Web Buzz: Travel websites and apps

Takes the guesswork out of public transportation at home and abroad.

What type of vacation can you afford? This interactive map can help you make smart travel decisions.

The decades-old air courier service meets the sharing economy.

Here’s an around-the-world online travel guide curated by designers and other creative types.

Want to find authentic meals in destinations around the globe? Here’s a guide.

If exploring a new city is daunting, make a game out of it with this new app.

Here’s a stylish new travel website for discerning LGBT travelers.

It’s hard to break the ice when you arrive in a new city, so here’s an app to help you get the conversation started.

Find out what your Uber fare will be before you open its app.

Trip planning is hard, but here’s a website with a simple visual grid to lead you through the basics.

Where do celebrities take their vacations? Shh. It’s a secret. Well, not anymore.

At last, here’s an app-based subscription plan that lets you book unlimited flights on commercial airlines.

Pay-as-you-go roadside assistance could become the new security blanket for road trippers.

Get ideas for where to go or what do to, then make suggestions and chat with your friends in order to decide — all with the same app.

Very important person? Why yes, I am. Now.

Here’s a website that makes creating a vacation to-do list much easier.

Let a local help you uncover the richness of the City of Light.

Sit back, relax and learn how to make travel easier.

Calling all crafters: Grab your embroidery needles and a map — it’s time to multitask your vacation.

Caution: Looking at these aerial travel photos might leave you desperate to buy a drone before your next vacation.

The best vacation itineraries combine word-of-mouth suggestions and good research.

If you think travel photos are inspiring, wait until you feast your eyes on this app’s curated travel videos.

Cowabunga, dude! The surf spots are reeling here!

Hate to pack? In a hurry? Don’t own a winter coat?

Crafting an itinerary can be burdensome, but here’s a clean and clever shortcut worth using.

Here are vacation rentals that pride themselves on being up close and personal to nature.

Try on the tiny house movement for size Name: Getaway.house What it does: This website lets the public book one of three 160-square-foot cabins on wheels.

Take charge — here’s a website and app that make life easier for owners of electric vehicles.

Name: ExitFares.com What it does: This website monitors social media, message boards, newsletters and more in the travel industry to find inexpensive routes and flight sales.

Are you an intellectually curious traveler?

Budget travelers — say hello to the sharing economy.

Here’s a new, easy-to-build list-making app that pinpoints places on a map so you can tag and save your favorites.

Would you like to be in a committed relationship with travel? I would.

Caution: Cute dogs near you. Name: Dog Land app Available: iPhone, iPad, iPod touch.

Here’s website that can help travelers with disabilities find accessible vacation accommodations around the world.

Here’s a travel app that can search for inexpensive flights to your dream destinations.

A blend of activities, gear and guidance awaits with this website.

With this app, you can add a worthy pre-departure task to your to-do list.

Planning a theme-park vacation? Here’s a website to help you locate attractions and activities.

Raise the sail on your adventures with the Airbnb of boats.

Create a quick, slick travel video collage with your smartphone videos.

Just what the party planner ordered, so take your meeting or family reunion global.

Uncover California’s hidden, quirky, one-of-a-kind attractions, stores and restaurants with this very personal blog.

Here’s a simple photo app that will help lift your pictures out of the amateur zone.

Before you jump into the airport taxi line, check out your other options.

You’ve heard about a movable feast, but what about a movable closet?

With this website, you can spend your year traveling from one festival to the next. Literally.

Do no-cost hotel upgrades truly exist? Find out with this app.

Here’s an app that lets you add your voice to your travel videos before you share them with friends and family.

Who has time to read an entire guidebook? This app can help quickly plan your day.

No need to second-guess the price you paid for your hotel.

Take your travel vacation videos to the next level with this app and a few smart edits.

Think Redbox for jet-setters who prefer to download rather than stream. Say what?

Did someone say “day date”?

Could this be the website that finally gets you to book a local guide online?

Here’s a website that crawls under a rock to uncover more ways to grab a hotel deal.

Just in time for spring and summer road trips, here’s an app that can save you time and money.

To book a boutique hotel or villa in Europe, you might need a boutique travel website to help you find what you’re looking for.

A global map app that enables you to collect and share points of interest.

Love to eat? Love to read?

Have you ever wanted to do something fun outdoors but didn’t want to do it alone?

Are you into extreme budget travel?

Turn a vacation into an adventure by adding more stops to your ticket.

What would you be willing to do for the lowest fare?

The properties included on this website could make any traveler’s bucket list.

Uber, Lyft or a good old-fashioned taxi? How do you determine which one offers the best fare?

It’s as if your coolest cousin gave you the scoop on the hippest things to do in her city and put it in this app.

Stop botching the names of foreign business partners, hosts or even new friends you meet on the road.

Here’s a budget ride-sharing app that connects drivers and passengers for long-distance travel.

Could these reveal last-minute deals worth packing for?

Here’s a website that can help when you’re hot to travel but short on time.

The TrailWallet app records expenses, helping you to manage your budget, in the currencies of 218 countries.

Could this app be the Tinder of travel?

For the backpack-toting, smartphone-app-using millennial, here’s an easy way to discover and book hostels around the globe.

Grab your headphones and take a walk to hear the sounds of the city or countryside.

If you’ve been wondering if the sharing economy has a website for RVs, it does.

Here’s an award-winning visual storytelling app that takes travelers’ photo essays to the next level.

Name: MiFlight Everyone hates standing in the dreaded airport security line, but what if you knew your wait time wouldn’t be as long as you had thought?

Here’s a website that allows the armchair traveler with a soft spot for unique gifts to get her (or his) fix without leaving town.

Website’s inside info is useful for experts, families and newbies alike

Villy helps connect travelers with the neighborhood — and lodgings — that are right for them in cities around the globe.

Airfarewatchdog.com, the source for hot airfare deals, has expanded into the hotel market.

Nobody to walk you back to your hotel or car after dark?

Here’s a website that can help you travel with a passion and a purpose.

It’s OK to ask for a little hand-holding when planning your next trip.

Here’s a website that’s taking armchair travel to new heights.

Comparing prices, ratings, reviews and other details is as easy as drag and drop at smartdepart.com. But be sure to double-check the prices.

Here’s a smoother, more modern way to book your tee time at golf courses around the world.

Are you sick of searching through crowd-sourced hotel reviews while trying to figure out if the bed will be good enough?

Don’t knock traveling by bus until you check out the price tag.

If you want to avoid the hassle of commercial air travel, you can always lease a private jet.

Before reading and writing become a lost art, here they are, romancing digital devices.

Forget about your latest overindulgence.

Business travelers, rejoice. And then cross laundry and packing off your to-do list.

Web Buzz: Trevolta.com allows would-be adventurers to finance their travel dreams through crowd funding. Many trips listed have noble purposes.

Web Buzz: It alerts users to only the important stuff so vacations aren’t spent checking messages, but it’s expensive.

If you consider creating a packing list a chore, you might consider this app a friend.

Why settle on wine tasting for just a day or two when there are wine-centric hotels, tours and experiences around the world from which to choose?

If your camping experiences are limited to your Boy Scout or Girl Scout days, these campgrounds will be a comfortable welcome back.

Two-wheel travel meets the sharing economy in Spinlister’s bike sharing service. Think Airbnb for two-wheelers.

Tired of sharing your travel pics one by one?

If there were a Girl Scout badge for travel, you’d surely earn it after using these tips.

Web Buzz: The hotel deals are the app’s best feature; better airfares might be found by searching the Web.

Looking for an urban adventure? The crowd can tell you where to go.

Web Buzz: The ParkMe Parking smartphone app (there’s a Web version too) can save you time and money by proving a ‘heat map’ of real-time parking spaces in lots, garages.

Saving for your dream trip just got easier with this website.

Web Buzz: App pins travelers’ comments and stories about a location to that place and makes them available to online searchers.

A major overhaul of the popular Gogobot app gives users more trip-planning features and a mobile-friendly design that’s easy to use and easy on the eyes.

Ditch the hotel, grab the kids and “chillax” in a destination with room for the entire family.

Web Buzz: For explorers, the Web bookmarking tool BonVoyaging.com is an easy way to research, save, share and download their travel plans.

Localeur has tips on restaurants, night life, art and more from locals in L.A., New York, San Francisco, Houston and Austin, Texas.

Calling all globe-trotting runners and hikers: Discover trails and share them with others.

The site remembers your home airport and links easily to ideas you might not have thought of. But where’s the save button?

Farmstarliving.com, a website and app, offers a directory of restaurants serving food from local farmers. It also lists farms and lodging.

The Trekkel.com website assists those looking for activities in new cities. Dining, shopping, scenic wonders are among the options.

Web Buzz: The CarryOn.com website lets travelers create or follow travel deals, rewarding them with escalating savings.

The AFAR Travel Guide offers things to do crafted by experienced travels, or customize your own guide for on- or offline use.

Web Buzz: FlightCar acts as the go-between for business and leisure travelers who are willing to make their cars available to one another.

Web Buzz: Yes, a lot of apps will show you what services are at the next exit, but Road Ninja is a particularly streamlined one. Gas, food, lodging, services and more can be found.

Peek.com lets travelers explore activities in 17 U.S. destinations and London and Paris.

Web Buzz: The new app Spin allows groups of up to 10 friends to share and comment on photos and video.

Web Buzz: Compare room prices at hotels, B&Bs, hostels, apartments and more at AllTheRooms.com.

Jetpac City Guides creates bite-sized, list-driven guides to 5,000 cities by analyzing public Instagram photos.

Web Buzz: Rome2Rio.com helps scope out travel routes by air, train, bus and more along with listing estimated prices.

Travel-size products for bath, body and more with an upscale air and prices to match are on offer at TravelBeauty.com.

Here’s an interactive jigsaw puzzle app to help kids learn world geography.

SportsWhereIAm.com lists sporting events by city, allowing tourists to games with locals.

Web Buzz: The travel website Pinocular.com lets you customize your leisure plans according to the activities you enjoy.

Web Buzz: Spottly, an app for iPhone and iPad, helps travel enthusiasts quickly turn photos and notes into bucket lists.

Web Buzz: Bikeovernights.org, with its photos, tips, travelogues and more, is an excellent resource for those planning bike trips in the U.S. and Britain.

Web Buzz: HolidaysForHumanity.com helps vacationers plan trips that are environmentally responsible and socially empowering.

Web Buzz: A look at the TripGems.com website, where travelers can share experiences.

This app lifts the veil on airport lounges the world over.

Vacatia.com is very user-friendly, but be sure to carefully read the fine print about that time share deal.

This flight comparison app can help you find cheaper rates than some of your favorite online travel agencies.

AdventureLink.com offers more than 14,000 trips with various activities that can be sorted by budget, destination, theme, etc.

Web Buzz: BeckandScore.com launches its high-end travel services with World Cup packages to Brazil.

The website Stayful.com finds deep discounts at independent and boutique hotels in San Francisco and New York, with other cities to be added later, using its own bidding system.

The FleaQuest website offers a nationwide directory for vintage markets, salvage centers, flea markets and more.

Fest300 website, founded by Chip Conley, introduces the top festivals from around the world to the ‘culturally curious.’

The free, members-only website searches destinations and dates, and finds the best prices.

TheLuxeNomad.com offers flash sale deals for hotels and resorts in the Asia-Pacific region.

Texting, video chats, calls and photo sharing are included in Vonage Mobile’s free app.

You’re going to want to tell your travel agent — or personal assistant — about this value-added hotel-booking website.

Depending on whether you download the free version or the paid, the City Guides app for iPhone and iPad offers a wealth of tips, facts and other information for each destination.

MochaMeet.com simplifies the planning process for group get-togethers around the globe.

Layovers don’t have to be a pain in the derrière.

The website translates into English content from locals in France, Italy, Japan and other countries blogging in their native languages.

There’s an adventuress in every woman just waiting to come out.

With this app, a traveler can collect and organize vacation ideas beforehand, as well as digital memorabilia after you’re back home.

Rates flights by such qualities as comfort and power outlets, in addition to price.

Local guides help set a travel itinerary of varying complexity, for a price, on the online database.

Normandy D-Day 1944 offers travel tips and historical information for visiting the five invasion beaches as well as 100 other locations throughout Normandy.

The global booking website entices users with airline mileage points in exchange for reserving hotel stays. But not all loyalty programs are available.

This is a site for global travelers who demand more design and style than the average backpacker on a post-college, round-the-world romp.

Pictures, videos and destination recommendations come from more than 500,000 real international travelers.