Plan a trip, then verify every stop

Use it when you want an assistant to draft a trip and you want every place, price and opening time to be right before you go.

Not when you are planning something where a wrong detail is dangerous and you cannot check it, such as a remote trek. Take that to a guide or operator.

You need an assistant, a spreadsheet or table for the plan, and about 82 minutes for a trip with around 10 stops. Do not paste passport numbers or booking codes into a chat: What not to paste. The steps and times are our suggestion.

Steps

Step 3 scales with the number of stops, about three minutes each. For a group, add each person's deal-breakers to the brief in step 1.

The prompt

For step 2, paste this into the chat:

Plan <DAYS> days in <PLACE> for <WHO>, budget <BUDGET>. Constraints: <CONSTRAINTS>.
Give two versions, one relaxed and one packed. Then give a table with the columns day, place, why, time needed, how to get there, official website (or "none found") and what could be wrong (hours, season, booking).
Do not invent places. If you are not sure a place exists or is open in <MONTH>, say so in the table.

Replace the following:

• <DAYS>, <PLACE> and <MONTH>: the length, destination and month of the trip.
• <WHO>: who is travelling, such as two adults.
• <BUDGET>: your budget for the trip.
• <CONSTRAINTS>: mobility, food, children or other needs.

Copy the table into your spreadsheet and add two columns, verified and date checked. Fill them in at step 3.

A worked example (illustrative)

Mina plans four days in a coastal town in April for two adults, one with limited mobility. The details are invented. The relaxed version lists ten stops. She checks each one: seven are as described. A museum is closed on Mondays, the day the draft put it, so she moves it. A viewpoint cafe has no official page, so it stays unverified and she drops it. A boat tour does not run until May, so it goes. She books the tickets herself and notes for next time that two of the draft's opening details were wrong.

How to tell it worked

• Every stop in the plan has an official source and a date checked.
• You read entry and health advice on a government page, and booked and paid yourself.
• It has failed if a stop is in the plan only because the draft said so. Go back to step 3.

Why every stop gets checked

In a survey by a travel-concierge firm, 55% of AI-using travellers had hit at least one wrong recommendation, and about one in six said AI had recommended something that did not exist (Greetwell, vendor survey). We treat it as a sign of the problem and not a measure of how often it happens. Even when a place is real, hours, prices and closures change.

Sources

1. Greetwell, AI travel survey, 2026. Vendor survey of AI-using travellers by a travel-concierge firm. Link

Changes

1. v1.010 Oct 2026first version