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Twelve days, €2,500, history and mountains.

319 destinations scored50 countries17 routes already built

Say what you have and what you like — in a sentence, or in the form below.

The planner reads the whole Atlas, scores every destination against you, then builds a route that respects distance instead of teleporting between highlights. It is read by rules in your browser — not by a model, and not sent anywhere — and it shows you exactly what it understood, naming anything it could not take account of rather than quietly dropping it.

Places you saved

What are you travelling for?

How it decides

Every destination is scored out of one, on a published weighting:

  • 30% how many of your interests it carries
  • 20% whether it has things to actually do that match them
  • 15% the month you named — peak, shoulder or off, never zero
  • 10% how connected it is to the rest of the Atlas
  • 20% how much of it we have actually written
  • 5% novelty: quiet places, and countries not yet in your route

The specification this came from allocates 10% to popularity. We have no traffic and no licensed visitor data, so that term would be a number we invented wearing a percentage sign. Its weight moved to content quality, which is measurable. And "accessibility" there means reachability — we hold no step-free access data at all, and say so.

Then: distance penalises each next stop so the route stops wandering; three big cities in a row start to push the fourth choice towards the alternative; nights come from the range on each destination page; and anything above what your budget can afford per day is damped.

What the spending styles mean

  • Frugal — Hostels, guesthouses, self-catering, regional trains and buses.
  • Comfortable — Three-star hotels or good apartments, one restaurant meal a day, some fast trains.
  • Generous — Well-reviewed hotels, restaurants that book out, flights and first-class rail where it saves a day.

What it will not do

It will not book anything, price a real hotel, or route you into a country under a travel advisory — those are excluded from the planning index entirely.

Estimates are editorial, not quotes. Check sources and corrections. The route above is drawn from the coordinates in the Atlas rather than from any road or rail geometry, on the same Lambert conformal conic as every other map here — standard parallels 35°N and 65°N, origin 52°N, central meridian 10°E. Drawn from Natural Earth 1:110m admin 0 countries, public domain.