Travel & places
Travel is where language models are most confidently wrong. They invent opening hours, quote prices from years ago, describe transit lines that were rerouted, and recommend restaurants that closed. Nearly every prompt below carries an explicit instruction to separate what is durable from what must be verified before you rely on it. The planning prompts are built on a second idea: a good itinerary is shaped by your energy, your budget and the person you are travelling with, not by how many sights you can theoretically reach in a day.
36 prompts in 5 groups
Travel & places21 categories
Shaping the days
Itineraries, arrival days, long routes and work trips paced for how you actually travel.
- An itinerary built around my energy, not the mapLongPlanning days you'll actually enjoy instead of a checklist you'll abandon by lunch.
- Plan a long journey with good stopsLongA road trip or multi-leg route where the stops matter as much as the destination.
- Make this work trip less miserableLongA business trip you didn't choose, in a city you'll barely see.
- Plan the arrival day properlyLongThe first day, which is usually wasted or overplanned.
- Three days here, what do I do?ShortA short trip you want shaped rather than crammed.
- What is worth skipping?ShortBefore you spend a morning queuing for something out of obligation.
- One good meal, one anchor, nothing elseShortA day you want to enjoy rather than complete.
- Is this too much for one day?ShortA day plan that looked reasonable on the map.
- Three days, paced for the person I actually amMediumPlanning days you will enjoy rather than a checklist abandoned by lunch.
Choosing and budgeting
Picking between options, planning around a hard constraint, and what the trip will really cost.
- Plan this trip around one hard constraintLongWhen a budget, a pram, a bad knee or a heatwave defines the whole trip.
- Help me choose between two destinationsLongTwo places on the shortlist and no way to separate them.
- A trip that works for both of usLongTravelling with someone who wants a completely different holiday from you.
- Turn all this research into one decisionLongTwenty open tabs, three spreadsheets, and still no booking made.
- Budget this trip honestlyLongWhen the flights and hotel are booked and you suspect the real number is higher.
- The cheaper version of thisShortWhen the obvious way to do something costs more than it is worth.
- Pick one of these two destinationsMediumTwo places on the shortlist and no way to separate them.
- Budget this trip by structure, not by priceMediumThe flights are booked and you suspect the real number is higher.
Before you leave
Packing lists, place briefings split into durable and unverified, and what to ask a host first.
- Packing list for this exact tripLongPacking for a defined trip rather than copying a generic list off the internet.
- Brief me on a place before I goLongBackground on somewhere you've never been, with the uncertain parts marked.
- Questions to ask the host or guideLongBefore a stay or a booked tour, while you can still change the plan.
- Counted packing listShortPacking for a defined trip rather than copying a generic list.
- Brief me in two columns: durable and needs checkingMediumBackground on somewhere you have never been, with the uncertain parts marked.
Food, language and custom
What to eat and how to order it, the phrases you will use, and what reads as rude to a local.
- Etiquette and customs I should knowLongBefore a trip where getting it wrong would be rude rather than just awkward.
- The phrases I'll actually useLongLearning twenty useful lines rather than a whole language you won't retain.
- What to eat here, and how to order itLongEating well somewhere you don't know the food culture.
- How do I say this politely?ShortOne sentence you need to get right in a language you do not speak.
- What reads as rude here?ShortBefore a trip where getting it wrong would be rude rather than just awkward.
- What would locals actually do?ShortWhen every recommendation you have found is written for visitors.
During and after the trip
Layovers, days that fall through, what is worth doing nearby, and writing it down afterwards.
- What's worth doing near this exact spotLongYou're fixed to a hotel, a conference venue or someone's spare room.
- Rescue the day, the main thing is closedLongMuseum shut, train cancelled, weather turned, and you're standing outside with the day still ahead.
- What to do with this layoverLongA gap between flights that's too long to sit in and too short to relax about.
- Turn today's notes into a trip diary entryLongEnd of a travel day, before the details blur into the rest of the trip.
- Review the trip so the next one is betterLongA few days after getting home, while you still remember what annoyed you.
- What is worth doing near here?ShortFixed to a hotel, a venue or someone's spare room.
- Should I leave the airport?MediumA gap between flights that is too long to sit in and too short to relax about.
- Rescue the day, the main thing fell throughMediumStanding outside somewhere shut with the day still ahead of you.
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