We want Budget Your Trip to be the best travel budgeting resource on the Internet, and that’s why we’ve been so busy lately! We’ve rolled out a number of different updates to the site recently, and here’s a rundown.
Android App: In case you missed the news, Budget Your Trip now has an Android Application so that you can budget your trip from the road. Everything you do in the phone will be reflected back to your account on the website. That way you’ll still get the same great travel budgeting information whether your on your phone or desktop.
Travel Tips: You can now read and submit travel tips for your favorite locations. Find what others have to say about the places you’re going. After your trip, help future travelers by leaving some tips for the places you visited.
More Locations: As of right now, we have travel costs for over five hundred cities in over seventy countries. All of the estimated travel costs for cities and countries come from travelers like you. Every time a member enters their budget, the results are anonymously averaged with the budget data from other travelers for those specific locations. And now, thanks to you, we’re growing like crazy! Pat yourself on the back, because you’re helping other travelers plan their trips right now.
New Charts: As you probably know, you can view your trip’s budget with charts and graphs. Before those charts were created with Flash, but now we’ve redone them in Javascript. This means that you can check out your trip from your phone’s browser (iPhone, Blackberry, Android, etc.) and see the real charts instead of getting that pesky “No Flash” error message.
Round the World Trip Guide: You may have noticed our newest addition, How To Plan A Trip Around The World. The first part of this guide is now available, and more sections are coming soon, including advice on how to budget for your trip, save money while on your trip, how to pack, and how to stay safe. We took a year long trip ourselves, and we want to pass along the lessons we learned the hard way, so that you can learn them the easy way.
We’ve also made a number of minor cosmetic changes, including a redesign to the location specific budget pages, user profiles, and a variety of other pages. Hopefully all of these changes will make things easier for you, the traveler, to find the information you need more efficiently. Please let us know if you have any suggestions or comments. We’re always open for new ideas!
