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Take Off with These Travel Apps

What are the best travel apps?
Take Off with These Travel Apps

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These days, you really can’t travel or make plans to travel without a mobile phone. And with the best cell phone coverage from the wireless company with the best unlimited plans (PureTalk, of course!), you can really hit the road without worrying about staying connected.

Of course, half the fun of traveling is planning the trip. And these days there are dozens of terrific travel apps around that can help you research your travel destination, find hotels and restaurants, book flights, secure car rentals, discover food tours, make restaurant reservations, even blog about your trip.

Some travel apps even offer price alerts to help you get the best deal. Following are a few of the most helpful travel apps worth downloading – and most of them are free travel apps.

Wanderlog

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This is one of the most popular travel apps and if you’re in the planning stage of a trip, check out Wanderlog. This travel app does far more than help you plan – it enables users to share travel guides and travel itineraries, and even has a blogging component so you can share your journey and the best deals you scored with your friends and family – but the app’s planning features are what make it a standout.

With the Wanderlog travel app, you’re able to research various destinations and activities, create daily itineraries with start and end times, and add personal notes and links to all of it.

You can even connect your email to more easily manage reservations and travel details.

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Taking a road trip? Wanderlog calculates the time and distance between places and exports the information to Google Maps. Make as many stops as you want. Wanderlog won’t let you down!

And as we mentioned earlier, there’s even the opportunity to collaborate with your fellow travelers. You can team up to create itineraries, download offline maps, write travel guides, and blog about trips you’ve taken.

Finally, Wanderlog is also available on the web, so you can read reviews and make plans seamlessly from your smartphone or laptop.

Hopper

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When you’re considering hopping on an airplane, consider the Hopper travel app. The app can predict airfares and hotel rooms up to one year in advance and is 95% accurate.

It also analyzes millions of airfares for finding cheap flights and hotel price alerts and lets you know if you should book now – or wait just a bit longer to do so. It takes the hassle out of booking flights.

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This travel app is easy to use, too. You put in your destination and the Hopper travel app shows the least and priciest dates to fly. Then the app will make its recommendation – book now or hold on for a while until the airfare drops in price.  You can even have the app customize your flying preferences.

No interest in long layovers? It will remove them. Don’t what to pay extra fees or deal with any kind of restrictions? It will remove those as well. You get flight and price information that matches your needs. 

Lastly, if you’re really interested in finding the cheapest flights to save a few dollars and don’t want to miss being notified about them, don’t worry. When fares have dropped to their lowest, Hopper sends you a notification.

SYGIC Travel Maps Trip Planner

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So there you are … in Prague or Morocco or Nashville. What should you go to see? What should you do? You should consult travel app SYGIC Travel Maps. SYGIC Travel Maps displays everything worth seeing and doing right on one map.

Because the app has an enormous database, travelers can easily find the best attractions, museums, historic sites, stores, restaurants, parks, beaches, bars, and more no matter where they are. Never miss a hidden gem again!

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Available in 18 languages, the travel app SYGIC Travel Maps lets you download guides and offline maps – which is crucial should your travels take you where Wi-Fi is spotty or nonexistent.

Roadtrippers

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Going cross country with family or friends? Take travel app Roadtrippers for the easiest, most delightful road trip you’ve ever taken.

No more looking for rest stops, gas stations, places to eat, campgrounds, outdoor (and indoor) activities so you can stretch your legs. Just pop in your starting location and your destination and Roadtrippers finds everything you need to make your journey a joy.

TravelSpend: Track Travel Expense & Trip Budget

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Unless you’ve just hit the lottery, you’ll be creating a budget for your trip across the country or around the world. That’s the easy part. Sticking to a budget of any kind is the hard part. The travel app TravelSpend helps you with it. Simply enter your budget and then your expenses over several days.

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TravelSpend keeps an eye on your progress, alerting you to slow down your spending if necessary. With TravelSpend you can also enter your expenses in any currency and it automatically converts it to whatever currency you use.

Traveling with friends and family? The app enables you to send money, split bills, and check your bank balance.

TripAdvisor

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You want to go someplace spectacular. Maybe even around the world. Someplace you’ve never been but have been dreaming of for forever. The only problem is that you don’t know exactly where that “place” is.

TripAdvisor and its millions of vetted recommendations on hotel rooms, restaurants, activities, etc. in more than 8 million destinations can help. 8 million destinations in detail – right at your fingertips.

The app is one stop shopping for finding your dream destination, comparing hotel and flight prices, making restaurant reservations, getting the best deals, and more. Use it once, and you'll use it for your next trip too!

Packing Pro

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Air travel has become a bear, but packing may still have it beat. Packing Pro can help. No matter where you're going around the world, simply enter your destination and the length of time you’re going to be away, and the app creates a custom packing list of essentials that takes the destination, trip duration, and weather conditions into account.

Travelling with friends and family? Packing Pro allows easy syncing and sharing so no one leaves behind something essential.

Loungebuddy

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No one enjoys waiting around in an airport for a connecting flight or a new flight because the first one was cancelled. The seats are uncomfortable. There’s no way to spread out. And the food is questionable at best. Wouldn’t it be lovely to wait in one of those really nice airport lounges? Of course it would, but those lounges require membership or business-class tickets and there’s really no way around that.

Correction: there was no way around it before Loungebuddy.

LoungeBuddy is the only travel app that gives all travelers the opportunity to view, book, and access airport lounges around the world in seconds. Through the app’s Lounge Access Wizard, you can find lounges you can access for free or for a one-time fee based on your trip, class of service, and any elite status memberships, or credit cards that you might have.

Simply make your reservation with an American Express card and start waiting in comfort and style.

AroundMe

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We’ve all be there. We’re driving along on our way to wherever when suddenly we realize we’re practically out of gas. That’s scary. And if you happen to be driving at night in a place you’ve never been, it’s even scarier. The travel app AroundMe can help. The app allows you to quickly find out information about your surroundings. How? By quickly identifying your location and asking you to select what you need to find: the nearest bank, gas stations, restaurant, supermarket, a hotel room, car rentals, etc.

Then it provides a complete list of businesses in that category along with the distance to them from where you are. You can choose to see the information on a map, save it to your contacts, or email it to someone else. It’s fast, easy to use, and accurate.

More travel apps, and all are FREE!

US News and World Report named all of these the best free travel apps. All are applicable to Android users and iPhone users alike.

  • TripIt
  • Weather+Free
  • Postagram
  • Goby
  • Free Wi-Fi Finder
  • Google Translate app
  • OANDA Currency Converter
  • GasBuddy
  • Hotel Tonight
  • GateGuru
  • HappyCow (free version)

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As we said earlier, you really can’t travel or make plans to travel without a mobile phone. And with the best cell phone coverage and the best unlimited plans, PureTalk helps you take off without worrying about staying connected.

Switch to PureTalk!

 

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We’ve got budget-friendly plans for families and for seniors, plus great coverage at half the cost of those pricey wireless companies.

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In fact, families of four who switch to PureTalk save $75 a month for an average of $900 a year. Plus, you can keep your phone and your phone number if you like.

More about PureTalk’s phone plans:

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Why choose PureTalk?

When you choose PureTalk, you’re choosing to support a company whose values align with your own. You’re choosing to support a company whose CEO is a U.S. Veteran and a company that supports Veterans. And you’re also choosing to support American jobs: 100% of our customer service is based right here in the United States.

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Posted 9 months ago