Do not forget to bring your smartphone with you this holiday, because your iPhone turns into an ideal travel guide with a few apps. iPhoned lists these apps for you.
The iPhone Travel Guide: Apps for a Good Vacation
On holiday, many bring a nice holiday book full of tips with interesting locations or restaurants. These booklets contain a lot of information, but also become outdated very quickly. With the right apps, you will find a lot more information, including reviews from multiple people. We discuss a number of apps that contain the coolest tips. Happy Holidays!
1. Foursquare City Guide
Do you remember Foursquare? The heyday of this app is now over, although it is still an excellent app for discovering cities. Foursquare is filled to the brim with reviews from users, who recommend the best places to eat, shop or soak up culture.
By using the app, Foursquare gets to know you better and the app gives tips about things you probably like. You will even receive messages when Foursquare thinks something in the area is right for you. The nice thing about this app is that you can also fill in fairly specific searches.
2. Guides by Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet is an established name when it comes to travel guides, but the app can also do some of it. In this case, you don’t read all kinds of user reviews, but the Lonely Planet authors tell you where to go. The app looks fantastic, including beautiful photos and clear texts.
The tips can be filtered between seeing, eating, sleeping, shopping, drinking and playing. In the latter category you should think of, for example, a location for live music or a cinema. It is nice that the cities can also be downloaded for offline use.
3. Tripso
Triposo is a great app to discover a city. This application collects information from all kinds of other places, in order to combine it into an attractive city guide. Not only with deals for hotels, but also tips for restaurants and places of interest. In the app you also learn about the history of the city, what current festivals are going on, how public transport works and where you can do the laundry. The app has a handy offline function, if you don’t have internet on the go.
4. City Maps 2Go Offline Maps
City Maps 2Go is a valued map app in addition to Google Maps. It is nice that the application works completely offline. In addition to the maps, the app also offers tips about hotels, restaurants and hotels, for example. There is a free version and a paid Pro variant available without ads and with unlimited maps.
5. Withlocals
You can rely on the tips of professionals and other travelers, but also those of the local population. These ‘locals’ know their city best. Withlocals allows you to explore various European and Asian cities based on local tips. The app also makes it easy to chat with the locals, ask questions or make new friends.
6. AroundMe
Are you standing somewhere and just want to know what is around you to do or see? Then check the AroundMe app. In the app you can easily search for an ATM, pub, coffee shop, supermarket, concert and so on. The app offers a large laundry list of locations to find in your area, so you’re bound to find what you’re looking for. With the ‘Nearby’ option you can also just see what’s nearby. The app is free to use, but for 3.49 euros you can remove the ads.
Spotted by Locals
Spotted by Locals is also all about tips from the locals. You can buy a city for 4.49 euros. You will then receive tips from locals and the option to download maps and tips for offline use. Still in doubt? Then the tips are also via the website to watch.
What about roaming?
Doesn’t an app offer an offline option? Don’t worry, because while on holiday you can just use the internet on your iPhone via roaming. How about that again? Read our refresher course with a simple roaming explanation.
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