The 8 best apps for family travel
Apps designed to engage your kids with travel – our pick of the best
1. Travel Bingo
This app brings bingo hall excitement to the age-old road trip game of ‘I Spy’ by randomly generating a card featuring road signs, vehicles, livestock and other on-the-road markers. Kids mark each one that they see, and the first to get a line wins – just like bingo. Can be played in blackout form as well, where the first to find every item wins.
IOS | £0.69/$0.99
2. UNESCO World Heritage
2. UNESCO World HeritageThis app fully describes all the UNESCO World Heritage sites, including Petra in Jordan, the Acropolis in Athens, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and Machu Picchu in Peru. Explore all the sites at home or check which ones are nearby on your travels. Choose your favourites and then mark them off as you visit them.
IOS | £2.29 / $2.99
3. Dragons Adventure World Explorer
3. Dragons Adventure World ExplorerOnly available on Window phones and tablets, this game uses Nokia’s Here Maps to transform the real world location that you are travelling through into the mythical one of How To Train Your Dragon. Always wanted to see dragons fly around the Eiffel Tower? Now you can.
Windows | Free
4. Postino
4. PostinoA great way to introduce your kids to the joys of sending postcards, rather than just posting online, this app lets you turn your trip photos into actual physical postcards and send them to your friends and family. The app is free but there is a charge for printing and postage.
IOS/Android/Windows | Free
