Travel season is vastly approaching, from Easter breaks, bank holiday trips and long summer holidays. Wherever you are planning on going, your first essential item to take with you is of course your iPhone! These 10 best iPhone apps for travel will help you prepare and provide the best help and assistance for you wherever and whenever you travel, so don’t leave home without them!
1. Trip Advisor Hotels Flights Restaurants – Updated: 16 February 2011, Developer: TripAdvisor, Price: Free 
Once you have decided you need a holiday, your next step is this Trip Advisor app. This fantastic app allows you to search for flights and hotels in your chosen destination. You can also search for sightseeing and restaurants to further prepare for a great trip away. You will see detailed photos, reviews and maps so you will feel well prepared!
2. Around Me – Updated: 4 January 2011, Developer: Marco Pifferi, Price: Free
If you hate the feeling of being lost and not knowing your surroundings, then this is the app for you! It uses your current location to find all the essential places around you including banks, hospitals, gas stations, restaurants and many, many more. It lists them with the address and then provides a map of how to get there.
3. Skyscanner All Flights Everywhere – Updated: 17 February 2011, Developer: Skyscanner Limited, Price: Free
A quick and convenient way to find and book flights from any location to any destination. It provides all the necessary flight information, airlines and prices and then allows you a range of ways to book your selection. It also gives you alternative booking agents, like Expedia, and gives you the details of booking through these other agents. You’ll be on your way with Skyscanner!
4. Booking.com – Updated: 25 February 2011, Developer: Booking.com B.V, Price: Free
This is a popular website for finding hotels anywhere in the world and you now have this luxury in an app. You simply select the location, check-in dates and number of persons and you will be presented with a vast selection of hotels to choose from and book. Includes maps and photos of all hotels. Simple instructions with fast results!
5. London tube deluxe – Update: 23 July 2010, Developer: Malcolm Barclay, Price: £0.59
If you regularly travel on the London Underground then this app will become your best friend! It informs you of the status of each train line, including current and planned closures. It provides a map of the underground, directions to plan a journey and locates your selected stations.
6. Traffic UK – Updated: 5 July 2009, Developer: Christopher Oklota, Price: £1.19
Planning a road trip or regularly travel in the UK, then this app is fantastic for you! It uses your current location to find the traffic around you and within your set millage. It provides maps and lists so you can fully prepare for your journey, whether long or short.
7. UK Train Times – Updated: 26 February 2011, Developer: Agent Ltd, Price: £4.99
If you are travelling by train or use the rail regularly, then this is your ideal travel app. It provides live departures and arrivals from all over the UK. It updates any delays, cancellations and schedule times so you’ll never miss that train again!
8. Travel Money Monkey – Released 22 September 2010, Developer: H Holgate, Price: £0.59
This app converts all currencies and gives you the best and latest foreign exchange rates. It allows you to order your money, select your collection method and could even end up saving you money. All this from one app must be worth a look!
9. Healix Travel Vaccinations – Updated 13 July 2010, Developer: Healix IT, Price: Free
A great app for checking which vaccinations you need when travelling to any country around the world. It provides you with travel risks and advice and is very quick and easy to use. It gets straight to the point. Your health is your wealth after all!
10. Tripit – Updated: 17 February 2011, Developer: Tripit Inc, Price: Free
Tripit is for all those organised people out there. Travelling can be stressful but with Tripit, it allows you to have all your travel details in one place. From flights, taxi pick-ups to key events, everything will be stored, checked and covered. You’ll never forget or miss anything!
If you like more suggestion for gor travel apps then please check Tripbase.com’s Top 10 Travel Apps
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Pretty useful list, but a little old at this point.
I’ve found this travel guide app really useful during a recent trip:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iguidu/id443712445?mt=8&ls=1
No roaming, worked like a charm!
more info on iguidu.com
Here’s another coop top10 travel app list:
http://blog.iguidu.com/2011/07/top-10-travel-apps-for-iphone-to-get.html
Nice sharing!
I’v found this iFunia media-converter to do converting for my traveling videos/movies watching:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/media-converter/id432042703?mt=12
Around Me is good and FREE
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+1 for AroundMe, so many time traveling in the past with silly paper tourist maps.
These are some great app recommendations! I am an avid user of AroundMe..it is a definite “must download” and is useful on a regular basis not just for traveling! I am definitely going to have to refer to this list when I travel [something I REALLY want to do soon].
I added AroundMe to this other travel apps list that I follow…not sure how I didn’t recommend it earlier!! > http://www.skinnyscoop.com/list/claudia/my-fav-travel-navigation-apps2
I agree with you all, AroundMe is a fantastic app for everyday use and travel use.
Out of 10, Most of them are related to UK / Europe region… Can anybody list out the apps which would be best to use in East Asia… We have started our new development center in Malaysia related to iPhone development and this would helps to get familiar and update us…
http://www.openwavecomp.com.my/iPhone_iPad_apps_development.html
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Thk to share!
Smart iphone app for traveler seen in “leWeb11” by the startup Oanoo. http://www.oanoo.com
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I use TaxiSelect app (http://www.taxiselect.com) and I would recommend it to anyone.
It works everywhere in the world, so far they don’t have taxi partners in every city but you can report it and they will add your area soon.
The best thing about this app is that you don’t have to call, taxi company will contact you!
That’s even better than booking a taxi online – when I get a call I can be sure they have accepted the order.
Thanks for these tips. Will be looking at some of the apps mentioned in here the next time I’m heading for a trip abroad. Anyway, I have my own share of favored travel apps. The most recent I’ve downloaded is “25 things to do in Amsterdam.” Well, it’s not that extensive compared to the ones mentioned in here, since it is intended for a specific destination which is Amsterdam, but what I liked the most about it is that it’s a good travel companion. Helped me a lot in finding my way around Amsterdam because of the map that works offline. It also lists 25 of the best places of interest to visit in the city, so I didn’t had a hard time planning my itinerary since the said application has already compiled it for me. The app kept me sane the whole time I was in Amsterdam. Others should give it a try, especially if they are going to Amsterdam. Check the app here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id409760132?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 . Happy travels everyone!
MapsWithMe http://mapswithme.com is a free offline map for iPhone and iPad. Also, soon available for Android.
There is an other useful iPhone app to help you to get around when you go to China. It is called Taxi-Book which gives you the English-Chinese translation of the address you want to go. You just need to show him the address displayed on the screen or use the inbuilt text-to-speech function to tell the Taxi driver where to go and he knows your destination without hassle.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/china-taxi-book/id445493942?mt=8#”
There is an other useful iPhone app to help you to get around when you go to China. It is called Taxi-Book which gives you the English-Chinese translation of the address you want to go. You just need to show him the address displayed on the screen or use the inbuilt text-to-speech function to tell the Taxi driver where to go and he knows your destination without hassle.
Recommended. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/china-taxi-book/id445493942?mt=8#”
Here is a great app for planning and sharing travels : http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/travel/id499821115?ls=1&mt=8
Try this App to check for which countries you need visa and the address of all the embassies you need.
http://itunes.apple.com/cl/app/got-visa/id434725215?mt=8
Alex
Free and beautiful iPhone app to track flights and explore airports: App in the Air
A lot of good apps here.
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