Author: Irina
We fill the memory of the smartphone with the most suitable travel tools that can "make" any trip!
Irina was depressed at work. She took out her phone. I looked into one app - oh, Beyoncé's concert in France! I went to another - hmm, a ticket to Nice for 4000 rubles. I moved on to the third, forgotten bonus of $ 37 for an apartment. Three clicks and the vacation plan is ready.
And so Irina, in whose head after such a fortune, “Who run the world?” (girls apps), the idea arose to write an article about which applications help travel the world on a budget and without problems in the spirit - around a solid francaise, and you need to find out the number of the bus to the airport. After all, this is not her first vacation “on her knees” 🙂 Have you prepared megabytes?
Best Travel Apps - 2021:
- Travelata
- RoomGuru
- Skyscanner and Aviasales
- Maps.me
- TripAdvisor
- Wifi Map
- Redigo
- Uber
- Rentalcars
- XE Currency
I tell about each in detail.
1. Search for tours online
What for? To catch Spain / Thailand / whatever at the lowest prices
For travel planning, you don't have to bother with every segment (tickets, accommodation, transfers). Manipulations can be simplified to one action - buying a tour.
Travelata - the largest service for the selection and booking of inexpensive vouchers. It analyzes the bases of tour operators, compares the cost of offers and shows the most profitable, depending on which resort is chosen, dates, etc.
BUT mobile version of Travelata - application for finding tours # 1... Convenient and proven by 500+ thousands of travelers. By the way, last minute tours are also about him.
Download here: on ios; on android
Smart search for tours online
Developing the ability to book cheap tours requires a couple of conditions. First, determine the optimal departure date based on the price calendar. Secondly, to check the nearest airports, perhaps it makes sense to fly not from Kazan, but from Samara. Thirdly, read the article about the 10 rules for buying, and only then use the app on tours 🙂
2. Search for hotels
What for? To find accommodation cheaper than on Booking
Yes, there are at least 15 more systems for booking hotels, each with its own discount offers. A white bear from RoomGuru or Hotellook... From the user - input data, and the search engines themselves will figure out what and how much and will display suitable sites in order of increasing price tag.
Download: for iPhone; for android
Airbnb Is also an indispensable travel app. Specialist for rooms, apartments, villas, castles and tree houses - no kidding! In simple terms, this is a huge base of housing directly from the owner. By the way, HowTrip has a separate review and review of the Airbnb service, if you need more details.
Newbie? When you click on this link, the bonus drops to 4000 rubles for the first booking!
Download: for iPhone; for android
Travel applications for finding hotels and apartments are not limited to the above. There is also Hotellook, Hotels.com, Hotel Tonight, CouchSurfing (free accommodation).
3. Search for air tickets
What for? To be the first to buy tickets while others go to the computer
Cheap air tickets, alas, run out quickly. Especially if they appeared in a mailing list like, for example, in our Telegram channel. Therefore, it is a must to have a smart aggregator on hand (which searches for prices for several companies). Which one of? Choose either, both are the best of their kind:
- Skyscanner (download: for iPhone; for android), the advantage is a cool option "everywhere", showing where the cheapest way to fly from a certain city / country
4. Offline maps
What for? In order not to lower valuable traffic into the bottomless abyss of roaming
Maps.me Is a great application for travelers where you can download maps of any country for free and use them offline. If the enthusiastic "ah!" has not yet escaped, here is an explanation: MapSmi works without the Internet 🙂 Plus, it is extremely accurate and relevant and with useful comments from users from the category “the police are fining here”. It also functions as a GPS navigator (tested by the author both on a car and on a bike).
Download: in the App Store; on google play
And in Russia and the CIS, a good alternative is 2Gis.
5. Search for a cafe nearby
What for? In order not to get into a situation like Irina ↓
We love good coffee 🙂
I remember that in Barcelona she went to a burger, hotly recommended in the Eagle and Reshka program. And it was so bad ... that it was decided never again to betray the faithful TripAdvisor (well, or TripAdvisor in Russian).
The app compiles ratings of places to eat, have fun and stay based on feedback from tourists. They - tourists - leave real photos, information about opening hours, etc. Mega-popular travel assistant, never let you down!
Download: for iOS; for android
Other food and entertainment mobile services include Foursquare and Yelp.
6. Finding free wi-fi
What for? Not to run from Starbucks to McDuck and back to CFS
And Irina cannot imagine a list of useful applications without WiFi Map, because she is a real Wi-Fi addicted, because you don't want to buy a local SIM card 🙂 The concept is very simple: people share passwords from access points all over the world. In order not to get into the dead zone, where there is a point, but there is no connection, it is necessary to use filters like "most popular" or "recently connected".
Download: on iPhone; on Android
7. Translator
What for? To more or less express yourself when "Speak English?" does not say anything
Google translate Is a well-known travel application where English / Russian / Arabic and other 100 languages are woven together, building bridges of communication between peoples. Of course, everyone knows this anyway, but does everyone know that Google Translate helps out offline too? You just have to download the desired language in advance.
Download: iOS version; on Android
8. Guide
What for? To be your own personal guide
There is a whole set: Triposo, TripAdvisor, and izi.Travel. But the recommendation is subject Redigoas comfortable, not laggy and not yet mentioned. There are maps with sights, information about countries, various routes, an event feed and even a phrasebook. In short, almost everything is available, except that the audio guide is not enough.
Download: on iPhone; on Android
9. Travel app
What for? 1) so as not to sponsor greedy taxis; 2) save the budget with fellow travelers
Regarding the first: Uber - rescue, which will always cost less than the local elite with checkers on the roof. Public transport eats up a decent chunk of money, time and personal spacebut in some places Uber is surprisingly democratic.
Download: in the App Store; on google play
Regarding the second: movement around the country between cities - on BlaBlaCar... This is a ride-sharing app. The driver picks up fellow travelers (the cost is divided accordingly), and everyone rushes together in the car to music, jokes and conversations for the soul (but more often in silence, not everyone speaks English ростран). Distributed throughout Europe.
Download: in the App Store; on google play
For car rental
Rentalcars Is the most downloaded car rental app because it, like any decent aggregator, looks for low cost across all available rental companies.
Download: iOS; Android
10. Communication
What for? Any connection with mom is needed, any connection with mom is important
Otherwise, rest is not rest. Therefore, it is worth adding at least two to your best travel apps:
- Whatsapp (download: for iPhone; for android) - I like the fact that you can insert another SIM card, and the number in Vatsap will remain the same
- Skype (download: for iPhone; for android) - differs in that you can call landline phones
11. Currency
What for? In order not to be stupid in the store over the price tags in three zeros after the decimal point
XE Currency combines everything that the travel world needs from such an application: free, works with all known currencies, copes with calculations even without an Internet connection.
Download: on iOS; on Android
12. At the airport
Our flight from Rhodes airport
What for? To brighten up the Hachiko mode near the gate, and maybe calm the nerves
In fact, Irina doesn't really like flying. And he prefers to spend time waiting in cafes or easy walks in duty-free.And it helps to calm the nasty chill on the back FlightRadar24 (download: on iPhone; on Android). As they say, you can always look at the flames, water and the number of aircraft in the sky over the globe.
13. Concerts
Well, and the very travel planning application from which this entire article started spinning - Songkick Concerts! You drive in your favorite bands / artists, and this cool find notifies about the upcoming tour in the nearest cities.
Download: on iOS; on Android
14. Author's applications for travel
- DrimSim - mobile communication abroad (you order a sim card online, deliver by mail). We always use it for short trips up to 7-10 days. Follow the link from us a bonus of 7 euros to the account.
- Splitwise - if you are traveling with a company and you need to share expenses. There is no constant waste of time and counting: a friend buys today, you tomorrow, at the end of the trip everything is deducted. Convenient, minimum cash.
- Getyourguide - great prices for excursions around the world + you can profitably buy tickets to museums, parks, palaces. For example, Burj Khalifa.
- HUJI - application for shooting in low light.
- Unfold - templates for Instagram stories.
- Awardwallet - collects all loyalty programs (miles) in one place. You can also add travel routes. An application for people who really like structuredness.
- Spotify - something like iTunes, Yandex and other applications for music, but Spotify's algorithms do something unimaginable and offer really cool tracks!
- Google Trips - application for building routes. Helps estimate how many days to spend in a particular city.
- The entertainer - a great app if you are traveling with a company. We tested it in Dubai, in short: it allows you to buy 2 dishes or tickets for the price of 1. But it does not work all over the world. We tried in the UAE, there is also Cyprus, Athens, Bali and a few more places. Check on the website. To use it, you need to issue a paid annual subscription, it pays off after the 1st or 2nd purchase.
- Flush - app to find free toilets nearby 🙂
For travel to the USA:
- Yelp - the best analogue of TripAdvisor, search for cafes and restaurants in the USA.
- Lift is an analogue of Uber, but with working promo codes, you know what I mean? Here is the promo code - IGOR33222
- VIA - you can "free" ride from New York airport in a Mercedes ($ 20 bonus by link). So far, it is only fully functional in New York.
- Hoteltonight - for booking hotels for today or tomorrow (sometimes there are very advantageous offers).
And if you, reader, have other useful travel applications that are not mentioned here for some reason, then welcome to the comments! 🙂
