TripIt | We organize your travel
Through a facebook post I managed to get an invite to a service called tripit.com which is still in beta.
There are many services out there that will let you organise your travel with an itinerary. What I specifically like about this though is the ‘email it in’ function.
Here’s how it works:
- Book your travel on the travel website, like orbitz or hotel.com or whatever
- Wait for the email confirmation
- Forward it to a generic tripit.com email address
That’s it! The result is that the tripit.com engine parses the email, finds out who it came from through the email address and then maps this to an itinerary you have created in your account. Based on the dates for the booking it puts it directly into the right itinerary automatically.
My family and I are planning a big trip at the end of this year, and so we have all sorts of bookings, the ones that worked smoothly were:
- Alamo car booking
- Holiday Inn booking
- BaySide Hotel booking
It couldn’t figure out:
- Cruise booking - In fact cruises doesn’t seem to be something you can plan yet
- Qantas flights - I would expect that this would be the case, probably towards the bottom of the list of priorities
If you have a need for something like this then let me know, I have 5 invites left. Right now the service is a little slow in that it’s very ajax heavy and firefox struggles a little. Also it appears to be in US date format only. Otherwise, it’s a fantastic tool and worth getting to if you have a busy trip coming up.
