If you’ve ever fallen out with your friends or family while on holiday, you’ll wonder why taking a break is meant to be so enjoyable. Perhaps sometimes the best travelling companion isn’t a human at all – but a far more entertaining and informative gadget.

A plethora of websites, apps and portable devices have made planning, booking and enjoying a trip a doddle. We Google cities we can barely spell, book flights and hotels online after conducting price comparisons, read destination reviews posted by other travellers, and enter the GPS coordinates into our phones for directions to a fabulous restaurant someone raved about in their blog.