Plan Your Summer Vacation with These 11 Cool Travel Apps

Has traveling been on the top of your mind when you look at the calendar? Are you family traveler or s solitary travel soul? Do you always plan your trips or like to get more and more unplanned weekend getaways?

Well, in the app town there can be many friends or trip advisors which can just be a click away. These can help you a lot plan your Individual vacation exploring the vast horizon of India.

For those who wish to the almost all beautiful scenic spots in India, here are a few apps you must explore-

1. IRCTC App
Need a confirm ticket for your next corporate meeting? Don't have much time to go through a 50 odd trains to pick yours? Simply download the user friendly app launched by Indian Railways. Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation mobile application is available on windows phone store and can be used by any smart phone user very sharply. Just fill up the required field and following a few simple steps book your ticket online.

2. Weather Pro-
This is one of the must have apps in your phone especially if you are traveling in India. Its diverse region is situated at different heights and air pressure, humidity vary a lot from one region to the other. You never know if you are travelling in northern part where people are fed up of summer, the same time the eastern part might be flowing with heavy rain fall.

3. Make My Trip-
Make My Trip is one of the best travel booking sites in India. It has an all-in-one app for all travel related requirements. Available for download on all mobile platforms, the Make My Trip app helps to find and book the best flights and hotels in India. It can also be used for train ticket bookings in India. There are many other functions of the app.

4. Trivago-
Plan your next vacation and discover the best hotels at the lowest prices when you search with trivago! Easily compare over a million hotels from more than 200 worldwide booking sites when you use the world’s largest hotel deals app. Make your next trip stress-free with trivago and search for hotels in over 190 countries. Compare room prices and travel for cheap with deals on hotels all around the world!

5. Tripoto-
Tripoto is one of the best Indian travel apps for those who like to connect with locals in order to explore interesting things about a place. Tripoto is a mobile based platform with seamless access to user-created itineraries and travelogues. It supports a social network of travelers too. Itineraries and travelogues include insider tips in form of photographs, reviews, comments, etc.

6. Travelkhana-
If travel and food are synonymous for you, Travelkhana is the right app for your train travel in India. Travelkhana is a 24hour food delivery app with a growing network of restaurants across India. These days most of the Indian trains have pantry to serve food to passengers during journey. If you wish to make your travel a culinary journey with more delicious food than the regular fare served on trains, download and use Travelkhana app. All you need to do is enter your PNR number, select a station and choose your favorite dishes from the comprehensive menu. The app also tracks orders and supports online payment.

7. RedBus-

For intercity travel, buses are often a convenient option, especially in remote areas where a private cab will be too costly, not easily accessible, or perhaps unsafe. Redbus is the country’s premier bus booking service, operating across most tourist-friendly destinations. The app is dead easy to use and several bus operators now support e-tickets shown on your smartphone.

8.AudioCompass-

In partnership with the Ministry of Tourism in India, AudioCompass has built a library of guided audio tours for several of the top tourist hotspots in the country. It has over a 1,000 points of interest, it works offline, and perhaps most importantly, it saves you the hassle of haggling with a local guide and trying to understand their thick accent. That said, most AudioCompass guides are paid.

9. XE currency-
This app helps you calculate and make conversions instantly using more than 180 worldwide currencies. It offers live proprietary currency rates, charts, and even stores the last updated rates, so it works when the Internet doesn’t.

10. Google translate-
Working with 57 langauge, Google translate is good enough for all your language translation needs when you are on the go. You can see the translation and hear the phrases in the desired language.

11. Ixigo-
 ixigo is India’s leading travel search marketplace, connecting over 80 million travellers with content and deals from over 25,000 online and offline travel and hospitality businesses. With a mission to simplify the lives of travellers by building apps, ixigo makes their travel search and planning hassle¬free. It aggregates and compares real-time travel information, prices and availability for flights, trains, buses, cabs, hotels, packages and destinations. 

Summer is right around the corner, so you pick these Android apps to get a cheap vacation for you and your family. Thank me later! :)
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Soumya Gupta

BW Reporters Soumya is a young writer and journalist, with bachelors in Multimedia and Mass Communication. She is an alumini of the Asian College of Journalism, and finds politics and sustainability intriguing beats to work with.

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