AI trip planning tools can be really powerful and useful for many reasons. However, it’s important to consider the fact that the tools are still quite new, so there are some tips, tricks, and best practices to ensure you’re getting the most out of them. Here, let’s talk about the ways that you can use Route Perfect to construct a trip itinerary easily, quickly, and efficiently.
Research your start and end points
Perhaps the most important thing to remember when using any type of route planning like the app of Route Perfect, is to research your start and end points. This may sound a little obvious, but consider it for a moment, you’ll understand the meaning behind the words. Once they are sorted, the rest of the planning is pretty much easy.
For example, say you’re planning a road trip throughout the UK. This is likely to be an absolutely wonderful trip, but it will be very different if you start in London or in Cardiff. While both trips would likely be interesting and varied, starting your trip in London gives you a geographical advantage. Almost all of the UK is north of London, meaning that your driving will be much more focused and efficient.
Considering the ramifications of these big decisions can have a brilliant impact on the vacation that you end up going on. You might decide to stay in fewer places or just cut down on your travel time overall. There’s no shame in doing that, of course, but if you know you want to have a journey that meets a set of criteria, consider if your first ideas really are the best starting and ending points.
Focus on the value of experiences
This is a little more complex than other points on our list, but it’s vital to consider. When you use Route Perfect’s suggested activities to book experiences, consider the objective value of the experience rather than the price that you’re paying for it.
This might sound a little odd, but consider a visit that you might take to a manor house on your UK road trip. That’s the kind of visit that you might absolutely adore, and it’s also the kind of visit that is often overpriced. Take a look at some of the reviews for different experiences, and consider what else the equivalent amount of money would get you.
This may be a poor phrase, but it’s helped travelers an awful lot: even if an experience is marked down to 10% of its usual price, you’ll still be paying more money to do it than if you had ignored the sign and walked on by. The objective value of the experience doesn’t change with the price, so consider how much you would like to do it even if it were free. If it’s not an experience that you would treasure or go out of your way to have, then it may well be worth avoiding entirely.
Consider your route carefully
Considering the route that you take is, of course, a vitally important part of any road trip. You want to ensure that everything you do is as efficient as possible so that you can experience as much time as possible on vacation and as little time as possible waiting for the next element of your vacation.
A good way to do this is to use Route Perfect’s efficiency toggle. That is a simple function that allows you to ask the software to move away from a route that you may have selected and revert to the most efficient travel routes between any two locations.
This can allow you to ensure that you spend as little time actually on the road as possible – an important element of a road trip for some people!
It also pays to make sure that your route doesn’t cross any locations that the mapping software may not understand are a little confusing or a little busier than it expects. For instance, if you have local knowledge of the traffic conditions in your city, it’s not worth listening to the trip planner if it asks you to drive through the center of town during rush hour.
The best practices for using an AI trip planner are really quite straightforward. It’s not about trying to trick or manipulate the powerful software into a specific corner but rather working with it to ensure you have the best time possible.