Rome2Rio: Trip Planner

The first time i needed to use this app was when my sister was born. I got out of work early and everyone in my family was at the hospital waiting to see my sister for the first time. I had no car and nobody could pick me up, and I had never navigated the subways or buses on my own before. Somehow I found this app and was able to make a two and half hour trip through different methods of public transportation to get from my work in NY to the hospital in NJ where my sister was born. I surprised everyone when I got there, and would not have been able to see my sister for the first time with everyone else if it wasn’t for this app. It’s been 3 years since then, and I still use this app religiously. It’s the fastest and most reliable way to find ways to use public transportation to get where I need to be, whether its a job or class or a friend’s apartment. I wish everyone knew about this app who needs it. It’s so helpful.

This is my first ever app review, but I felt it my civic duty to sing its praises: I’d be lost in Europe begging on some corner with a crumpled up map in my hands and tears running down my face if it weren’t for this app. I live to travel, but I consider myself “directionally challenged,” and the idea of doing a bunch of research on the best way to get from point A to point B would be unimaginably frustrating. Rome2rio takes the stress out of traveling, and I recommend this app to people ALL the time! Yes, it helps you find the best route to get from country to country or city to city, but you can also narrow it down and put in an address or attraction. I can finally travel solo confidently with this app. It hasn’t let me down yet! I’d follow it to the ends of the earth and back. How this app isn’t more widely known or reviewed is beyond me, every traveler should have it.

I always wanted a way to see options for travel beyond flights. Maybe a train takes longer, but maybe you don't care and it's cheaper. Maybe a mountain bus ride in an economically developing country is scary and you'd like to experience it anyway. This app lays out great options for travel based on price. You don't have to search endlessly for different forms of travel that are independent of one another all the while trying to find linking times and places. This app saves you time, money, and shows you how you can be adventurous without a travel guide. I've had this idea for an app or website before, but they have done it so much better than I imagined!!

This app has been on my phone for some time. I use it occasionally but never realized it’s full potential until recently. My wife and I were sitting in Lisbon Portugal after I had planned out a trip with specific itinerary. Sitting there in a square, we could see the Christ the King statue overlooking the city but far away across the water. I had researched that Uber or public transit was the only way. I had a passing thought of Rome2Rio and opened up the app. To my surprise I had a detailed route including a ferry I hadn’t thought of before. The ferry was 10 min and the walking to and from wasn’t much. On the fly we picked up and made it there when it wasn’t in our plans. Great app!

I stumbled on this app by googling what was the nearest train station to the military gate and this came up. If you put in where you going from where you want to depart it’ll tell you how much time it’ll take to get to your destination via different modes of travel (train, car, taxi, and bus) as well as how much it cold cost so you can estimate how much money you need to pull out. If you want to take the train or bus it’ll tell you which bus or trains to get on and where to transfer at and so forth. For my second time in Korea, this app is a great tool to have. I use it in conjunction with the Subway Korea app.