Questions tagged [planning]
Things to do while preparing for your trip, including planning where to go, budgeting, etc.
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Finding a single or combined guided tour of some South America destinations
An acquaintance of mine is being offered to join a 22-day (group) guided tour of South America, including several destinations I'll list below. The thing is, the price tag seems exorbitant in my ...
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Travel budgeting
How do you track your spending in different currencies while traveling? Do you use Excel, Revolut, or something else?
I’m working on a little tool for this and just want to know if this is even a real ...
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Methods & tools to evaluate public transportation convenience from one hotel to another
I am in the USA and would like to evaluate public transportation convenience from one Amsterdam hotel to another.
My cousins are staying at the Marriott by the museumplein (premium \ expensive ...
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Travel booking concerns due to drastic price and option differences
I'm an older guy who's traveled globally most of my life, but I am about to take my first real vacation ever and just realized that I have never traveled outside of the military and business settings ...
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Public transit travel planner for Zadar, Croatia?
I'm looking for a travel planner, as in something giving you a route suggestion from point A to point B.
I've looked everywhere online, but I'm not sure if it exists?
Maybe the Zadar Smart City app ...
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Trip from Germany to Japan by motorhome? [closed]
So basically me and four of my friends have always wanted to go to Japan. But we also wanted to make a road trip out of it. Now we are thinking about getting a motorhome (nothing fancy something ...
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Is there an android app that provides you with an plan to view nearby touristic spots in a given city?
Say you're at a specific location in a given city, and denote by A,B, C...etc. the touristic spots in the city that you're not aware of, since you're new to this city). Now say you want a plan like ...
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Are there ferries between Spain and Morocco that charge per car and not per passenger?
I'll soon be hitchhiking through Spain and am thinking about making a crossing to Morocco.
When I need to use ferries I try to find one that charges per car because I can try to hitch a ride with ...
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Dimensions of railway station lifts in Germany
We recently tried taking the train from Rüsselsheim with a heavy electric-assist oversized semirecumbent tandem bicycle. Unfortunately, we found that the lift was just a little too small (at most 0.1 ...
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How busy will tourist spots in Yamanashi-ken and Okutama be after new year?
I'll be renting a car on January 2nd in Tokyo, to escape into the countryside for a day. Starting in west Tokyo, my choice is pretty much Yamanashi-ken. The question is, how many people's choice will ...
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train planning using 3rd party HAFAS ReST interface frontends
Apart from various official sources such at bahn.de, sbb.ch, or bene-system, there exists a HAFAS ReST Interface that offers options that are not presented in the typical web frontends. For example, ...
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how to find the best city to meet people from across the globe? [closed]
I have a group of friends who live across the globe in different cities. We're like a family, lived together for about 4-5 years in Tokyo. But people moved on to their next cities for work or ...
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Australia to west & east coast US: which order is better?
I will soon need to travel from Australia to both the west coast of the US (SFO) and the east coast (NYC). I expect to spend around a week in both and have the freedom to choose the order and routing ...
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Is "Google flights" a fraud page?
I was looking for flights and came across the site
https://www.google.com/travel/flights
a google service searching for flights. But this looks like a scam/fraud page to me! I found a flight on this ...
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Some problems in planning a trip to Tunisia
I was planning a trip to Tunisia in September, but I've encountered some issues. My plan is to arrive in Tunis, stay there for a few days, then take a bus or a train to Tozeur, spend a few days there, ...
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