The Good Food Guide
As well as offering all the content you’ll find in the print version in the palm of your hand, perhaps the most impressive addition to the Good Food Guide app is a GPS feature which allows you to find the best restaurants nearest to your location. From there you can read the Guide’s review, call direct to make your booking and share / show-off your selection on Facebook and Twitter.
The app also allows you to browse by map, look at different lists of award-winners and bookmark your favourite restaurants for later. At £4.99, the Good Food Guide is one of the pricier apps, but with the amount of content and features we think it’s worth it. And although we think that exploring the local area to find a lovely place to eat is half the fun of a holiday, if you’re away with a die-hard foodie then this is a small price to pay for guaranteed culinary satisfaction!
If you are more of a fun-foodie, and are less bothered about your dining selections, then you might have more fun with our next selection…
Urbanspoon
Like the Good Food Guide app, Urbanspoon finds your location and randomly selects a nearby eatery using a selection of factors, such as food type, location and price. Like a slot machine you hold the columns that you like and have the app randomly select the rest. So if you fancy seafood in Cornwall, but are spoilt for choice by fish restaurants, then let the app select one for you.
As its interface suggests, Urbanspoon is more of a gamble than the Good Food Guide, but it’s arguably more fun and, perhaps most importantly, is completely free! And if you don’t fancy gambling with your holiday dining experiences then you’ll always find a kitchen in your holiday cottage.
Plane Finder
Like ice creams and ball games, no lazy day in the sun is complete without hearing ‘I wonder where that plane’s going?’ at least once. Well, after years of debate, the Plane Finder app has arrived to give you the answers. Using live tracking of flight routes the app allows you to find and identify the nearest commercial flights – including flight number, carrier, departure and arrival times, and destination.
For £2.99 you too can become an aircraft anorak, which we think is a small price to pay. It’s certainly cheaper and less stressful than actually catching a flight! Though we would advise using Plane Finder sparingly as it can become quite addictive. Now if you’ll excuse us, we’re off to look for an Airbus A380…
