Even if you've had a holiday filled with rest and relaxation, the trip coming home is often enough to wipe you out and get you disoriented. The next time you plan a holiday, give yourself an extra day to bounce back and get ready for your return to work.

When you're visiting a town for the first time, it can be pretty tough to get the lay of the land. Especially if you're moving to a new place, it's hard to tell whether one neighbourhood would be better for you to live in than another, or whether you're accidentally (or intentionally) renting in the most hipster neighbourhood in town. Now, there's an app for that. Or a website, actually.

When choosing a hotel, it's good to consider amenities, hospitality and quality in addition to price. These brands and chains are the American hotels with the highest customer satisfaction marks for 2017.

Last year I wrote about and downloaded Google Trips just to try it out, and now I find myself using it as my go-to app for organising travel. It's simple and it helps manage your whole trip from start to finish. It was lacking a few key features, but Google just updated the app to make it even more useful.

Web/iOS: Travel planning typically includes a lot of research. When you're planning a trip with stops in different cities, the research can be even more time-consuming. Eightydays can help.

If you're thinking of planning a holiday somewhere in the US for more than a couple of nights, renting a place through services like Airbnb can save you some money. These are the states that give you have the best and worst deals on short-term rentals.

Web/iOS: Travel planning apps are nothing new, but Pana has a couple of additional features that set it apart. For one, you can easily collaborate itineraries with other travellers. Even better, though, the app will automatically check you into US flights to save some time, with Australian check-ins coming soon.

Provided you use them responsibly, credit cards can actually be useful in your financial life. If you're travelling, for example, you can swipe plastic without worrying about exchanging cash or paying ATM fees. There are, however, a few traits you should look for in a good travel card.

Greetings vary quite a bit depending on the culture, and if you're travelling, you don't want to be caught off guard. The New York Times has a useful guide to common greetings in different countries.

iOS/Android: Google has been tiptoeing around the travel game for a while now with useful tools like Google Flights and their hotel search function. Today, they completely jumped in with a new app that manages and helps plan your trip from start to finish.

iOS/Android: Keeping everyone in the loop on a group trip isn't easy, but Prava gives you one place to plan your travel, activities and everything else, and even gives you a place to share photos, events and ideas while you're on your trip.

It's hard to deny the joys of travel; it's a pretty universally loved experience. Of course, it's also expensive and it's not always easy to make time for it. If you're itching to travel but it's not in the cards in your foreseeable future, here's how to make do in the meantime.

When it comes to travel, we're most limited by time and money. We can't help you with the time factor, but Wherefor will help you with the budget part.

Google wants to make it easier for you to plan a trip with its new Destinations on Google tool. You'll find flight and hotel prices for flexible dates, itineraries and attractions in one spot just by adding one word to your mobile search.

When you're planning out your holiday, it's easy to front load all the fun stuff because you want to get to it as soon as possible, but The Wall Street Journal suggests saving the best for last if you really want some solid memories.

The whole point of a holiday is to relax and relieve stress, but all too often, you need a holiday after your holiday to recover from your time off. Here are ten tips to make your holiday the stress-buster it really should be.