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If the arrival of travel web portals years ago made us less frequent agencies, travel apps have meant that we don't even need a computer to plan a getaway. Just with a mobile phone and the appropriate applications, we can search and pay for flights, trains, hotels, rental houses, restaurant reservations and events. But not all travel apps are the same. Depending on which one we use, we will find better deals on flights and hotels, so here are the five that we believe are essential to plan a trip in the most comfortable and cheap way possible.
Skyscanner
Skyscanner is the go-to app when it comes to finding flights. An effective tracking for seconds and the app will show us all the flights on the route and date that we tell it. The best thing is your ability to find the best deals. Few flight search engines find the number of offers and at such low prices that this application offers us. In addition, once the search is done, it gives us multiple options to order them, from doing it by price to doing it by schedule or stopovers. It also offers us a price range per day, per week or per month, if what we are looking for is a flight without a fixed date. All these features make Skyscanner one of the most complete apps when we are looking to travel by plane.
Trivago
Trivago enters the scene once our travel plan is in the phase of finding accommodation, usually hotel or hostel. And this application is an excellent search engine for the multiple offers that hotels and travel portals offer every day. Not only does it find us the best offers in the city and the dates we select, but it also has multiple filters to make that search more exact. It offers very useful maps and different ways to order the results so that we can see what interests us the most. In addition, the application provides us with the evaluation of hotels by users, which will make us an even more reliable guide. For all this, Trivago is one of the essential apps in our terminal when planning a trip.
TripAdvisor
TripAdvisor is one of the most complete applications when planning a trip. It offers us the possibility of searching for restaurants, cafes, cocktail bars, museums, attractions, monuments… And now also the possibility of booking a hotel. All ranked and rated by users, which in terms of restaurants, makes TripAdvisor the most famous popular guide in the world. If we are looking for a place to dine and go out or attractions in an unknown place, this app will show you the ones in the city; by distance from where we are, price of attractions and, above all, by score of those who passed by.
The application shows maps to make the search easier and the possibility of helping future visitors with our opinion. Lately, the Boston company has been advertising itself as a hotel search engine, which does nothing wrong. But we believe that to your great search for hotel deals you don't yet add as many filters as other apps to better organize them. It is in the search for places to have a drink or to eat, where TripAdvisor is a reference for any good traveler.
Maps
The Google maps app is already a must on any smartphone. Whether for a road trip or to find an unknown address, Maps performs the task by calculating times depending on whether we are walking, by car or by public transport.It also informs us of the fastest routes depending on the traffic or if there are works in any area. All updating almost in real time, especially if we move through cities and highways of a certain size. It seems impossible to imagine in the 21st century someone looking for a location while walking through the city without consulting this application. As well as not looking at it before embarking on an unknown route with the car or taking it as a GPS. Google Maps also offers the possibility of downloading maps in case later we will not have data or the area through which we are lacks coverage. A must to have it installed and more if we are traveling.
Google Trips
The young Google Trips is a complete trip organizer that works by synchronizing with your Gmail email and with the place where we are. It will show us itineraries for the place where we are and considering the time that we tell it that we have. By synchronizing with our flight and hotel reservations arrived at Gmail, the app will notify us of billings, restaurant reservations and hotel tickets, as well as send us recommendations of the places we visit. As it is becoming more and more common, Google Trips incorporates the possibility of commenting on our experiences. Therefore, we will have the possibility to read the recommendations of other users, which will give us extra information before going to a tourist attraction or staying in a hotel. In addition, it groups all our reservations, which will end up going through our inbox looking for the confirmation messages of flights, restaurants and hotels. The ability to access everything even if we don't have a connection completes this efficient application to organize our getaways.
