About Sunblock
Independent · Made in London · iPhone
In one paragraph.
Sunblock is a holiday planning app for people in the UK whose time off is already decided. You enter the weeks you can take, the airport you'd fly from and what you'd pay. The app ranks warm destinations with direct flights for those exact dates, cheapest first, shows the temperature you can expect, and keeps watching the fares so you hear when one drops.
Why it exists
Every flight search starts by asking where you want to go. For a lot of UK households that's the wrong first question. The school holidays are fixed. The week off work is booked. What people actually want to know is: given these dates, where's warm, is there a direct flight, and what does it cost?
Answering that today means opening a dozen tabs, one per destination, and doing the comparison yourself. Sunblock does the comparison once, for every warm place served directly from your airport, and hands you a ranked list.
How it works, briefly
- Climate first. Every destination carries thirty years of temperature data. For your dates, places that won't be warm are set aside before any price is looked up.
- Then live fares. For the destinations that pass, Sunblock checks recent direct return fares from your chosen airport for your exact dates and ranks them by price.
- Direct routes only. A destination is only shown if a direct fare from your airport has actually been seen. No estimates for routes that don't exist.
- A basis for every price. Each fare shows how many recent fares it's built on and when the cheapest was last seen.
- Foreign Office advice respected. Destinations the FCDO advises against travelling to are never ranked.
- Alerts without setup. Every block of time off is a standing alert. Fares are re-checked and you're told when one drops.
How Sunblock makes money
Sunblock is free to use. It earns money in two ways, and both are visible in the app.
Affiliate commission
When you tap through to book a flight or holiday, you leave Sunblock and complete the booking with the airline, agent or operator. If you do book, Sunblock may receive a commission from them. You pay the same price as you would going direct.
Every link that can earn commission is marked with an AD label in the app, following Advertising Standards Authority and Competition and Markets Authority guidance on affiliate marketing. Rankings are by price and temperature only. Commission rates play no part in what is shown or in what order.
Sunblock currently works with flight affiliate networks and is applying to work with UK package holiday operators through their affiliate programmes. Partners are listed in the privacy policy.
Sunblock+
An optional subscription, handled entirely by Apple, unlocks unlimited blocks and alerts for people who plan a whole year at once. Everything needed to answer "where's warm and cheap in my time off" is free.
What Sunblock is not
- It is not a travel agent and does not sell flights, hotels or packages.
- It does not take payment details. Bookings happen with the airline or operator.
- It does not have accounts. Your blocks, airport and budget stay on your phone.
- It does not show adverts other than the labelled booking links.
Who makes it
Sunblock is designed and built by Philip Brumpton, a product designer in London, and published by SVPPLY&.CO LIMITED, a private limited company registered in England and Wales, company number 11377371. The same studio makes Who Is My MP? and The Lords.
Registered office: 3rd Floor Great Titchfield House, 14–18 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 8BD, United Kingdom.
Contact
For anything at all, including press, partnership and affiliate programme enquiries, email hello@sunblocktravel.co.uk. You'll get a reply from a person, usually within two working days.