Google Travel: how to install and everything you can do with the Google travel app

2022-07-31 16:38:59 By : Ms. Angela He

Subscribe to Engadget AndroidReceive an email a day with our articles:Three years ago, the Google Trips travel application closed to make way for Google Travel, a centralized website that helps us plan and book everything we need for our next trip, and although it does not have an application on Google Play, it does allow us to install your webapp on our Android device.In this article we are going to see how to access Google Travel or Google Viajes, how to install its webapp on our mobile, and we will review all the features that the Google travel webapp offers us.To access Google Travel or Google Viajes we have to access the website google.com/travel/ from the web browser.We can also search for "Google Travel" in the search engine whose search result is usually the first.As soon as we enter the Google Travel website, if we scroll through the main Travel tab view, we will find a card that allows us to add a shortcut.After pressing this button, a new window will invite us to install the application.We can also install Google Travel from the browser menu through the "Add to home screen" option, which upon detecting that it is a webapp will show us the "Install application" option.After installing the webapp we will have the "Travel" application installed on our mobile as if it were just another application, but it will still be a webapp in which the Internet connection will be necessary.With Google Travel it is a service that will help us plan and book our next trip through the different sections offered by this Google travel webapp, as we will see below:Thanks to the integration of Google, all flight and hotel reservations that we have in Gmail will appear in Google Travel, showing the trip itinerary with all the information about our trips and accommodations, making Google Travel the fastest way to see when our flight leaves or where is our hotel.Even so, Google Travel also allows us to manually add our next getaways with the "Create a trip" option, where we will say the destination, the dates and then we can add the flights, the hotel, restaurants and events, among other data, that we are going to perform during the trip.If we don't know where to go, the Explore section of Google Travel will help you discover the best places to go from your city, showing as suggestions the destinations and dates in which the flight and accommodation are cheaper at that moment.If you have already chosen a destination with the What to do section you will be able to see the most visited places, the outstanding neighborhoods, the best museums or outdoor activities that you can do in your destination.You can also save the places you like the most to have them accessible on your list of things to do.Google Travel integrates the powerful Google Flights search engine, so from the webapp itself you can search for the cheapest flights to reach your destination thanks to its many filters and search options.In addition, you will be able to follow the prices of an itinerary to receive an alert when that flight drops in price.Google Travel also allows us to search for hotels and compare prices between different hotel reservation portals.Through its map view and its filters you will be able to find the best hotel in each area of ​​a city that fits your search criteria.Finally, Google Travel also allows us to search for apartments for rent in case we go with family or a group of friends who prefer to share a home during their stay, which is usually cheaper than renting single rooms.The Google apartment search engine offers us filters to find the option that best suits our budget and needs among the different types of apartments or rural houses.In Engadget Android |See the stars, find places to swim and more apps to have a summer of tenShare Google Travel: how to install and everything you can do with the Google travel appMore Sites You'll LikeSee more articlesSee more videosIn Xataka Android we talk about...