TripIt: Travel Planner

I travel often both for business and with my big family. This has been a game changer. Not to have to print out anything and have everything in order with added details on telephone numbers, weather, directions links. besides the ease of just forwarding play tickets, car rentals, hotel and flights, it takes a cruise itinerary and put some in the correct day saying where you’re going and when you get off to the ports and when you have to be back on the ship etc. So excellent. A side benefit I found now that I’ve been using it for 10 years is I have a whole travel journal right here in the app. Can look up previous hotels, miscellaneous companies used for transportation and whatever. Request for the developers: when I have a listing of flights etc. (particularly for more than one person), the apps at-a-glance screen does not have the name listed. So you have to go into that plan and scroll down and Click under passengers and in that page it’ll show you who the reservation is for. It would be much more convenient to have the name on the first or second line for a quick reference.

Recently travel to Greece and Turkey for 12 days. This is great app. Rather than using a travel agency, we have decided to explore and book every single excursion, hotel, activity, flight etc. by ourselves. Without these applications, I would have had tons of paper in my folder to carry around in my backpack. This is very smart app, automatically organizes your activities starting from parking at the airport with the address of parking spot at the airport, flight details, car rental, hotel detail, check in date, check out date, including flight confirmation number, hotel confirmation number etc. in a very systematic manner. I was highly impressed by this application and its functionality. And also it is completely free to use. I did not pay even a dime to use this application. I am also fascinated by his function regarding local transportation. As soon as I reached at the Athens airport say for example, it also gave me different options to go to my hotel from the airport including public transportation with 100% accuracy. I have become a big fan of this application. I will use this application every time I travel in future. I was somewhat hesitant to provide complete authorization for this app to go into my email account to pull itinerary by individual emails. Other option would be to send individual emails to the app. I guess I was too lazy to do that so I gave complete access of my email account to this application. I believe it should be safe.

User interface is inadequate from iPad and iPhone. No ability to copy(duplicate) an event. No drag and drop. No ability to have overlapping vacation schedules and keep the entries separated between two users. Unable to add some details for some events, for example, an end time not available for some activities. Notes not available to add in some events. Unclear interface caused me to accidentally merge two different vacations into one “trip”, losing duplicate records which had extensive comments added. Under a cruise ship port (e.g. The port for Athens) overwrites all port notes for other ports on the same cruise. Look, if you are going to another port, why would you want to a) loose your comments regarding transportation in Venice and b) what use would Athens transportation have on the day you are in Venice. I have loved this software. I’ve used it for a half dozen trips or more. The software successfully imports most airline tickets, train tickets, and hotel reservations, etc. via a simple forwarded email. This part is very elegant in creating a calendar of a trip. It is really useful. Just travel alone or have the exact same itinerary as anyone you travel with. With this combined trip, I want to pull out my hair.