I was planning a trip to Vietnam a few weeks ago and as everyone I asked ChatGPT/Claude when is a good time to visit and got a confident answer that turned out half wrong (and it contradicted itself when I pushed). The manual route wasn't better, northern and southern Vietnam have nearly opposite seasons, so every "best time to visit Vietnam" article just confused me more, and I ended up with a dozen tabs and no clear picture.

As a visual learner, I built what I actually wanted: drag a month slider and the whole world recolors by whether it's a good time to be there. It splits countries like Vietnam into their real regions instead of pretending one season fits a whole country. It's El Niño/La Niña-aware and searchable down to cities.

No signup, just a single web page.

Feel free to try it out and let me know your feedback. Thank you! :)

I noticed I've been opening ChatGPT before Google whenever I'm planning a trip. I'll ask about airlines, hotels, even neighborhoods before I search anything myself.

Then I started wondering whether AI just keeps recommending the same companies, and I found a ranking that actually tracks which airlines and hotel brands show up most often. Kinda interesting because it wasn't exactly what I expected.

Is this becoming normal or am I just spending too much time talking to AI lol?

I posted here a couple of times earlier this year about Explorer AI, a travel planning tool I've been building. A few things have changed since then, and one of them is actually new rather than just another feature, so it seemed worth a proper update.

First, the milestone: we passed 5,000 users. Thanks to the people here who tried it early and told me what would make it better - a fair amount of what follows came out of that.

The short version, for anyone who hasn't seen it: you answer a set of questions about your trip - pace, budget, food, who you're travelling with - and it returns 20 ideas across four categories: things to do, see, eat and experience. The difference from asking other AI tools the same thing is that the recommendations partly come from a database of verified ideas from real travellers rather than whatever the model identifies on the spot, so you're less likely to get the same four landmarks everyone gets, and the ideas are filtered to how you actually travel rather than a generic top-ten. You're also more likely to get ideas for destinations that are current, we refresh this database almost daily.

You save the ones you like after they appear and they are then saved to the My Trips page, reuse your profile across other cities in the same trip, and see everything pinned to a map. You can add your accommodation too, so the pins sit relative to where you're staying.

Map view of all your saved ideas - easily add any idea and see it appear on the map

There's an itinerary builder now as well - day-by-day, add ideas to each day from the ones you've saved. I didn't want it to be a walled garden, so it takes manual entries too: find something on TikTok or a blog, add it yourself, and it lands on the same list and the same map. The tool gives you a strong starting set; it doesn't pretend to be the only place you'll look.

Organise your trip day by day using our itinerary builder.

The part I'm actually interested in is the Stories page, which went up last month. Most people research trips by reading - blogs, articles, a writer whose taste they trust. That isn't going away and I don't think it should. So rather than compete with it, the Stories do the one thing an ordinary blog can't: every place named in the article is a live component sitting in the text, and as you read, you can add it straight into your trip in two clicks. Read about a restaurant, tap, it's on your map. No copying names into a notes app, no losing half the list by the time you're home. Same principle as the rest of the tool - research and planning in one place - applied to the way people already find things. We’re working through applications now for Writers and Stories for the website, if you’re interested please get in touch!

That's the update. It's free - try it on a city you know well and tell me if the picks hold up. Thanks for the early support from this sub, it's been extremely helpful for the development of this website!

Hi I wish to visit Wisconsin in October/November 2027 to attend a WM College game and a Packers game. Aware I would need the schedule for the 2027 which is obviously not released. In preparation anyone use AI travel planners specific to sports? Ticket purchase, best hotels, dive bars and tailgating? Have had a go with ChatGPT and Google AI.. seems ok but looking for a bespoke planner if out there. Cheers

Hey everyone, honestly kind of terrified to post this here but here goes nothing..

My partner and I travel a lot and we always book across a bunch of different sites like booking.com, airbnb, etc.
The issue is that apps like Wanderlog or TripIt are terrible at tracking reservation states. They just treat expenses like flat numbers. They don't track what's a deposit, what's paid, or what's due later at check-in. We found ourselves constantly setting random phone reminders so we wouldn't miss a free cancellation deadline, and struggling to see how much actual cash we had left to spend after "unpaid" essentials were factored in across different currencies.

So I built a simple collaborative web app to solve our own headache. Right now it's completely manual, but it lets two people share a dashboard to:
Track paid vs unpaid states (deposits vs balance due later)😮‍💨

\- Countdown hard cancellation deadlines so you don't lose money

\-See a live "safe to spend" budget that handles real-time currency conversion for international trips

I was hesitant to post because building the app is honestly way easier than getting real users. But I'd love to know if anyone else actually struggles with this or if I'm the only one that does.

It's a pretty raw version right now but it works great for us and a few friends. If you have a trip coming up and want to try it out for free to poke holes in it, drop a comment! Would love the feedback back :)

[https://roamietravel.app\](https://roamietravel.app)

THANK YOU for the great feedback, ideas, and reports!

Your feedback and ideas have been incredibly helpful, and a huge amount of what we shipped recently came straight from this community.

PLEASE feel free to always create bug reports, feedback, and feature-requests either in the app or by DMing me on Reddit :).

✨ New

• Expenses redesign with built-in splitting: The Expenses tab has a cleaner summary with per-category bars, per-currency totals and "who paid" shown on every expense. Improved UX for splitting expenses and multiple currencies.
• Apple Maps & Google Maps, your choice: We now support both. Switch the trip map between Apple Maps and Google Maps anytime
• "View email" on imports: Recently imported emails now have a View email button. Open it to read a copy of the original email right next to the flight/stay/ticket it created.
• Text Sizing / Accessibility Improvements: We've made several accessibility improvements and added a user setting under Settings -> Preferences to customize text size on all platforms. (thanks u/ImInundated)
• Uber & Lyft deep links in address shortcuts: Trip addresses can now hand the destination straight to Uber or Lyft, alongside Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze, and Copy.
• Tineo Assistant, create support tickets / bug reports / feature requests: Assistant can now create support tickets or bug reports on your behalf.
• Tineo Ultra Lifetime plan: We listened to the feedback about wanting a one-time purchase rather than a subscription for Ultra, and added a subscription-less, pay-once Lifetime plan. Available now on web; it may take a little time to appear in the Apple App Store / Google Play.
• New bus & coach vendors: Added platform integration with intercity coach providers like FlixBus, Megabus, and National Express.
• Smart Day Expansion: A new expand-control dropdown lets you choose how much of each day's plans show at a glance.

🛠 Improved / Fixed

• Email attachments + document imports: Improved import pipeline logic for analyzing and importing attachments in emails and updated UI for viewing attachments.
• Better QR codes and barcodes: Boarding passes, tickets, and QR codes now use one cleaner, consistent viewer across every plan type, with easy swiping when a booking has more than one.
• Faster note editing: Tap the inline pencil to quick-edit a note right on its card, with a Full Editor tab when you want more room.
• Set a missing time in one tap: Plans showing --:-- now let you tap to set or change the time right on the itinerary
• Same-day round trips: Fixed a display issue for connecting flights on the same day.
• Calendar sync time-zone accuracy: Fixed synced events for some plans showing the wrong local time on trips that cross multiple time zones
• Trip invites: Fixed a bug that caused trip invite emails to fail to send in some cases..

🤖 Tineo Assistant + Claude/ChatGPT/Poke

• Trip weather: get a day-by-day forecast for your destination or a specific plan.
• Packing lists: ask the assistant to build a weather- and activity-aware packing checklist for your trip.
• Place details: opening hours and full details for a place, right in the chat.
• Flight change history: see the recorded schedule, gate, and terminal changes for your flight.
• Airport conditions: check delay and on-time conditions for an airport or one of your flights.
• Import troubleshooter: if an email import didn't work, ask why and what to do next.
• Expense summary: ask "who owes whom" and get a clean spend summary plus the simplest way to settle up.
• Day-of-travel brief: day-of intel for your departure airport, like ground transport and delays.
• Travel documents: manage and audit your passports, visas, vouchers, and insurance against a trip.
• Travel stats: your Wrapped-style stats, like countries, miles, nights, and top airlines.

🏗️ In progress

• We're currently testing our new flight-data provider that provides coverage for 90%+ of airlines. This will roll out in the next few days and will lead to improved flight schedule/delay updates for more airlines, as well as price drop detection.
  • This is also coming with some new UI improvements related to the Trip Dashboard for flights.
• Tineo Intelligence & new assistant tools to help you find and book activities, hotels, and other travel-related plans based on your interests (if opted in)

Keep the feedback coming, we're very grateful and appreciative of it! And we do our best to reply to all support requests / suggestions / tickets ASAP!

Found this sub-reddit and decided to share what I've been working on over the last few months.

roamary.app might be useful for anyone planning their roadtrips with their campervans and their motorhome.

As a web-app you can do the heavy planning at home on a big screen with way too many tabs open, and then just pull up the same trip on your phone once you're actually on the road.

Background: I travel a few times a year with my family, our dogs, and a motorhome, mostly in Austria and neighboring countries. Every time we planned a trip, it was the same mess: tabs full of campsite reviews, POI lists in Google Maps that didn't survive the actual trip, and zero tools that understood that a motorhome trip isn't "fly somewhere, book a hotel." It's stations, driving distances you actually want to limit, places that allow dogs, and a structure that holds up across multiple stops.

So I built Roamary.
The whole point of the app is that it collects your POIs, and structures them into a trip.

Whether you plan yourself, get in a recommendation from a fellow traveler or want to get the help of AI - this is up to you. You can "mix-and-match", and of course you can freely edit everything.

You can also build your trip interactively in your favorite ChatBot, and have it export it in my public import scheme. What used to be a wall of text you'd have to manually rewrite every time a stop changed becomes a trip where you can just add, remove, or reorder stops directly.

Happy to answer anything, how it works, what's still rough, why I made certain decisions. Also genuinely curious if others here plan motorhome/campervan trips and what's missing for you.

InChina APP is not another AI trip generator. Most travel AI hands you a nice-looking list that falls apart the second you're standing at the station. InChina builds a China route you can actually walk: the right train, the metro line, the walk between stops, even the words to say when you get there. Every leg is checked against real maps, train times and opening hours, so it won't send you to a place that's three hours away or closed on Mondays.

You start a plan three ways, with no endless chatbot back-and-forth: swipe real places into a day, paste a TikTok or Reel and it builds around it, or drop your own rough draft and it makes it walkable. Each place has a guide written in English by someone who actually knows the city, plus translation and maps, and it all works offline (which matters a lot over there).

I'm opening the first batch of 50 founding tester spots, and I'd love people from here, especially anyone actually planning, or just daydreaming about, a China trip, since that's where the most useful feedback comes from.

It's completely free, and founding testers get perks I genuinely tried to make worth it:

Founding Tester credits, for life: +200 credits every month, permanently, enough to keep generating full detailed itineraries.
A direct line to the team: a private tester group where your feedback goes straight into what we build next.
A pro planner's touch: one free human polish of your first real itinerary, by an actual China travel planner.
A little something from China: active testers get a small thank-you in the mail (local tea, or a hand-stamped postcard).
A Founding Tester badge in the app.

iPhone first, Android next. A spot may need a quick verification before it's confirmed.

More about it: inchinatravel.com

Happy to answer anything in the comments. Thanks for taking a look.

Hi zusammen,

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ich komme aus Braunschweig und habe in den letzten Monaten als Nebenprojekt die App CityTour AI entwickelt. Damit kann man sich für jede Stadt individuelle Stadtführungen mit Audioguide erstellen lassen.

Neue Nutzer bekommen zum Antesten eine kostenlose, bereits vorgenerierte Braunschweig-Tour. Für die Nutzer außerhalb von Braunschweig, um mal reinzuschnuppern, was die App so kann, damit sie dann für eine Tour in der tatsächlich besuchten Stadt zahlen. Für Menschen, die neu in Braunschweig sind oder die Stadt besuchen wollen, aber vielleicht wirklich ein echter Mehrwert ;)

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Die App findet ihr für Android und Ios auf der Website https://citytourai.app/⁠

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Und ja, der Post ist Eigenwerbung. Als Solo-Entwickler nutzt man aber jede Chance und vielleicht hat der eine oder andere ja schon nach genau so einer kostenlosen selbstgeführten Stadtführung in Braunschweig gesucht ;)

A few months ago I started building Mareia AI - a trip planner specifically for Spain (Valencia, Barcelona, Málaga, Sevilla) that generates personalized daily itineraries based on what you actually care about: food, culture, nature, nightlife, wellness.

Not a generic "top 10 things to do" list. A real day-by-day plan that accounts for:

• Whether you're walking or have a car
• Your pace (relaxed vs. packed)
• Real wait times and booking requirements for specific experiences
• Your budget level

We ran a small pilot. Here's what stood out from the survey responses:

• The highest-rated dimension was AI relevance - people felt the itineraries actually matched their preferences, not just the city's greatest hits
• Several users flagged the logistical details (booking requirements, wait time warnings) as the thing that surprised them most
• A few solo travelers said they used it to plan a trip they'd been putting off for months because the planning felt too overwhelming

That last one hit hard. That's exactly why I built it.

The app is free to try right now. No account required to explore experiences and generate a first itinerary.

Would genuinely love feedback from people who plan their own Spain trips - especially if you've done Valencia or Barcelona recently. What does your planning process actually look like? What breaks down?