r/AI_travel_tips

Every travel app I've used asks where I want to go and then tells me what it costs. I kept wanting the opposite: I have ₹60,000 and a week in September, so where can I actually go?

So I built Range. You give it a number, a date and who's coming, and it prices the whole trip to 180 destinations and shows you everywhere that fits.

Whole trip, not just the airfare — getting there, sleeping, eating, moving around, doing things, visas, insurance and a buffer, for your group size at your comfort level. Change "comfort" to "budget" and watch the map open up.

A few things I cared about getting right:

- It won't lie about transport. It prices flight/train/bus/taxi/own car and uses the cheapest that genuinely works. There's no train to Dubai, no drive to Bali, and no railway to Kaza, Leh or Gangtok. Mountain roads are timed slower than plains. If it's too short to fly, it says so and substitutes the surface option.

- Everything is modelled on device. No account, no ads, no analytics, no location permission. The only network call is an exchange-rate refresh, and it falls back to bundled rates offline.

- Results are ranked by what's interesting at your budget, not just what's cheapest — the cheapest answer from anywhere is always the dull city two hours away.

There's also a radar view that plots every destination by true bearing and log-scaled distance, with a boundary through the farthest thing you can afford in each direction. Mostly it's just nice to look at.

Honest caveat: the prices are a model, not live fares. Nothing is scraped and no booking API is called — that's why it works offline and needs no account. Treat the totals as a realistic planning range, then check a booking site once you've picked somewhere. I'd rather say that up front than have you find out.

Android 8.0+, 2.8 MB, Material You so it picks up your wallpaper colours.

Download: https://github.com/NikhilKain/Range/releases/latest

Happy to answer anything about the pricing model — it's the part I spent the longest on.

We recently launched the first Android version of Roam.io a side project we've been working on to make travel planning less fragmented.

The problem started with something pretty simple.

When you're planning a trip, your information ends up everywhere:

Instagram for inspiration.
Reddit for actual opinions.
YouTube for experiences.
Google Maps for places.
Blogs for itineraries.
Notes/Sheets for trying to put everything together.

You can spend hours researching a destination and still have to build the actual itinerary yourself.

So we started building Roam.io around a different idea: bring itinerary planning and travel discovery closer together.

The goal is to let you discover itineraries, build your own trip and eventually learn from the real experiences of other travellers — without having to piece everything together across 10 different apps.

We've just launched on Android and we're at the stage where critical feedback is much more useful than compliments.

If you're willing to test it, I'd especially love to know:

• At what point does the experience feel confusing?
• Is the core idea obvious when you first open it?
• What feels unnecessary?
• What's missing that would make you actually use it for a trip?
• Would you come back after the first use?

Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amanpareek.roamio

Would genuinely appreciate people here tearing it apart. 😅

I know the feeling: You sit down at a small local restaurant, get the menu and think:

“Okay… what does any of this actually say?” 😂

Sometimes the language is unfamiliar. Sometimes you can't even read the script. And once you're away from the tourist areas, English isn't always an option either.

Then there’s the next problem: How much is this actually in my own currency? What's in the dish? Does it fit my diet? And if you have allergies, how do you explain all of that?

That's basically how VikSchewa started.

With VikSchewa, you can:

📸 Translation & ingredients
💱 Prices in your own currency
⚠️ Hidden ingredients & allergens
🎯 A personal 0–100 match
🤖 An AI image of what the dish might look like
🗣️ Help ordering in the local language

My personal favorite feature is the Allergen Pass.

You save your allergies once and can show the restaurant exactly what you need to avoid in their language — in 85 languages and offline.

There are also 536 dishes available offline.

I basically wanted an app that would make me a little less nervous about unfamiliar menus and encourage me to try the small local restaurant around the corner instead of always going somewhere made for tourists.

VikSchewa is still very new, so I'd genuinely love to hear:

What's the thing that annoys you most about eating abroad? 😄

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vikschewa-men%C3%BC-scanner/id6775580751

Hi guys, I’ve been vibecoding this app where you can find bars and restaurants in the sun.

I know there are already a lot of these (web) apps around. But most of them just doesn’t work or not worldwide or have really bad ux/ui.

I’m a developer myself and know how to code, so this app isn’t entirely vibecoded.

I also don’t make any money of this app so this was just a fun project for me to do.

This was made with:
- open maps api
- threejs
- web workers for efficient 3d building loading
- lazy calculating sun calculations for efficiency. Some places have 8k places in one city.

Glad to hear your opinions and feedback.

URL: https://sunny-terraces.vercel.app/

Hi everyone! We're a small team of travelers who built TravelFrens, a group trip-planning app for travelers like us.

Instead of dumping 30+ links or posts into WhatsApp or IG chats, your group can swipe on places you each like in one centralized place. Like the same spots, and you'll see your compatibility scores increase while building a shared itinerary together. TravelFrens learns your travel taste from what you swipe.

Currently in beta and free to use at travelfrens.voytravel.ai. Works in any browser, no install needed.

We'd especially love to hear from you if:
- You're planning a real trip with 2+ friends or family in the next few months
- You'll tell us bluntly what's confusing or missing

We appreciate feedback from all travelers! Every bit of feedback shapes what we build next. Feel free to comment or use the form in-app (in the account menu).

If you'd like to go deeper and are willing to actually plan your next trip in the app, comment or DM me. We'll invite a handful of people to short feedback sessions, and thank them with early access to what we ship next.

Why don’t your trips make it out of the group chat? Even if you don’t try the app, let us know, we are truly curious.

Solo founder. Spent the last few months on this and it cleared both app stores today, so this is the first time I can point anyone at it properly.

The organizing part isn't new: forward a booking confirmation and it files into the right trip. What I couldn't find anywhere was the second half. Does the card that paid for this fare actually have its trip protections active? The benefit guides are full of traps. Paying with airline miles voids some Amex baggage cover. Splitting a fare across two cards can break both cards' full-fare requirement. Some cancellation benefits reach the airfare but not the prepaid hotel.

So it reads which card paid each booking, applies the guide rules, and tells you per trip what's covered, what isn't, and what's unknown. It never guesses. If a guide doesn't grant something, it doesn't invent it. Same for travel medical policies and passport rules, for everyone on the trip rather than just you.

Free, no ads. Revenue is disclosed partner links that only appear against a real gap. Documents encrypted.

Honest limits: it organizes trips you've already booked, it's not a map planner. And the coverage answers are only as good as the cards and policies you put in.

iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/triptov/id6795677861

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.triptov.app

Web: https://triptov.com

Happy to answer anything, including how the email parsing works.

You can visit here: https://MonkeyEatingMango.com/

I built it because I hated travel logistics and none of the current tools, including wanderlog, worked for me

Here, I have tried to bound the decision with very few preference like params. User never has to type a long prompt explaining what they want to do. It is just 7-8 clicks, a source entry and it will generate the complete plan.

It provides Google maps route planning to give overall view of the day. The essentials like weather, booking checklist and visa/phone/electric sockets are also covered. You can see a sample plan here: https://monkeyeatingmango.com/itineraries/japan/tokyo-3-day/. I have added smart routing to optimize routing. It will even do the checks like family friendly places if you are traveling with kids, and a validation to see if place timings match with your plan.

Now, I am getting a little organic traffic from Google and some AI engines. I even got a few signups! I don't have a subscription plan but I am thinking of monetizing with affiliate booking, ads and probably some premium features.

The problem is that all of these marketing channel are performing very slowly. I have been on this for 2 months(spent 2 months before that to build) and I am still waiting for significant traffic. I am stuck at around 20-30 visitors a day.

I am a solo founder and I can sustain for some time, but is it too slow a progress? I am worried and kind of losing patience. I am here to get some brutally honest feedback on my idea and product. I am too attached to it, and getting some reality check might help :)

I created free tool longvacation.eu, first as something to try out new Copilot abilities. Later found out there are projects like holiday-optimizer.com that are solving similar issue, so I tried to differentiate.

• Longvacation supports adding your partner calendar (just one for now, but I plan to add multiple in the future)
• Longvacation contains multiple sources of holidays data - so countries like India (with regions) or Indonesia are included
• Shuffle mechanism - algorithm is non-deterministic so if you are not happy with the results, you can shuffle days around
• Rich calendar edits
  • Monthly caps
  • Never-vacation
  • Locked vacation days (not touched by shuffle algorithm)

It's my first public project so I'm still learning how to promote it - currently I have around 3k visits monthly promoting it on X and LinkedIn

I recently open-sourced the code as well, so issues and bug reports are welcome :) https://github.com/Duzij/VacationOptimizer

Hello, everyone! 👋

I'm conducting research to better understand how people plan their trips and what challenges they face during the process. This survey is part of a project to improve the travel planning experience. It should take about 3–5 minutes to complete. Your responses are anonymous and will only be used for research purposes.

Thank you for your help!

Link: https://forms.gle/1KZfRxaKHKBQfwnb7

This story starts in 1972 and my first voyage - leave Canada and travel Europe, Africa and Asia for 2 years. We didn't have any guidance other than an old Arthur Frommers Europe on $5 a day book. Fast forward all these years, still travelling at least 6 months a year and still with a (better!) backpack. What did I learn besides find a wife who loves the travel as much as me? No matter how much we hate to plan as the world has changed, planning became important. As technology evolved we started to use apps - First it was only spotty email, then Tripit for the itinerary, notes for the lists, spreadsheets to keep it all straight, Google maps or Organic maps, until everything was all over the place. And if course no matter how hard we tried to be organised it always happened - can't find the hotel address after a long overnight flight or can't find the confirmation email in my carefully organised email folder or our daughter has no idea where we are..... So (and this is the end of that long story) we were sitting in a bar in Granada, Spain and said " we can build something ONLY for us that solves all our problems".  So we did - only for us. .. And if course one thing led to another and now we have published it on the Google play store. We are very proud of our travel app. It needs no sign-up, does not share your data and had no AI suggesting stuff an experienced traveller doesn't need but it does everything a traveller needs. So now it's available and if you want to really give it a go try the pro version free. Use this code AIXA-T-1N-8. Oh yea just search AIXA Travel Wallet on the play store or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.aixawallet.twa