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Top Apps for Planning Your Travel Adventure

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One of the best ways to relax and unwind is to travel. It is nice to visit and explore different places, tourist spots, and historical destinations around the globe.

Nowadays, traveling is more exciting when it is planned and through the help of the latest technology, we can find a lot of apps, which will help planning our travel adventures. There are different Android apps, which will give us ease and lessen our time to do our travel checklists.

These are some of the Top Android apps that can help you in your travel adventures:

Hotels.com
This is an app that has listings of over 220,000 hotels across 200 countries and will help you store reservations, track your rewards points, and save hotels as one of your favourites. It can also access your recent and future plan even when you are offline. Hotels.com Hotel Reservation app is available on both Android and iOS.

Bitehunter
This app allows you to find and enjoy real-time dining deals across the United States and soon all over the world. This app is a perfect companion for locals and travellers alike. Bitehunter is only available on the Apple App Store.

Foodspotting
This is an app that can help those who are budget conscious when it comes to finding affordable and delicious food. Unlike any other restaurant app, Foodspotting is all about FOOD; find great dishes whatever you are craving for at any nearby restaurant. A perfect app when you are travelling. You can download this app via Google Play or Apple App Store.

Pano
Capture those perfect travel memories using your smartphone with the Pano app. With its user friendly interface, it enables you to take a panoramic shot easier and like a pro. This is an award-winning app you can find using your favourite search engine and available on both Android and iOS.

Tripit
This app helps a lot in organizing and planning your travel itinerary. It has complete information about hotels, dining and even shopping spots. Access your travel itineraries anytime, anywhere on any device even when you are offline.  You can get the Tripit app on Android or iOS, Windows, and Blackberry platform.

GoSkyWatch
There are those travel moments when you are outside relaxing and enjoying the night sky and you wonder what constellation or stars are above you. Well, GoSkyWatch is the perfect app for you to quickly identify the heavenly bodies, whether it’s a moon, star, constellation, or even a planet. It’s an excellent app for those who are travellers and astronomers at heart.

ProCamera
Capturing perfect moments has never been easy especially using your iPhone, but the ProCamera app will help you capture those moments like a pro. You can also join their community to help you improve your skills through their tutorials and tips.

So there you have it -- my personal picks for top travel apps for your smartphone. If you happen to know more travel apps that will help adventurers like me, please feel free to share it in the comments.
Contributor: Arian Sumalhay

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Smart Apps for Smart Travellers

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Do you want to go on worry-free a vacation?  Is being efficient still part of your priorities while having some fun? Surely, you can achieve these with the presence of mobile applications. Applications installed on smartphones and tablets prove to be of great help to a lot of travelers around the globe. They can be your personal assistants or guides throughout your quest. It is undeniable that you can get them for a lesser value or even for free, if you are keen enough to search the World Wide Web. Though they are free of charge and affordable, it doesn't guarantee that they are all worth your effort, time, and money to download. You can find below some of the most helpful applications that live up to the hype.

If you are looking for a pit stop, available restrooms, coffee shops and restaurants; SitOrSquat is just the right app fopr you. Incorporated with GPS components, this app will give you information fitted to your demand and situation.

When you don’t have Internet access along the way and would simply rely on applications that can be used offline, you’ll be delighted to get a hold of the MapsWithMe app. This is a pleasant iPhone application that contains maps of all the countries that you can browse even while offline. Certainly, a great help to all novice travellers.

If you want to know the time on the other side of the globe, you might get excited to have the World-Clock Time Zones app. This particular app provides definite time all over the world. So, if you have friends from afar and wondering when is a good time to give them a call, you can depend on this app. You’ll never make an annoying phone call in the middle of the night.

Nothing is more comforting than knowing the place where you are going. The TripAdvisor app is equipped with travel packages, cheap hotels, vacation packages, and many more. This app will definitely suit your travel needs.

Also, don’t forget to have Convert Units in your mobile devices. This is a great tool if you want to convert feet to meter, Fahrenheit to Celsius, currency of each country and many other units of measurement.

Lastly, if you want to have a real adventure and enjoy nature at its finest, then you should go ahead and download the Survival Guide and First Aid apps. Both apps are free of charge for iPhone users. These apps contain instructions and first aid tips, which are helpful in case of emergency or disaster situations.

With these apps available right at your fingertips, you won’t be left high and dry on your travels.

Enjoy!
Contributor: Mirasol Inciong

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