r/travel vs r/TravelHacks

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r/travel’s public description is a community about exploring the world—pictures, questions and stories. r/TravelHacks focuses on cheap traveling, ways to get around, and tips; its own text steers general where-to-go advice toward r/travel.

In our directory, travel is larger (about 14.5M, rank #60) than TravelHacks (about 5.8M, rank #144). Activity samples show travel posting more often (~100 posts/day vs ~17). Both samples are mostly text. travel flairs include Question — General, Images + Trip Report, Question — Itinerary, Discussion, My Advice; TravelHacks shows Travel Hack, Transport, Itinerary Advice, Accommodation, Accessories. Our directory lists each name among the other’s related communities.

Rule titles: travel wants specific context, bans clickbait/self-promo and low-effort posts; TravelHacks requires descriptive titles and bans spam, selling and referral links. SubMouse already compares travel with solotravel and Europetravel.

Choose r/travel for itineraries, trip reports and destination questions under its specificity rules.
Choose r/TravelHacks for cheap-travel logistics and tip posts under its descriptive-title and anti-referral rules.
travel is larger and much more active in our sample. travel-vs-solotravel and europetravel-vs-travel are separate curated pages.

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.

r/travel

travel

r/travel is a community about exploring the world. Your pictures, questions, stories, or any good content is welcome. Please read the rules and pinned announcements before posting. Failure to do so may result in a perma…

Members: 14.5M
7-day growth: +6.9K
Posts/day: 100
Directory rank: #60
Created: Jan 25, 2008
Submissions: Text or links

Sample mix: text posts 74%, galleries 14%, images 10%

Topics: Travel

Rule titles (short names we collected)

Avoid repetitive questions
Include descriptive title and context
No clickbait, blogspam, or self-promotion
Be as specific as possible
Check Google or direct source before posting
Stay around to answer questions
No low effort posts without details
No racism, trolling, or bad conduct
No spam

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r/TravelHacks

Travel Hacks

Cheap traveling, ways to get around, tips & tricks, etc. For general travel advice such as where to go and what to do there use /r/travel or similar. Check sidebars for helpful links first.

Members: 5.8M
7-day growth: +1.2K
Posts/day: 16.6
Directory rank: #144
Created: Mar 18, 2014
Submissions: Text posts

Sample mix: text posts 100%

Topics: Travel

Rule titles (short names we collected)

Use a descriptive title - not "Help please" or "Question"
No spam, selling, referral links or other adverts

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Supported differences

Aspect	r/travel	r/TravelHacks
Public focus (from each community’s public description)	r/travel is a community about exploring the world. Your pictures, questions, stories, or any good content is welcome. Please read the rules and pinned announcements before posting. Failure to do so may result in a perma…	Cheap traveling, ways to get around, tips & tricks, etc. For general travel advice such as where to go and what to do there use /r/travel or similar. Check sidebars for helpful links first.
Size r/travel is larger in our directory (about 2.5×).	14.5M members	5.8M members
Posting activity (our sample)	100/day	16.6/day
Common post types in our sample	text posts 74%, galleries 14%, images 10%	text posts 100%
Allowed submission type (meta)	Text or links	Text posts
Selected rule titles (short names we collected)	Avoid repetitive questions; Include descriptive title and context; No clickbait, blogspam, or self-promotion; Be as specific as possible; Check Google or direct source before posting	Use a descriptive title - not "Help please" or "Question"; No spam, selling, referral links or other adverts

What they share

Shared SubMouse topics: Travel
Our directory lists each of these communities on the other’s related list.

Rules and posting patterns we can verify

travel short titles include: Avoid repetitive questions; Include descriptive title and context; No clickbait, blogspam, or self-promotion; Be as specific as possible; Check Google or direct source before posting; Stay around to answer questions; No low effort posts without details; No racism, trolling, or bad conduct. Our sample is text-forward with itinerary, trip-report and transport question flairs.

TravelHacks: Use a descriptive title - not "Help please" or "Question"; No spam, selling, referral links or other adverts. Our sample is text-only with travel-hack and transport flairs.

Where this comparison comes from

Public descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short rule titles and activity samples SubMouse collected. Short titles only. Related curated pages: travel-vs-solotravel; europetravel-vs-travel.

Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.