Best Travel Apps for this Summer

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It’s being a while since the first adventurers like Columbus, Magellan Livingstone and others explored and sailed the world with just their courage and passion for unknown lands and kingdoms. 

They had just a few archaic tools to find the right route that would lead them to the promised paradise that they had been longing for so long.

However times have changed and fortunately average travelers form all over the world have at their disposal a bunch of smart apps claiming to make traveling easier. 

We have pick jus a few apps ranging form flight and accommodation booking, weather report, GPS navigation, translation..... (from the Timeout top 50 list) that believe can make the traveling experience easier and more enjoyable.

APPS

FlightTrack

To follow the path of thousands of international flights on slick, zoomable maps, with detailed information on departure gates, delays and cancellations.

WeatherPro

An intuitive app offering weather reports for well over two million geographical locations, feeding in everything from cloud formations and atmospheric pressure to wind speed and humidity.

XE Currency

This freebie is slick, easy to use, and – best of all, since it uses live currency rates – completely accurate.

Sunscreen

This is a crucial piece of kit for those venturing to sunny climes. Having detected the UVI rating of your current location, this nifty little app sets a countdown timer to alert you when you’re due your next slathering of sunblock.

                                                                   Explorer Sir Francis Drake

TravelSafe Pro

A potentially life-saving database of emergency service numbers for just about every country you’d ever care to visit, plus plenty for those that you wouldn’t. There’s also embassy details should passports go missing and – for the truly paranoid – the option to pin certain services to your home screen as widgets, for one-touch access to police, ambulances and fire engines.

Skyscanner

Thankfully, this clean-looking solution does everything you’d ever need it to, aggregating fares from airlines and the big travel sites to bag you the best deal. For those really keeping an eye on the purse-strings, there’s also the option to pin your search to your start screen and keep an eye on price fluctuations.

Hostelworld

Not everyone who rocks a smartphone can afford to stay at The Savoy every night, so thank heavens for this – a geo-tagged directory of 25,000 listings for budget hotels, right at your travel-weary fingertips.

Hailo

This neat piece of software uses your phone’s GPS to make the cabs come to you – simply tap the big ‘pick me up’ button and one of the little cab icons on the map will start heading towards you.

Waze

GPS navigation app that allows you to tap in your destination and user-submitted traffic reports make sure you’re offered the quickest route for the current road conditions.

Pin Drop

This app fosters traveling spontaneity, allowing you to drop GPS pins onto a map when you stumble across something interesting, or browse user-made lists recommending the best sights, sounds and flavours in town.

Google Goggles

Stumbled across an important looking building? Want to know more but fear striking up conversation with the locals? Fire up this bad boy, direct your phone’s camera lens at the source of your befuddlement and – as long as what you’re pointing at is famous enough – it’ll return relevant Wikipedia articles filling you in with everything you need to know.

Wi-Fi Finder

With data roaming charges still so high, knowing where to find a decent wi-fi hotspot is essential if you’re to keep the twitterati up to date with details of your latest sojourn. Best of all, the offline mode means you can download maps before you go, thereby dodging a massive bill.

Lost in Translation

There are 36 languages currently supported, plus a useful function that allows you to quickly and easily forward translations as texts or emails.

Trip Journal

This is more than just a virtual travel scrapbook – as long as you’ve got your GPS switched on, it’ll also create maps of your various explorations, geo-tagged with pictures, videos and notes. 21st Century traveloguing at its finest.

Source

Find out more in our site www.grandtourGO.com and in pur blog http://blog.grandtourgo.com/