Nine essential applications for Windows 8 on your travels
Table of contents:
- Repsol Guide
- Renfe
- Despegar.com
- MyTrip
- Bing Translator
- Booking.com
- XE Currency
- Flight Aware
- GuidePal
We present the definitive collection of applications for Windows 8 that you should not miss on any of your trips. And it is that today it is very common to go on vacation with an electronic device, such as a tablet or laptop, and of course the mobile phone. For this reason, in this article we will look at some applications that will be useful on those trips to any part of the world.
Whether you go by car or other means of transport, you can take advantage of one of the ones that we present below. From applications to find nearby gas stations and Repsol stations, through others with which you can find out about Renfe trains (timetables and distance of the stations from your location), to others with which you can convert between currencies or translate texts simply by pulling out a photo to it will be a piece of cake.
With the Guía Repsol application we can find the nearest Repsol service stations, as well as hotels, restaurants, wineries and points of interest To do this, we have the Near Me section, where we will be shown a map centered on our current location if we have allowed the application to use it, indicating all the information mentioned. If necessary, you can also filter the results of the restaurants, for example, according to price, category or available services.
In addition to all this, it also makes available to the user information about different tourist destinations, such as routes, enclaves, or important cities; information on gastronomy and wines, videos of general interest, together with the latest news and photographs of all kinds.Undoubtedly, a necessary application for every traveler, due to all that it can offer.
Download Link | Repsol Guide in the Windows Store 8
Renfe for Windows 8 is an application that allows us to consult itineraries for the different commuter trains available throughout the national territory. It also gives information about the nearest train stations and lines regarding the user's current location.
When searching for a route we will be able to see the departure and arrival times of the train, the duration of the route, if there are transfers of any kind, and the time remaining until it leaves its destination. And as if that were not enough, we have in the same application the maps of all the commuter hubs, highlighting the one closest to us on the front page.
Download Link | Renfe in the Windows 8 Store
If you've ever had to look for a hotel at the last moment, or you didn't get clear among so many offers, we present Despegar.com, an application with which You will be able to be aware of various offers that are made every day in relation to the prices of accommodation in different cities of the world
By clicking on any of the offers of the day, and after choosing the number of nights that we will stay in the hotel in a very simple way, we will go to a screen that will show a map to the left centered on our destination, which is a nice touch. As we move between the different accommodations that meet this offer, the map will focus on one or another area of the city to mark where each one is located.
When we choose one, we will see a very complete description of it with information about its conditions and services, and all this without losing sight of the offers we were choosing from since they will be saved in a tab above which we can access by clicking/tapping on it.
If we directly use the search filter, the layout of the results will be similar, except that we will not have a top tab to navigate among the other options that meet our criteria.
Download Link | Despegar.com in the Windows Store 8
MyTrip is one of the most impressive applications to obtain information about different points of interest, such as tourist destinations, world heritage sites, museums, monuments, churches, cathedrals, buildings, beaches, lakes, bridges, amusement parks, etc.
By default it is configured to explore tourist destinations but we can choose the category we want, showing us the results in mosaic form. When accessing any of them, we will see something like what you have in the following image.
We will have different photographs of the place that we have chosen grouped together in a very striking way, as well as information, videos of different areas, and even photographs that users can upload. Without a doubt, this application could be described as the great traveler's guide.
Download Link | MyTrip in the Windows Store 8
Do you have any problem understanding a sign or menu that is in another language? Do you need to know how to say something to another person that you have met on a trip and who does not speak the same language as you? Bing Translator is your salvation, since it is not just a simple text translator in which you write and receive the result translated into the chosen language.Each translation, in any language, can be reproduced by the loudspeakers to know how it is pronounced.
We can even configure the application to work in offline mode, as long as there is a language pack available that allows us to translate between the two languages we want. And if that wasn't enough, you might like to know that you can even use your device's camera to translate text, as you can see below .
Download Link | Bing Translator in the Windows Store 8
Looking for accommodation? Perhaps Booking for Windows 8 is the solution, which has an interface similar to the Despegar.com application where a map shows us the location of each hotel we are seeing, all in the purest Modern UI style.Without leaving it, we can log in to My Booking.com
The strong point of the application is its social touch, as it has more than 17 million comments from real customers about each and every one of these accommodations. These comments will be displayed when viewing any of the results we have chosen, along with the options offered by the hotel and real photographs of each type of room.
Download Link | Booking.com in the Windows Store 8
XE Currency for Windows 8 is the application of the famous currency conversion site, which makes things even easier given its simple interface, which will allow us to establish an initial currency and see what it is equivalent to in others at the same time.It also offers us information with graphs on the evolution of the currency.
This is so thanks to the distribution of the results that you can see in the previous image. In the From section we choose the currency from which we want to convert, and in To we will see the conversion of that amount to all the currencies that appear in this section.
Obviously it is possible to choose the currencies that will appear in To , by right clicking/tapping on those that we want to remove or pin to the Start Menu. If what we want is to add new ones, we look for it in the list on the right and click on it, which will immediately make it appear in the To section.
Download Link | XE Currency in the Windows Store 8
Flight Aware is here to offer you a real-time monitoring system for all commercial flights in the world.Thanks to this application, you will be able to find out if a flight is going to be delayed and its current position, as long as you have an identifier, such as queue number or although the flight path also works.
The application highlights on the front page the planes close to us, as well as the most significant airport delays around the world. In this last section, Airport Delays, we will see all the planes that are experiencing a delay and the delay time they already have compared to the established landing time.
Download Link | Flight Aware in the Windows Store 8
Lost in a foreign city, not knowing the most interesting places to go? Open GuidePal and get to know the city as if you've lived there all your life!
In this application, when you select a specific city, you will be able to see a list of places of interest, classified in different categories such as Bars, Things to see and do, Restaurants or Shops But in addition to obtaining all the information related to the most interesting places in each city, you have the possibility of using the map view to see where the areas with the highest concentration of interesting activities are located .
Download Link | GuidePal in the Windows Store 8
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