A road trip in a van, camper, motorhome, or car means pure freedom. Just hitting the road and discovering new places also means longer drives without a break. To keep boredom at bay, you definitely need some good songs to sing along to.VanSite gives you the best tips for listening to music offline. You'll also findthe 80 best travel songs for your road trip playlist.

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Listening to music offline: Top 5 streaming apps for travel

Thanks to Germany's well-developed internet infrastructure, you can be online almost everywhere in the country. So on a road trip through Germany in your van, you can usually listen to music the whole time, but your monthlydata allowance might run out at some point.

In other European countries, EU roaming rules make it equally possible to listen to music online for free. Good reception is usually hard to come by, especially when you head to more remote spots in nature.

Here are our tips for good network coverage while travelling and internet in the van.

So you can always play the perfect travel songs wherever you are, you should rely on one of the well-known streaming apps. The following services let youlisten to music for free while travelling - even without internet.

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The top 5 apps for listening to music offline:

1. Spotify

2. Apple Music

3. YouTube Music

4. Deezer

5. Amazon Music Unlimited

Note: All reputable music streaming services with a large catalogue of songs charge a monthly subscription fee for the offline feature. To access your playlist anytime and anywhere, you'll need to budget around 10 euros per month (students around 5 euros).

Is it really worth it?

The benefits of a streaming app subscription:

• Access to millions of songs and albums

• Always available on laptop or smartphone with an internet connection

• Download feature for listening offline

• Share playlists with friends

• No need to store music on hard drives

• Your music can't get lost

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Road Trip Playlist: The 80 Best Songs for Your Van Trip

Whether you're travelling alone, with friends, or with family, everyone enjoys good sing-along songs on longer drives. The best option is to prepare a list withfavourite songs from all fellow travellers, but that takes a lot of time. So we've put together a playlist that keeps you going with the best road trip music for a full five hours.

Tip: Mix the genres!

To make sure your road trip playlist has something for everyone, we've gone fora mix of classics and newer hits. Songs about travel, spontaneity, and adventure are especially well suited to a travel playlist. We've put together a list of tracks that absolutely can't be missing on the road,from pop to rock - there's everything here.

Travel Playlist: 5 hours of music for your road trip:

• Geronimo - Sheppard

• 505 - Arctic Monkeys

• I Took A Pill In Ibiza - Mike Posner

• Mr. Brightside - The Killers

• Safe And Sound - Capital Cities

• On Top Of The World - Imagine Dragons

• Zombie - The Cranberries

• This Girl - Kungs

• Best Day Of My Life - American Authors

• Thunder - Imagine Dragons

• Happier - Marshmello

• Counting Stars - OneRepublic

• Sorry - Justin Bieber

• It's Time - Imagine Dragons

• Losing My Religion - R.E.M.

• Bulletproof - La Roux

• Party In The U.S.A. - Miley Cyrus

• Shooting Stars - Bag Raiders

• Shout - Tears for Fears

• A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton

• All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow

• I Really Like You - Carly Rae Jepsen

• I'm Like A Bird - Nelly Furtado

• No Rain - Blind Melon

• Piece Of Your Heart - Meduza

• Dreams - The Cranberries

• Sucker - Jonas Brothers

• September Song - JP Cooper

• Despacito - Luis Fonsi

• Free Fallin' - Tom Petty

• Secrets - OneRepublic

• Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears for Fears

• Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke

• Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5

• Don't Speak - No Doubt

• Poker Face - Lady Gaga

• Accidentally In Love - Counting Crows

• Burn - Ellie Goulding

• You Get What You Give - New Radicals

• Mr. Jones - Counting Crows

• All Star - Smash Mouth

• Ho Hey - The Lumineers

• There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back - Shawn Mendez

• Bang Bang - Nancy Senatra

• Good Time - Owl City

• MMMBop - Hanson

• Cake By The Ocean - DNCE

• Pompeii - Bastille

• Fireflies - Owl City

• Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver

• I'm Yours - Jason Mraz

• Price Tag - Jessie J

• I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas

• Forever Young" - Youth Group

• Hotel California - Eagles

• I'm gonna be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers

• Home - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

• Highway to Hell - AC/DC

• Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams

• Looking for Freedom - David Hasselhoff

• Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles

• Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

• Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol

• When The Sun Goes down - Arctic Monkeys

• Sky and Sand - Paul Kalkbrenner

• Facing the Sun - Fritz Kalkbrenner

• This Love - Maroon 5

• Rude - MAGIC!

• Something Just Like This - Chainsmokers

• Use Somebody - Kings of Leon

• Hey There Delilah - Plain White T's

• I Dare You - The xx

• Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin

• No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley

• Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

• As The Sun Goes Down - Robin Schulz

• Cool Kids - Echosmith

• It's My Life - Bon Jovi

• Angels - Robbie Williams

• Robinson Crusoe - Jules Ahoi

Listen to the VanSite playlist on Spotify for free:

With our road trip playlist you not only have the best travel songs in one place, but also a direct link to Spotify. There you can listen to our playlist for free and even download it, so you can listen to it offline on your next van trip too.

Do you have a few more songs or artists that absolutely can't be missing from a road trip? Write your music tips in the comments on this post on Instagram.

We wish you fun, musical moments on your next camping adventure!