Archive for the ‘Web Apps’ Category

This has got to be, by far, the best trip planning application out there. You can clip notes from anywhere on the web or on your computer, and add them to your plans with a simple browser bookmarklet. After that, utilize the drag an drop feature to organize all of your notes and the Google maps integration to locate them. Share itineraries with friends and browse Duffel’s most popular trips. I am hoping they come out with an iPhone app soon so you can synch between the web app and mobile app. Go check out this awesome trip visualizing tool: Duffelup.com and be sure to follow them on Twitter: @duffelup and fan them on Facebook: Duffel

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Anyone who has animals knows how hard travel can be. It’s especially hard when you love to travel more than the average person. Traveling with animals can be downright painful. Twice I had to put my dog in a crate on a plane and I swear, the experience was worse for me than it was for him. It’s also difficult on road trips because you can’t just pull into the nearest motel or hotel when you’re too tired to go on for the night, because so many of them don’t allow animals.

This is why Go Pet Friendly is such a great web site. It’s a beautifully simple, easy-to-use search engine that gives you accommodation listings, campgrounds, activities and other services that are all pet friendly. There’s also so much criteria you can search by including Hotel Star Rating, number of pets, type of pets, etc.

Ths web site also offers trip planning from beginning to end, as well as pet travel gear and books. Go check this awesome web site out, pet lovers! GoPetFriendly.com or follow them on Twitter: @GoPetFriendly or catch up with them on Facebook: GoPetFriendly

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MostTraveledPeople  (MTP) is a really cool new web site where you can login (with Facebook Connect if you want) and list all of the places you’ve traveled, keeping track of how many countries, states or provinces you’ve been to and comparing it to other people, turning the whole thing into a big contest. Boast about your travel achievements and drool over others. People who have done a lot of traveling tend to have these competitions with each other anyway, so here’s a way to keep track online and compare with all the other members. You’ll be ranked by gender, age, photos, miles, etc.

This site is more than just a worldwide competition between the most traveled people in the world, it also hosts a myriad of travel resources, such as maps and reviews, World Heritage Site info and a huge list of locations around the World. This seems like an absolutely fantastic way to waste your time! Go check it out: Most Traveled People and be sure to like them on Facebook: MTP and follow them on Twitter: @MostTraveled

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Hotel reviews tend to all sound the same and while some reviewers are great at describing what you might encounter at a given hotel, nothing beats photos. Oyster is a travel web site with a new kind of hotel review. These reviews are more like previews due to the vast amount of undoctored photos taken at each location they review. From the web site:

we have a very simple mission: to give a comprehensive preview of the hotels you might choose to stay at, from the beds you’ll sleep in to the bathrooms you’ll use to the food you’ll eat. Our goal is to guide our users to the hotels that will best fit their needs. We do this by extensively photographing every place we visit and writing in-depth reviews based on our firsthand experiences.

Oyster.com employs experienced travelers who deliver their reviews of each hotel based on first hand experience. They pay to stay, and are treated as guests; no one at the hotel knows they are reviewing the property.

Oyster Hotel Reviews includes photos taken by our reporters to accurately reflect what it’s really like to be there. We don’t airbrush out power lines or adjacent buildings. The photos you see here represent the hotel as we experienced it.

Check it out: Oyster.com and be sure to follow them on Twitter: @oysterhotels

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