Today, as I was sitting at the airport there was a news
story on HLN called the Mobile Traveler and spoke to traveling via mobile apps
from London to Rome. This sparked my curiosity; I searched but was not able to
find the link for the clip but researched Mobile Apps for the traveler and this
is what I found.
An article titled “The 26 Travel Apps that will Change your
Life,” which discusses apps for obtaining Wi-Fi, hotels, flights, flight
trackers, free text messaging, weather information and currency converter. Two
that I found interesting were an app designed specifically for changing your
seat (seat guru app) and Flyers Rights that lets flyers know their rights
regarding delays and cancelations.
Another article I found was “50 ultimate travel apps…so far”
which highlights several of the other apps and mentions my favorite for flight
options as number one, Kayak. Some different and interesting ones from this
article included several translator apps, the UNESCO World Heritage -- Location guide, and JetLag Genie.
This was an interesting topic for me because I knew about
several of the restaurant finders and cheap flight apps but I was not aware of
how large the market was for the other apps discussed in these articles and
links.
These articles are both about a year old so I am sure there
are newer travel apps not mentioned, does anyone have a favorite travel app
listed in these articles or not?
I would say my most used travel apps are hotwire and kayak
but I am going to start exploring my app market place.
Ah, perfect. Thanks for these links - I love to travel and mobile help is always handy.
ReplyDeleteThese apps sounds pretty cool! I think it'd be pretty handy to have flight, hotel and weather info readily accessible. The other apps like seat guru sound like an added bonus! You'll have to try them out and let me know (since clearly I can't try them out)
ReplyDeleteI love to travel as well and wish I had thought to research about the currency and translator apps sooner as I could have used them in Italy last month.
ReplyDeleteErin, I think you should be able to get some of the apps on your Kindle like you do Words with Friends! I would definetely think someone with your travel luck might really benefit from this tools!
Molly
Those are great resources. I used several apps to prep for my trip to Europe last year and France last month. For 'pre trip' research, I love triposo (it's really good on the iPad.) Another good app for free calling and text is Viber, you'll need wi-fi but it works pretty well. I wish I had a few of these links about a month ago, I did so much traveling the past two weeks and I'm glad to be home, but I can use these for my travels next year :D
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