All of our iPhone Travel Apps include a GPS-enabled offline map, photo gallery and augmented reality, which recognizes places of interest nearby.

Girona Travel Guide

Girona is a charming town on Costa Brava in Spain. Our travel app has full coverage of the best places to visit and sleep in Girona. We included a walking tour of the Old Town, just in case you are unsure where to begin.

Hvar: An Insider’s Guide to Croatia’s Premier Island

Hvar: An Insider’s Guide to Croatia’s Premier Island is a must-buy guide when planning a trip to Croatia. This comprehensive guide is written by a British expat who is staying in Hvar eversince 2003. There are over 320 insider’s tips on where to eat, shop, see and sleep.

Pacific Coast Highway Hotels

Pacific Coast Highway Hotels is a travel app written by two award-winning travel writers. When driving along the Pacific Coast for a road trip, stop by places to get some rest. This guide covers from California, Oregon and Washington. This iPhone app comes along with author’s review of the hotels too. No marketing language or crowd-sourced content!

Check out more iPhone Travel Apps.

Well, we have the solution to save you from all the trouble researching places to see and how to get around from one city to another. GuideGecko presents Cheatsheets. The name speaks for itself. We have Cheatsheets that cover a lot of top holiday destinations. Excited already?

Places to see and activities to do.

In Asia, we currently have Cheatsheets for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Burma/Myanmar, Indonesia and Bali. We are working on the Himalayan region (Nepal and Tibet).

Basically, Cheatsheets highlights places to see, activities to do and how to get around the country or city. This way you will know how to move from one place to another without wasting time asking around. You can follow our suggested route to cover the country of your choice too. We included important phone numbers such as the Embassy’s in case anything happens.

Estimated time and cost when getting around.

In the Pacific Islands region, we have Australia and New Zealand. We have included the estimated cost to getting around from one town to another. At least, you will know how much to set aside if you plan to move around.

As for South America, we have Cheatsheets for Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru. We are currently working on these countries. Hold on a little bit longer and you will be trekking up to Machu Picchu in no time.

All it takes to get these Cheatsheets is to choose the country and download the Cheatsheets for free! Please help spreading the word to other fellow backpackers.

Zoom out to see it on continent level.

Browse through our continent pages and you will see red and blue orbs with numbers on it. This indicates the total number of listings in a particular country. Click on the colored orb and it will zoom in to country level.

Different chapter page has different set of aggregation and listings. For example, if you click on Hotels in Asia, it will only show the number and location of hotels. Same goes for Attractions page.

Different aggregation in country level.

Click on the numbers and you will see the different places of interest at such parts of the country. The figures are the total number of listings in a particular place. That way you know where are the popular places of interest.

Click on the green pins for a description of the listing.

By clicking on the numbers, it zooms down to street level and click again on the green pins for a short description of the listing. You can even see it in satellite view. For more information of a particular listing, click on more. If you prefer to view it in previous default settings, just click Display all on the right.

Go on and see the maps yourself!

Share ideas and discuss.

If you have any travel tips to share or a burning question such what is the cheapest way to get from Budapest to Rome, do discuss and ask questions on our Location Independent Travel Guide.

Did you come across with giants on your way to India?
Share stories with us.

Location Independent Stories is a place where you can write and share your travel stories. These are stories that do not really belong to a particular destination. We would love to hear stories from you!

Ask anything writing or publishing related.

This is the place where all of you travel writers can ask and discuss anything that is related to writing or publishing related. If you are unsure about a particular topic, don’t be shy instead start a discussion on Location Independent Writers’ Cafe. Daniel and other fellow writers are glad to help answer your questions! Anything else, check out our Publishing FAQ for answers to frequently asked questions.

New features on GuideGecko

Discuss issues about travel destinations, budget airlines etc.

This Community page is constantly updated with topic discussions. All you need to do is to Sign Up and have your say in the discussions. Remember that ‘sharing is caring’!

Travel Apps

The Apps page is dedicated to our travel apps such as Singapore and Kuala Lumpur and other upcoming destinations. This is the gateway to get the travel apps for iPhone as well as eBooks for Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook and Sony Reader.

Stay tuned for more features on GuideGecko!

You may also choose to publish on the web and receive a share of the advertising revenue. We are kind souls therefore, GuideGecko shares all sales and advertising revenues on a 50-50% basis. Below are the few images of our Singapore app.

Different categories to suit your needs

Comprehensive guide and user friendly

Navigate your way with our location-enabled map

Gallery filled with attractive photos

The apps and eBooks are suited for both walks and tours with a limited number of entries as well as for in-depth guides with hundreds of listings. They thus cater to professional writers and travel bloggers alike. Even travelers who have invested time in planning their itinerary can share their knowledge with a useful app.

“ You can now easily publish and sell your own travel app. Our apps are stylish, easy to use, and full of features so far only found in premium apps. One of them would be the fully interactive, location-enabled maps that work completely offline and do not incur roaming charges for the end-user ”, says Daniel Quadt, Founder of GuideGecko.

Have we left you for more? The sample app for Singapore is available at www.GuideGecko.com/singapore-app. For more information on how to create your own app, please visit www.GuideGecko.com/publish.

Here is your chance to be famous and earn some moolahs, in a legal way of course!

Ladies and gentleman, weighting 880 pounds, please welcome… the all new Singapore Inside Out – The Most Complete Guide to Singapore!

Singapore Inside Out offers 880 Insider Tips on what to see & do, where to eat, shop, sleep and party. All with reviews, photos and videos. Your feedback is very welcome!

And now, back to updating!

Indie guides for trips with a twist can now be explored before making a purchase

Singapore, 01 July 2009 – GuideGecko, the innovative online store and publishing platform for travel guides, today unveils its new guide preview functionality. Guide previews allow consumers to look inside independent guidebooks before making a purchase. Previews for the first independent guides are available immediately on www.GuideGecko.com.

Independent guides offer specialized advice that often cannot be found in mainstream series such as Insight Guides or Lonely Planet. The new preview functionality allows customers to browse through hard-to-find titles to ensure that the guidebooks match their needs and expectations before making a purchase.

“Previews are extremely helpful, especially for highly specialized independent guides. Only when you browse through you can find out if a guidebook covers all the topics you are looking for with the right level of detail. Our preview functionality allows you to do exactly this – all online, from the comfort of your home,” says Daniel Quadt, Founder and Managing Director of GuideGecko.

Only three months after its launch, GuideGecko already offers more than 50 independent travel guides to destinations all around the world, from ‘Diving in the Caribbean’ and ‘Sydney on Public Transit’ to ‘Vegetarian Food in Singapore’ and ‘Passing the Bar Examinations in Pattaya’. Some guides offer more than 40 pages as a preview.

“Previews are a perfect marketing tool for our independent authors, who are now able to show the high quality of their work more easily. Therefore, previews offer a win-win situation for customers and authors,” says Quadt.

GuideGecko currently offers more than 2100 guides in total, including all major guidebook series such as Lonely Planet, Rough Guides and Insight Guides. GuideGecko continues to invite budding authors to upload and publish their own guides and to offer as many preview pages as they like. Independent guides can range from short booklets to thick books and cover any travel, lifestyle or entertainment topic. Independent authors can publish and sell their guides through GuideGecko’s online publishing platform at www.guidegecko.com/publish, and GuideGecko makes such guides available for download and as printed books or booklets. Independent guides and previews are accessible at www.GuideGecko.com.

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About GuideGecko

GuideGecko is part online shop and part publishing platform for travel, lifestyle and entertainment guides. GuideGecko currently offers more than 2100 guides on 169 countries and 270 cities and regions around the world. All well-known series are available, including Lonely Planet, Rough Guides and Insight Guides, along with a large variety of less conventional titles such as Hedonist’s Guides and Trailblazer, amongst many others.

Budding authors are invited to publish and sell their own guides on www.GuideGecko.com, and GuideGecko makes such guides available as PDF downloads and as printed books/booklets. Publishing is free and authors earn 50-75% on every copy sold.

All guides on one site, all at very low prices. That’s GuideGecko.

For more information, please visit www.GuideGecko.com. For photos, logos and screenshots, please visit www.GuideGecko.com/media.

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For media enquiries, please contact:

Daniel Quadt
Email: media_[at]_guidegecko.com

Telephone: +65 94555974

The preview functionality will allow authors and publishers to decide which pages shall be available for customers to preview. We suggest that authors select the table of contents and a few sample pages. This will allow potential customers to “try out” some parts of your guide before they buy it, build up trust, and increase sales. Guides with a preview will be highlighted in the browse pages and the preview will be accessible from the guide details pages.

Authors will be able to use the preview functionality for new and already published guides. For already published guides, simply edit your guides and select which pages shall be included in the preview. You will find the respective field in the Guide Content section of the publishing/editing page. Everything is fully automatic, and the preview pages are created instantaneously when you (re-)publish your guide.

We expect to have this functionality live in a few days, and we encourage all independent authors to make good use of it!

We offer the best guides – from independent authors to acclaimed publishers, from diving to dining, from download to print. You can read reviews, get detailed information and compare guides. Be it for your next trip, the place you stay, or even your hometown.

All guides on one site, all at very low prices. That’s GuideGecko!

Want to publish your own guide?

Are you a publishing greenhorn or an expert writer? Do you know the yummiest restaurants or the trendiest shops? Share your knowledge! Be it from your travels to far away countries or going bar-hopping with your friends – and become a best-selling author on GuideGecko!

Publish and sell your very own guide to millions around the globe, regardless of your professional background or experience. Write any number of pages – right from 1 to 1000.

Publishing made easy – and absolutely FREE! That’s GuideGecko!