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jasaqwe Jul 22nd, 2015 12:10 PM

Travel tips
 
Hello
I'll be visiting the East Coast this summer and would like recommendation on travel apps or more generally on how you would choose which spots you would visit in a foreign country?
How would you rank the spots you visit?

Thanks
Jas

kja Jul 22nd, 2015 03:49 PM

Guidebooks! Always a worthy investment, IME, but you can also check your local library. For inspiration and high quality photographs, you might want to start with Eyewitness or Insight or National Geographic Traveller. Then check Fodor's or Frommer's or the Michelin Green Guide for prioritizing your options. And then check the Rough Guide or Lonely Planet to get nitty gritty details.

sparkchaser Jul 23rd, 2015 12:07 PM

As far as travel apps go, Yelp and Google maps are the only two useful ones that I can think of.

I second the suggestion of guidebooks.

suze Jul 23rd, 2015 03:37 PM

<How would you rank the spots you visit?>

I don't "rank" places I have visited.

sabrinatoth Jul 24th, 2015 06:08 AM

I agree with using Yelp and Google maps in regards to apps. Besides checking out guidebooks, I would look up the tourism board for each destination. They're really good about giving advice, information, recommendations, and even coupons for restaurants and shops.

mutuzadawson Aug 1st, 2015 03:19 AM

Yelp & Google maps are a definitely best way for visiting the East Coast travelling.

JaneB Aug 1st, 2015 03:37 AM

I used to look at tour descriptions and see where and how they traveled. Then I would do my own trip planning for my husband and me. Now I just take river cruises ��

crellston Aug 1st, 2015 08:17 AM

"'ll be visiting the East Coast this summer" . The East Coast of which country?

Sassafrass Aug 7th, 2015 07:23 PM

Every traveler would rank places differently. Would you want only cities ranked or lakes and mountains, road trips or city stays, old or new?


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