This article has been compiled to provide assistance throughout the voyage for all the masses who are travelling to the UAE. If your wanderlust is taking you to the UAE, install these apps in your mobiles besides packing your bags because these apps will definitely give you an added advantage at various check-points during your vacation.
Beep UAE:
Before going into the details of these apps, I would like all you people to bookmark beepuae.com on your cell phones and your laptop browser. This is a must-have app for anyone who is present in the UAE. Beep UAE is the best available portal for selling your car at a handsome price. During the course of your visit, you may need to replace your car and beep UAE will be there to guide you through this process without any hassle or effort. It involves three simple steps and just like that you will be at the receiving end of an attractive deal. Just sign-up your car for online an evaluation and provide the make, model and year of your car. The second step requires booking an appointment for the inspection at their branch. After that, an offer will be presented and if you find it reasonable, you will be presented with cash on spot. The money they offer is rational and better than the market-price. So, if you’re travelling to UAE, make sure you acquaint yourself with this app.
1. Zomato – Restaurant Finder:
As we’ll all agree that food is an essential component of our lives and when you travel to a new place, you need a system to sift through the dining places and pick out the best ones. Zomato provides you with just that. This app provides you with a wide-ranging choice of restaurants to dine out along with the reviews about the places, restaurant menus and their pictures. You can search easily for any cafe, Starbucks, Dominos, McDonald’s and other eatery nearby your location. It also lists the places if you want to dine-out, deliver or take-away. Furthermore, you can search the best aftaar deals and book confirmed tables during this holy month of Ramadan through this app. To sum up, Zomato is your snack-buddy if you are visiting UAE.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.application.zomato
2. Google Translate:
If you’re travelling to UAE and are unfamiliar with the language, there’s no need to worry as the solution to this problem is an app called Google Translate. After going into the Camera Mode, all you’ve got to do is to take a picture of anything written in Arabic (or in a broad sense, any language that you don’t understand) and the app will translate the text into the language of your choice. Needless to say, this app will make your trip to the UAE a lot “easier” to understand.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.translate&hl=en
3. Cinema UAE:
For movie-goers, looking for show-times on the internet has always been a hassle because one has to scavenge through all the cinemas websites to find suitable movie times. To mitigate this agitating problem, Cinema UAE combines and displays the show-times of all the cinemas in your vicinity with the added incentive of online booking. It is a very easy process; open the app, choose a movie, select a show-time at any cinema, book your seats and you are sorted. Moreover, you can get a sneak peek of upcoming movies and their release dates in UAE through this app as well. In short, Cinema UAE is your entertainment-pal in UAE.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.szs.cinema.uae&hl=en
4. Washmen:
If you’re travelling to UAE then Washmen is the solution for all your laundry problems. If doing your own laundry seems like a time-consuming and time-wasting task in your busy schedule, get the laundry service from Washmen and save your precious time for other ventures. You just have to schedule a 30-minute window. Within this timeframe, your laundry will be picked up from your place and dropped off back there. They also provide you with accurate price-lists unlike most apps that have clouded pricing algorithms.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.getwashmen.app&hl=en
5. Trivago – Hotels & Travel:
Trivago is a must-have app for anyone who is travelling to UAE. It lets you search for hotels and provides the best vacation deals. You can search hotels as well as cheap motels and book your room at the place that is in your proximity throughout the United Arab Emirates. Prices are also listed on the app so that you can book the place according to your budget. Besides, it lets you compare the prices of various places so that you choose the one that is providing the best deal.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trivago
6. UAE Yellow Pages:
UAE yellow pages can be attributed as the directory of UAE. So, if there’s any place you want to look up, you can get its business addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, websites to email addresses all from this app. During your visit to UAE, this app will help you to contact any location.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uae.yellowpages
7. Video Editing
When you are in the UAE there’s a good chance you will be using your smartphone a lot to take pictures and videos as there is a lot of amazing places to capture videos of. For more video editing tips, visit Make a Video Hub
About the Author:
Ali Jan Qadir is a passionate blogger who loves to share his experiences. Follow him on Twitter @alijqadir