For school leavers & gap-year travellers 🎒 ✈️

Your gap year, sorted.

Turn “I want a gap year” into a costed, sorted, bookable plan - visas, jabs, insurance and all. Built for people who don’t know where to start (which is basically everyone).

Prefer to stitch your own trip? Build your own route →

Free to start, no card needed. Unlock the full plan whenever you like: £9/month early-bird (normally £14), with a 7-day free trial, cancel anytime.

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35,000 UK students deferred uni for a gap year last year - a record. Most of them started with a blank page.

The blank page problem

Everyone says “just go travelling.”
Nobody says how.

Generic trip apps assume you already know where you’re going. Gap-year companies sell you a £5,000 package. Offskies is the bit in between - the starting point.

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Where can I actually afford?

Tell us your budget, months and vibe - get realistic routes with real costs, not someone else’s Instagram itinerary.

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The boring-but-vital bits

Visas, vaccinations, insurance, passport rules - pulled into one personalised checklist, each item linked to the official source.

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Mum’s blessing, handled

A read-only share-link shows your parents the plan, the budget and the safety boxes ticked - reassurance without the group chat interrogation.

How it works

From blank page to booked in three steps.

No pressure, no packages, no “please complete your itinerary.”

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Tell us the basics

Budget, months free, interests, passport. Takes about two minutes - less time than your UCAS login took.

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Get your plan

Costed route options plus your personal logistics checklist - visas, jabs, insurance, timelines. The hard part, done.

3

Book it your way

We link you to trusted booking partners for flights, hostels and cover. Your money never sits with us.

For parents

You worry. We get it.

  • See the full plan and budget with a read-only link - no app needed
  • Every safety essential (insurance, entry rules, jabs) visibly ticked off
  • Built around official sources: GOV.UK travel advice, NHS Fit for Travel
  • They plan the adventure. You get to actually sleep.
“She showed me the link and I could see the insurance was sorted, the visa was sorted, where she’d be each month… I stopped sending her Daily Mail articles.”

Pricing

Free to start. £9/month to go all in.

Build a plan and see your routes and budget for free. Unlock the full thing when you’re ready - and early members lock in £9/month for good.

Free
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  • Build your gap-year plan in two minutes
  • See your route options and budget snapshot
  • No card needed to start
Offskies Plus
£9/month
  • Your full costed breakdown, route by route
  • Personal visa, jabs & insurance checklist, each linked to the official source
  • Timeline with calendar reminders for every deadline
  • Parent share-link, and cancel anytime

£9/month is the early-bird price, locked in for early members (normally £14). Starts with a 7-day free trial - cancel anytime, no card charged until day 7.

Questions

Fair questions, straight answers.

Is it free to start?

Yes. Building a plan and seeing your routes and budget is free, no card needed. The full costed breakdown, your visa / jabs / insurance checklist and the deadline timeline are Offskies Plus - £9/month early-bird (normally £14), with a 7-day free trial you can cancel anytime.

Is it live now?

Yes - you can build your plan right now. Early members lock in the £9/month price for good, so there’s a real reason to be one of the first in.

Do you book the trips?

No - and that’s deliberate. We hand you to trusted partners (the same ones you’d find yourself, minus the twelve open tabs) and never hold your money. We’re the planner, not the travel agent.

Who’s it for?

Gap-year travellers 18+ - school leavers, uni students and beyond - and their parents. We're built around UK school leavers first, but anyone planning a gap year is welcome. Under 18? Have a parent or guardian join the list for now - under-18 accounts are on the roadmap, done properly.

Right - you’re offskies.

Your whole gap year, costed and sorted, in about two minutes. Free to start, no card needed.

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