Used Grok a lot planning a trip to Japan. Not as an agent like ClawdBot or anything, just asking it pretty complex questions.

Will be seeing Tokyo, Kanazawa, Takayama, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka.

Day trip to Hiroshima.

Used Grok a lot. It is amazing the things it can do to help you build the tools for designing your trip.

I started out simple with a listing of all of the journey legs I would be taking by train. Tokyo to Osaka; Osaka to Kyoto; Kyoto to Kanazaw, etc. and having it give me the estimated duration and price of each leg. I even asked it to tell me (saving me having to look it all up) whether I should by a 14 Day rail Pass of just single tickets. (Single tickets were cheaper).

By the end I was doing this:

I provided Grok the cities that I was was traveling to (all by train) and then asked it:
1) What is the most optimal route to take to see all these places. It completely reversed the order that I had visualized.
2) Give a list of the top 10 attractions to see in each city
3) Create a .kml file that:
a) Show dropped pins on all of the train stations I will be using.
b) Dropped pins on the top 10 attractions it came up with...containing a brief description of each and, if possible, the Wikipedia link to that attraction.
c) For planning purposes, draw a circle with a radius of 0.5 mile around each of the train stations.

It required a bit of refinement...but it pretty much did it.

Amazing.

Anyone else doing this?

Yes, I used chatgpt to plan a trip to switzerland last summer. Provided a pretty good itinerary.

I use it a lot, as we travel a lot and like to hit the outside the box things to do or places to eat. Lets say you have a 10 day trip booked. I like to have Grok plan a itinerary for those 10 days. Then I ask it to then exclude all of those items and create another 10 day itinerary. I take that list and have it create another list. Once I have all three trip itineraries, I read them over and find what interests me most and make my plans. This forces it find things that are not on the cookie cutter list of things to do. I have gotten a lot of great ideas and day trips by doing this.

I've been using it for an upcoming trip to Munich, Austria and northern Italy. It has suggested some hikes I plan on taking.

Yep, Ive pretty much used Chat GPT to plan all of my trips for the past few years. It created a detailed itinerary for an upcmong Napa Valley trip, including places nearby to have lunch and dinner. Mapping the locations out and trying to figure out which wineries to visit on which day, wouldve taken me a while to do and lots of planning. It took Chat GPT a few seconds lol.

It's a game changer for sure.

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2011: Hey, it happens, even with human travel agents.

Last summer, I was in DC for a meeting with a client. A different client called and asked me to get to NY. I called my secretary in Austin and said, "I need to go to NY. Please have the firm's travel agent book a ticket to Penn Station." I went back to my meeting.

When I walked over to Union Station and opened my email, I discovered that the travel agent, who is from the Midwest, had booked a ticket to Penn Station, Newark.

I laughed it off, and the ticket agent at the counter fixed the ticket.

We used it to a degree for our trip to south dakota last fall. Prompts included finding a dog daycare, optimizing the 4-5 things we wanted to see and which could be combined in one day, finding brewpubs for lunch.. etc. made it easy to find out driving distances between all the locations.

Worked out pretty well.

I used chatgpt last year for a trip to Copenhagen and Amsterdam. It gave me an itinerary that I had to pare down since it underestimated the time we would spend at places and how long it would take to get there. I also hate that it agrees with me every time. I had to add a bunch of stuff I found from researching travel forums and tiktok and on our last day realized that it had given us the most vanilla of suggestions. I guess it is planning by scraping trip advisor and yelp, both places that have been overrun by fake reviews and review pumping.

I am working on a trip to Sedona and instead just using it to keep up my itinerary. I will be scraping reddit and texags and tiktok myself.

I would like to reiterate how much i hate that it thinks all my suggestions are great.

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I use it a lot, as we travel a lot and like to hit the outside the box things to do or places to eat. Lets say you have a 10 day trip booked. I like to have Grok plan a itinerary for those 10 days. Then I ask it to then exclude all of those items and create another 10 day itinerary. I take that list and have it create another list. Once I have all three trip itineraries, I read them over and find what interests me most and make my plans. This forces it find things that are not on the cookie cutter list of things to do. I have gotten a lot of great ideas and day trips by doing this.

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Blue star for this method.