Travel with Google Maps: three brilliant tricks for your vacation

If you are planning a vacation, you can travel even better with Google Maps. We have therefore summarized ingenious tricks for you on this page.

Travel with Google Maps: offline maps

• While navigation in Germany with Google Maps is usually not a problem, you quickly reach your limits abroad.
• Because most of the time you have no GPS or cell phone reception, Google Maps will have little success here.
• Our tip: Download the Google Maps maps beforehand at home or in the hotel via WiFi so that you can use Google Maps offline.

Travel with Google Maps: public transport

If you are traveling abroad and have good cell phone reception, we have another tip for you:

• You don't always have to take the expensive taxi or even walk for the next day trip.
• In Google Maps you can search for public transport connections.
• You can then easily navigate to the first stop.

Travel with Google Maps: virtual tour

• If your day of travel was too exhausting or you arrived in the dark, you may have missed some sights.
• But even in this situation, Google Maps can help you - provided that you have a WiFi connection in the hotel or in another public place.
• Then simply enter the name of the city in Google Maps and click on "Steet View" below.
• Now you can at least view the sights of your holiday destination on your smartphone.
• Maybe you can also plan a day trip to a nearby sight with maps.