If you are traveling alone, here are your 7 must-have apps
This website was launched in 2003 by Luis Pineda, a travel agent with extensive experience in the travel industry, and was one of the first to start organizing trips for single people. This platform specializes in organizing trips and vacations for singles, or what has traditionally been known as single individuals. There is also space for separated, divorced, and widowed individuals. The trips they organize are very appealing, including getaways and cruises...
This website makes it clear that its main goal is not to help you find your soulmate through travel. They aim to offer an experience outside of the routine. Sometimes spending too much time in our usual surroundings creates a routine and monotony from which we sometimes need to disconnect. This app organizes weekend getaways for activities such as hiking, horseback riding, biking, motorcycle excursions, skiing, snowboarding, and golfing in the mountains of Madrid. But if what you need is a little trip outside of the United States, they also organize trips of five days or more to cities like Vietnam, Myanmar, Jordan, and Senegal... The requirement is to travel unaccompanied and not know anyone beforehand. Are you in?
Atrevetesolo is a website created in 2006 that does not impose an age limit, although it is true that the average age of their users is between 27 and 50 years. They organize international trips and cruises, weekend getaways for rural tourism, multi-adventure activities, wine tours, equestrian trips, cultural experiences, sun and beach holidays, diving, skiing... and Themed Parties like the traditional Singles New Year's Eve party. Quite appealing, don't you think?
When this website was born in 2004, it took the form of a social club for single people. Shortly thereafter, it became one of the leading agencies specializing in trips and getaways for solo travelers. However, it should be noted that although the trips they organize are not exclusively for singles, a high percentage of solo travelers join, allowing for the possibility to connect and enjoy the trip with new acquaintances who... who knows, could become something more in the future.
This app could be described as a Tinder for love. Well, for true love... maybe not, or maybe, who knows where the journey could lead. The goal of this application is for users to register to find someone to share their travel with. It is very easy to use. You just have to register and announce a trip you would like to take. From there, you will receive requests (or not), but you can also check out trips from other users. Essentially, what you all have in common is the desire to travel to the same place.
Other applications like Ambar offer the possibility to meet your travel companions beforehand through a meeting. In this case, they usually entail adventure trips. If you wish to share a room with one of your companions, you will save on the extra charge for booking a single room. Throughout the trip, you may develop a very good relationship because the groups are small, and the experiences, unforgettable, since their itineraries are off the beaten tourist paths.
And we shift gears a bit because what we propose now are not applications to meet people during our travels but rather to travel alone in the safest way possible. For that, we have applications like:
Safety Map Worldwide
When we travel alone, it's difficult to know which areas are safe for moving around solo. But with this app, it will be much easier to navigate safely. It features maps from around the world that include the least dangerous routes for road trips. Another very useful function is to alert you to cities or towns with high crime rates. Currently, this application is only available for iOS.