A travel concierge that already knows your trip
Trip7's travel concierge is an assistant inside the free Trip7 app that answers questions about your own trip. Because it has read your booking emails, it already knows where you are staying, what you have booked and where you are standing, so you can ask a question in plain words without explaining anything first.
What can I ask a travel concierge?
Ask the way you would ask a person at a hotel desk. “Where should we eat near the hotel tonight?” “What is open on our free morning?” “How do I get from the station to the museum?” “Is this neighbourhood alright to walk through after dark?”
The answers come back with the practical parts filled in: how far away it is on foot, when it opens, roughly what it costs, and what other visitors said about it. Because the concierge knows your plan, it will not suggest something on the far side of the city an hour before your dinner reservation.
What is a travel brief?
Trip7 writes you short briefs as they become useful, rather than on a fixed schedule. The evening before, it shapes tomorrow for you: the weather, what is scheduled, and any heads-up such as an early start or a long journey. Before a flight it works out what time you should set off, and shows you how it reached that number — the departure time, the airport buffer, and how long the door-to-gate journey takes.
It is written for your trip rather than for the destination in general, which is the difference between a brief and a guidebook. You are not reading forty pages to find the two things that apply to you today.
Does it help with packing, local customs and the language?
Trip7 builds a packing list from your real plans and the weather forecast where you are going, so a week of walking tours in the rain produces a different list from three days of restaurants.
It also tells you how things are normally done where you are headed — how tipping works, how people greet each other, how the local transport is used — and gives you useful phrases in the local language written out so you can say them out loud. Entry requirements and safety notices for the countries on your trip come through the same way, before you go and while you are there.
The short version
- What it costs
- Free to download and free to use.
- Where it runs
- iPhone and Android.
- What it knows
- Your bookings, your hotel, your day's plan, who you are travelling with, and where you are right now.
- What it writes for you
- Daily briefs, packing lists, entry requirements, safety notices, local customs and phrases in the local language.
- How you ask
- In ordinary words. There are no menus or filters to work through.