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Traveling to Europe (Greece and Italy) in a couple weeks, and looking for the best travel apps for my G2x. Any suggestions for guides, audio tours, restaurant reviews, general travel, etc? Also trying to find a gps/map that can download info in advance, since I'm not planning on having a data connection.
Thanks!

Travel guide for Croatia
This application was developed by Adria24, an online travel agency specialized in Croatia. Get this app today and enjoy your stay in Croatia.
Main features of the Croatia app:
- A selection of the best events in Croatia
- Top sigtseeings
- Best rated restaurants close to your current location
- All popular tourist destination with insights and pictures
- Up-to-date weather information
- Directions to all points-of-interest & online maps (internet access needed)
Free install: market.android.com/details?id=com.tourias.android.guide.croatia

Reviews (Hotels, resturants etc.):
- TripAdvisor
Hotel booking, car rentals etc. on the go:
- Hotels.com
- WorldMate
Flight Tracker:
FlightAware Flight Tracker

I've had a look at most of the free city guides and they are generally pretty average, large 200meg downloads, bad maps and lots of bloat. However i am sure there are some gems out there. However since you are not going to have data some of these guides, (pocket , mtravel etc could be usefull)
As a previous poster mentioned trip advisor is the king of the hill for places to visit etc. An up and comer is stay.com which lets you create a customised guide and download it to your phone including an offline map.
If you decide to get a country specific sim for data vi highly recomend Öffi - Public Transport Buddy for public transport around europe
and kayak or tripit to manage your iteniery

Haha - this thread got bumped from several months ago, I've already done my trip (it was amazing) and ended up being very surprised by the availability of free wifi. Didn't end up needing any apps really, although there was one that had the marine forecast for the Mediterranean which was helpful since we were sailing.

dagaetch said:
Haha - this thread got bumped from several months ago, I've already done my trip (it was amazing) and ended up being very surprised by the availability of free wifi. Didn't end up needing any apps really, although there was one that had the marine forecast for the Mediterranean which was helpful since we were sailing.
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free wifi? are you sure you have been in Italy?

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[APP][multi-language] Globetrotter - An interactive guide in your pocket

Guys I present my first application on the market has just been published (for free!).
This is the link to Market: http://market.android.com/details?id=globe.trotter
GlobeTrotter become your best travel companion. With this application you can have a real interactive guide to all of our trips. You can find all Points Of Interest (POI) closest to your location (museums, tourist attractions, monuments, archaeological sites ... etc.) and retrieve their description, curiosity about, directions, etc. to achieve them.
Now you can download the POI directly to your device by choosing from various countries:
Italy
United States
Canada
France
Germany
Spain
South Africa
England
Switzerland
Austria
Australia
Hungary
New Zealand
Finland
Bulgaria
Holland
Belgium
Portugal
for a total of more than 300,000 Points of Interest.
All free range of a few taps. Also you can see what hotels are nearby and get information about prices, star quality, the views of other users and much more. Besides that you can access the latest news, travel diaries, video guides and the best photos of your and our travels.
** Search Points of interest near. **
Using the geo location of the phone, you can find the main points of interest around us. For each point of interest is found can find all the information about how their history, curiosities, directions to reach them, photos, map display of Points of Interest around us, etc. .. Basically everything to understand what you are seeing.
You can also search for Points Of Interest in a specific town.
** Search of Wikipedia geo-referenced **
Using the geo location of the phone, you can find all the Wikipedia articles "located" nearby, more than 52527 geo-referenced Wikipedia articles in all languages. A tour guide at your fingertips!
You can also search for all Wikipedia articles near a specific city.
** Finding Hotels Near **
Using the geo location of the phone, you can find all the hotels in the vicinity and have all the information about it (such as the type, the stars, the score data from users, etc. ..).
** Read all the articles on this site **
And last but not least, is the ability to read comfortably on your phone all articles published on our website. All accompanied by beautiful graphics designed especially for the low resolution of mobile phones.
This is a video promo!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoNKaH25jHM
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Guys I present my first application on the market has just been published (for free!).
This is the link to shop: http://market.android.com/details?id=globe.trotter
GlobeTrotter become your best travel companion. With this application you can have a real interactive guide for all our trips.
It will be possible to identify all the landmarks close to your location (museums, tourist attractions, monuments, archeological sites, etc. ..) and take their description, their history, driving directions, etc. .. in short, anything and everything to know what you are visiting. Over 6000 Points of Interest, more than 52,527 geo-referenced Wikipedia articles. All for free just a few taps.
Also you can see which hotels are nearby and you get information about prices, star quality, the views of other users, and much more.
Besides that you can access the latest news, travel diaries, video guides and the best photos of your and our travels.
** Search nearby points of interest. **
Using the geo location of the phone, you can find the main points of interest around us. For each point of interest found you can search all information about how their history, curiosirtà, indications stradiali to achieve, photos, etc. .. in short, everything to understand what you are seeing.
Search for Hotels Near ** **
Using the geo location of the phone, you can find all the nearby hotels and have all the information you need (such as the type, the stars, the score data from users, etc. ..).
** Research of Wikipedia geo-referenced **
Using the geo location of the phone, you can find all the Wikipedia articles "localized" in the vicinity. Lowed a tourist at your fingertips!
** Read all articles on this site **
And last but not least, is the ability to read comfortably from your phone all articles published on our website. Everything comes with a beautifull graphics specifically designed for low resolution phones.
What do you think? I'm open to all your advice ee ideas for improving the application.
Hello guys, thank you for your support! I wanted to inform you about my application! have added new features and has been especially tradatto in many languages ​​such as:
English
French
German
Spanish
If you want to collaborate in the translation into other languages ​​or the correction of existing translations contact me in private!
The new features are:
Download the POI on the device
Added POI england, france, germany, spain (soon offer U.S., Cananda, Greece and many others)
Search photos on Panoramio
Call the POI as museums and attractions tourist
Increased performance
If you have any "request" say about POIs available as well .. for now they are ready to enter Austria and Switzerland .. you have other suggestions ?!?!?
I have add a US POI (more then 11000 point of interest), Canada POI and much more..
i have add a promo video!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoNKaH25jHM
what do you think about this!?!?!?
New Update.. new icon e i have insert POI of Australia and Hungary..
i have add more POI :
Italy
United States
Canada
France
Germany
Spain
South Africa
England
Switzerland
Austria
Australia
Hungary
New Zealand
Finland
Bulgaria
Holland
Belgium
Portugal
Great app!
but how can the language be changed?
and for a future option, to select a city of interest from a more accessible menu and change it to be the main location instead of using gps for detection.
boredboy2 said:
Great app!
but how can the language be changed?
and for a future option, to select a city of interest from a more accessible menu and change it to be the main location instead of using gps for detection.
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Thanks a lot.. i'm working to change language from menu.. now the language is changed automatically depending of device language.
For other option is really cool.. i'll work to implement!!!

[APP] [FREE] Tour Guide to Thailand

Hello everyone!
As for independent traveling, a good guide may be of a great use, for example such as Tour Guide to Thailand. Here you can find general info about the country, some useful advices and comments as well as rather big objects’ list (more than 500 items) including airports, piers, bus terminals and attractions. Description of any object contains short article about it, address as well as Google map coordinates, business hours, prices, photos, and distance from the point you are at the moment.
However, the most useful option of Tour Guide is an opportunity to choose a route around the country that contains information about the visited objects, prices, distances and travel time as well as ways of getting to some place. So you can plan the route, the budget and even duration of transfers. Moreover you can make up your own route combining info from several already existing routes. Families with children can also find the route that contains best places for children.
There are free and paid versions of the mobile application Tour Guide to Thailand. Free Tour Guide to Thailand contains about 200 objects and the only route, while paid version has complete information about objects and routes. As the first version of the app is being presented all comments and reviews would be of great help and could improve the work of the application. Thank you in advance for your help

Amazing India App

Amazing India’ is a humble attempt by Vcode Infotech, mainly for tourists from abroad and inside the country. We are sure, that this will be welcomed warmly among the national and international community, especially holidaymakers. ‘Amazing India’ tries to provide you with almost all interesting places in India which you should watch in your life time at least once. We provide you information of 100+ tourism destinations in detail, spread over India, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. Taj Mahal, Gate way of India, Amer Fort, Meenakshi Amman Temple and Black Waters of Kerala are some of them. From the Soaring snow dusted Kashmir, which is known as the Switzerland of India, in the north to the sun-washes beaches to the south, Kerala, God’s Own country. This app will surely provide you information about a place, which you wanted to visit, within seconds. The app has taken care to include all important historical, religious and tourist places of India. For children we included information about some amazing parks which will definitely take them to an imaginary world. In Short it will be a good companion and true guide in your travel anywhere in India.
Key features of Amazing India App
- Book holiday package.
- Book hotels.
- Make payments.
- Tourism destination overview
- Visiting time
- Map
- Contact information
- Ticket rates
- Photo gallery
- Directions
- Nearby attractions

[APP] Coffee-Working - Find the best coffee shops/cafes to work from nearby

Hey all
This is an app I've been working on while I've been travelling a little, actually working out of coffee shops. I found there wasn't really a good resource to easily find places nearby that have good wifi, power outlets AND good coffee, only bloggers "top 10 coffee shops to work from in.." type posts so I built an app for that!
It's super simple, it takes your location & displays the best places near you as recommended by other users (including myself). You can filter by places that have wifi, power outlets, how many people it seats etc.. As mentioned the content is all user generated & you can vote places up or down using the rating system in the app, so if someone submits a crap listing you'll know
Right now there's a ton of places for London, New York, San Fran, Mexico City, Bali, Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Toronto, Montreal & a few others, with 1 or 2 in other places like Norway for example..
So yeah.. if you ever happen to find yourself needing a coffee shop or cafe to work from for a bit (or just somewhere with decent wifi) maybe you wanna give this a go
As always, any issues/bugs/feature requests - let me know
Play Store Link

[APP][5.0+] Blubyn - An AI powered travel agent to find cheapest flights and hotels

Welcome to Blubyn, a AI powered travel agent from the future, which helps you discover and book the cheapest flights and hotels quickly. (App is completely free)
We are building the Amazon for travel, making flight/hotel discovery and booking as easy as buying a product on Amazon. Think of all the features Amazon offers, like one click checkout, personalized recommendations, smoother search and booking flow, one stop shop, and a focus on end customer rather than conversion. Above all that, you get the best prices in the market almost always. We want to bring you the same experience when you book your travels, and make sure that booking and planning trips is as fun, if not more, as much as the actual trips.
We have a voice assistant you can talk to in real time, which enables more intuitive search.
Link to the app: https://goo.gl/y9Ysfb
Features:
Blubyn leverages the power of Machine Learning and AI, to suggest personalized results for flights and hotels. Hybrid personalization, both your profile- based as well as Item- based.
1. Flight Search: Search and book a flight by simply asking "Book a flight to Paris for tomorrow'. You can search for specifics like 'Find me a Southwest flight reaching New York Monday morning' or you can also modify after the results by asking for direct flights only. You can find the cheapest flights to all around the world.
2. Hotel Booking: Just ask for 'Hotels in Paris'. It will get you the hotels, homestays, hostels, luxury resorts etc. depending on your preferences, whether you like to get the local experience or live in a luxurious setting.
3. Tours and Experiences booking: Going to a destination and having to search things to do on tripadvisor? No more. Just ask by saying something like 'Things to do in Paris' or 'Tours in London' and you are good to go. You can book tours, experiences, museum tickets, Theatre tickets, and even concerts and football matches.
4. Introducing the 'best time to fly': Unsure of the dates you should choose to go on a vacation? . He will find you the best dates to fly to that city (when the flights are cheapest. We know they are the biggest expense for you.). With dates decided, you can go on and realise those vacation plans you had for so long.
5. Web Checkins: Just upload the journey ticket, and your checkin will be automatically done before the flight.
6. Destination suggestions: .Answering the age old question every traveler has - 'Where can I go for $1000?' and it inspires you for going to newer places.
Link: https://goo.gl/y9Ysfb
Please note:
1. About the permissions: We have a facebook login, because we could not implement our own due to some issues. that is a work in progress.
2. Your PII is encrypted and kept secure, and no human has access to it. Since it is early days, we used scripts to create dummy data based on the dataset we had, as well as publicly available datasets for our algorithms.
3. RIght now, booking happens at the airline and provider websites.
No payments. Completely free. Forever.
Available via https://goo.gl/y9Ysfb

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