Discover Your Destination With The Lonely Planet App

Lonely Planet is excited to announce the launch of Guides, the latest offering from the world’s leading travel media company. Guides is a new, free, city guide mobile app, the perfect pocket travel companion when on the road, or when planning a trip. Available for both iOS and Andriod, Guides will get you straight to the heart of a destination on your phone.

Guides is easy-to-use and meets the needs and expectations of travellers in 2016 and beyond. Guides offers Lonely Planet’s expert content, free of charge, curated and optimised to provide the best possible on-the-ground experience. Guides enables travellers to:

– Navigate with easy-to-use offline maps
– Save places with simple bookmarking
– Find the perfect activity with powerful filtering
– Travel confidently with essential tips such as city highlights and details on where to eat and stay

Initially launching with 38 cities across the continents, Guide covers firm travel hotspots such as London, New York, Paris and Rome and other lesser explored destinations.

Guides includes an average of 1,000 points of interest per city and has a ‘near me’ functionality, which shows you sights that are within easy reach of where you are, or sights that are close by to somewhere you plan on visiting.

As with all Lonely Planet products, Guides allows you to explore using Lonely Planet’s best and freshest expert-curated content. Each city guide includes sights, highlights, details on places to eat, drink and shop as well as where to stay. Guides is a trustworthy travel companion that will help you make the most of your city trip.

What’s more it’s free!