Top 3 Travel Apps for Traveling to The Philippines or Asia

Our Two Most-Used Phone Apps for Philippines Travel

We traveled to the Philippines for a month. We used many smartphone apps, travel and non-travel, on a regular basis. However, some of the apps helped us so much that we wanted to share here and in this video: Top 5 Travel Accessories & Apps For Month-Long Philippines Trip

Kayak Mobile App – Kayak, the online travel company, owned by Priceline (who also owns Booking.com, Agoda). Kayak Mobile, which is free and truly incredible, can do a lot more than search for hotels and flights.

The Kayak Mobile App can track flights and the best feature which many do not know about is that it can create an itinerary of your trips automatically when you email your hotel or flight bookings to trips@kayak.com. You can visualize your trip day-by-day in chronological order, so you will have a clear idea of your entire trip without double booking or overbooking anything.

We had hotel change every 1 or 2 days for our month-long trip, so the Kayak Mobile App helped us a lot in organising all our bookings together. Also, at the airport the Kayak Mobile App alerted us about flight delays, gate changes, and even our airport baggage carousel numbers long before they became available on the display board.

Grab – Many Asian countries don’t have Uber, but they have Grab. It’s a very handy app to call a taxi or bike if you don’t want to get scammed and avoid any hassle. We used Grab almost every day in the Philippines and it saved us a lot of time also.

Airalo – This is an eSIM provider that will save you a lot of time and hassle. You can install your destination country’s SIM before even leaving your home country and you will have the network when you land. We also installed a local physical SIM on our phones, but the pain and hassle will make me think twice before installing a physical SIM again.