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This Fall's Five Best Totally Free iPhone Travel Apps

November 2, 2009 at 9:44 AM | by Omri | 2 Comments

Too many travel companies create iPhone apps just so they can say they have iPhone apps. In response we've been known to point out how stupid that is, though we've been nowhere near as brutal as our sister site HotelChattter. There's just something about travel companies wasting money on fads - and then passing those costs on to us - that makes us all very stabby.

But that's not to say we're against iPhone travel apps as a rule. And just to prove it, we've rounded up five of our favorite free travel-related iPhone apps from September and October. These apps will help you book hotels the way people actually book hotels, help you locate restaurants the way people actually locate restaurants, and help you maximize your time at Disneyland. Because it's the Happiest Place On Earth.

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One iPhone Travel App To (Almost) Rule Them All

April 15, 2009 at 9:31 AM | by Omri | 3 Comments

Back in the old days, before you kids got all these newfangled Robots and Compact Discs and Moving Pictures, traveling was a genuine challenge. You trekked to the airport for miles through the snow - uphill, mind you - wondering all the while if they would have an airplane that could take you somewhere close to where you wanted to go.

"Somewhere close," by the by, was good enough. You were going to get lost once you got there anyway. So no reason to be picky.

Now travelers have this iPhone thing, which is basically like cheating. There are applications that track flights, map out attractions, and manage everything in between. We know because every day we get inundated by dozens of "Top 5 iPhone Travel Apps" posts. The current Google count for that search: 3,310,000. By the way, have you seen our own Five Best iPhone Apps for Your Next Trip?

Instead of all that nonsense, how about just using a single travel app? Or, failing that, a single app and just one small friend so it doesn't get lonely?

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