While some of us do it every day, this video from Moritz makes it something a little special.

London Bus Tour from moritz oberholzer on Vimeo.

It’s fair to say we’ve been busy at Travelstormer. For the past 12 months we have been always listening, and sometimes learning how we can make Travelstormer the essential planning tool for travelling with friends.

So here we are with Travelstormer 2.0, our biggest round of improvements since launch and we hope you’re as excited about the new features as we are!

Hotels

• Full search integration with 135,000 hotels globally with Hotels.com and Google Maps integration.
• “Where are we staying?” brainstorms are automatically generated when you create your trip so you can add these hotels directly to be discussed with your group.
• Keep on top of who’s booked by indicating whether you or any others have locked in a Hotel.

Itinerary

• We’ve finally replaced the tired old Calendar with a slick new stacked Itinerary view.
• Watch it fill up “auto-magically” as your group finalises it’s brainstorm decisions.
• Email/Print Itinerary coming very soon….

Invites and Privacy

• You can now invite people without them having to worry about signing up to participate, we send your friends a link that gives them temporary access to the trip, so they can check it out before commiting to anything.
• You can also make a trip public and hand out the single invite link to whoever you like and they get the same immediate access to the trip without signing up.
• You can of course keep things as private as ever if you like .

Brainstorms

• We’ve really tidied up the decision-making flow a lot, giving the creator of the brainstorm responsibility to decide for the group once enough people have voiced their opinion.
• You can finalise multiple responses in a brainstorm, and it will create an event in the itinerary for each one to get you going on building out your specific events for different dates.

Email Notifications

• We’ve had a lot of feedback over these and we’re glad we can finally show you a new version!
• We’ve now moved most of what you see on the Travelstormer website into our emails, so for those who are too busy to log in and use the website it’s ok, you will find you can do a lot from the emails, this is great for keeping your lazy friends updated.
• Email frequency settings coming very soon…

Activity Feed

• We’ve completely overhauled our activity feed, so you can now comment and vote directly on a much nicer looking and relevant set of updates across your trip.

We’d love you to let us know what you think of any of these new additions when you try them out. There are tonnes more smaller issues we’ve fixed, along with a lot of visual updates that we’re sure will improve your experience.

Seedcamp London is now over and whilst we are still digesting the mountain of feedback and insights provided by the mentor team we have emerged with confidence and a clear direction of where we want to take Travelstormer.

Here’s a brief rundown of what went down;

9:00-11.40am:
Watch the other teams deliver awesome 5 minute pitches to a packed house of fellow seedcampers and an impressive selection of 90 mentors (investors, entrepenuers, creatives, product dev, business dev, tech experts).

11.40-11.45am:
Travelstormer’s turn to take the stage. Presentation 19 out of 20 which we like to think was a case of saving the best until last, alphabetical order was pure coincidence.

12.00 – 12.45pm:
Highly informative M&A and Business Development panel with some great mentors.

12.45 – 1.30pm:
Network, network , network…o yeah, and more networking. (A.K.A – Lunch)

1.30-5.30pm:
Mentoring on steroids! 5 sessions of 45 minutes with 5 mentors in each. Questions followed by answers, answers followed by questions, questions followed by questions. Full volume discussion with barely a second to catch our breath in between. There were moments when it felt like our heads might explode. We received awesome insights and feedback from all the mentor sessions– some supportive, some positive, some not so positive…but all extremely constructive.

We’d like to send a big THANKYOU to all the mentors who showed a real interest in helping us make Travelstormer a success. We now need to take your feedback, overlay it onto our vision for Travelstormer and move forward with confidence.

Congratulations and best of luck to the other teams that attended. Great people with great ideas and we hope to cross paths again one day.

Finally, to the seedcamp team of Carlos, Reshma, Phillip and Kirsten – we loved meeting you guys and thanks for a truly inspirational day.

Well worth the trouble of sending a few students and some cameras around the world. Great execution.

Colin and I are excited to report that we have been accepted into the Mini-Seedcamp London programme taking place next thursday.
It’s a great opportunity for us to meet other entrepreneurs from around Europe along with chatting to some great mentors.

We’re going in with an open mind as I’m sure we will hear new ideas and thoughts coming from all angles.
In other news we’re hoping to go live with a tonne of updates to Travelstormer around the same time, so look out!

Read more over at Seedcamp