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5 Money-Saving Smartphone Apps for Your Summer Travel
As you get ready to embark on your own summer vacation, here’s a quick list of smartphone apps that can help you get organized, find great deals, and save money along the way. Here are the 5 Money-Saving Smartphone Apps for Your Summer Travel.
GasBuddy App
- GasBuddy – GasBuddy is an app that takes advantage of crowdsourcing to provide constantly updated gas prices. Users input gas prices and keep an eye out for low prices. Allowing other users to quickly and easily search for gas stations nearby and compare prices to ensure the best deal in their area.
Trip Wizard App
2. Trip Wizard -A visual RV trip planner that shows the route you’re taking. Complete with campgrounds, gas stops, points of interest, and more. Get unbiased information with over 20,000 campgrounds reviewed by real RVers and over 10 million data points related to parks, including hookups and features. The planner is customized to your RV, providing RV-safe routes specific to the height and weight of your vehicle. Avoid low clearances, steep grades, and propane restrictions. With over 20,000 campgrounds, browse from all campground affiliations, including Good Sam and Passport America. Unlike other tools, there are no restrictions.
Around Me App
3. Around Me — Ever find yourself in an unfamiliar city, and you just want a decent cup of coffee or a place to buy an extra toothbrush? This application tells you all the points of interest that are located near you. It detects your current location and lets you select from categories like bars, cafés, hospitals, pharmacies, and hotels to filter through the results.
Road Trippers App
4. Road Trippers — This is a fun travel tool that is available as an iPhone app and also as a mobile website. Which means it can be used on Android and other smartphone platforms. Here’s how it works: type in your starting and destination points, and it will provide you with the distance, time, and estimated gas costs. This is great for day trips, such as a tour of Napa while staying in San Francisco (or vice versa!). While the distance-finding feature is not necessarily groundbreaking. RoadTrippers goes one step further and suggests all the attractions worth seeing along the way. From the obvious to the wonderfully ridiculous.
Waze App
5. Waze – If your trip involves a lot of road travel. You may want to find a faster way to get around your city, consider using Waze. Recently purchased by Google, this app provides real-time updates on traffic situations using social media input. For instance, if there’s a game downtown in the city you’re visiting and you’re trying to navigate around it to get to a restaurant. Waze will let you know where the traffic is congested so you can avoid delays and wasted time (and fuel) waiting for game-goers.
There are many apps to explore, and this is just a glimpse. But these should add some fun and help you plan and save some money. After we work together to plan your awesome summer vacation. Try out these apps and let me know how it goes!
