What are your favorite travel apps? [PC Brain Trust] 51

While not really much of a traveller, I am taking a trip in a few weeks. I plan on utilitizing my Pre for anything I can find to use it for. From brief usage of both, I think YPMobile and Find Food will be especially useful when wandering around a city I've never been to before.

So, from my limited perspective, those two are my picks.

Edit: I might also add that I don't use paid apps yet, either, so that further limits my perspective.

I love Flightview. Was a bit pricey but incredibly convenient. Regular updates and it posts my flights to my calendar.

Other than that Google maps is critical, which makes it's recent poor performance that much more annoying.

for travel I like...

sprint nav
where
flightview
tripadvisor
opentable

All Trips:
Where
GoodFood
The Weather Channel
Taxi Magic
Mobile by Cityspace

When Flying:
FlightView

Road Trips:
Sprint Navigation
Trapster

I wish we had urban spoon...

Flightview is a must. It's indispensable for traveling and picking people up at the airport. The text updates for my flights is awesome.

The lack of a proper gps app (turn by turn, vocal guidance) is a real shame.
Google maps just isnt enough.
With Nokia giving theres away for free, and real gps apps turning up on the iphone for a couple of dollars, it looks like palm are being left behind.

I know this is a derail and I apologize for that.

Living in Phoenix AZ we have a lot of visitors during the winter. FlightView allows us to see when their planes are arriving so there is no wasted time waiting at the airport.

Why all the love for the weather channel? Accuweather is superior in terms of weather prediction, and that's the whole point of having a weather app.

the ones I can't live without are flightview & Rockus Sound Machine. That white noise helps in hotels that are too quiet or too loud!

I also like wikiplaces if I have some free time!

I'm quite happy using Fuel (http://www.precentral.net/app-gallery/app-catalog/fuel) for tracking my mileage. The graphing is great, the presentation super customizable, the data backed up in Google (which made importing my history from PalmOS' AutoMobile possible), and the developer extremely responsive. Three thumbs up! (I got my girlfriend to stand behind me and stick her arm out too...)

I'm new to Palm Pre Plus (Verizon) after having the iPhone for nearly three years. I miss the travel apps like Travelocity and Worldmate that I had on my iPhone. I use the mobile website of Fligtview, so would never pay for that app.

I work for an airline so miss the travel related apps more than most Palm users. I believe they will come eventually, and in the mean time I don't have to put up with ATT dropped calls.

Sprint Navigation - Stopped carrying my Garmin.
Open Table
Google Maps
Accuweather/weather channel - Sometimes accuweather won't load.
Evernote - coordinating notes wth the wife
Flightview - It will sometimes make me reboot my phone especially if I am using sprint nav.
FlightPredictor - Will be trying this next trip.
NewsRoom - In the airport waiting
pBart as I am in SF alot
WellsFargo - pay bills Etc
WorldTime so I know when to call folks in our offices all over.
Finally - Where my Car at - Parking in strange places with a rental you forgot what it looks like!

I just came back from a road trip from south Texas to Denver: 16 hours. The pre made the trip so easy.

Apps Needed:
Sprint Navigation.
Google Maps
Where
Pandora
Weatherbug.

While traveling I just used Sprint Navigation and Pandora. I got some shure sound isolation headphones and it is wonderful to travel with no road noise only the sound of the music.

I was able to get around the city with Sprint Navigation and Where. I needed an oil change, where told me where to go. I needed to find a place to watch the NBA playoffs and where told me where to go too. I needed to find a church to go to, this time it was Sprint Navigation that me where to go. My friend from Denver said, "wow, that phone lets you get around the city better then I do and I've been living here for years."

Pre, the only tool needed when traveling

I use a number of travel apps that have come in pretty handy.

Google Maps - We all know how lost we can be without it

Flight view - I just came from the Dallas/Fort worth area to New York. My wife was under the impression that our flight was for 2pm (She had the tickets). Since I had our flight itinerary on my Calendar, I was able to catch the error on time. I also just reserved my seat for my trip to Ireland by giving the phone representative my flight number from Flight view. All of this was done while seating at the bank.

Sprint Navigator - This was so useful in driving around Dallas. I used it to find the closest Walmart where I purchased a bargain priced Camera.

TMaps NYC - As a New Yorker, train travel is the primary means of transportation. Even though we have a mental map of the transit system, Tmaps comes in very handy.

There are other restaurant and weather-based and that I have installed and use like:

*Where
*Open Table
*Fandango
*Good Food

I love my Palm Pre and will be virtually lost without it.

Rockus Sound Machine and Google Maps.
You're good to go

I travel a lot by air and rail so I need apps that are flexible enough to cover both modes. www.TripIt.com is a great all-round itinerary organizer. It can be managed on a PC and read on the mobile version at m.tripit.com. Would love to have a webOS app for it.

Have been experimenting with Expensify to keep track of travel expenses. I was a HEAVY user of Expensable on my Treo 755p and dearly miss it. Expensify doesn't replace all the features of Expensable and isn't nearly as easy to use.

Other good mobile websites:
www.amtrak.com
m.united.com

Important travel apps:

Camera - the built-in camera and video recorder are lifesavers
WeatherBug
ShopList - great for packing lists
Zagat To Go
Yelp - for fast food
Scratch - for keeping notes and writing memos
ZumoDrive - make your files available on the road
Express News
Pandora - for dead time in airports
Shrek Kart - ditto
Enjoy Sudoku Daily - ditto
Paintr Lite - ditto

ZIP Code Tools. It's one of those overlooked apps that can really help. Hotels are notorious for leaving off the ZIP Code in their address and this is often required for many things.

webos is lacking any real high quality travel apps. Here in the UK you cant use it for travel. No tube app, no train journey planner, no traffic update app etc etc and guess where you can get these apps, yes Blackberry etc etc. The Pre is a good phone but looks like the big developers have overlooked it and very very very few developers in the UK are that bothered about it. HP need to get a new wind under the wings of devs.

I travel WAY too much (flying every other week or so all over the U.S.). Here are my essentials...

FlightView - worth every penny. Especially when you land at a layover and it lets you know your gate changed.
Dr Podder - When my brain is too tired to write code it is really nice to listen to my favorite NPR shows (Science Friday, Planet Money, All Things Considered, and Story Corps-even if I can't hide the tears).
Memos - Hah! I don't know how I'd find my car in the labarynthine parking garage a week after I parked without it.
Scoop - So I don't miss the latest PreCentral Posts!
Calendar + Email = I get to the right client at the right time =)
Clock - So I wake up on time (never trust hotel alarm clocks!).
Brightness Unlinked - So I'm not kept awake all night by the ridiculously bright Pre on the touchstone.
Terminal - So I can ssh to my servers in the event that something goes wrong.

Hands down - Flight View is the most useful.

You need an alarm clock while traveling- Timepiece is good or builtin clock.
Whendle is good for international travel and time zone changes.
I miss the treo's international clock but World time pro is decent. I think World Time Pro's interface was odd but they are updating it frequently and seems improved.
Hotels by Me seems interesting and potentially useful (but haven't looked at it carefully enough to know how useful it's database of hotels is or if it's accurate)