NileGuide, one-stop travel planning site, has launched an iPhone app for its travel guide and planning portal. The startup, which lets you create a customized trip itinerary, will now let users view the customized guides they create on Nile’s site on their iPhones.
Users can browse all the descriptions and map locations of events, restaurants, hotels, bars and landmarks that are scheduled in their trips and see their day by day itinerary. The app also lets any user, regardless of whether they have made a NileGuide itinerary, see suggested trip itineraries near their current location for any of Nile’s destinations around the world. The guides are displayed in order of user rating and are also classified by type of trip, such as first-time, kid-friendly, off the beaten path, etc.
NileGuide’s website has more functionality, including the ability to see CitySearch reviews of restaurants and to book flights and car rentals from Expedia, Priceline and other sites, but have not added this to the app. This is understandable, considering the popularity of CitySearch and Yelp’s apps, which NileGuide couldn’t compete with. Expedia has a similar iPhone app that lets you access your trip itinerary but doesn’t let you access event or restaurant listings. Travel Tracker is another useful itinerary iPhone app that’s built off of TripIt’s itinerary platform.
sweet—no need for paper any more…psyched to use this on my next trips so I can lighten my load, bring my trip stuff with me, and find good ideas on the fly
Nice looking phone.
I’m looking forward to having mobile access to my custom trip guides! The ability to access suggested itineraries from NileGuide.com’s 100+ destinations is very cool too.
This is a basic start, but the really cool app would be more integrated with history information about the place, optional walking tours, or details about special cultural sights etc…
In fact, the new Guide To Go app DOES include all the background destination info you might find in a guidebook if you want to include that in your trip. History, suggested tours, where to eat/sleep/drink, weather, and neighborhood info. Check it out and let us know what you think…
nileguide.com and http://www.tripit.com are very extensive Travel Pages
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I would also recommend another iPhone app called Witur that offers detailed itineraries with maps, pictures, and descriptions.
They also just released a new version that allows creating itineraries from the iPhone directly and then publishing them to their website so you can keep you own travel diary and share it with friends. Everything is accessible from the Web, iPhone, and regular phones.
You can do search based on location, keywords, and your current location. The cool thing is that they even allow you to buy some of the itineraries (e.g. walking tours) directly from the iPhone.
Actually, users contribute with itineraries to the site, and Witur ranks and indexes these itineraries so they become available when other users search. Itineraries can be created from their Website besides the iPhone
Definitely convenient! I’m going to be using this on my next trip!