With a short holiday planned for later in the year, I have been meaning to put together some sort of itinerary out of all of the various booking confirmations that the missus and I have accumulated. I like to be organised but sometimes find it hard to strike up the motivation to make sense of it all. Ironically, if you give me data that belongs to someone else I’ll happily analyse and reorganise it into something meaningful without too much fuss.
As luck may have it, I stumbled across an iPhone and web application called TripIt earlier today. It works fairly simply, all you do is forward your flight, hotel and rental car booking confirmations to an e-mail address and shortly afterwards, it will construct your itinerary.
TripIt Itinerary
Amazingly, it works very well and gives you your itinerary in your pocket very quickly. You can also shell out for a Pro account which gives you additional features, such as:
- alerts when a flight is delayed or cancelled or if there is a gate change,
- alternate flight options,
- check-in reminders,
- frequent flyer points tracking,
- sharing your travel information with your “inner circle” (a fancy term for friends on TripIt).
You can also hook up your TripIt account to Facebook and Twitter so people will know your general whereabouts and travel movements. Personally, I have stopped short of setting this up as I think that might be sharing a bit too much information but others might not mind so much.
So if you travel a bit or you fancy a way to rationalise all of those booking confirmations and bits of paper, check out TripIt – you might be pleasantly surprised! TripIt is available for iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad.
2 comments
Hello Boyd, I am also a tripit fan – however, tripit doesn’t actively monitor your flights for delays and changes (unless you go Pro, as you say).
If you send your flights to tripcase as well (available as an iPhone and web app) which is provided by sabre, the airline booking engine, your flights will be monitored for delays, changes, gate updates, etc. in the free version.
Although it’s a little clumsy (and a little cheap!), you can have your full itinerary in tripit and the flights monitored in tripcase and avoid a fee for a once in a year major trip.
FYI I would never normally comment on anything in your blog, so I’m feeling rather smug.
MM
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Hey MM, nice tip and thanks for commenting! I’m giving it a go, just waiting for my trip to appear online after sending it through but it does sound quite promising!
Definite smugness in order!