What are some of the best tools to help plan a vacation itinerary?

Your destination is set, your flight is booked - now what? Looking for some smart tools/resources to help plan what to do, where to eat and where to stay. Google searching, scouring traditional travel sites, and reading reviews on Trip Advisor, etc. … See more
AustinFounder, Layman Lab · Asked

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Journy

Tastemaker-driven concierge to plan your perfect trip

Ryan Hoover44Founder, Product Hunt · Written
Journy is awesome. Me and my girlfriend used it in Lisbon last year. They pair you with a real life human (crazy, huh?) that plans your trip, hour-by-hour. They'll select the restaurants, sites, and other activities based on your requests. As someone that hates to plan trips, it's super useful and only $15/day.
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Google Trips

Kris KnowlesManager, Customer Care at Front Desk · Written
If you have a Gmail account, Google Trips is a great way to aggregate your confirmations from your Gmail account and create itineraries. It also provides travel guide information, such as things to know, places to see, and is integrated with places you have ⭐️ saved in Google Maps.
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AustinFounder, Layman Lab · Written
Thanks for the suggestion, Kris. I really like Google Trips too. I'm using it as the base of our itinerary. I think Trips will evolve into something amazing, but the lack of a synched desktop version frustrated me a bit. Also, their "Day Plans" is promising, but you cannot easily add a stop along the way unless it's an existing POI (or unless you star it in Maps first, then jump back into Trips). Unless I'm wrong :)
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Hopper 3.0

Personalized money-saving tips for your travel preferences

Sarah A. DowneyPrincipal, Accomplice · Written
Hopper is amazing--you can look up flights and immediately see how expensive they are to book over the next 6 months. It gives you quick visual feedback on when to buy, and you can get push notifications when flights you're watching are about to get more expensive.
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Skyscanner

Compares millions of flights to find you the cheapest deal

Marcus VlahovicFounder & CEO, Sustainabody · Written
Cheap, cheap, cheap - (really) the cheapest flights. This + my next suggestion = travel godmode.
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Rome2rio

How to get anywhere by plane, train, bus, ferry & car

Marcus VlahovicFounder & CEO, Sustainabody · Written
In combination with SkyScanner (or without) Rome2Rio is crazy good for planning out your vaca travel on the cheap. Example - to get to TNW 2017 you could use SkyScanner to fly to Slovenia for half the price of Amsterdam (from the US) and then use rome2rio for trains + buses, all mapped out for you, on the cheap.
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