If you’re excited about your next trip, you probably have been thinking about it for months. Maybe it’s the only vacation that you’re going on this year. Maybe you’re heading to your best friend’s wedding and are taking off some extra days to explore wherever they had their destination wedding.
For anyone going on a trip to a place that they haven’t been to before or want to get to know better, it’s important to know what’s going on in and around the cities you’ll be in. Some people like to fly by the seat of their pants when it comes to exploring new places, while others would like to be as regimented as possible in their planning. Both types of people would respond well to Wanderlog.
Wanderlog is ideal for planning your next trip
There’s a ton it can offer
When you first begin using Wanderlog, you have to create a profile in order to save your trips and plans. After you create an account, the app tries to get to know you better and asks you questions to customize its algorithm. This will help it provide you with more preferential suggestions about where you might want to visit if you’re going on a trip.
It asks you questions about how active you like to be on a vacation or trip and what kinds of attractions you are interested in seeing. This is helpful because it can either recommend a beach to you or a museum, depending on what you enjoy the most.
As you’re going through the app for the first time, Wanderlog gives you plenty of helpful hints and tips on how to use it. The best part about Wanderlog is just how many ways there are to use it. I came to it wanting to keep track of an itinerary for an upcoming trip of mine. What I found was a place to tackle every aspect of my trip.
Build a trip and get recommendations from Wanderlog
There are a lot of areas to explore within the app
Because I wanted to do a lot of research for an upcoming trip to Aruba, I thought I’d have to look at a bunch of different travel websites in order to compare restaurants, hotels, and even car rental companies. But all of that can be found inside Wanderlog. It’s just in different subsections of the trip planning.
I am planning a trip to Aruba in the summer, and I know I want to try a few different things. I’ve been to Aruba a few times and know what I’ve done in the past. But I also know that I don’t want to repeat everything I’ve done and want to explore some new things.
Wanderlog is a travel app that has allowed me to do research on things that I wasn’t sure about. I knew I wanted to book reservations at a few restaurants that I’d loved in the past. Searching for them in the app, I was then able to look them up and book a reservation. Once the reservation was completed, I was then able to log that reservation into the itinerary, helping shape out which days I was going where.
This was a crucial aspect in the planning because I could then see which days I wanted to have a lot of things planned and what days I wanted to just kind of focus on going to the beach and maybe grabbing some food near my hotel. It didn’t have to be a day that I was traversing the entire island in order to see different landmarks (I’ve done those kinds of days in Aruba anyway).
If you’re using the itinerary feature, you can also make to-do lists as you’re getting ready for the date to arrive. Figuring out when to arrive and what to pack for however many days is important info you shouldn’t keep to yourself.
Wanderlog is intuitive and a great assistant
Use AI to figure out where to go
If you use the itinerary feature in Wanderlog, it’s smart to also enter an amount in the expenses tracker. This helps you keep a budget and know if certain excursions will push you over it.
Whether you’re taking advice from friends on where to go or looking at social media pages to see what restaurants and hot spots to visit, you’re likely doing some research before you leave. But in case you want to do a deeper dive into what’s around your vacation spot, you can ask the Wanderlog AI assistant to give you more info.
It’s a chatbot, so you can ask it questions and have it provide you with travel-related answers. You can also give it prompts like “Build me a three-day itinerary” or “Find me the best Italian restaurant in the country,” and it will give you feedback. It’s a nice shortcut to having to do all the work yourself, and the AI assistant can record its responses in the app and either fill in the itinerary portions of the app or build a step-by-step map for you.
On top of this, if you want to go from one place to another, Wanderlog will map your route for you, based on efficiency and other features. Then, it will open your preferred map app and get you from each location. It not only works for you, but also within your ecosystem, helping you use the apps that you’re already using.
There is a paid version of Wanderlog that optimizes your routes to help you save money on gas, can be used while you don’t have service or Wi-Fi, and provides you with deals on flights and car rentals. It will also scan your Gmail account and upload any references or confirmation numbers for your trip directly into the app, giving you an all-inclusive app for your potentially all-inclusive vacation.
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Don’t rely on your own research for trips
Wanderlog gives you access to other people’s plans
For anyone who doesn’t think they can finish out the research on the trip themselves, there are other ways besides the AI assistant that Wanderlog can help. The app is also a community, as fellow users can upload their guides and itineraries for others to see. It’s a great way for travel influencers to get themselves noticed and an easy place for people who like looking at travel content to see the nuts and bolts of planning a trip.
You can search through uploaded guides or ones that were created within the app. It also provides links to YouTube and TikTok videos that relate to wherever your trip is taking place. Wanderlog doesn’t discriminate, and it offers you viewing options from reputable sources and competitors like Tripadvisor.
You can create your own guide for places that you’ve been before, adding to the community value. You can add a guide as a project in the app and provide accurate feedback on a place, and what went well and what didn’t. These tips, reviews, and guides help make Wanderlog a good companion for anyone going to or having just gone to somewhere unique. I also like using Wanderlog to look up people’s favorite places to eat near my home. I’ve found that the more honest someone is in their reviews, the better and I appreciate anyone who is willing to log how their trip was as soon as it’s done.
Wanderlog gets you inside a location, but from afar
Anyone who’s planning a lengthy stay somewhere should use the main features of Wanderlog. It will help you find restaurants, tourist attractions, or even off-the-beaten-path locations. What I like most about the app is that you can turn it into the only app you use in terms of your trip itinerary and stuff. You can upload your reservations and keep tabs on them while you’re looking for more things to do. You don’t have to search an email for something if you’ve uploaded it to the app. Wanderlog takes the time to be an all-encompassing app for travelers everywhere.
