Road trip planner features

Your own words outrank our rules

Type “coastal, slow mornings, no motorways” and the route obeys. What you write about the trip beats our pacing defaults: Ask for long days and you get long days. Only physics (a 900 km ceiling) and an hour limit you set yourself stay hard.

Three routes, with pictures

Before anything is built you get two or three real alternatives for the same trip — different cities, different character, each with its own illustration and estimated days and kilometres. Pick one, or edit the cities in the next step.

Draw where you want to go

No destination in mind? Circle a region on the map with your finger. The ring is what we plan inside, so “somewhere in the Basque country” is a valid answer.

Describe a place you can't name

“The town up north where they filmed Game of Thrones.” You get three real candidates with a line each, and the one you pick becomes that night's town or a stop on that day's drive.

Stops you insist on become real places

Name a place you want on the way and it is looked up for real: coordinates, a photo, the town it is in, and a practical tip written for that specific stop. It is then fitted into the day's drive rather than bolted onto the end.

Dates, or just a number of days

Give real dates and the plan carries the forecast and day names. Give “five days” and it plans the shape without inventing a weather report for a week it cannot see.

Cards, not a chat window

The answer is not a wall of text you have to re-read. Each day is a strip of cards — drive, stop, meal, viewpoint, overnight — with times, distances and a one-line reason each place is there.

Driving times from real routing

Distances and durations come from a routing engine following actual roads, not straight lines between towns. The map draws the real geometry, and a day that cannot be driven says so instead of quietly compressing.

The forecast moves the plan

When you travel on real dates, the ridge walk goes on the sunny day and the museum on the wet one. Each day carries its own forecast on the card.

A practical line for every stop

Timed tickets, the best hour to arrive, where to park at the trailhead. Plus two to four heads-ups per day for the driver: low-emission zones, market-day closures, toll segments, siesta hours.

Somewhere to sleep, every night

Every overnight names a town and suggests places to stay with a price tier, and you can paste your own booking onto the night once it is made. We are not a booking site and take no commission.

A budget built from your car

Fuel is calculated from the consumption and unit you enter, not a national average. Food and activities scale with the tier you chose, stays with the standard you picked, and motorway tolls and vignettes are priced per country and added in.

Charging stops in the day, not a footnote

Choose EV and enter your real range: charging stops appear inside the driving legs, sized to that range, with energy replacing fuel in the budget. You can pair a charge with lunch so the stop costs you nothing in time.

Campgrounds for a motorhome

Pick RV and overnights become real campgrounds rather than hotels, with motorhome fuel figures in the budget.

We do not route around vehicle height, length or weight. Check bridge clearances, tunnels and mountain passes yourself.

Your units, your numbers

Litres per 100 km or miles per gallon, kilometres or miles, and the trip's money in the currency of the country you are driving in.

Ferries named before you commit

A leg that needs a boat says so on the card, with an idea of the cost. If you would rather stay on tarmac there is a switch for that, and the route is rebuilt around it.

Rewrite a day in a sentence

“Too much driving, and I want a swim” rebuilds that day and leaves the rest of the trip alone. The words carry the same weight here as they do in the wizard.

Don't like a stop? Three others

Tap Change on any card and you get three alternatives near that day, resolved as real places with ratings and opening hours, never a duplicate of something already in the trip.

Drag, add, remove

Reorder a day by dragging its cards, add a stop between any two, or delete one. Places you added yourself are protected from being swapped out by the AI.

Undo that tells you what it undid

Every AI edit is reversible, and undo names the change and takes you to the day it happened on, so the effect is never three screens away from the button.

Vignettes and tolls, per country

The day you cross a border says which country you are entering and what it charges: a vignette, a distance toll, or an electronic tag. Where a vignette is needed we name the official place to buy one, so a border is not the moment you find out.

Money in the currency you'll spend

Everything about the trip is quoted in the destination's currency. Subscription prices are separate and always shown in the currency we charge.

The United States, Canada and Europe

Those are the regions the routing, place data and driving estimates are tuned for, from a weekend loop to a month on the road.

Outside them you can still plan, but expect thinner place data and rougher estimates.

No account to plan

Open the planner and go. The full day-by-day trip is readable without signing up and without a card, and if you make an account later the trips you already planned come with you.

iPhone app, same trips

The app plans and edits everything the site does, in English, Spanish, German and French, and tells you when a trip you started is ready.

The day opens without signal

Saved trips live on the phone, so the plan is there in a mountain valley. Building a new trip or pulling fresh place details still needs a connection.

One link for everyone coming

Each trip has a private link that opens the whole itinerary in any browser. Nobody on the other end needs an account, and nothing is public unless you send it.