Needs Major Updating
The narration shared some interesting history, but the presentation used some outdated terminology regarding cultures, which was a bit jarring at times (it was very whitewashed 😬)
It would benefit from incorporating a broader range of perspectives, updating content to reflect recent major events like the Jasper fire, and including more than just the most popular stops along the route. The only sort of “out of the way” stop it included was Beauty Creek, but we’d drive by stops with signage and there was absolutely no mention of it. Compared to ShakaGuide in Hawaii, for example, it was a lot less comprehensive. With some major updates it could be really awesome. As such, we did enjoy it, but it felt pretty dated as well.
It would benefit from incorporating a broader range of perspectives, updating content to reflect recent major events like the Jasper fire, and including more than just the most popular stops along the route. The only sort of “out of the way” stop it included was Beauty Creek, but we’d drive by stops with signage and there was absolutely no mention of it. Compared to ShakaGuide in Hawaii, for example, it was a lot less comprehensive. With some major updates it could be really awesome. As such, we did enjoy it, but it felt pretty dated as well.
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Excellent and informative
Well worth the money! Everyone in the car ages 19-82 found the narrative informative and entertaining. We nicknamed the guide Fred and missed him when we didn’t have him on. Highly recommend this download.
Canmore to Jasper and back to Calgary
Absolutely loved it! Not a dry way of telling the stories, even had few jokes . Great way to explore the history of the area once you are driving mostly.
Banff to Jasper
Excellent guide! Well worth the cost, it helped make the most of our drive through Banff and Jasper national parks.
A personal guide sitting with you through the Rockies
What a great app. Changed our experience in the Rockies completely. So many fun facts and explanations about sites everywhere along the route. 30$ well invested. We learned so much about the Rockies rich history with Gypsy. Loved it.
Wonderful experience
We downloaded the Canadian Rockies and Kamloops to Banff tours as we explored the Parks on our honeymoon, and were really impressed with the commentary. It really enhanced our visit. Thanks Gypsy Guide! We recommended you folks everywhere we went!
Best way to travel!
We LOVE Gypsy Guide. It makes the drive so much more interesting and we have discovered many more areas to check out that we would have never known about. Thank you for this! Please keep expanding Gypsy Guide!!!
Sumply the best!
The next best thing since sliced bread! Yes that’s how amazing this app is! We learned so much - things we never would have known! Loved listening to the history and geological lessons. The commentary was just enough! We had such good discussions and could teach our kids to be curious and ask questions. Amazing- WILL NEVER TRAVEL WITHOUT OUR GYPSY GUIDE AGAIN!
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Soul Charging
Game changer. This made an absolutely perfect trip even better. Louie (The name we gave our guide) helped navigate us through national parks from Banff to Jasper. You need this app in your life!!! We even treated up when he said his last goodbyes at the end of our trip!! Thanks Louie!!
Epic Holiday
Gypsy was recommended by our hotel. It works! We spend nearly 2 weeks travelling between Calgary to Jasper and
back again. We stayed in each place between 2 and 6 days and did day trips from our base. We covered most parts of this magnificent road multiple times so we heard the commentary more than once. It saved all the hassles of maps and trying to find the correct turnoff, the navigator was much happier and it allowed me to concentrate on the road. Highly recommended. My only suggestion to the developers would be to create a highlights list so it’s easier to plan ahead. I’ve bought several gps based travel guides before, this is the only one that was useful. We used it everyday instead of the car gps and the guidebooks stayed in our bags.
back again. We stayed in each place between 2 and 6 days and did day trips from our base. We covered most parts of this magnificent road multiple times so we heard the commentary more than once. It saved all the hassles of maps and trying to find the correct turnoff, the navigator was much happier and it allowed me to concentrate on the road. Highly recommended. My only suggestion to the developers would be to create a highlights list so it’s easier to plan ahead. I’ve bought several gps based travel guides before, this is the only one that was useful. We used it everyday instead of the car gps and the guidebooks stayed in our bags.
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Best money we spent for our holiday
We are an Aussie family of four with two teens aged 17/18. After recommendations on Trip Advisor we purchased the app for Banff, Jasper, Icefields Parkway. Best money spent.
We have loved listening and learning. Brilliant balance of humour, stories, facts, and quiet moments where we can chat about what we’ve heard.
We’ve called him “Tony” so each day it’s “ what’s Tony say about this?”.
Highly, highly recommend. You won’t be disappointed!!
We have loved listening and learning. Brilliant balance of humour, stories, facts, and quiet moments where we can chat about what we’ve heard.
We’ve called him “Tony” so each day it’s “ what’s Tony say about this?”.
Highly, highly recommend. You won’t be disappointed!!
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Don’t go without this program
Don’t drive the ice field parkway without this guide. It added enormously to our knowledge of what we were seeing and understanding of the history. It made the trip very special. We listened to it going both north and south.
A fun and great addition to our road trip!
I admit we were not sure if it was worth the money but downloaded in Calgary before we drove through Banff, Lake Louise, the Icefield Parkway and Jasper.
It is brilliant!!
Just the right tone, engaging, professional and was like a tour guide in our own car. Such a bonus that it does not use and data or talk time - just put location services on and it uses the GPS satellite to locate you and trigger commentary at appropriate points be it history of the area, stories, directions and must do and nice to do stops with just the right amount of explanation.
I hope they do this for road trips across Europe too!
It is brilliant!!
Just the right tone, engaging, professional and was like a tour guide in our own car. Such a bonus that it does not use and data or talk time - just put location services on and it uses the GPS satellite to locate you and trigger commentary at appropriate points be it history of the area, stories, directions and must do and nice to do stops with just the right amount of explanation.
I hope they do this for road trips across Europe too!
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Amazing!
This was a for sure game changer for our vacation to Alberta. The information and history was incomparable to any tour guide out there. So nice and comforting to have a fun and informative tour guide. Especially having no service in most of the areas. Thanks so much and please travel the world and create more. Perfect!
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Amazing & Highly Recommend
Honestly thank you for making such a great app and your material. My wife and I traveled from Calgary to Jasper and back and the drive was full of great information about important landmarks, wildlife, recommended activities, etc. It was like having our own personal tour guide in the car with us and all of the recommendations were bang on. It was very clear, concise and up to date with all of the information. We highly recommend this app and we will be purchasing more tours from GyPSy for future adventures!
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Gypsy App Canadian Rockies
This is the best app I have ever used. It was like having a private tour guide in the car with us. So very well done and worked perfectly.
Really great addition to your road trip
We used this all over Banff, Jasper and the Icefields Parkway, and so glad we did. So many interesting facts and recommendations for stops. Added so much to our road trip - well worth the money.
The best way to tour the Canadian Rockies!!
I discovered this app a few days before leaving on my trip to Banff/Jasper/Lake Louise, and I am SOOO glad we tried it!! This is EXACTLY what I had been looking for to help us make the most of our trip. We love the freedom of driving around on our own time, at our own pace. GyPSy guide is perfect for pointing out key sites, prioritizing our activities, and learning about the area, historical background, and traveler tips. Informative, entertaining, and spot-on with directions/recommendations (so precise that I was able to turn off my Google maps and just follow “Uncle GyPSy”!). If you’ve ever driven through a new area and thought things like, “What’s that mountain I’m looking at?”, GyPSy guide is for you! I only wish there were more guides available (Iceland, major US cities)...
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this was so much better than thought it would be
This was so much better than I thought it would be. We called the voice Bob and he was so good, so much information but not talking all the time, all the good bits you would normally drive past, you found about. It was like a coach tour but in your own car traveling around , suddenly Bob would share some info and would take you to hidden treasures to see and explore
This is a must and I hope they do more areas
This is a must and I hope they do more areas
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Amazing
Go on the route with the application and you will be directed to all the things to see, comments about what to look and which way to go. Google maps not allways work in the Rockies so go with Gypsy.
