At the gates of the Easter I'm sure many of you are finalizing your trips and some are even still deciding where to go. Well, let's try to make it a little easier for you by reviewing a few of the best travel apps for iOS and Android: to find inspiration on where to go, book flights and hotels, organize and get you out of the usual troubles when we are away from home.
Apps to choose your destination
We start with a few recommendations for all those who have the most trouble, or vice versa, what they like the most, is choosing where to go because, although less for other functions, there are still a few apps that give us ideas to choose a destination , with their own proposals or facilitating the sharing of suggestions among travelers.
My Cloud
Minube is one of the most popular apps when it comes to looking for inspiration for a trip, with lists of themed trips, original ideas for trips, recommendations of interesting places at a certain distance, photos of other users' trips ... It is an app designed specifically for this and probably The most complete.
Lonely Planet Trips
The guides of Lonely Planet They do not need major presentations and we also have them in Google Play and the App Store, but this app Trips It is much less known and very interesting to help us choose a destination, exchanging experiences, tips and photos with other users in the community.
finder
finder It is an app with more travel than Trips although without the push that the Lonely Planet seal supposes, but the concept, in any case, is quite similar, since the inspiration will be served by the images that the trips leave us from Other users. It is not translated into Spanish, but being the images the protagonists we will not notice it so much.
As for so many other things, when we are looking for ideas it never hurts to take a look at Pinterest, whose category of travel It is one of the most powerful, full of suggestive images. If you have not tried it yet, it is a great opportunity to do it and, as we say, you will end up taking advantage of it for many other issues.
Apps to find hotels and flights at the best price
Of course, there is no shortage of apps that will help us turn that inspiration into a reality, finding the cheapest flights and hotels, or we can start looking for a destination here, depending on the most interesting offers of the moment.
TripAdvisor
We start with a classic recommendation that, in fact, will be useful not only for this first moment of planning the trip, but also once we are at our destination, because it not only helps us find hotels and flights, but also restaurants, points of interest, etc. One option Very complete.
Kayak
If it's specifically about finding flights, there is another basic recommendation that is the app Kayak, although it is true that this is the specialty for which it has become popular, but not the only service that it already offers us, since we also have options to find hotels, rent cars ...
Booking.com
If, on the contrary, what we need is help to find hotel, one of the best apps that we can use is the one of Booking.com, which has a huge database and not only helps us find the best prices and offers, but also offers us evaluations and recommendations from other users.
Pirate Travelers
Another option, especially if we are not going with a more or less closed destination, but are more open to options, is to pull some of the apps specialized in search for offers And one of the most interesting is this Pirate Traveler, which collects information from all the major providers. And if we know where to go, but we don't care when, we can use its alert system to notify us when there is an interesting one.
Apps to organize your trip
We now continue with the apps that will be most useful to us to plan our trip and make sure that we do not miss anything interesting, with information on points of interest or itineraries that we can take.
CityMaps2Go
Of these more guide-like apps, one of the most recommended is this CityMaps2Go that, from the name, it will be clear to you that it offers us a wide map collection, with all the points of interest we may need, including links to Wikipedia to get all the information we need. It is simple, very complete and works offline.
Google Trips
The apps of Google are a resource that should never be overlooked and this Google Trips It is an excellent tool to organize our trips, offering itineraries, with recommendations on activities that may interest us, information about our reservations ... It works offline and is especially in conjunction with other search engine services.
Triplet
Triplet is another app that can come in handy when it comes to organizing a trip, especially if we are looking to do it with minimal effort, since what distinguishes it is that from the references of dates and places that we give it (there are options to import it directly from certain accounts) we will generate itineraries automatically.
izi.travel
The peculiarity of izi.travel is that not only will it make recommendations for routes and points of interest based on our location, but it also offers us audio-guides (including some for the main museums in the world), something that can be appreciated not having to be all the time staring at a screen.
Useful apps when you're away
Finally, we leave you with a few recommendations for apps that will solve some of the most common problems when we are not at home, such as locating certain services quickly or controlling our data consumption.
Waze
Waze is another very popular app, essential if we are going to travel by car or if we are going to use it frequently to move around the area we are going to, whose great claim is to offer live traffic information. We include it among the useful apps when we are away, but it can really be very useful also before, to plan a long car trip.
AroundMe
AroundMe is another app that we will be interested in having downloaded when we are traveling because it can get us out of a lot of trouble, and its function is specifically to help us find certain services, fundamental in some cases, wherever we are, indicating the closest: hospitals, banks, gas stations, supermarkets ...
Rain alarm
An app of meteorology It is essential in most of the trips we can do, and surely by now you will all have yours, so we are going to limit ourselves to recommending a very specific one whose function is specifically that of let us know if rain is coming, key information when we plan to spend the day outside.
Apps to control data consumption
Another frequent problem when we are away from home is data consumption. Of course, being forward-looking, it is advisable to download everything we can and use public Wi-Fi whenever possible, but fortunately there are many apps that we can also use to control it: if we have Android, the new one Datally Google is undoubtedly the best option, and on iOS, one of the most recommended My Data Manager.
