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MobyTrip: a must have travel companion

MobyTrip is the free trip planner that removes the tedious part of planning an itinerary and relieves you of any unwelcome stress while traveling.

Booking hostels, flights, and day-trips can be a nightmare when you’re on the road. You’re there to enjoy yourself and discover things, not to be glued to your phone desperately scrolling through online travel forums or googling how long it takes to get a bus from one side of the country to another.

MobyTrip takes care of the logistics by automatically scheduling your trip as you plan it, giving you estimates on the duration and costs. An hour of manually trip planning turn into seconds, all you need to do is choose the destinations.

The platform offers different planning options depending on your traveling style and how good your organizational skills are. You can either:

  1. a) Pick a destination city and choose from suggested activities, hotels, and restaurants via MobyTrip’s user-friendly map.
  1. b) Discover and adapt other users’ existing itineraries.

For those who want to be more adventurous and explore for themselves can go with option a) and those who are more willing to go with the flow and follow previous travellers can choose option b). With a collection of over 28,000 cities, 1,000,000 attractions, tours and restaurants and over 990,000 hotels, inns and B&Bs, you’ll spoiled for choice either way.

So how does it work?

Algorithms of course, MobyTrip uses them to collect as much information as possible in order to show you the best things to do and see based on previous travelers’ knowledge, tips and itineraries. It covers restaurants, hotels, tours and flights from all over the world, simultaneously combining data from trusted sources such as TripAdvisor, Instagram, Foursquare, Google among others.

Traveling in a group? Make joint decisions and keep your friends in the loop with the real time group planning feature available on the platform. Add someone to your trip by sending them a quick email and you’ll be able to edit the itinerary together. If you’re not in the same place physically, discuss plans directly on the chat feature inside the app.


When you’re traveling you want to make the most of your time. MobyTrip can help you make the best choices and avoid classic traveling disasters such as missing flights, choosing a bad hotel and losing out on the best attractions with its automatic itinerary scheduling.