You should not assume that you have done everything neededto ensure a successful holiday trip after carefully reviewing your cheap traveloptions, including cheapairplane tickets, discount hotel rooms, and cheap vacation packages.
There are a range of travel apps that can help make yourtrip more affordable and interesting from navigation to monitoring foreverchanging fuel prices, as well as apps that provide updates regarding lurkingspeed traps, and ratings of hotel staff and restaurants.
The following are some of the best apps for holiday roadtrips, according to Dennis Schaal:
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Wazeis a free app available for Android and iOS. This navigation app leverages its database and active community ofdrivers to guide and reroute users when necessary. It provides real time alerts on speed traps,traffic delays, road hazards, cars stuck in the road or on the shoulder, andwhether there is bad weather ahead. Ifyou will be meeting people at your destination, you can send them a link wherethey can view your estimated time of arrival and monitor your location live ona map.
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GasBuddy is free on Android, iOS, and Windows. Gas Buddy enables users to view prices for various types of fuel (suchas regular, midrange, premium, or diesel) at stations close to your location. Searches can also be conducted by city andstate or ZIP code. Gas Buddy users areable to submit prices when they visit or drive by gas stations allowing otherusers to see how recently price updates have been posted.
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RoadTrippersis a free app available on iOS. This apphelps drivers find tourist attractions and offbeat destinations as well asproviding driving directions and maps. RoadTrippers has over 75,000 places in its database as well as many recommendationsfrom local experts. This app can be usedto find restaurants, hotels, scenic vistas, and shopping.
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FieldTrip is a free app available on Android and iOS. It runs in the background of your smartphonewith a card popping up with details when you drive by a local attraction thatis cool or interesting. Users canpre-select their interests. Field Tripworks the same way when walking or using mass transit. The attractions in Field Trip tend to be onthe beaten track.
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CandyCrush Saga is a free app available on Android and iOS. This app is great to help your travel hourszoom by. Gamers mix and match sweets inassorted combinations at ever increasing levels of expertise as the gameproceeds. There are social aspects toCandy Crush Saga since users can sign into the app through Facebook to viewtheir friends scores and levels.
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