Apps to help in your travel plans

This simple app helps you find just the right hotel in the right area. You type in the city where you want to stay, choose your dates, pick your room size, and then run a search. The app will show available hotels on a map, so you can see if that beachfront resort in Maui is actually next to the ocean. You can filter your search results by price, rating and amenities, such as free Wi-Fi or a pool. For each hotel listed, you’ll see prices from the major booking companies, including Expedia, Priceline, Hotels.com and Travelocity.

WorldMate is aimed firmly at business and frequent travellers, but you don’t have to be one to use and make the most of the app. Like other robust travel planning and organisation tools, you can use it to get all of your itineraries and reservations in one place, and then add other destinations, appointments, meetings, and events that you need to attend when you’re out and about. WorldMate has some very business-friendly service integrations too, like LinkedIn, for example. You can use WorldMate on the web or on smartphone to organise trips.