Apps and Digital Hacks for Smart Traveling
People enjoy travelling when they are relaxed and have a vision of how their journey is going to be, and have an idea about distance, hotels, places to visit, safety measures to take, proper connectivity to the world, and all these should also be available to them inexpensively and at one place.
While planning your trip, you will use the internet search and some IOS or android applications for booking hotels, cabs, flights, trains etc.. Then there are some applications which can help you stay organized during the trip, take care of your expenditure and itinerary.
Other travel apps will make you a smart traveller help you make the most of your time when while you’re at your destination, providing offline maps, tips for sightseeing, and recommendations for local food, as well as family-friendly establishments.
Hotel Booking Application
Make My Trip / Yatra
Trip planning generally starts with finding the best hotels in your chosen destination and this can be a tricky and time consuming task. Web based applications for hotel booking are the way to go.
All of these are famous sites for hotel booking and also provide other features, rates comparisons, check in and check out times, destination hotels, quick pay services etc.
Yatra.com and makemytrip both have cheap air fares, round trip and one direction comparison rates for cabs, many many options for air travel and hotel booking.
Train Booking, Air Flights booking, Bus Seats Booking Apps
IRCTC
In India, if you are planning to travel by Train, IRCTC is the portal via which you can book train seats. But IRCTC online site is slow, therefore government launched the IRCTC app a few days ago, which is easy to operate. It is available on Google Play.
Provides services like: View and Cancel tickets, Retains recently added passenger details, New Users, register from App directly, Upcoming Journey Alerts, One step login to existing users
BMTC Bangalore Bus Booking Service
BMTC is a bus booking app based in Bangalore. So if you are based in Bangalore you must use this app for local travel. After all, people of Bangalore are so tech savvy! They keep on coming up with new ideas.
Air flight booking
There are many services and applications that provide online air flight bookings.
Google Flights /kayak
Google Flights and Kayak (free) are a must add to your list of flight-search sites to check before typing in your credit card number. You can search for round-trip, one-way, and multi-city flights, but you have to link to another site to make the purchase. Regardless, it’s an invaluable service for checking the actual cost of a flight and looking to see if there are other days when the prices may be better.
Air India / indigo / vistara/ spicejet
While make my trip and yatra give you comparison of flight rates of different airlines, but, if you do have a personal favorite and just want to go ahead and book a flight of that airlines, then, Air India, indigo, spicejet and vistara have internet services and mobile apps at your service. These apps are easy to operate and sometimes carry special offers and discounts on flights especially for people who have these apps. Another added benefit of this app is that you get notified about such offers regularly and timely if you have these apps.
Routes and Directions Applications:
These are undoubtedly the most required applications of any trip. Stay Safe and Smart and Save your time and do not get lost, use these apps!
Here Drive
Here Drive provides navigation designed for in car driving in 94 countries. Its features include visual and audio speed limit warnings, voice guided turn-by-turn navigation with spoken street names (optional) in more than 60 countries in 50 different languages and offline availability. The user interface is designed for drivers and map data includes 260 attributes such as turn restrictions, physical barriers and one-way streets. Here Drive and Here Drive+ have optional live traffic information where available, but both lack dynamic rerouting, which is restricted to everyday commuting in a few countries only and then does not come with voice guidance. Here Drive is available on all devices.
Google Maps
Undoubtedly the most used app for finding directions and routes, compatible with all your devices. Recently HSR Layout residents in Bangalore decided to point out the bad roads that need asphalting, using Google Maps. All the potholes were marked out for easy reference.
Cab Booking Services
WiWigo is an Intra City Cab booking service and has Round Trip and One Way trip comparisons, a strong customer support, online billing. wiwigo may be best alternative mode of transport for flights or trains or bus.
Avoid long queues for flight/trains/bus ticket booking, choose your time of travel , travel door to door and enjoy the convenience, save money and pay only for the drop.
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