This is not your standard travel app.
It’s quick to install, taking up the space of roughly two photos on your mobile, and super-simple to use with everything only three taps away.
Just one tap login and one click buying is enabled for all seven million people with a Holiday Extras account. Customers without an account will be invited to sign up when they book.
This is the first time the company has given consumers access to all bookings in one place regardless of how they were made; over the phone via the contact centre, web or app. Intelligent recommendations are made based on length of trip, destination, journey time to airport and who’s travelling, as well as full paperless check-in for airport hotels, parking, lounges and travel insurance.
Matthew Pack, Chief Executive said, “I’m really proud of this one. We’re on a mission to reinvent holiday making and this is very much the start of doing things differently. I can’t wait to see the response from our 600k users already trialling this brand new, concept. How many apps explode with confetti when you make a booking?
It’s fun but also very practical with every transaction you’ve ever made a couple of taps away, even when you’re offline.
“All bookings will be ‘automagically’ organised in to trips, giving customers personalised insight and advice around their destinations and travel. For Holiday Extras this is all about delivering on our promise to ensure more holiday, less hassle for those that book and plan with us.”
Customers can expect over 100 updates to the app over the summer including a total saved on each trip, speedy amends, in app reviews, in app chat, weather, flight info, crowd sourced travel trips and Holiday Extras own destination videos and guides.
A bespoke app for business travellers and a feature rich iPad app will follow in Autumn.
Andy Britcliffe, Technology Director said, “This app brings together the latest and greatest technologies created by Facebook. These include React Native, a framework for building apps and GraphQL, a data query language. The engineering team have had a lot of fun building this one.”
Other apps from Holiday Extras include the Holiday Countdown App which does exactly what the name suggests, over 1.5m downloads suggests this one’s popular. And the new HEHA! app for organising a trip with friends and family.
