Washington DC – Driving Tour

Washington DC – Driving Tour

By Miziker Entertainment Group Ltd.

Score: 2.89796
2.89796
From 49 Ratings

Description

Tour the Most Interesting Citywide Locations of Washington DC in Your Own Car. This App Uses the SelfTour GPS "Location Aware" U-Drive App with Entertaining Narrations and Spoken Directions. An Ideal Family Experience. Now Updated and Improved! Hundreds have used this App to see the most famous sights citywide as you sit in the comfort of your car’s air-conditioning with a bag of snacks and cooler of beverages. - You’ll drive to over 150 key places like… Arlington Cemetery, Capitol Hill, Jefferson Memorial, National Cathedral, Embassy Row, the houses of John F. Kennedy, the Clintons and the Vice President, Georgetown, Ford’s Theater, Watergate, White House, the C&O Canal and the many memorials and museums along the National Mall… learning about each as you go. - For the younger family members in the backseat… this tour includes such fun places as the Volta Laboratory where Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and record player, they can search for the image of Darth Vadar at the National Cathedral, see the deathbed of Abraham Lincoln, go under the giant Chinese Dragon Arch and see the Hall that looks like something right out of "Harry Potter." - Forget those expensive bus tours. Everyone in the car enjoys this tour for one App download… which is less than the price of a pizza! A Delightful Experience! Connect your smartphone or pad to your car’s audio system for the full effect. The descriptions are performed by talented voice actors in an entertaining style, underscored with dramatic music and enhanced with photos. The descriptions have been thoroughly researched providing accurate information about the history and importance of each location. It’s easy to use! The SelfTour™ GPS system automatically triggers the audio descriptions and turn-by-turn voice directions at the appropriate spots as you drive. The route is displayed on the phone, along with pictures of each site. It is recommended another in the car uses this to assist the driver along the way and to visually identify the correct building, attraction or site. You’re in control! The easy-to-use exclusive SelfTour™ system ensures an enjoyable full-circle driving tour on your own schedule, at your own pace. No waiting for others! You can start the tour at any of its locations, stop anywhere along the way and continue again. And it is a complete circle tour so you end up where you started. The GPS always shows you where you are keeping you from getting lost. There are no advertisements and an Internet connection is not needed. Just download the App and go! All this makes your personal driving tour an enjoyable adventure.” No bus tour gives you this same experience. If there’s a tour worth taking, it’s worth taking a SelfTour! Also check out the SelfTour™ Washington walking tour experience.

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Reviews

  • GPS was worthless

    1
    By krkberg
    We found this app to be useless. If you are in an unfamiliar city and purchase an app with GPS, it seems like it would be telling you what you are seeing where you are… but it doesn’t. The map has sights numbered, but the index is just a list of sights (not alphabetical and not numbered). It was heard to match up the monument you could see out your window with what number it was on the map, or what it was called in the index. Trying to get to a location going the same direction as the tour was dangerous while driving. Once heading the right direction, staying at the speed of the app was also difficult and if you hit a wrong spot on the screen while trying to pause the app, good luck getting back to where you were. This app needs a lot of updates and technology upgrades that are just commonplace in most travel apps. We were so frustrated and disappointed, we just shut it off.

  • Repeats itself

    2
    By MeLikesPi
    The directions don’t give you enough information until it’s too late, especially if you aren’t used to driving in a city. We also found that it repeated itself for each stop. There are so many roads that shouldn’t be used by tourists that are part of this tour. We literally drove in circles for 3 hours before we got halfway through the tour and gave up.

  • Horrible

    1
    By mastif lover always
    While it is somewhat informative but slightest bit of slow or fast moving traffic you will be completely off course and the narration of directions are spotty at best.

  • Washington DC tour

    3
    By higablagabloo
    The tour takes you to and tells about lots of significant locations; no problems with the content. However, if and when you get off the rigidly designed route, there is no automatic provision in the tour for getting you back on track. You have to either stumble around until you intersect the track again or guide yourself to one of the tour locations. And then, when you find the tour route again, you have to be going in the right direction on the street - otherwise the audio tour’s directions will send you astray again. Very frustrating! - and it’s very easy to get off track in the labyrinth and confusion of DC streets, lanes, auto, scooter , bicycle and pedestrian traffic. An automatic GPS-based process is needed to get the tour driver back on the tour track when they get off track (which inevitably they will!).

  • Disappointed

    2
    By mdcinbrick
    I thought it was disorganized and overall poorly executed. Not a good use of my money.

  • Unsafe, unusable

    1
    By SarahBethNC1885
    The app cannot orient to your direction, making it very difficult to know where or when to turn. In between wonderful information it would give directions mere seconds before you were expected to make a turn. You also cannot easily move around on the map to see what turns are coming ahead! With the number of stop lights and pedestrians we had to stop using it because it wasn’t safe. Great concept and information, total fail on navigation and usability.

  • Amazing tour

    5
    By Buckleberry65
    This app was the highlight of our trip to DC! We loved all the interesting tidbits and sites we saw. As far as navigating goes, it is not Google Maps quality, but does a great job of visual and audio instructions. It worked best with me holding the phone and navigating, and my husband driving. Do yourself a favor and do not try to navigate DC streets and manage the app at the same time. We were able to do segments of the tour whenever we wanted. Want to skip a part? That’s easy to do. Just look for the number where you want to pick up again and the app will start the tour there. We started at DuPont Circle and ended at Arlington. The next day, we did the Smithsonian through DuPont Circle! The third day, we went from after the bridge to Arlington all the way through where we started. Easy Peasy. No bus tour is going to give you the flexibility like this!!!! So much cheaper this way too.

  • Not for me

    1
    By babydoll102483
    I loved the information about the stops, but there are no actual directions. You just have a blue line that you have to guess at. This would be absolutely perfect if it was more like an ordinary GPS that gave you better direction. In DC, there is so much traffic that it’s almost impossible to have the time to read street signs while looking at the map on the phone. :(

  • Waste of money

    1
    By rvwalker
    The recordings sounded good, but I couldn't figure out how to work it to coordinate the driving path. A waste of my money.

  • Nice concept, frustrating execution

    3
    By Arcfault
    While the app functioned as advertised, there were a number of issues that made it frustrating to use: 1. As the driver, every time the map was hidden/replaced because the building image was displayed instead caused me to miss a number of turns. It’s also disconcerting when it happens and I’m coming up to an intersection then lose the map. 2. There really should be an option to turn off/select satellite imagery versus the vector street map. The photo map being overlaid by a dark blue/purple 2px thick line that blends easily into the image makes following it frustrating. 3. I’m very used to driving with Apple Maps app showing the turns in an isometric view and not top down. Additionally the map does not reorient based on the direction I’m facing, so it was difficult to try and navigate off of that if I got off the planned course. 4. The app really needs a filter to allow the user to select what they want to see. Being forced to go through 171 POIs where many were not the focus of our interest/trip, nor what we had allocated time for, was frustrating. It would be great if there were multiple pre-mapped tour routes based on interests, or level of fame that the user could filter the list to. The most desirable option would be being able to choose multiple POIs you’re interested in, and have a tour route generated from the selection. Being able to focus on only 30-40 POIs instead of 171 is way more digestible. Overall it’s decent, while my family got more out of the app, as the driver it wasn’t great to use.

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