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8 Travel Apps That Work Better Than A Guidebook | Conde Nast Traveler
Skip pricey bus or walking tours on your next trip and instead download these apps, which offer historical insight and cool bits of trivia about areas around the world. Bonus: you won't have to lug around a guidebook. Walking tours are a great way to learn about an area. Unfortunately, guided tours are often expensive and require that you stick with the group and your guide, with little to no time to do your own exploring. But some apps are looking to replace those guides, giving you the ability to take a tour at your own pace for just a few dollars. Here are eight worth checking out. Detour Free iTunes / Android (coming soon) Detour takes the traditional audio tour to the next level with tours that will impress locals. Field Trip iTunes / Android Turn a casual stroll into your own self-guided our with Google’s Field Trip. Sunday Drive iTunes With the low gas prices we’ve been seeing lately, it might be time to plan a cross-country road trip. Roadside America iTunes / Android Stray Boots
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What You Need To Know About Booking Your Flight | SmarterTravel
(Photo: Ticking Clock/Shutterstock) For at least two decades, industry experts have been speculating about basic timing factors in finding the lowest airfares. The big question: When is the best time to buy plane tickets? How Far In Advance Should I Book My Flight? Several sources publish data on the correlation between advance purchase period and airfares. Avoid booking too early and too late. What Time of Day Should I Book My Flight? According to urban legend, you should buy on Tuesday mornings because airlines dump new fares and seat allocations on Monday nights. Here's what George Hobica, founder of our sister site Airfarewatchdog, says: "No one can accurately predict where airfares are heading any more than we can predict the stock market." Hobica's blog points to a quote from an airline revenue manager on the subject: "To say that there is one time of the day or one day of the week that is better than another is false. When Do Plane Tickets Go on Sale? Or download an app.
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10 Secrets The Airlines Don't Want You To Know | Thrillist
Once you’ve experienced a $200 price spike in the middle of your ticket search, your fourth 45-minute flight delay of the day, or your bag going MIA in Miami, you can’t help but think: what are these airlines hiding from me? It turns out, A LOT. Sure, some of it’s coincidence, and you get an $8 voucher for an airport breakfast. But that overpriced breakfast is not an adequate salve — and in fact, you’ve got a right to more than that. Here are 10 secrets airlines don’t want you to know. Credit: Flickr/401(K) 2012 Say ‘no’ to vouchers — you’re entitled to cold, hard cash Do not settle for vouchers. Even with new flight arrangements, you get cash If your airline can get you to your destination between one and two hours of your scheduled arrival on a domestic flight, or between one and four hours on an international trip, it owes you compensation of 200 percent of the one-way fare to your destination, up to $650. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday are cheapest days to fly, not necessarily to buy
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How To Find The Best Flight To Get You Where You Want To Go
Well, this has just taken the lead for best Internet invention of the day. Fivethirtyeight.com, the wonderous ESPN site from Nate Silver, launched an interactive tool on Wednesday aptly named Which Flight Will Get You There Fastest? It does exactly what you think it does. Really. Your American Airlines flight from Chicago O’Hare (ORD) to Dallas (DFW) is hopelessly late. Essentially, though, we all know to avoid the likes of Newark and Chicago in winter and LaGuardia and LAX pretty much always.
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7 Secrets To Ultra-Cheap Europe Flights | SmarterTravel
As the euro falls against the dollar and the weather warms, now is the time to book a trip across the pond. But a favorable exchange rate won't help you get there for less. That's where we come in. Here are seven tried-and-true booking strategies for nabbing the absolute cheapest flight to Europe. Depart Wednesday, Return Tuesday We've all heard this sage advice before, but now we have solid proof to corroborate the claim. The OTA giant employed a year's worth of search data to tell us that the least popular days to travel are indeed the cheapest. Related: When Should I Buy My Flight? Use Flight-Prediction Tools If your sole goal is to get to Europe this summer regardless of a specific destination, use one of the many flight-prediction tools out there. Related: Europe's 20 Cheapest Cities in 2015 Use Hubs as Launchpads Milan not at the top of your bucket list? Related: Best European Hubs for Connections Book Six Months Out Related: This Easy Trick Helps 67% of Flyers Find Cheaper Airfare Close
A new Google-powered website lets you compare every constitution in the world and write your own
In an ornate hall in the Philadelphia State House in 1787, a few dozen men drafted the US constitution. For four months, they debated and revised the document until they had something they could generally agree on. Today, they wouldn’t even have to leave their homes. Constitute is a repository of all the world’s constitutions, run by the Comparative Constitutions Project, and funded by Google Ideas and the Indigo Trust—a British charity that funds tech projects mainly in Africa. Beyond search and comparisons, Constitute can be used to collaboratively create new constitutions, with the help of Google Docs. Zachary Elkins, the director of Constitute, told Quartz that constitutional drafters in Lybia, Myanmar, and Nepal have all used the site. Hopefully with greater collaboration tools, delegates in new nations will be able to have more peaceable discourse about governmental policies than those that have come before them.
How We Traveled The World On $40 A Day, And You Can Too | Anne Collins Howard
When we tell people that we traveled to 302 cities in 33 countries across 6 continents for our honeymoon, they generally assume we are millionaires--far from it. We just decided that life was too short, the world was too big, and the value of travel too great to wait until retirement, so we made it happen. We started saving, researching, and honing our travel-hacking skills, and eventually found a way to explore the world for less than $40 per-person/per-day, all in! Here's how: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. When we were planning our trip around the world, the main thing we wanted was to sit down and talk to someone who'd done something similar.
