Every stunning travel destination in the world has a few locations that are a little out of the way. That could mean that the locals closely guard them, or they’re just not as well known as they should be! However, using a powerful tool like RoutePerfect can help you to hit all the best spots on your trip. Let’s talk about how!
Add Your Starter Location
The first step to planning the most spectacular holiday on RoutePerfect is selecting the location in which you’d like to start. If you’re planning a staycation, this could simply be your home. For a trip further afield, such as to a foreign country, try selecting the entire city that you’ll be landing in to get better and more widespread information.
Make sure to get this step done first in your route planning stage and get the whole holiday booked and sorted out ahead of time. Ensuring that you get your reservations arranged ahead of time can ensure that you get access to those elusive locations that get snapped up early, because the last thing you want on vacation is missing out on those little gems.
Add Your Ending Location
After you’ve got your starter location added to RoutePerfect, it’s time to get on with the next steps of the process! Adding in the ending location is the next step and will allow RoutePerfect to concoct an amazing travel plan between your two locations.
Now, a lot of stunning road trips are, essentially, a big circle. You’ll start off in, for instance, Barcelona and then come back to Barcelona after visiting the bears of Asturias, the paella of the Spanish south coast, and the uniquely charming Basque region. These hidden gems that you’re seeing on the way will be absolutely beautiful, but if your route planner is focused on getting you back to Barcelona, you might not see them!
To make sure that you get the maximum number of different, fascinating locations to visit during the course of your trip, we would suggest making your “ending” location the place you’d like to be halfway through your trip. Treat the entire journey as though it’s actually two road trips: one going out, and one coming back in.
That way, RoutePerfect will be able to plot small detours to see fascinating sites without being concerned about getting back to your starting location as efficiently as possible. As much as we do love being efficient, lots of fantastic travel adventures are based around being as inefficient as possible. A computer might not quite understand this, so we can use our human brains and a little bit of trickery to help it along the way.
Customise Your Stops Along The Way
This is, perhaps, the most powerful tool that RoutePerfect offers: the ability to easily change and swap out days of your trip in different locations. Going back to our Spanish road trip from above, you might find that the amazing route planned for you doesn’t go as close to Portugal as you might like.
To ensure that you do get to visit two countries during one holiday, add Lisbon onto your list of city destinations, and RoutePerfect will help you to find the most amazing things to do there!
Of course, you could just make the detour into Portugal without letting the AI know about it. That’s perfectly allowed, and improvisation is encouraged among travelers to help them have the best time possible! However, if you stray from the plan the AI has generated for you, you run the risk of passing by some amazing local spots that you don’t know about.
Because of the density of amazing locations in historical European countries like Spain, it can be a great idea to not only modify your stops along the way but also to modify the driven route that you take through the country. If you move the red line around on the map to ensure you take a route that’s a little more circuitous, you’ll be driving closer to that many stunning locations that you may visit!
Another good idea when customising your stops is to ensure that you’re spending just the right amount of time in each location. If you want to have a whistle-stop tour of Spain, then alter the dates in each location to ensure you’re exploring quickly!
RoutePerfect is a great tool for tracking down hidden gems at any destination. Make sure to use it soon to plan your next road trip!
