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My Favorite Travel Apps!

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While planning for my next trip, between Christmas and New Years, I've been utilizing different travel applications. These apps have been extremely useful at keeping all of my information in one place. They are great resources while on the go; it's convenient to keep hotel, flight, transportation info in the palm of your hand - even if you're offline and without reception or wi-fi!

Google Trips

This is one of the most innovative travel applications I've come across, so far. Once the app is downloaded, everything you save for your trip will accumulate one location. Book a hotel or flight with your gmail account and the reservation will appear in the app once it's synced. Search google for events, save them, and they'll be saved in the app as well. 

One of the things I love best about this application is that it breaks down all of the categories of travel and makes planning extremely easy.  Google Trips allows you to download your "Trip" to access the information at any time, even off line. 

If you're traveling to a destination for the first time, Google Trips explains all forms of transportation. 


As a Google app, Google Trips suggests things to do based on the categories in the menu. Tapping the little star allows you to save it to your trip list. 


Not familiar with the local food? Google Trips lets you know what's popular and where to find it. 


Information about hospitals, clinic, shopping, and currency are all in one place. This app is just like a travel book, but free and in the palm of your hand! It's everything you need. The app saves your trips, which is nice to look back on every now and then. 

Expedia App

I like the simplicity of the Expedia App. I can book flights, hotels, car rentals, and events for my trips all in one place. I like to randomly browse different locations to see what Expedia has to offer. The rates are pretty good and, if you already have an Expedia account, you can get more points on the phone app! 


The app saves all of the reservations, flights, hotels bookings and everything else under the "Trip" tab. The "Account" tab keeps track of your points, pending points, offers app support, and suggests other travel application. 

Smart Traveler App

I've mentioned this app before in my post about Travel Safety. This app, issued by the American government, is for traveling U.S. citizens. It's full of information and sends real time alerts and warnings to your phone. I don't use this app a lot, but I like to enable it when I'm abroad because it tells me where the U.S.embassy is and, once enrolled, helps family and friends get in touch with me during an emergency. 

These are my favorite travel apps. Let me know which apps you use while away from home, I would love some suggestions of new apps to try!

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