Pros & Cons
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- Free website for making and organizing travel plans.
- Includes flight, hotel, and other booking tools.
- Expense tracking and splitting tool easy to use.
- Connects with Foursquare for recommendations at destination.
- Decent collaboration tools.
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- Interface and user experience improvements needed.
- No auto-import features.
- Some features hard to find.
- Doesn't support multiple currencies or provide currency converter.
- Search tools can be slow.
The pleasures of travel are often counterbalanced by the pains of organizing your vacations. Aside from researching and booking plane tickets, hotels, and car rentals, there's figuring out what to do when you arrive at your destination and keeping track of who pays for what. Travefy (free) is a website designed to help people devise and confirm travel plans they make with their travel mates. The site helps you find and book flights, hotels or vacation rentals, and activities, as well as map out the details of what you'll do on your trip. It even has an expense-tracking tool that helps you and your travel buddies keep tabs on who owes who how much and for what. It's definitely a travel app worth exploring.
What Travefy offers over other apps and services is a central and collaborative place online to iron out the basics. You and your travel companions can make notes in Travefy and have discussions as you plan. The site's weakness, however, is an interface that's a little stodgy in terms of usability. It's a neat site, though not one I recommend highly for disorganized people who need a lot of help getting their travel plans in order. I'd point them instead to TripIt! and TripCase, which don't offer quite the same thing as Travefy, but do take the heavy lifting out of keeping track of your trip details.
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Travefy
Travel website Travefy offers a unique service, letting you plan and book trips and even calculate shared expenses, but its interface needs work.