Are you going to explore a country as Travellers? One of the contributions to have smart phones is bringing many applications to our life with the aim of answering our needs in daily life. During travelling an another country or a city, travellers need to have some helps from local people or old visitors of place. It is not impossible! There are many applications providing service to tourists without charge or with little amout of charge. Opportunities are variety; from finding cheap accommadation or flight to eating best kebap in city.
Let’s learn them together then travel!
TRAVELLERS APPLICATIONS
Couchsurfing
My favorite application is completly free. You can use couchsurfing to find host homes who want to host you without any money demand. Hosts use this application to meet with new people from different countries and have friends from different countries. Even some host can accompany to tourists to visit city and hang out. For Ios and Android.
Airbnb
Airbnb meets travellers and local people who have free empty rooms, homes and even tree houses and boats. Whether you need a short-term stay or a mont-long rent, Airbnb has many options. In some locations, the application also provides experiences such as tours, classes, workshops. Airbnb is not free but it can provide highly comfortable vacation experience. For Ios and Android.
Uber
Uber now operates around the world, the general concept is the same everywhere. It is rival of taxis. The most useful side of app is to charge your credit card the right amount so you don’t have to worry about coming across with taxi scams. For Ios and Android.
Dealray
Dealray is an airfare tracker with mountly charge and helps members to find low-cost flight deals and send notifications when happen an massive price drops, error fares, or flash sales. When I visit site, I saw a surprising price about 64 $ for Los Angeles flight so lets check it! For Ios only.
What is Work and Travel
Google Maps
Google Maps is easily-friendly and the best mobile navigation app, and you will likely use every day on transport everywhere. You will need an Internet connection to find new locations, you can save unlimited numbers of maps for later offline use. Beside finding place of your destination address, in some locations; you can see with which transportation options you can arrive to there. For Ios and Android.
Happy Cow
Happy Cow is an useful application for vegan and also vegan food lover. Happy Cows provides all vegan restaurants and cafes around the city. This application charges money. For Ios and Android.
Flio
Flio is an application helping you from the moment you booked your trip until you reach your final destination. The app and website collect information about airports, such as services offered, Wi-Fi networks, transit options, available lounges, advices about where to eat etc. For Ios and Android.
Hopper
Hopper follows flight prices and gives information about periodic updates on whether you should buy now or wait. Also, it doesn’t just tell you to wait to buy your ticket and gives you a date when the price will probably increase. This app is free to download. Hopper offers to help with a commission fee. For Ios and Android.
Zomato
Zomato is a visitors review site for restaurants. People regularly take photos of menus and upload them to with review, so you get more than flippant comments and blurry photos of foods. For Ios and Android.
Skyscanner
Even if you dont know where will you go Skyscanner will help you to find your way. Since Skyscanner is free I would say this is an amazing life-saver app and must have for any traveller looking for cheap flights with montly price bar chart. For Ios and Android.
Kayak
Kayak is a popular flight search tool and helps to find cheap flights in addition hotels and car rentals by searching hundreds of travel sites simultaneously. The app automatically hides excessively long or exorbitantly expensive flights, and also you can use smart flight search features like a Time of Arrival or Departure filter with a price histogram, an Airline Alliance filter, a red eye filter, and a Wi-Fi filter. For Ios and Android.
Gamze Aydın
Project Management School Editor
