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[OwenFry]

Hello everyone!

How’s your travel life going on? Are there any iPhone apps that help immensely while we are travelling? Can someone list out apps which are useful while travelling?

[VintageKrug]

I would recommend:

http://www.myflightsapp.com/

[Potakas]

Excellent VK, thanks a lot

[BlackTower]

Good call vk

I find switching off data roaming ti be very useful in avoiding £1000 bills

[Potakas]

I don’t want to change the route of the topic but if someone knows any useful app about Blackberries, i would be also interesting.

[OwenFry]

I myself researched the web for travel friendly iPhone apps and found Geomium. One can use Geomium to find new friends, discover restaurants & bars, money off deals and events happening near you. It’s so much feature packed such that I love it very much! Geomium will be of immense help while I am travelling.

Take a look at Geomium’s home page http://geomium.com to learn more or download the iPhone app from http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/geomium-find-friends-bars/id387714154?mt=8.

In addition to Geomium, I would recommend Skype, Gtalk and Facebook.

[Bunnahabhain]

I find the National Rail Enquiries app useful, despite the controversial £4.99 charge for access to the real time database compared with the same information free using a browser to access the website. Real time and dependable information on delays can save you a lot of time, especially if travelling on unrestricted tickets where you can choose to go for an earlier or later train and make the most of your time rather than standing at the station waiting. Less of an advantage when departing from the origin of the service as these tend to be on time, delays occur en route.

The same information is less useful for flights unless connecting, as you still have to turn up at the airport / gate by the original close out time no matter how delayed the departure. Ok if meeting someone arriving, saves hanging around. iFlight UK covers the BAA airports + LGW, LTN and MAN – plenty of others like it. LHR and MAN have their own official apps, no doubt others too.

London Travel Deluxe – TfL timetables & route planning covering all forms of transport

AllSubway – An offline pile of tube maps for major cities around the world.

Transit Maps – facility to load up maps which cover more than just the tube system (like London connections which includes the National Rail lines) before leaving, then sync and view offline on phone.

iPictureIt – get by in pidgin sign language in the above tube stations!!

Global SOS – Emergency numbers

iRail – European rail timetables (not real time running information). The Trainline offers similar for UK.

[Andrealuxe]

Hello! I am writing from the LUXE City Guides, we now do mobile app versions of our guides, both for iPhone and HTC, Blackberry and other handsets. We have 20 out of the 31 cities we feature, with the rest coming soon, priced at $5.99.

It’s useful for business travellers who don’t want to read through endless copy, but just need to know the top spots for eating, drinking, sleeping and playing.

See luxecityguides.com for more information

Hope this helps.

[ThereseNecioOrtega]

I recommend the following iAPPS:

* compass
* currency converter
* Gates Lite (shows you all the airport gates configuration layout)
* flight scheduler
* Harvard Business Review Management Tip of the Day (good ice breaker when you are out of ideas…)
* translator (they have Russian, Slavic etc..)

I hope these help.

Best,

Therese

[parnera]

As the EVP of Global sales for Aldous Limited, I travel around the World at least once a month and have a compiled a list of the top 5 travel apps for iPhones and iPad.

1. World Flights

Live departure and arrival information for every single flight in any given airport in the World. Fast, easy, intuitive and very low price: the best flight tracking application on the Appstore.
http://itunes.apple.com/app/world-flights/id374168766?mt=8

2. HotelPad

Hotel directory with maps, pricing and availability live info for most hotels across the World, again a must have for any last minute booking or finding the perfect location for your stay.
http://itunes.apple.com/app/id324473924?mt=8

3. Convert

Currency, distance, weights, measurements, temperature converter and more. Do not feel lost in any country and know instantaneously what is what.
http://itunes.apple.com/app/convert-the-unit-calculator/id325758140?mt=8

4. TripIt

Keep track of your flights booking, hotel and rental car reservations. A great complement to World Flights and HotelPad.
http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/tripit-travel-organizer/id311035142?mt=8

5. Pageonce Personal Assistant

One app to keep track of your bank accounts, frequent flyers points, social networks and anything else you can think of while on the road.
http://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/personal-assistant/id285056092?mt=8

[ChinaEddie]

My 2cents: An engrossing iPhone game.

I personally like “Angry Birds” or a Word puzzle.

[Tim2soza]

Sat Nav
TomTom (thrown my old Go 720 away)

UK centtic
Train Times, Tube Map, Thetrainline, London cycle, RinGo (pays for car parking at FCC train stations), HA traffic, Maps (Google), RAC traffic, Hilton, AA Britain, BA, AA hotel guide, Flight tracker
Flights [BravoFly] (love this as it has prices for low cost airlines)
Virgin Trains, travelodge, TripAdvisor, Booking.com, Map, SpeedTrap Lite (safety) Stansed, Oyster mobile, Tube Status, Regus (Business Lounges), TrafficEye, Accor Hotels

International
MVG FahrInfo (Munich public transport), Motel One (Germany budget hotel chain), Hertz

PS – I never data roam; plenty of Wifi around.

[Matinée-Allstars]

I have tried a number of apps and never been totally impressed

The best thing I have found is Kayak

If you create a login on Kayak (www.kayak.co.uk) then simply forward any travel emails … hotel/train/flight/car booking confirmations from your registered email address to Kayak (<a href="mailto:[email protected]“>[email protected])

Kayak auto-assembles all the emails into “itineraries” with everything for one trip assembled together in chronological order

This works even better if you setup the Itinerary in Kayak in advance ( a 10 second job)

You can print all your bookings for 1 trip from Kayak easily and drill down to the original booking email

You can also output a feed from Kayak of all your trips info which can auto-update your calendar

So… simply forward the emails to Kayak

It assembles your trips (in section MY TRIPS)

It then auto-populates your calendar on you mac and iPhone

I am totally amazed at how simple it is and how well it works

Hope it works for you….

[Tim2soza]

@Matinée-Allstars – Tripit does this too. Straight from Easyjet email to Tripit iPhone app. nice!

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