A brand new website is soon to launch. Still in BETA testing, Wanderfly is an inspirational booking engine that helps travelers not only book their journeys, but decide where to go in the first place. With a clean design, bubbly features and high-res background images, Wanderfly is nothing if not pretty.

The booking engine works on a very simple premise of helping you choose where to go that falls within your budget and desired trip type. When you first login to Wanderfly, you’re asked to input your departure city, price range you’d like to spend for the entire trip, dates of travel, optional destination (you can make it as vague or as specific as you’d like. The default is “Anywhere”). You can also choose from a range of themes for your trip, such as “Romance”, “Culture” “Spa” and “Casino”.

Once all your information is input, the Wanderfly engine does its magic and, in a few seconds, you are presented with a range of possibilities that (mostly) fall within your budget and desired theme. The results are viewable in either thumbnail format or detailed format, which includes a blurb about the destination, several pretty photos and choices regarding your flight and hotel. You can also choose to connect your Wanderfly account to your Facebook account, and doing so yields a series of results for any Facebook contacts that might be in that particular destination.

To test the system out, I put in a departure from London in early September for 4 days with a budget of $200-600 (sadly, there does not seem to be a function that allows you to switch currencies), with the theme “Party”. Wanderfly spit out a range of possibilities, from Prague to Amsterdam, as well as more possibilities that went outside of my budget. Once you tweak your hotel and flight (if you want to) to the desired specifications, you can book the entire trip right there, which is super handy.

My only gripes with Wanderfly at this point are that, because it operates using Expedia for bookings, the range of transport possibilities is limited only to flights, and it spit out the very absurd suggestion of flying between Prague and Brno – a distance of around 200 km! It also does not incorporate hostels or budget accommodation into the picture.

Hopefully, in the future, Wanderfly can incorporate train and car rental into its booking engine, and it also might do well to partner with a site like Hostelworld to incorporate budget accommodation options into the site.

On the plus side, all of the prices that I was offered, especially for flights, were incredibly reasonable.

But, for now, I think I will use Wanderfly for short trips and for inspiration in where to go, and if a good deal pops up, I’ll definitely book through the site, as well.