How to Make Your Road Trip Memorable: Apps for Windows Phone

Llega Easter and with it come the days of vacation. What better plan than going on a trip? It is not necessary to go to a paradisiacal destination 12 hours away, a road trip can be very satisfying and appropriate.

With your Windows Phone your road trips will be truly complete thanks to the great selection of applications from the App Store. Finding restaurants, attractions or accommodations for all tastes is in your hand.

How to plan a road trip with your Windows Phone

Which cities to visit? What monuments to see? Will the highway be very saturated? Where will there be a nearby burger that will take away this atrocious hunger? What will be the cheapest gas station nearby?

So many questions and so many moments to enjoy... With the selection of applications that we are going to present to you, you will be able to solve them all and even enjoy your vacation on wheels even more. Get ready.

Waze

Waze is a community-based mapping, traffic and navigation app. Millions of drivers around the world join forces to avoid traffic, save time and fuel money, and improve daily commuting for everyone.

Just by driving with Waze open, you already contribute a lot of real-time street and traffic information to the community of drivers in your area.You can also actively alert about accidents, obstacles, police and other incidents you see on the road.

WazeTravel and Navigation

• Developer: Waze
• Price: Free

You can download it at: Windows Phone App Store

Gasofa

Gasofa is a simple but effective application that shows you nearby gas stations and the current prices of each fuel, so that you are instantly informed which is the current price.

It has the possibility to program routes to each gas station, shows the cheapest and most expensive in the area and allows you to expand or reduce the search radius.

GasofaTravel and Navigation

• Developer: Jose Maria Bernad
• Price: Free

You can download it at: Windows Phone App Store

Traffic

Thanks to Traffic you can quickly see the traffic situation in your city, thanks to the new interface, which allows you to quickly access traffic information around you.

You can also save areas of special interest by marking them, and view them whenever you want with a simple touch.

TrafficTravel and Navigation

• Developer: Alessio Simoni
• Price: Free

You can download it at: Windows Phone App Store

Hungry Now Fast Food Locator

Hungry Now, is the first application that allows you to instantly find fast food restaurants around you: McDonald's, Kfc, Starbucks and Subway, snacks… Hungry Now is the app we've all been waiting for.

And also, now you can see if your fast food restaurant is open or closed. (Information communicated as an indication, subject to changes). Works in over 90 countries.

Hungry Now Fast Food LocatorTravel and Navigation

• Developer: 03 July Apps Creator
• Price: Free

You can download it at: Windows Phone App Store

Where I am?

Have you arrived in a new city and, honestly, you don't know where you are? Do you want to look for a bank, a shop or an establishment in a little-known place? The application Where am I? Will be your ally.

Shops, hotels, restaurants, doctors, museums, everything at your fingertips. The exact address where you are will appear, even with GPS coordinates. You'll never get lost again.

Where am I?Travel and Navigation

• Developer: Łukasz Glejzer
• Price: Free

You can download it at: Windows Phone App Store

TripAdvisor

Plan and enjoy a perfect trip with TripAdvisor. TripAdvisor has more than 75 million reviews and opinions from authentic travelers on restaurants, accommodations and attractions. And best of all, from all corners of the world!

TripAdvisor is free and very easy to use: Find hotels, restaurants and attractions in any destination. Take a look at the millions of photos uploaded by travelers just like you. Use Near Me to discover everything around you.

TripAdvisorTravel and Navigation

• Developer: TripAdvisor
• Price: Free

You can download it at: Windows Phone App Store

Compass

Compass is an application that turns your Windows Phone into a functional and useful real compass ready to show you the way on your mountain excursions or by any other inhospitable spot.

Compass has map integration, 12 different backgrounds for the app itself, 8 different compasses and the possibility of mark locations of your own for always find your way back.

CompassTravel and Navigation

• Developer: Dadny Inc
• Price: Free

You can download it at: Windows Phone App Store

Wikipedia

All the Wikipedia on your Windows Phone in one application. In addition to quickly and easily accessing articles, it allows you to do many different things.

You can see Wikipedia articles near you, search in 100 languages, Offline mode to see articles without Internet, show a summary of the article, save your favorite articles, see previous versions of the article, share an article on Facebook, Twitter, by e-mail or by generating a QR code. Works on Pocket (formerly Read It Later) and Instapaper.

WikipediaTravel and Navigation

• Developer: Rudy Huyn
• Price: Free

You can download it at: Windows Phone App Store

4D Hotels

With Hotels 4D you will find the right hotel among more than 770,000. It has never been so easy. Find the right hotel on an interactive map with live filtering criteria.

You can see the results on a map or in a list and easily compare prices, see the summary of hotels: prices, photos , facilities, directions, etc., see the quality evaluations of millions of travelers, get directions on how to get there by road or on foot.

Hotels 4DTravel and Navigation

• Developer: MELON AD
• Price: Free

You can download it at: Windows Phone App Store

My Car

My Car is the best application to control all the information related to your vehicle. Track associated costs and fuel efficiency.

Add notes and reminders, add photos to your vehicle album and more. You can view and analyze interesting statistics and related graphs. Pin your vehicles to the home screen (live tile or animated mosaic). Supports multiple vehicles and saves a backup to OneDrive to keep your data safe.

My CarTravel and Navigation

• Developer: kineapps
• Price: Free

You can download it at: Windows Phone App Store

Here Maps

No matter what you choose to travel with. HERE Maps shows you the smartest way to get around town with fast, offline maps for 95 countries. With fast offline maps in 95 countries, you can find your way even without a data connection.

With the new collections, you can now group, save and sync your favorites with here.com. And with LiveSight, HERE Maps puts unlimited ways to view your map at your fingertips.Point your phone in the direction you want to see floating labels for nearby places on the screen.

Here MapsTravel and Navigation

• Developer: HERE Europe B.V.
• Price: Free

You can download it at: Windows Phone App Store

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