Applications to plan your vacations in Windows 8
Table of contents:
- Write it all down with OneNote, share it, and refer to it on the go
- Repsol Guide, your ideal companion for road trips
- Hire at a good price
- If you don't know where to travel, let yourself go
These days are for many people on vacation in Spain, on the occasion of Holy Week. It is used to travel and see new places, to return home to rest and for many other things that, in short, require a certain effort to plan and coordinate the activities of the trip.
Purchasing plane tickets, places to refuel your car, location of tourist spots, restaurants, routes, hotels, and many other data necessary for traveling can be found using applications available in the Windows Store. In today's post, we have prepared a selection that you will surely be able to use on your next vacation.
Write it all down with OneNote, share it, and refer to it on the go
A good tool to write down everything related to any trip is OneNote. Available in the Windows Store, it allows you to take notes in different formats (text, images, videos, handwriting, etc.) and share them with fellow travelers via email.
Another point in favor is the possibility of accessing OneNote content through different devices, which is very useful during the trip, for example, to consult a list with restaurants and addresses; or to always have the hotel information or telephone number to call a taxi.
Link | Download OneNote in the Windows Store
Repsol Guide, your ideal companion for road trips
The popular Repsol Guide in Windows 8, which has been published on paper for many years, is now available as an application in the Store Windows.It includes a selection of establishments and itineraries that allow you to enjoy gastronomy and tourism in Spain, being an interesting solution as a travel companion because it includes geolocation by proximity, a functionality that allows you to locate yourself on the map and easily find a destination.
Among the content offered by this application, you can find gastronomic, tourist, wine, and accommodation reports, among others. You can access through the app its gastronomic selection of restaurants, information on chefs awarded with Repsol Suns, the Cuchara de Palo gastronomic blog and the latest on the best tables in Spain. It also offers tourist recommendations, with countless proposals to know each destination in detail and what any type of traveler needs.
Link | Download Repsol Guide in the Windows Store
Hire at a good price
If you are one of those who gets out of the car and uses public transport, you already know that in recent years, numerous services have emerged that allow you to search airline websites looking for the best available offer.
In the Windows Store, multiple applications of these services are available, which will delight those who have the necessary skills to buy that cheap ticket at the right time (SkyScanner, Renfe); or also that accommodation offer at an unbeatable price (Bookong, Despegar.com).
If you don't know where to travel, let yourself go
An application that is quite interesting for the most travelers is Travel, powered by Bing It is an app that shows related content with the most interesting destinations of the moment and that even allows you to book a hotel and buy plane tickets.This application is one of those that comes installed by default in Windows 8, so it is not necessary to install anything to have it on the computer.
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