Park4night application is a great tool to use when you are on a road trip by car or caravan. Application shows parking slots close by and tells you prices of parking places or camping areas. Park4night application is free of charge and doesn´t even require signing in so it is easy to use. In case you want more advanced features for application there is a possibility to take paid version of it. Park4night isn´t just the mobile application, they have as well website. In our blog we will get more into the phone application and how to use it.
How to start using Park4Night app
You can download Park4Night app from Appstore or Google Play Store for your mobile phone. After downloading the app, you can register there but you don´t have to do that in case you do not want to. You will see all necessary information and tips without registration. While using the application, you must put your location on. Without “location on” -situation you will not see different opportunities for example camping places, picnic areas or parking locations. “Around me” function requires the GPS activation.
Please check out the following video if you are interested in. The video tells you step-by-step how to use Park4Night website to find free parking places, camping areas etc.
The app in a tourism business and target group
The app is a useful tool for finding an affordable or, in other words, free night spot. It’s an international one that can be used in many languages.
In a tourism business you can recommend cheap overnight stays.
In most of the world you are not allowed to stay overnight in nature. You can even get fined for that. “I have one memory of it going back years in Australia.” – Charlotta
With the app tourists can find nice unfamiliar places to visit. Travellers highly likely will come back again and tell others about it. They create customers for businesses nearby.
Target group includes travellers in camper vans, motorhome owners and backpackers.
Park4night is an excellent app for wild camping.
What type of content
In the application you can share the nice spots to relax and sleep to people while travelling across the World. You can also share photos and comments for the community.
Communication
At the webpage only suggestion to communicate with this company is by email. There is page for help where you can find most common question with answers but those are in French also in English version of the webpage. At the mobile app there is also mentions about contacting by Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. Most of the information is in French but latest post at Facebook are in English.
What kind of metrics does the tool offer?
Before staying for the night, you can see other´s ratings on a parking slot or camping area. There are reviews by stars and more information like how loud it is close to the area. Park4night application does tell you prices of the camping areas and about other services that they have in there. You can rate the parking slot or camping area by yourself as well. So, it will tell others who will come to that place is it worth it. For doing ratings you need to sign in.
Application itself doesn’t have navigation attribute but it will give information of the location for your navigation tool what you have on your phone. So, you will see mileage in metrics what you have used to, is it miles or kilometers. Possibility is in application itself, to change unit of measure to miles or kilometers. You can do it from settings.(measuring system)
To get advanced features for application monthly you could pay 1,99 euros or yearly 9,99 euros. You can see below what you will get from advanced features:
Special tips
The app has extremely useful tips for travelers. The responsible traveler´s charter is a useful tool in phone application to the new travelers who want to know about safety travel. For example, how to behave while camping and respect the natural environment of the place surrounding you.
You can rent out your motorhome on Goboony or buy your own from a motorhome dealer.
Park4night sells in their webstore GPS products and microSD cards, mugs, and T-shirts.
This app would go well to young couples who want to explore countries on their own by car example. They get recommendations from other users or make recommendations themselves. Companies could use this app to list their camping areas, parking slots and other places where it is possible to camp.
Our impressions
Really handy application for travelling and camping, also can read other people’s opinions of places.
You can find safe and confidently allowed place staying for night.
Thank for reading our blog post. Hope you enjoyed the reading! 🙂
-Charlotta Lehto, Lahja Matilainen, Niko Korhonen, Mimmi Posio & Moona Marttala.
Sources
Park4Night. 2022. Referenced 8.2.2022. https://park4night.com/
Park4Night Mobile application. Referenced 8.2.2022.
Hi!
I have never heard about this application before. It sounds useful. You had nice photos and video on your post. The text was easy to read. Great post!
Regards,
Pinja
Hi Pinja!
Thank you from your nice comment! I totally agree with you that the app sounds useful!
Br,
Charlotta
Hi! This was also a new thing for me, I think that it is very nice that this application can connect so many things people need for travelling. This post was nice to read because there was not too much text and you discussed a lot about how this benefits customers.
Hi Henna!
Thank you for your comment! Nice to hear that you liked our post and it was nice to read for you. I can definitely agree with you that application is connecting a lot of useful things in traveling 🙂 It is really easy to use as well.
-Lahja
Hi! This was really interesting to read as I have never heard of the app before. The blogpost was well written and easy to understand! I would’ve loved to see how the app itself looks instead of the website, so maybe a few screenshots would have been informative. You got me wondering about all the business possibilities with this app. Maybe there could be an option to plan a roadtrip, and when doing so it would also show different things to do on the road. Then there would be an opportunity for restaurants and different activity businesses to addvertise.
– Roosa
Hello Roosa!
Thanks for your comment! Me either wasn’t aware of this app before doing this task. It was also nice to hear that our post was well written and easy to understand.
– Mimmi
Hi Charlotta, Lahja, Niko, Mimmi & Moona!
I really liked your post about this park4night application. I personally had never heard from this one before but already downloaded it and took a look around my city haha! I am definitely going to use this in the future and share the information to my friends as well.
Otherwise your post was clean and nice to read. There were some nice photos and the video was a good way to bring the insights of the app closer.
-Jessica-
Hello Jessica,
Nice to hear that you liked our post. Myself personally have used this application couple times, when I was travelling last summer across the Finland. This is super handy application to check where you for example can stay over night for free. Thank you for your comments!
Br,
Niko
Hi, Charlotta, Lahja, Niko, Mimmi, and Moona!
Thank you for sharing a great blog post about park4night. I’ve never heard of this app before, but I’m excited to try it after reading your post. As the pandemic is still ongoing, some travelers like to try car trips and/or do nature to reduce contact with other people. This app will be good for those who want to know where they can stay comfortable overnight. And, I love how to write about the app! It was easy to follow with short sentences and nice images.
Best regards,
Yuiri
Hi Yuiri!
Thank you for your comment. This app was new to me too but in future I might use it. It was nice to hear that you liked our blog post and thank you for your kind words about the post.
Have a nice spring!
-Moona-