trip planner app for iPhone. The app’s Explore
feature allows you to specify a maximum budget
and see a range of possible getaways that fit.
Kayak scours the world in search of the perfect
vacation destination for you, so you don’t have
to worry that it could miss something special.
Once you have decided on a destination, this
raises another question: what should you do
there? If you’ve chosen wisely, there should be a
wealth of exciting activities for you to partake in
at that particular destination. However, if you’re
feeling overwhelmed by the broad range of
options or are even a little short of options, try
downloading the Google Trips app. This all-in-
one app can practically plan entire days for you,
wherever you intend to travel.
While the app will automatically offer activities,
you can easily ask it for others if these initial
suggestions aren’t to your satisfaction. Cleverly,
if you are sent reservations and confirmation
details to a Gmail account, Google Trips can
automatically pull these from the email client
and organize them within the app; however,
it does look like there might still be some
technical wrinkles with this functionality, so be
careful. You don’t want to overlook an important
message related to your itinerary...
Naturally, price is a big factor when it comes to
preparing a vacation. What if you are relatively
cash-strapped? Trying to figure out when flight
and lodging prices will be at their cheapest can
feel like a complicated science – but thankfully,
the Hopper app can carry out such an analysis on
your behalf. On iPhone, this app checks billions
of prices each day, enabling it to predict the
cheapest with a claimed accuracy rate of 95%.Image: Moyan Brenn