One of the best things about living in Delaware is that we are close to many places to visit. We are less than one hour from Philadelphia, and about two hours from Washington DC and New York City. Better still, all three of these locations have major international airports which has been quite useful for quick weekend getaways or to the other side of the world. My favorite European country to visit is the Czech Republic.
TripIt is a website I discovered a couple of years ago. It’s a fantastic resource for organizing and sharing your travel plans with anyone you choose or to no one at all if you just want a place to store all of your details online! Have you ever booked any part of a trip online? These days I book nearly everything online – hotel, plane, car rental, etc… The best part about TripIt is that you can forward the email with the travel confirmation that most travel websites send you when you book to a special e-mail provided by TripIt and the details are automatically entered into the trip itinerary on TripIt – much faster than type airline details in by hand!
Here’s my TripIt. When I log in, I see a main screen which details any upcoming trips. Sadly, I don’t have any upcoming trips. This is because we go back to school AKA work in less than one month so I planned our mega trips for the earlier part of the summer.
But, if you were to click on the Trips link at the top of the page, you would see past trips, the dates they took place, and who (if anyone) they were shared with. I typically share my trips with my hubby (unless he created the trip) and my Mom. Now that my Dad is online, I will probably share them with him as well. You can see that I also have the option to set a trip as “Private” if I don’t want anyone to see it. For example, the New Year’s Adventure trip in 2007 was a surprise for my hubby so I didn’t want him to know about it in advance.
When you click on a specific trip, you can view all the details that were entered. This is the most complicated TripIt itinerary that I’ve created yet. My Mom and I took a cruise on the Queen Mary 2 out of Southampton, England for almost two weeks last month. There were a lot of details for this trip that we wanted to be able to access quickly and easily while we were traveling – flight confirmation numbers, hotel phone numbers, phone numbers for the various U.S. embassies in the countries we were traveling through, etc… – we also wanted our spouses to be able to access this information as well.
Once I had e-mailed all of the travel confirmations to the special TripIt e-mail address, added a few extra details about places we wanted to visit, we were all set! I loved that I was able to access the itinerary while we were traveling from the internet browser on my mobile phone.
Tags: reservations, travel, tripit
