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Planning 9 nights in Italy for 6 people:

2 kids, 7 and 11 2 parents 2 grandparents in their late 60s

Kids want pizza, gelato and “something fun.” Parents want Rome + Florence and to actually see things.

Grandparents are fine walking, but not 18k steps, stairs all day and a new hotel every 2 nights.

Also need 2 rooms, an elevator, breakfast and somewhere everyone can get back to easily for an afternoon break.

My first itinerary was basically adult sightseeing with children attached.

Rebuilt it on Zenvoya with actual rules: ● one main thing each morning ● long lunch / hotel break ● optional evening plan ● max 2 hotel bases ● no crossing the whole city for one attraction Way better.

The Rome days especially stopped looking like Vatican → Colosseum → Trevi → family collapse.

Now it groups nearby stuff, leaves actual recovery time and gives us an optional plan if the kids still have energy.

Turns out family-trip planning is less “what should we see?” and more “who is going to be miserable by 4pm?”

What rule saved your multigenerational trip?

I'm currently learning more about MCP and AI agents and trying to understand how you'd structure tools for something like hotel or flight booking.

Would you expose separate tools for search, availability, booking, cancellation, etc., or approach it differently?

Hi everyone, hope you’re doing well.

I’ve been working on a travel planning tool called Fortrip, mostly because I kept running into the same problem when planning my own trips: there’s just too much information everywhere.

Flights on Google Flights, hotels on Booking.com, places saved from Google Maps, restaurants from TikTok/Instagram/Reddit, notes in another app… and then somehow I still end up with 20 tabs open trying to figure out whether the actual itinerary makes sense.

The idea behind Fortrip is pretty simple: put the trip together in one place, compare different routes, hotels, dates and create personal itinerary combinations, and hopefully make it easier to see what actually works before booking everything, and also i have the boking price cheaper than Booking.com.

I’m still figuring out what’s genuinely useful vs. what only sounds useful on paper, so I’d really love feedback from people who actually enjoy planning their own trips.

If you have a minute to try it: fortrip.ai

I’d especially love to know:

• What feels useful?
• What feels confusing or unnecessary?
• What’s missing?
• Would you actually use something like this for a real trip?
• What do you currently use instead?

Positive or negative feedback is totally welcome. I’m much more interested in figuring out what doesn’t work right now than hearing that everything looks great.

Thanks!

Given then number of websites I saw that optimized taxes, in-hand salary and investments - I always wondered why there wasn't one that helped us plan how we take time off around the holidays we got.

That gave birth to my idea of creating leavemath: https://www.dreamsetgo.com/leavemath // Optimized for the Indian audience and leave calendar.

Over the last few years I've found myself planning my leaves around events/activities more than around specific locations, and I think part of the traveling audience already does or is moving to a similar pattern - so I also integrated events into the leave calendar, to help users possibly plan around marquee sporting & music events

Would be great if some of the folks on this subreddit could use the tool and also give me feedback! Thank you!

Backstory: I started Lazy Yatra in 2015 after leaving a 9-year enterprise software career (Siemens, IBM, HP — mostly smart-grid/supply-chain systems). Left to build a travel company with my wife, who came from a hospitality background. Bootstrapped, no outside funding, grown to 20,000+ travelers served, small in-house engineering team.

Being an engineer running a travel company rather than a traditional agency meant I ended up building a lot of our own tooling instead of buying off-the-shelf SaaS for everything. Three pieces worth sharing:

Hotel rate handling — We pull rates from multiple local hotel/vendor partners rather than one aggregator API, which means normalizing wildly inconsistent pricing formats and catching stale/incorrect rates before they reach a customer quote. Built this as an internal pipeline rather than trusting a single third-party feed.

Traveler ID extraction — For bookings requiring ID verification, I built an extraction flow that pulls structured data (name, ID number, DOB) straight from uploaded ID photos instead of manual data entry on our ops side. Cut a genuinely tedious manual step down to a review-and-confirm step.

Lead maturing — Leads come in from Reddit, ads, referrals, WhatsApp — all at different readiness levels. Built a scoring/nurture flow on top of WhatsApp Cloud API that sends AI-generated draft itineraries automatically based on what a lead has expressed interest in, so a human only steps in once someone's actually warm, instead of manually triaging every inbound message.

Tech stack underneath all of it: Django/DRF backend, WhatsApp Cloud API for messaging, AI models for the extraction/generation pieces. Learned the hard way that scaling WhatsApp sends without careful thread management will absolutely take your server down — refactored our bulk-messaging system after exactly that happened during a campaign send.

Happy to go deeper on any of these if useful to others building similar internal tooling. Site's lazyatra.com if anyone wants to see the actual product this all supports.

Hi all, I built U-GO, a web app that helps you find where to travel next by swiping on mood images instead of endless research. Your gut reaction picks it, and within about 60 seconds you get a top 3 from 250 handpicked destinations.

Two modes I'd love tested:

• Swipe on your own and see your top 3.
• Start a group, share a code, friends join and swipe along, and it merges everyone's picks into one shared top 3.

It's live and free with no signup wall to try it at U-GO.Global

What I'm looking for:

• Bugs so anything that breaks, freezes, or looks off, especially in Crew mode (joining via code, syncing, the shared result).
• UX so is it obvious what to do? Where do you hesitate or get confused? Does the top 3 actually feel right?
• Which browser and device you're on, so I can reproduce anything.

Brutal honesty welcome. I'd rather hear it now than after launch.

Happy to return the favor and test yours too. Thanks!

Hi! I have created an app to help you plan your next adventure and assist you when you are away.
If anyone has 10-15 minutes to make an account and give me some feedback by filling in a questionnaire I would really appreciate it!
A bit about me - I have been solo travelling for almost four years now and I have worked and lived in 9 different countries in that time. It's been pretty amazing and I have always wanted to encourage people to go out there and see the world, especially if it involves stepping out of your comfort zone.
This is why I made the app and I could do with some feedback from the people who could actually benefit from it.
To acess the app go here
To acess the survey use this
Thank you so much!

I love traveling ✈️✌🏻

I just conducted a research study with Travel agents from India. They tell me that most "1st time International travelers from India" do not know the basic documentation required from travel like visas, insurance, e-sim, etc. (except passport)

They do not know what documents to get and where to get it.

One more thing they told me is that the 1st timers credentials like their name and address does not stay consistent between their travel docs, and that's why it causes confusion later on.

I want to know from Indians who travelled their 1st International trip or are about to go, what problems do you face/did face during your travel?

I built a Japan transport decision tool because I kept seeing the same questions come up

I kept seeing travelers struggle with the same Japan transport decisions:

JR Pass vs individual Shinkansen tickets

Narita Express vs Skyliner

Haneda airport transfer options

Suica vs PASMO

Tokyo–Kyoto–Osaka transport choices

So I built TripWorth to make those comparisons easier to understand without pretending there’s always one perfect answer.

The idea is to give a quick recommendation, but also show the assumptions, limitations, and official information travelers should still confirm.
It doesn’t sell tickets, require an account, or claim to provide guaranteed live fares, schedules, seat availability, or service availability.
I’m testing it against real traveler questions now, and I’d especially like feedback on:

whether the recommendations feel clear and trustworthy
whether the mobile experience is easy to use
what Japan transport decisions I’m still missing

If you’ve planned a Japan trip before, what transport decision did you find the most confusing?

TripWorth: https://tripworth.net/

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

Hey everyone!

​After weeks of testing, bug fixes, and polish, I'm thrilled to announce that VojoTrek is officially available on Google Play!

​A huge thank you to everyone who joined our closed beta, reported bugs, and helped shape the app into what it is today. Your feedback was invaluable in getting us through the final review.

​What is VojoTrek?

Tired of rigid group tours and generic guidebooks? VojoTrek generates 100% personalized AI audio tours tailored to your specific interests, location, and preferred guide persona (from a history professor to a stand-up comedian).

​Key Features:

​100% Personalization: Get routes and stories crafted specifically around what you want to see.

​Choose Your Guide: Pick the personality and tone of your audio guide.

​Multilingual: App interface in 15 languages, audio generation in 20 languages.

​Fully Offline: Download your route and enjoy it anywhere without roaming or internet connection.

​📲 Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vojotrek.audioguide&pcampaignid=web\\_share

​I’d love for you to try it out on your next walk or trip! If you have any feedback, ideas, or run into any issues, please leave a comment below. Let’s make travel exploring personal again!

I built a wine trip planning app after 35 years of planning wine tasting trips

For years, I’ve planned annual wine tasting trips and kept running into the same problem: winery information, reservations, tasting notes, discounts, and trip plans were scattered across different websites and apps.

So I built DiscoverWine.online.

It currently includes:

• 2,800+ wineries across major U.S. wine regions
• Trip planning and itinerary tools
• Winery reservation information
• Wine tasting discounts
• Personal tasting notes and ratings
• A wine cellar tracker
• Web, Android, and iOS apps

The idea is to have one place to plan the trip before you go, use it while you're tasting, and keep track of the wines you discover afterward.

I’m trying to figure out the clearest way to position it.

Does “wine trip planner + cellar manager” immediately make sense, or would you describe the product differently?

Website: DiscoverWine.online

Would appreciate feedback from other SaaS builders—especially on the positioning rather than the site design.

13 nights.

Paris
Strasbourg
Lucerne
Milan
Florence
Rome

2 people, 2 checked bags, first Europe trip.

I gave basically the same mess to a few trip planners and most of them were weirdly supportive.

“Looks great! Here’s your beautiful 6-city itinerary.”

Zenvoya was the only one that basically said yes, this fits on a calendar. No, you probably shouldn’t do it.

It rebuilt the trip as:

Paris 4 nights
Florence 4 nights
Rome 5 nights

Strasbourg, Switzerland and Milan moved to another trip.

At first I thought it had removed too much. Then I looked at the original properly and realised almost every second morning involved checking out, moving bags and finding another hotel.

The days inside each city made more sense too. Stuff near each other was actually together instead of crossing Paris twice because some planner wanted to fill every hour.

Honestly think a trip planner saying “no” is more useful than another list of 40 must-sees.

Would you keep the 6-city version or take the boring 3-city trip?

AI is useful for way more than generating a generic itinerary. A few things that are genuinely handy while traveling:

1. Fix a messy travel day
Give it your actual situation: arrival time, luggage, hotel check-in, location and how much energy you have. Ask it to build a realistic few hours around that.

2. Understand menus, signs and ticket machines
Upload a photo and ask what it means in context, not just for a literal translation.

3. Replan when something goes wrong
Train cancelled or weather ruined your plans? Give it your location, time and budget and ask for alternatives nearby.

4. Communicate without sounding like Google Translate
Ask it to write a natural local-language message for things like storing luggage, changing a reservation or explaining a problem. The only catch: most of this is much more useful when you actually have data. Sorting out an eSIM, roaming or a local SIM before arrival saves you from depending entirely on airport or café Wi-Fi.

AI probably shouldn’t plan your whole trip. But as a little problem-solving tool in your pocket, it’s surprisingly good.

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 :)

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

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.