Plan a trip around my actual preferences

Generic trip advice is easy to find and mostly useless, because it’s built for an average traveler and you’re not one. This is about building a plan around your actual dates, your actual budget, and the pace you actually enjoy, not a top-ten list.

Do this

1. Write down your real constraints: dates, rough budget, who’s coming, and any deal-breakers.
2. Say your pace honestly. Two big things a day and rest, or fill every hour. Neither is wrong, but a plan built for the other pace will exhaust or bore you.
3. Ask for an outline, not a booked itinerary, using the prompt below.
4. Verify everything before booking. Hours, prices, and reservation requirements change more often than a plan accounts for.

Destination: [where]
Dates: [specific, or a range]
Travelers: [who, including ages if relevant]
Budget: [rough total or per-day, whatever you actually know]
Pace: [packed / moderate / slow]
Must-do: [anything non-negotiable]
Deal-breakers: [anything to avoid, e.g. "no early mornings",
"nothing that requires a car"]

Build a day-by-day outline, not a booked itinerary. Flag anything
that needs advance reservations, and anything I should verify
before relying on it (opening hours, seasonal closures, current
prices).

Check this before you trust it

• Every opening hour, season, and closure claim. These change and go stale fast, and a wrong one can cost you a half-day.
• Every price mentioned. Treat it as a rough estimate to confirm, not a quote.
• Anything that needs a reservation. Popular spots often need booking weeks ahead; confirm the actual lead time on the venue’s own site.

If it goes wrong

The pace doesn’t match what you asked for. Restate it more concretely: instead of “moderate,” try “one main activity in the morning, free afternoons, home by early evening.”

It suggests something that’s seasonally closed or currently unavailable. This is common with recent changes and specific reopening dates. Always confirm anything time-sensitive on the actual venue’s site before building a day around it.

The must-do items don’t fit the timeline. That’s useful information, not a failure. Better to find out now that the list needs trimming than mid-trip.

The trip still feels like it’s not really “yours.” Add one more constraint: a specific interest, a thing you always regret skipping, a thing you always regret including. The more specific the input, the less generic the outline.