Sochi: The Calvert Journal City Guide 1.1.0
Device: iOS Universal
Category: Travel
Price: Free, Version: 1.0.0 -> 1.1.0 (iTunes)
Description:The Calvert Journal — an online guide to creative Russia — presents a series of beautifully designed travel guide apps with the latest information about Russia’s most exciting cities. Packed with insider knowledge each guide will offer a selection of the hard-to-find spots and authentic experiences that often get missed by tourists. From high art to street food, from constructivist architecture to concept stores, the guides deliver a real taste of the city as its design-conscious dwellers know it.
Sochi City Guide delivers essential information on the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics and Russia’s most popular seaside resort. Formerly a favourite escape of the Soviet elite, Sochi was famed for its subtropical climate and its architectural grandeur. Set between the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea, the area has recently undergone a dramatic transformation: now vintage fairgrounds and magnificent, crumbling sanatoriums sit side-by-side with futuristic palaces of sport and luxury hotels.
This app offers a local’s view of Sochi’s exotic contrasts, bringing you everything you need to get the most from the city during the Games and beyond.
With app in hand, you can sweet-talk the guards for a swim at a sanatorium or trek through ancient forests to a frozen waterfall; tuck into juicy khinkali dumplings and pomegranate churchkhela sweets, knock back a quince liqueur piste-side or a cocktail in a converted sea port, then head home to a high-end hotel or an eco-tent in the woods; unless you want to keep the night going at the Cabaret Mayak drag show.
Free features of the app includes:
- Essential travel information about weather, visas, safety and flights to help you plan your trip
- Top entries in each category - eat, drink, do, see, stay, travel and buy
Upgrade to the paid guide to unlock more detailed content, including:
- A hand-picked selection of places, experiences and attractions in eight categories
- Offline custom-built maps which can be accessed at any time without Internet access
- Contact details including addresses, websites and phone numbers
- Stunning photography produced exclusively for the app
- Bookmark listings to build personalised itineraries
- Online weather updates
- Easy-to-use swipe navigation
The Calvert Journal Guides to Moscow and St Petersburg are coming soon. Compatible with iPhone and iPad.
The Calvert Journal - a daily briefing on the culture and creativity of modern Russia.
What's New
- Full iPad layout is now included
Bug fixes
- Weather feed updates more frequently
- Subscription state is now persisted between app restarts
Sochi: The Calvert Journal City Guide