Guides by Lonely Planet for Pc

I used this app all the time. It was honestly one of my favorite apps. I planned three vacations using it and even used it to find new things in the cities I’ve lived in. I liked this app so much, whenever I bought a physical travel book they became my go-to publisher. I always thought that the amount of content that they offered for free was too good to last, and I liked the app enough that I would have been willing to pay for the content if they’d handled this better. The way they went, however, putting EVERYTHING behind a paywall and only allowing you to subscribe to their entire catalog for $40 a year is crazy and seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of how people use the app. I just the other day recommended the app to a friend planning a trip to Berlin, and now I’m going to have to retract that. Why would I pay $40 a year to access 8000 locations when I only want to use two this app at a time, one to plan a single vacation in one city and one to poke around for restaurants and shops in my home city? I don’t want unlimited access to 8000 locations! I didn’t use the app to idly poke around the attractions in cities I’m not going to visit for years, if ever. The sensible way to do this would be to let users buy individual cities. If I could buy an app guide for $5-$10 a pop, I would absolutely do that without blinking an eye.

I’ve had the opportunity to travel around the world and I’ve used another pocket size book/guide (won’t mention name) and I love every bit of it, before my trip, during my trip and even after. However they didn’t have the book I needed for my next trip (Japan). My local Barnes and noble recommend Lonely Planet and so far I’m impressed. I leave in a few weeks and I’m feeling confident about having the book and app for my trip. Any questions that I may have had, lonely planet has answered already. Questions that I didn’t even think about they already answered. Thank you!

This app is my favorite planning tool, very chic design, useful features, great information (as always from lonely planet). I like the vote for new cities feature too. Would really like to see some kind of planning feature, maybe a way to add bookmarked things to an external calendar, or ideally have an internal planner just to connect dates and locations. Travel can be tough for places like Japan where you may be in three or four different regions throughout the trip so coordinating by the day would be great. You could then share and modify the plan and that would be great! Still love it!!

This 👏 is 👏 not 👏 how 👏 you 👏 do 👏monetization 👏 Fire the person who came up with the monetization idea. Seriously. Fire him. He doesn’t care about the Lonely Planet brand, nor its users. He cares about making a name for himself and then hopping off elsewhere. Fire him and restore the app to the way it was. Original review: 4/5 stars I really love this app. Lonely planet has such great content and I constantly find myself going to places that are not filled with tourists but where locals actually hang out. There are excellent off the beaten path places and wonderful food options. For that I’m eternally grateful! The only complaint I have is for the map functionality - since I constantly struggle with data when I travel, I always download the offline map, and that’s when it gets tricky. Sometimes the map doesn’t respond until much later, sometimes it crashes the app, and more frustrating is when it doesn’t tell me which direction I’m headed. I use this offline map called Planet Earth to supplement when I navigate offline which have worked out fine. But it would be so much better if the Lonely Planet app can nail that aspect too. Thank you for the hard work and I am a huge fan!