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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
Rio Grande Gorge Bridge - HighestBridges.com
From HighestBridges.com Rio Grande Gorge Bridge Taos, New Mexico, United States 565 feet high / 172 meters high 600 foot span / 183 meter span 1965 One of America’s highest and most famous bridges, the route 64 crossing of the Rio Grande near Taos, New Mexico was completed in 1965. A well proportioned cantilever truss with an attractive, curvilinear profile, the bridge received the American Institute of Steel Construction’s award for “Most Beautiful Long Span Steel Bridge” of 1966. In 1997 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. With its headwaters high up in the Rocky Mountains of south-central Colorado, the Rio Grande is America’s 4th longest river, stretching 1,885 miles (3,034 km) south to the Gulf of Mexico. The bridge is one of the most visited tourist attractions in the region with parking areas on both sides of the bridge. One of the best features of the bridge are several platforms that cantilever out from the roadway. Rio Grande Gorge Bridge Elevation
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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.
Coolest All-Inclusive Resorts: The Best American Plan Hotels
The pros of an all-inclusive vacation are pretty straightforward: you don't have to lift a finger, carry a wallet, or make a single decision more difficult than "pancake or waffle?" And the trade-off for that luxury? Well, unfortunately, it often means you're drinking cheap booze, eating at stale buffets, and fighting a hundred other guests for the last two beach chairs. Lucky for you, though, not every all-inclusive resort is created equal: in fact, some single-price spots rival the most luxurious five-star properties. And we found 11 of them. Courtesy of Kalon Surf Kalon Surf Domincal, Costa Rica This is a surf school with a twist -- as in, you're not sleeping in a dirty hostel and getting pummeled by waves while a distracted instructor flirts with the hot girl in class. Continue Reading Courtesy of Dunton Hot Springs Dunton Hot Springs Dolores, CO Formerly an abandoned 19th-century ghost town, Dunton was transformed into a luxurious all-inclusive resort by an intrepid German businessman.
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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
Havasu Falls, Big Sur, Niagara Falls, and the Most Beautiful Place in Every State
There's a reason that song they play during the seventh-inning stretch at baseball games isn't called "America the Mediocre." First, because then there's no way we could ever get T.I. to live here. But also because, well, it's beautiful! But what is beauty, really? If Rod Serling taught us anything, it's that the word "beauty" means different things to different people. Alabama Gulf Shores It’s been said that the Florida Panhandle is basically East Alabama. Continue Reading Alaska Matanuska Glacier If you’re into glaciers and want to see one from closer than the inside of a terrifyingly small bush plane, Matanuska is the best in Alaska, and the only one that can be reached by land. Flickr/boeke Arizona Havasu Falls Created completely out of paper mache by Disney in 1956... wait, what? Arkansas Shutterstock California Big Sur Though a year from now the most beautiful sight in California might be a water tap that works, right now it’s still this spot along California’s Central Coast. Colorado Iowa
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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.
7 U.S. National Parks You Didn't Know You Needed To See
(Photo: Getty Images) You know Yellowstone and Yosemite... but how much do you know about the America's 56 other National Parks? These lesser-known National Parks are less popular than their famed counterparts, but they're just as beautiful. Whether you want to explore ocean, mountains, caverns or forest, these parks offer an adventure for everyone. Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska Lake Clark National Park sits 100 miles southwest of Anchorage and is a nature-enthusiast's heaven. Biscayne National Park, Florida Undersea explorers should flock to Biscayne National Park, where 95 percent of the park's 172,000 acres are covered by water. Isle Royale National Park, Michigan Isle Royale National Park is tricky to get to -- you can only access it by boat or seaplane -- but it's totally worth it. Capitol Reef National Park, Utah Capitol Reef National Park is located in the Waterpocket Fold, a geologic monocline (aka a wrinkle on the earth) in south-central Utah. Follow Us On Pinterest |
