The Most Useful Travel Apps
Top useful mobile services for tourists: where to buy tickets on Kupi.com, book accommodation, find excursions.
How to get there
Kupi.com
Perhaps one of the best travel apps worldwide, where you can buy plane or train tickets and book a hotel. We’ve tried to do everything for a comfortable journey from one point to another: in the app offline documents are available, you can ask questions about your flight in the chat, and track ticket prices for your desired date.
BlaBlaCar
Bus travel is also a great option if you’re moving between nearby locations or if you never have back pain (this is especially relevant for long journeys). In the BlaBlaCar app, you can buy tickets for trips across Europe. Well, if you dream of adventures and want to travel with fellow passengers, you can use the good old BlaBlaCar and get to your desired destination affordably.
Where to book accommodation
Couchsurfing
Couchsurfing is a social network for travelers. In it, you can easily book a room and find friends. Users from different countries offer to meet each other in a city, spend time together at a bar or a concert, or host each other during a trip. All in all, it’s a unique and cool world where people find each other and explore new cities. Couchsurfers have ratings in the apps, so it’s unlikely you’ll run into any troublemakers.
Trip.com
Trip.com is a service that allows travelers to book a room in any country. But in addition to accommodation search, it also offers services for purchasing air and train tickets. Essentially, it’s a great assistant for international travel on all major ‘fronts’. Moreover, Trip.com often provides users of its mobile app with various promotions, promo codes, and personalized offers. In short, you should download it !
How to get around
By taxi
Uber and Bolt are options for those who need to travel around Europe:
Careem — a taxi service that can be ordered in the UAE, Morocco, and Kuwait.
How to pack everything and not forget anything
Packr — works only on iOS, but how! The app creates packing lists for flights, personal hygiene, and other important travel moments. So you have everything at hand.
Easy Pack — a great service for Android users. Here you can use template lists or create your own for trips, which will remind you exactly what you need to take with you;
PackPoint — suitable for most operating systems. The app helps to find information for travel planning and generates template lists based on your needs.
Where to find attractions
TripAdvisor — a popular service where real travelers leave reviews for great (and not so great) places. Available on iOS and Android .
Map services: it’s unlikely we’ll surprise you with the information that on most maps, users rate establishments, popular, and even the most unconventional attractions. For example, Google Maps.
Useful for vacation
Currency converter, to track the current exchange rate. It’s often pre-installed on smartphones, so when traveling abroad, it’s best to set up a widget on the home screen;
Google Translate — it’s unlikely you’ll feel comfortable ordering coffee or going on excursions without a translator, unless you practice languages every day. Therefore, it’s always better to have an online and offline translator on your mobile phone , if you find yourself in a place without an internet connection;
Airalo — an app where you can buy an electronic SIM card for any country, adjust the required data volume, and activate an eSIM;
Star Walk 2 — what if you decide to go out of town, where a picturesque panorama of the night sky opens up? With this software, you will find all the constellations you see. Useful and interactive!
