Overview
- Google Trips - Travel Planner - Android Apps on Google Play
- Google Trips – Travel planner on the App Store
- App for trip planning
- Integrates into the rest of the Googleverse
- Location info sourced from Google Maps, Wikipedia
- Reviews from Google Maps
- Tickets, reservations, bookings that are emailed to your Gmail automatically appear
- Anything you star in Google Trips appears in Google Maps
- Sections in the app
- Reservations
- Either appear automatically, or you can add them manually
- Can send details of reservations to others via email
- Things to do
- Does well at surfacing attractions you might not be able to find just by searching around on Google Maps
- Listed by category - top spots, nearby, on a budget, etc
- Each attraction has
- Pictures
- Average Google Maps rating
- Paragraph summary (my “tour guide factoids”)
- Map
- Business hours
- Phone number
- Top reviews
- Saved places
- List of attractions you've starred
- Appear in Google Maps
- Day plans
- User-created strings of attractions
- Heavily depends on how popular a destination the area is
- You can create your own
- App can magically make one for you, with some preferences like morning/afternoon/full day or favoring saved places
- Food & Drink
- Overview is a custom summary of the area in question
- Top Spots shows the highest-rated restaurants from Google Maps
- Getting around
- Gives info on public transit, taxi/riding services, drivability, and walking/biking
- Need to know
- Emergency numbers, hospital information
- Popular shopping areas
- Money - currency and tipping practices
- Internet access
- Works best if planning a visit to a larger metro area
- In smaller areas, all “custom written” stuff is missing, only has Google Maps locations
- Does not do well at telling you the prices of attractions
- Reservations
