Travel apps for smartphones

[MizzouTiger]

Any recommendations for these? I have an iPhone & am trying to get the best ones sorted out ahead of my holiday trips. I've heard good things about both TripIt and Kayak, though I think the first one is not free. What do you recommend? Is it worth paying for a pro version of one of the apps?

[krainey]

I don't have a ton of experience with it but do have a little advice—it depends on what your'e looking for the app to do. You can get free flight-tracking apps, which I have and use quite a lot, but the one I have is just for monitoring when the plane is landing, airport delays, that sort of thing.

I think the Kayak pro app is relatively inexpensive, but in general, I try to look for free apps whenever I can. You can also try combining free apps together and see how they do. Has anyone used Yapta? That's a free app that I think is relatively new, but I've heard good things about it.

[howwefail]

For travel apps I would recommend are Google Earth, Priceline Hotel Negotiator, and Yelp. Google Earth displays Google's maps and satellite photos, and provides for a range of search options and links.

Priceline Hotel Negotiator provides small-screen access to Priceline's "name your price" opaque hotel buying system as well as to its list of hotels available at disclosed prices; while Yelp is one of the most comprehensive available compilations of restaurant reviews and information.

[sonalifg]

CityMaps2Go for the iPhone is just fantastic. You can download the app and install it along with the maps of the cities you plan to visit. Then you have a guide in your hand that uses your inbuilt GPS but is not dependent upon having data-roaming enabled. I do recommend it since I used it extensively throughout Europe this year.

[leafood34]

I like Hipmunk for flight search, but for the iphone I prefer Kayak because it's easy to use and best of all is free. While I've always found the Kayak web site a little cumbersome, I find their app much easier to use. Everything is cleaner and simplified. It doesn't do much more than search for flights and provide your with your options, but what else do you really want?

[wanderer]

Does your favorite website have a mobile page? It's not as cool as an app, but it might be a good way to do some travel planning on the go without having to learn something new or sign up for a new account.

[keralahmart]

its very easy you can find many application in internet i guess there are seprate portal for apple and android you can find it easily

[sag-alu]

I'd suggest "Open Table"...this one is foodie resource which finds reservations for you at nearby restaurants, plus directions to get there.

[marvell9]

My suggestion is to go with the hotels.com they recently launched a userfriendly ipad app that allows travellers to search and book about 140,000 hotels around the world in a choice of more than 30 languages.Thanks alot.

[floverstops]

There are thousands of travel apps on the market, and one of my favorite ones it's a travel app called Departure Point. the reason I like it it's because it is really handy if you're a frequent traveler as it tells you what airlines fly where.