Changelog

What’s new in the planner

We improve the Trust the Locals journey planner every week. Here is what changed, with the screen before and after.

Clearer choices, honest prices

Places before hotels, a price on every way of travelling, days that read in the order you live them, and fewer buttons doing the same thing.

01 Destinations

Every region at a glance

Each region you pick opens with a wide photo and two clear groups: where to sleep, and what is worth a day trip, with the drive from your base. Photos show the places, not the hotels, so you choose the area first. “Choose for me” sits at the top when you would rather we decide.

Before

Tuscany: a tall photo column on the left and hotel photos on each base.

Now

A wide banner, “Where to sleep” with photos of each place, and “Also worth a day trip” with the time from Florence.

02 Transport

A price on every way of travelling

In the transport step each option now shows roughly what it costs for your group: train, private driver or rental car. Train fares follow real booked-ahead prices, around €35 a person from Rome to Florence, instead of the high estimates shown before.

Before

An earlier train estimate: “from ≈ €600”.

Now

Train from ≈ €145 for 2 people, private van from ≈ €705, rental car ≈ €420 for the whole trip.

03 Your days

Travel times in the order you live the day

Inside each day, travel times appear where they happen: from the hotel to the first stop, between stops, and back to the hotel in the evening. The map beside it follows the open day and shows lunch and dinner too, joined by the day’s route.

Before

The way back to the hotel appeared below the restaurant banner.

Day map: only the hotel and the experience.

Now

The day starts with “5 min on foot from your hotel”.

“… back to your hotel” closes the day, before the restaurant tips.

Hotel, experience, lunch and dinner on one map, with the day’s route.

04 Restaurants

Where to eat, the local way

Instead of an “add lunch” and “add dinner” box on every experience, each day ends with one invitation and the number of tables we recommend near that day’s plans. It opens our restaurant guide, which is included once you send your journey to our travel designers.

Before

Now

The new invitation at the end of the day: “13 tables near today’s plans”.

A white window where the guide’s cards scroll continuously.

05 Hotels

Hotel cards as compact as a booking site

Alternative hotels are now compact cards with photo, stars, style and the price of the stay, plus a small icon to compare them. The detail has one button, “Select this stay”, and a “Change room” link: no more duplicate buttons.

Before

Hotel detail with two identical “Choose a room” buttons.

Now

Photo, stars, price for 3 nights and a compare icon.

One “Select this stay” button and a “Change room” link.

06 Experiences

Choose experiences with the map beside you

The experience picker uses compact cards, category filters with their icon and a map with your hotel and the experiences around it. The detail shows the price plainly and one button, “Choose this experience”. Category icons that showed empty, doubled or covered by a caption are fixed.

Before

Tall cards, no map, price “for your party”.

Broken category icons: empty circles, double border, overlapping caption.

Now

Compact cards, filters with icons, map with hotel and experiences.

Detail: “€320 for 2 people” and “Choose this experience”.

07 Prices

Short actions, prices in one format

Under hotels and experiences the actions are short pills: Change, Room, Remove. Prices read the same way everywhere: the amount first, then what it covers, “for 3 nights” for a hotel and “for 2 people” for an experience.

Before

Hotel: “Change room ↗” and “Change or compare hotels” as long links.

Experience: “Change experience” as a link.

Experience price: “€300”, with “for the whole experience” in small type.

Now

Hotel: “€4,238 for 3 nights” and the Change · Room pills.

Experience: “€440 for 2 people” and Change · Remove.

08 Itinerary

The city first, then the hotel

Each stay opens with the city and the nights (“Roma · 3 nights”) and the hotel underneath, so you always know where you are. Transfers show an estimated time, from the airport to the hotel and between cities. Maps use the brighter, easier-to-read OpenFreeMap Bright style.

Before