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Places: Curated Travel Guide

Places: Curated Travel Guide

Restaurants, Shops & Hotels

179 ratings
46 reviews
#54 in top-grossing Travel
🌟 Lifestyle
✈️ Travel
Free
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Details

  • Released
  • Updated
  • August 24, 2023
  • September 21, 2026

Developer

Raya App Inc
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Discover exceptional destinations worldwide with hand-selected recommendations from global experts. Personalized suggestions and unique finds ensure every trip is memorable. Membership unlocks full access to curated stays, dining, and cultural spots.

✓Expert-curated global destinations
✓Personalized suggestions
✓Unique stays and bistros
✓Emerging galleries
✓Global curator network
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What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of Places. Based on 179 reviews and a 4.2/5 average, it highlights the 29 positives and 38 negatives reviewers mention most about this Travel app.

Positive things

  • ✨Beautifully curated suggestions
  • 👍Essential for travel and local discovery
  • 🌟Best among travel apps
  • 💯Human curation is a highlight
  • 🗺️Useful for navigating new cities
  • ✅Great filtered suggestions
  • 👍No spam
  • 💡Finds great places
  • 💯Amazing recommendations
  • ✨Finds unique places
  • 👍Saves places and creates archives
  • 👍Excellent for finding restaurants
  • 👍Filters out noise for decision paralysis
  • 👍Well-curated places
  • 👍Good recommendations for travelers
  • 👍Finds perfect suggestions for restaurants, hotels, nightclubs, museums
  • ✨Incredible photos and user experience
  • 👍Simplifies finding cool new spots
  • 👍Lists saved places by location and shareable
  • 👍Better recommendations than other apps
  • 👍Helps plan weekends and trips
  • 👍Can see friends' profiles for recommendations
  • 👍Discovers fabulous new restaurants
  • 👍Perfect and needed app
  • 👍Sexy places for sexy people
  • 👍Useful for work travel and meeting clients
  • 👍Changed travel perception and city experiences
  • 👍Great for finding restaurants and making reservations
  • 👍Finds amazing new spots and shares favorites

Negative things

  • ❌Outdated information (closed businesses)
  • ❌No way to report outdated information
  • ❌Dark-pattern onboarding flow
  • ❌Forces annual membership purchase
  • ❌Cannot see service without paying
  • ❌Extracts personal details before revealing paywall
  • ❌Misleading onboarding
  • ❌Awkward interface
  • ❌Too long setup
  • ❌No option to delete profile
  • ❌Requires invite code
  • ❌Waitlist for access
  • ❌Misleading advertisements
  • ❌Poor user experience
  • ❌App is trash
  • ❌Not useful
  • ❌Pretentious app
  • ❌Data collection galore
  • ❌Unbelievable business practice
  • ❌Waste of money
  • ❌No real connections
  • ❌Racist and discriminatory (unsubstantiated)
  • ❌No real curation
  • ❌App not functional
  • ❌Scam
  • ❌Useless
  • ❌Cannot login to lifetime free account
  • ❌Impossible to use on new phone
  • ❌No way to contact support
  • ❌Appalling photographs for curated places
  • ❌Requires phone number before invite code
  • ❌Don't understand its purpose
  • ❌Doesn't help choose destinations
  • ❌Not needed, lacks features
  • ❌Requires membership fee after complimentary email
  • ❌Needs more special features to retain users
  • ❌No social dating aspect
  • ❌No exclusive access/discounts for influencers
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What's New in Places

1.76.1

September 21, 2026

More curated Places. Getting you there faster.

Subscription plans

Annual Membership

12 month subscription

$39.991 Year
7 Days trial
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Charts

Top Grossing

📈 54+2

Travel

This app rose +2 positions in Travel chart.

Last updated on September 24, 2026.

Top Free

📉 205-10

Travel

This app dropped -10 positions in Travel chart.

Last updated on September 24, 2026.

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User reviews

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Waste of time

Asks for a ridiculous amount of personal information and then you hit a paywall and can’t do anything unless you agree to a free trial subscription.
JustinOmahaJustinOmaha

Best app of 2026

Finally, someone just telling me exactly where to go. Spot on recommendations. Only the good stuff. Beautiful all around. Use it for travel and at home. The best.
Catherine LowenCatherine Lowen

Contact please

I was always unsure how to give sufficient feedback for the app, I loved it. However, now, from 5 stars to one.

Ending my Raya account disabled access to this and asking to subscribe. How might I get the account back i had before?
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Major Drawback

Very useful app when navigating a new city with great filtered suggestions and non of the spam. Unfortunately some of the bara on here have been closed months or years ago and there is no way to report this to the developer.
NickockolisNickockolis

Essential travel app

Absolutely beautiful. Love the human curation. I find myself depending on it with travel as well as locally. In a sea of sameness among travel apps, this has to be the best one.
Catherine LowenCatherine Lowen
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Developer apps

Raya
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Reported Bugs

9 issues

Businesses listed as open are actually closed

Bug

Cannot report outdated information

Bug

App crashes or is not functional

Bug

Cannot log in to previous accounts (lifetime free)

Bug

Login screen freezes

Bug

Incompatible with older devices

Bug

Phone number box fails to work

Bug

Issues with invite codes and waitlists

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App asks for personal info then paywall

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Requested Features

7 requests

Ability to report outdated business information

Feature

Option to delete profile

Feature

Dark mode

Feature

Advanced analytics dashboard

Feature

Incentives for trying businesses (like Neon Coat or Beauty Pass)

Feature

Social dating aspect or meetups

Feature

Exclusive access/discounts for influencers

Feature

FAQ

What does Places: Curated Discovery do?

This app helps users find the perfect travel destinations anywhere in the world. It offers hand-selected recommendations from a global team of experts, as well as personalized suggestions based on user preferences and community input.

How does the membership work?

Membership is obtained through a 12-month auto-renewing subscription. This grants full functionality of the app, including access to all curated recommendations and personalized suggestions, for the duration of the active subscription.

What kind of places can I discover?

You can discover a wide range of exceptional destinations, including unique stays, intimate bistros, and emerging galleries. The app's curators travel the globe to find and catalog these special places.

Is there a free trial or alternative to subscription?

The description mentions that current Raya members are eligible for a complimentary membership. Otherwise, full functionality is granted through a paid 12-month auto-renewing subscription.

What makes the recommendations special?

Recommendations are special because they are hand-selected by a global team of culture-defining voices, referred to as Curators. These experts travel the globe to find and catalog exceptional destinations, ensuring reliable and inspiring suggestions.