The Best Family Travel Apps

Travel and technology have intersected in many ways, with mobile apps being one of the most significant developments in recent years. Apps have made travel more accessible, convenient, and efficient. Planning your family trip and exploring new destinations is literally at your fingertips! Here is a round-up of 10 of the best family travel apps that can help you easily plan, book and manage your next family travel adventure. This round-up includes both iPhone travel apps and Android travel apps.

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WayAway

Cheap flights with cash back! WayAway is a travel aggregator that can help families planning trips to find the best rates on airline tickets and other travel deals. Its innovative search finds the best option for specific travel dates by comparing airfares offered by all major global airlines and travel agencies. The aggregator displays final prices, without any hidden fees. The added bonus of WayAway is users can sign up for the WayAway Plus membership plan and receive cashback on bookings of flights, hotels, rentals, and more. All your flight needs can be managed from the WayAway app and the interface is intuitive and simple to use.. You can search for standard returns or multi-city routes and you can also nominate for price alerts.  

Download from the App Store or Google Play

Hopper

Purpose: To find flight and hotel deals to save you money.

Hopper is a mobile-only app that is helpful to use when you are planning a family trip to anywhere in the world and want to search for travel deals (flights and hotels). The app has a price prediction feature that analyses data and predicts the best time you should book your flight or hotel (it is apparently 95% accurate in its predictions). The app also sends notifications to you when prices for flights or hotels drop.  Another useful feature of Hopper is that for a small fee you can freeze the price for a period of time, avoiding increases, and if the price does happen to drop even further you still pay the lower price.  

Download from the App Store or Google Play.

PackPoint

Purpose: Creates customised packing lists based on your destination and length of stay. 

Packpoint does all the guess work for you, and helps simplify the packing process by creating customised packing lists based on destination, length of stay, activities planned, and the predicted weather. This app is especially helpful for family travel and it allows multiple users to create and share packing lists. Another benefit of Packpoint is its ability to predict the weather and adjust the packing list accordingly. This is particularly useful for families who may be traveling to a new destination and are not familiar with the appropriate clothing and gear.

Download from the App Store or Google Play.

Booking.com

Purpose: To search and book the best accommodation deals around the world.

Hands down, one of the most popular accommodation booking sites in the world. Booking.com offers more than 28 million reported accommodation listings, including over 6.6 million homes, apartments, and other unique places to stay. A wide range of options and prices, and free cancellation in most of the hotels makes it an invaluable resource for family travel! The app is optimized for mobile devices and provides a faster booking process within a few taps. There are also mobile-exclusive deals and discounts meaning you may save even further money by booking through the app. Finally, the app integrates with other features on your phone, such as your calendar and GPS making your overall travel experience easier.

Download from the App Store or Google Play.

Google Translate

Purpose: Language translation resource

Available in 133 languages, Google Translate is an invaluable resource when travelling, and it is so simple to use. The App can translate text, images and speech in real time, helping you overcome language barriers and communicate more effectively with locals.  I find this app particularly useful for ordering food and drink when the menu is in a foreign language. You simply hover your phone over the menu and let Google Translate decode into your language of choice, allowing you and your family to choose delicious food that you will all enjoy. 

Download from the App Store or Google Play

TripCase

Purpose: Can manage your entire trip within one app.

TripCase is a travel management app that helps you organise and manage all your family travel plans in one place. Your entire itinerary can be stored including flights, hotels, car rentals, and activities. An added bonus is the app provides real-time updates if there are any disruptions to your plans, such as flight delays or gate changes. The app can also give recommendations for activities and restaurants in the locations you will be visiting, based on your preferences. This can be useful when traveling with kids, as it can help you find activities that everyone will love.

Download from the App Store or Google Play.

Playground Buddy

Purpose: Helps families find playgrounds around the world.

Sometimes when you are travelling with children, and especially after a long day of sight seeing in a city, all they really want to do is run around and have some fun in a playground. Playground Buddy is the exact app needed for these occasions. It is a worldwide directory of over 400,000 playgrounds in over 170 countries. You can search for playgrounds near you, across towns, across countries and across the world. It has a simple userface and you can filter based on your requirements, such as swings, slides and climbing frames.

Download from the App Store or Google Play.

Klook

Purpose: Book popular tours, attractions and shows around the world.

Klook can help you find attractions, tours and activities in locations around the world. It offers a wide range of activities suitable for families, including museums, theme parks and sightseeing tours. The app is straightforward and easy to use, and one of the benefits of the booking platform is the discounted rates. You can also book well in advance, which is helpful when planning your overall itinerary. Klook provides user reviews and ratings for each activity, which can help you make informed decisions about which experiences are best suited for your family. The app also provides detailed information about each activity, including the duration and age requirements.

Download from the App Store or Google Play.

TripAdvisor

Purpose: Plan and book your trips, with guidance from millions of travellers.

We love to use Tripadvisor to check the reviews for the accommodation we wish to book, or the restaurants we wish to go to. It’s a vast database of millions of reviews and ratings from travellers all over the world, providing families with valuable insights into the quality of hotels, restaurants, and attractions. It truly is an invaluable resource! The app also allows users to book a variety of travel-related services, including restaurants, tours and activities, hotels, flights and car rentals.

Download from the App Store or Google Play.

Pokemon Go

Purpose: An app to get you outside and exploring a city

Pokemon Go is a game that allows players to catch and collect virtual creatures called “Pokemons” in real-world locations. So Pokemon Go is not necessarily a travel app, HOWEVER, it is one of the best apps for getting your kids outside, exploring and walking in cities around the world. The game uses GPS to track the player’s location and places virtual Pokestops and Gyms in real-world locations such as landmarks, monuments, and popular tourist destinations. My son loves to catch Pokemon in far flung locations and he will walk great distances to do so. I just asked him what his favorite Pokemon Go travel catch is, and apparently it’s one he caught in the countryside just outside Aberdeen!

You can download Pokemon Go from the App Store or Google Play.

Postagram

Purpose: An app to help you create and send postcards to family and friends.

Do you still like to send postcards?  We do, and will often purchase them, write them up but never get a chance to send them. I recently found a bundle from 5 years ago, great for me to reminisce over, not so great for the people they were intended for. Postagram is an app that solves this problem. It allows you to create personalised postcards using your own photos from your travels, and for a small cost the cards can be sent anywhere in the world. The best thing about this app is kids love to use it as well and it can also be used on an iPad.

You can download Postagram from the App Store or Google Play.

Thank you for reading! Do you have any great travel apps that you would like to share with us? We would love to hear about them.

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