Step by step, with nothing hidden: where the places come from, where the opening hours and distances come from, and what we check before a trip goes on the site.
Open one and go. Every trip is laid out day by day and hour by hour — from 4 to 10 days.
Colorado (10 days), Utah (8 days), Paris (5 days), Milan and Lake Como (5 days), New York and Los Angeles (8 days), Iceland (8 days), Tokyo and Kyoto (8 days), Porto (4 days), Barcelona and Girona (7 days), Tuscany (8 days), Stockholm and Helsinki (7 days), Lisbon and Madeira (8 days), Rome (5 days), Moscow (5 days), London (5 days), New York (5 days), Amsterdam (4 days), Madrid (8 days), Osaka (7 days).
If your destination is not on the list, or you want it your way, tell us where you are going and for how long. You get a trip of the same quality: real opening hours, real driving times, all the checks. It is built the same way the ready ones are.
Hotels, flights, tours and tickets, airport transfers, a rental car, mobile data — the links sit right in the day where you need them. City, dates and number of people are filled in for you, so there is nothing to look up and retype.
There is more than one service on purpose — 19 right now: Aviasales, Skyscanner, Kayak, Ostrovok, Yandex Travel, Sutochno.ru, Avito Travel, Booking.com, Economybookings, GetYourGuide, Airbnb, Expedia, Hotels.com, Agoda, Vrbo, Tripadvisor, Kiwitaxi, Yesim, Unitiki. So you can book where you already have an account and points, or compare prices for the same hotel without opening five sites in a row.
For trips inside Russia we show the services that actually work there and take a card — not the ones that would come back with an empty list.
35 checks against 175 rules. If a single one fails, the trip does not go on the site. More about this in step 8 below.
A list of "what to see in Rome" is easy to find. The trouble is that you cannot travel by it: it does not tell you what fits into one day, how long it takes to walk from one place to the next, when the museum closes, or that Monday is the day it is shut.
We do not build a list, we build a trip: by day and by hour, with real distances and real opening hours. Here is how, step by step.
First we write down every city where you will spend a night or an evening — including the one you only fly into late. Then, for each of them, we collect the best: views, buildings, museums, shows, rides, food, seasonal things.
We measure fame instead of guessing at it — by how many people read the encyclopedia article about a place. A dull method, but an honest one, and it catches what a person forgets. In Las Vegas it turned up Cirque du Soleil: we simply would not have thought of it, and by readership it beat the Bellagio fountains.
Nothing is dropped in silence: every place we did not take has a written reason why.
Coordinates come from a geocoder, not from memory, and are then compared with the map: the pin has to sit where Google puts it.
We also check whether a place is closed for years. This one is easy to miss: the map listing stays alive, the reviews are there, the phone answers — and the building is shut for renovation. So we ask the encyclopedia as well.
That is how we found two of them in our own finished trips: the Pompidou Centre in Paris, closed until 2030, and the La Brea Tar Pits museum in Los Angeles, closed in the summer of 2026 for two years. Both were in live trips. Both are gone now.
Opening hours come from each place's own listing, not from a rough guess. Right now 675 of our 1064 places have them.
Viewpoints, trails and streets have no opening hours at all — that is normal, and we mark it as such instead of passing it off as "we could not find out".
First we place what can only go at one time: the museum that closes on Mondays, the viewpoint that works until sunset, the show that plays on one particular evening. Everything else is arranged around them.
If something does not fit, the day rearranges itself. We do not walk you up to a locked door.
The distance between two points is measured along the roads, not as a straight line. The difference is not small: two places can be a kilometre apart in a straight line and twenty minutes apart around the bay.
That is why our days add up: every place says how long to stay, and the travel time is counted. Real distances are calculated for 125 days so far.
Two different lists: a pick of places in the city, and what happens to be near the stops of that particular day. The second matters more — at lunchtime you are not "in the city", you are in one specific spot. Right now the lists hold 195 places.
A machine finds the photos, but we look at each one ourselves. It regularly brings back the wrong thing: a cathedral from another town for the Kremlin square, a tropical beach for an Icelandic lagoon, an 1880 watercolour for the Roman baths.
Every photo that was found and not used has a written reason. The site currently holds 619 photos.
Before it is published, a trip goes through 35 checks against 175 rules. Every rule grew out of a real mistake; none of them were invented at a desk.
The short version of what is checked: does the day add up in hours, are we leading you to a closed door, is the place open at all, do the pins sit where the map puts them, does every stop have its own map listing, does a city where we sleep have something to see and somewhere to eat, are we dragging you back to a place you already saw, is the translation complete — and is the live site serving exactly what we published.
If one check fails, the trip does not go out.
The same trip works for two days and for five. If you have few days, the most important places move up into the day themselves, and the rest waits on the city shelf — it is not thrown away, it waits.
The city you fly from is yours, not ours: the trip is not nailed to somebody else's airport.
Ask any AI to plan a trip and you get a list of places. It does not know the opening hours of that museum on your date, it does not measure the real travel time between stops, it does not know the building is shut for renovation until 2030, and it never checks whether the day actually fits.
You can find all of it yourself — and checking it by hand takes two or three days. Here it is wired to the sources and verified by machine before every publication.
19 destinations · 125 days · 1064 places · 675 with opening hours · 619 photos · 195 places to eat · 125 days with real driving times · 19 booking services · 35 checks · 175 rules
