Google Trips is a killer travel app for the modern tourist

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Post by shekhar101 » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 4:37 PM UTC

Google Trips is a killer travel app for the modern tourist
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Post by rajathagasthya » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 5:20 PM UTC

The trips feature in Inbox is incredibly useful, but I hated having to go back to the email app and scrolling till I find the trip details. So I'm glad they came up with a new app to manage your trips.

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Post by Oletros » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 5:23 PM UTC

Doesn't work with Google Apps accounts, fail

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Post by Kikawala » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 5:32 PM UTC

I've been using TripCase[1] and just gave this a try. It picked up my flight information, but not my hotel or GroundLink confirmation emails. All of those emails were in my gmail account. In the case of TripCase, I have to forward all of my confirmation/booking emails to trips@tripcase.com to add it to my trip on the app.

[1] http://travel.tripcase.com/

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Post by vetinari » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 5:38 PM UTC

Oletros wrote: post #3

Doesn't work with Google Apps accounts, fail

Features like these traditionally do not work with Google Apps accounts. Adding your hotel reservation confirmations to your calendar or notifying you of package delivery? Nope. Anything else Google Now could use? Nope. Google doesn't read you Apps account, like they do with the regular ones.

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Post by electriclove » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 5:38 PM UTC

Oletros wrote: post #3

Doesn't work with Google Apps accounts, fail

I'm very disappointed with being unable to use so many Google apps. Has anyone recently transitioned from a Google Apps account to a regular Google account? Yup, I'm considering it..

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Post by sp332 » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 5:41 PM UTC

rajathagasthya wrote: post #2

The trips feature in Inbox is incredibly useful, but I hated having to go back to the email app and scrolling till I find the trip details. So I'm glad they came up with a new app to manage your trips.

I use the "pin" feature for all my travel information. It's not a complete fix, but it does cut down on the scrolling a lot!

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Post by JOnAgain » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 5:41 PM UTC

I've been using Tripit for years to keep track of my travel plans. Then I use TripAdvisor for figuring out what to do in places I"m visiting. Not seeing anything really interesting here, other than it being in one place. But judging by Google Reviews on maps which are significantly worse than Yelp reviews, I doubt their travel advice will be remotely close to TripAdvisors'.

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Post by globile » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 5:44 PM UTC

No Wifi, No Data, Taxi took you for a "ride", Goats in the street, Grumpy hotel manager, Flamenco music ...Yes!! This is definitely Barcelona, Spain!! ;-)

C'mon Google!

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Post by huangc10 » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 5:49 PM UTC

Going to try this out, but like a commentator on the Verge already mentioned, they should really have released it or beta-tested earlier-mid year since a lot of people backpack / travel during the summer.