Using AI for travel planning

You will still have to verify whatever suggestions or itinerary it plans out for you.

That stated, why not just do it yourself, like you always have before AI?

I’m not against it, however, I wouldn’t trust it to put together a fabulous vacation/travel package for me, just yet.

I’d do this:

Plan out my perfect trip first, including the verification of all details, including costs, and then I’d have AI do the same, and see how close it comes to the real thing. And I’d do it three times, with different iterations, just to trust, but verify.

r1 Sorry if I wasn't clear, but the trip I used it on is already planned out and paid for (flying to the Far East, several days there, then a cruise around Japan.) So I was using AI to generate ideas about what to see in the cities I'll be visiting. I gave it my interests, age, etc. and it made at least three suggestions for each location, as well as a more detailed itinerary for the city I'll be spending a few days in. Seemed well thought out, but you're right - I should check to make sure it's accurate.

Ah, I see, R2.

Apologies if I also missed out on the nuances.

Well, then good for you!

And yes! It’s always a good idea to verify.

Enjoy your trip, & safe travels, OP!

I had surprisingly good results from a complex problem:

1.) how to get from one city in Spain with a smaller, less connected airport in one country to a city in a on an island region of another country, aware that there are not direct flights and open to combinations of flights, train, and ferry if time schedules are reasonably frequent and connections reasonably easy. The routes to and in return could be different. I set out a range of two or three months within which the AI could suggest options.

2.) Asking for suggestions of historic hotels within broad price ranges prioritizing property type, character, location, reviews, price.

Suggestions for the first part were good, I thought, including done possibilities that had not occurred to me, and laying out the tricky areas of keeping the times between changing modes of travel reasonably short. AI provided some rather specific suggestions by month, showing price ranges for various options, and optimum ways to maximize comfort, control cost, or vary the experience.

Suggestions for hotels were good and included sine nice surprises. The prices seemed accurate to the proposed time window, and reflected my specific stated interests.

I wanted to lay out multiple issues and see how it could piece together a trip beyond connecting flights and top ten lists of hotels, and it did very well I think, considering the range of options and the impact of using different combinations of transportation types. It put me in a position where I felt informed different options of arriving and returning, and the hotel recommendations combed reviews by good sources for intelligent reviews that touched on sone very specific criteria.

I will never seek out using AI.

R5 You already are, you just may not know it.

OP, your plans are so basic that all AI will do is give you results that you’d get from doing simple web searches but without the nuance of traveler reviews, travel blogs, etc. searches are a very basic version of AI anyway.

Using AI for travel planning is all well and good until it sends you to a place that doesn’t exist

I asked AI something simple recently, like who won a baseball playoff game and it said Team X. Then I checked the actual scores and it was wrong. The Al apologized for being wrong. Like cool, apologizing for a mistake but jeez, it was a very simple question.

[quote]OP, your plans are so basic that all AI will do is give you results that you’d get from doing simple web searches but without the nuance of traveler reviews, travel blogs, etc. searches are a very basic version of AI anyway.

I don't know about that. I gave it a lot of specifics about my particular situation (age, traveling solo, etc.) Once it knew the date I was leaving/arriving and the name of my ship and hotel, it had lots of good ideas. I asked for options between shore excursions and DIY stuff in each port and it gave me three of each for all of the stops (which it knew, including departure and arrival times). Also gave me weather advice and a packing list (again, based on weather, ports, my age, length of trip, etc.)