

5 min read•Bali and Thailand

I spent a month in Bali and a month in Thailand combining work and travel. How they compare on stays, internet, time zones and daily life.

Canggu or Ubud for a workation?
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Canggu or Ubud for a workation?

4 min read•Canggu and Ubud

I worked one week from Ubud and one from Canggu on my Bali workation. How the two compare, where I stayed and which one suits you.

You're Not on Vacation: How to Make a Workation Actually Work
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You're Not on Vacation: How to Make a Workation Actually Work

Most workations fail because people plan them like a holiday. Here is how to actually make one work — without falling behind at work or missing out on the destination.

Work like other digital nomads from Bali, how?
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Work like other digital nomads from Bali, how?

Bali

I combined a Bali holiday with two weeks of remote work from Ubud and Canggu. With the right stays and solid internet, Bali turned out to be an ideal Workation base.

Thailand Workation Guide: Working Remotely from Bangkok, the Islands, and Chiang Mai
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Thailand Workation Guide: Working Remotely from Bangkok, the Islands, and Chiang Mai

Thailand

Backpacking for a month, discover Thailand, work from skyscrapers in Bangkok and join online meetings from the poolside, with a coconut.