jamesz

I'm planning a 2 month trip around the world. I'm doing research but it is taking forever! Are there any new apps that you guys would recommend that would help me plan for my trip or allow me to find things to do once I get to each destination?

kja

I wouldn't recommend ANY ap for that -- individual preferences and interests are too different. In fact, I would tell <b>anyone</b> to delete any such ap ASAP!

marvelousmouse

I half expected you to have such an app listed in your profile lol.

Honestly, 2 months is nothing. You'll feel like you've barely scraped the surface in each place.

You probably don't need an app or any kind of planning tool. 2 reasons it may be taking forever:

You're overplanning. I found that I really only needed about 30% of my activities planned out. Because you'll need down time, or time to hang out with people you meet like in a hostel or time to do the stuff that you discovered by visiting the local tourist office. That will fill up 70%

AND/OR

Your practicalities are impractical. You're trying to see too much. You're trying to cover too much ground. If you have a week in the USA, don't try to spend half of it in California, and half in NYC. Just spend more time in one region and see more in that region. Just travel time- flights, bus rides, etc. can kill entire days and at some point, it's not worth it.

That said, the apps I used the most- wallet, iBook, google translate, ulmon (you can download articles about locations to use offline), bank app, skyscanner, the metro apps for each major city. Tried several others. Didn't find them very useful. I also had several guidebooks. Ended up using either the cheap ones you can get at the local tourist office and the ones that I had downloaded on my phone. And I abandoned my nicer print ones on the road.

thursdaysd

Two months is not that long. I once spent ten months on a RTW. Since it featured train travel, most of the tools I used were things like the Thomas Cook Rail Map and Timetables. Probably not germane to your trip. But the first thing to do is decide a route. This may be gated by available flights - are you buying a RTW ticket from an outfit like airtreks? Using FF miles?

You can get a lot of help on Fodors, but you'll need to be a lot more specific.

michelhuebeli

Do you have your RTW ticket? Are you totally free to pick destinations along the way, or are you limited by way of your ticket?

If you know where you'll stop along the way, simply use google - each place worth mentioning has tourism websites and "what-to-do-and-see" websites galore. The rest will fall into place when you get there if you plan on a reasonable schedule.

If you just breeze in and breeze out, then at least those websites will state the obvious drive-by targets that everybody and his cousin will want to claim to have seen.

But do tell us more, much more, before we can try to be of help.

AmandaDwain

Just plan ahead of time like your itinerary. It is better to be prepared than use an app.