Why we have to use apps for trip

Whenever I plan to travel especially going abroad, I prefer to plan in detail to save my time and enjoy the places perfectly. From buying flight tickets, reserving hotels, and mapping out each day of the trip, there’re a lot to do and I know it’s a bit difficult. However if we use some apps or websites, it will be better. So from now on, I’ll help you to plan your trip more effectively step by step.

Useful apps you should know

1. Skyscanner for buying flight tickets

As soon as you decide country to travel, the first thing you should do is buying flight tickets because usually the price goes up as time goes on. And I always check the app “Skyscanner”. It’s easy to compare price and catch the good deals. And you can use filter if you only prefer direct flight with no stops. Also you can adjust your outbound and return time as well as airlines. After finishing setting, there’re lots of options shown up and if you click “see Deals”, lots of platforms are shown up and you can check the review stars of each platform.

For my case, I like Korean Air most. But usually official site/app is more expensive than trip platforms and that most of the platforms provided card promotions. Assuming that you don’t use airline mileage, it will be great way to check price at the first time. However, occasionally official airline site is cheaper than others, don’t forget to double check!

Last but not least, I recommend you to buy tickets on Friday. Since many airlines often launch promotions or adjust their prices to match competitors on Mondays, you’ll find the cheap tickets on Tuesday afternoon or night.

2. Triple for mapping out each day

“Triple” is the must-have app when plan your trip. For mapping out each day of trip, it’ll be so helpful. You can add easily all the places you want to go for each day. And the map above the texts shows your journey by time and location. And you can also add the information of flights. What I really like is that this app shows up automatically detail time and airport when I searched my flight number. Additionally, you can leave some message about each journey.

Another great feature is you can invite your friend and you guys can see the travel itinerary together. So when I planned to travel Spain with my friend, we could easily view and edit the trip. It was really helpful to save our time. Moreover, the app also has expense tracker. Thanks to this feature, keeping track of our travel spending was super easy and we could split costs fairly and avoid confusion.

3. Myrealtrip for reserving hotels and tours

Once your travel route is almost set, it’s time to start booking hotels, tours, and restaurants. It can be a good way to use 1-2 apps like “Myrealtrip”. You can reserve almost anything in it. And when you reserve one thing, you can get discount coupon. For example, planning Spain trip, I reserved Gaudi Highlights and Montserrat Half-Day Tour. At first, it was good to see various tours by myrealtrip’s exclusive expert guide. And I could ask any questions about the tour easily using Inquiry chat support. And as myrealtrip’s tour is known for good quality and price, I couldn’t help but to choose it. Interestingly in 2-3 days, they gave me hotel discount coupon for Barcelona, Spain. Compared to other hotel reserving platforms, it was much more money saving if I used the coupon. So when you plan your trip and need to reserve various kinds of things, it will be much price worthy to use this kind of apps which have lots of categories.

4. Google map and instagram for saving interesting places

During our trip, something unexpected always happens, and we should change our plans quickly. Not to be embarrassed and save our time, I recommend you to save interesting places you wanna go in google map. Using different map markers, you can easily categorize like photo spots, restaurants, and hotels. It’s really helpful because you can easily find where to go nearby when a restaurant you wanted to go had long waiting lists.

Additionally, I usually follow a lot of accounts that share trendy or popular places like “urbavancouver”. And if I find out interesting places, I also save the post in my travel folder. It’s especially useful when we need to make additional plan.

Enjoy your journey effectively!

These are all my tips and I hope it will help plan your trip more effectively. Among all these apps, my favorite one is “Triple”. Before knowing this app, I had to use excel or google sheet. Now I can check my route and time while organizing the money I spent only using this app. And if you haven’t decided where to go yet, read my post for some travel destination inspiration! Click here