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Three New iPhone Apps to Jumpstart Spring Travel

March 9, 2012 at 11:05 AM | by | Comments (0)

· Travel Channel Layover Guide with Anthony Bourdain
Big fan of Anthony Bourdain? Looking for great places to eat and hang out, Bourdain-style, in cities around the world? This app was made with exactly you in mind. The Layover Guide ties in with the popular Travel Channel show by giving users photos, videos and tidbits from Anthony on his top spots in Miami, New York, LA, SF, Montreal, Singapore, Hong Kong, Rome and Amsterdam—plus the promise of 10 more cities coming soon.
There's the addition of a little Foursquare-like action in the app, earning badges as you "check in" at the venues, but to us, the real value of this app comes from the ability to quickly decide on a cool place, get Bourdain's two cents and then head off directly using the location info.
Buy on iTunes: $1.99

· Megabus
It's a basic app, but it does what it does well. What it does is display the details of your booked trips, allow you to pinpoint the location of your bus stops on a map, and now this: "passengers can use the free app — the first of its kind in the intercity bus industry — to determine the estimated time of arrival for their bus and find bus stop locations." Just keep in mind that a few Megabus cities aren't yet supported.
Buy on iTunes: $FREE

· Photobox!
It's annoying, but we do it anyway. We're talking about uploading trip photo after trip photo to Facebook, driving envy into the hearts of friends who watch our timeline. Photobox! is a free, quick way to batch upload photos from your iPhone to a Facebook album without alerting everyone, ever. Oh and like other popular image sharing apps these days, it does offer filters to give your photos all kinds of effects.
Buy on iTunes: $FREE

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