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Create a daily travel itinerary

Create a customized travel itinerary with intelligent guidance, adapting to your preferences and desired activities.
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Describe the task

Claude builds an itinerary designed for day-to-day use while traveling —formatted for mobile with realistic timing, navigation tips and addresses that work with map apps, and alternatives for when your first choice is full. You get a document that works when you're on the move and deciding what to do next.

Tell Claude your destination, trip length, and specific interests that go beyond generic categories—the particular experiences, neighborhoods, or styles you care about. Ask Claude to search the web for current recommendations. Include practical details like your travel pace, group size, and budget that affect scheduling decisions. Request realistic timing built around actual distances and movement throughout the day.

Create a 5-day trip itinerary for my visit to Lisbon in early June.

I want authentic neighborhood restaurants where locals eat, Manueline and Pombaline architecture at the actual monuments, genuine fado experiences, to walk 8-10 miles daily instead of using transit, and to visit only truly exceptional museums like Gulbenkian while skipping generic collections.

Research current recommendations and build a realistic 5-day itinerary with actual walking times, meal schedules, and weather considerations.

Create a Word document designed for mobile use: day-by-day timing, addresses, alternatives when places are full, daily budget estimates, and neighborhood context. Include small thumbnail photos (160x120px) at key locations paired with clickable links to real photo galleries so I can preview places visually and browse full image sets.

Design this document like something a top-tier travel agency produces Think high-end travel magazine meets bespoke concierge service, not generic travel guide. Use a sophisticated color system, elegant typography, and organized text that feels expensive. Make every design choice serve both aesthetics and utility.

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Give Claude context

Make sure Claude has the right tools to accurately research and build your itinerary, by enabling web search and extended thinking.

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Optional context

Make sure Web search is enabled. This lets Claude find current travel information, reviews, and operating hours.

Turn on Extended Thinking to enable Claude to think through creating detailed, well-organized itinerary documents.

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What Claude creates

Claude searches the web to find current recommendations, then filters research through your specific criteria—identifying the architecture styles, food experiences, and museums you actually care about instead of comprehensive attraction lists. It then builds a day-by-day itinerary with realistic timing, actual walking distances, and backup options—in an editable format you can update as plans change.

From Claude

I've researched current Lisbon recommendations through the lens of your specific interests and created a 5-day itinerary that respects how solo travelers actually move through a city.

The itinerary balances your obsession with Manueline and Pombaline architecture with authentic fado experiences at venues where locals actually go.

Each day includes realistic walking times, meal timing that matches Portuguese culture, built-in flexibility for when you're tired, and backup options for weather.

The document is designed for mobile use—clear visual hierarchy with color-coded sections and generous white space for easy scanning while you're actually navigating the city.

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Follow up prompts

Continue the conversation with Claude to refine, expand, or explore further.

Elevate the design

Provide specific aesthetic instructions and ask Claude to push beyond defaults to receive more artistic outputs.

The color scheme feels generic. Choose something unique and aesthetically beautiful—design this like you're a creative director at a top branding agency—every choice should be intentional and elevated. Tighten the formatting to reduce white space and pack in more detail without losing readability.

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Research local context

Understand customs, etiquette, and practical details before you arrive. Use Research searches across multiple sources to give you a complete report.

Research practical local knowledge for Lisbon. What should I know about tipping culture, restaurant etiquette, how transit actually works, common tourist mistakes to avoid, and any customs I should respect? I want the full picture from multiple sources, not just one travel blog's take.

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Build it into your actual schedule

Turn itinerary ideas into calendar events with realistic timing. Claude can create event entries directly in your calendar.

Add all activities from my itinerary to my Google Calendar with location details and event notes.

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Tricks, tips, and troubleshooting

Ask Claude to cite sources

Tell Claude: "Include sources for your recommendations—which blogs, reviews, or websites you're pulling from." This helps you verify recommendations and find more details later.

Add features and elevate design quality

To add photos, tell Claude: "Include small thumbnail images at key locations with links to photo galleries." To trigger premium design, use phrasing like "Design this like something a high-end travel agency" or "Make this look like a magazine itinerary." This triggers Claude to use sophisticated typography, professional color systems, and polished layout instead of default formatting.

Send to travel companions

Claude creates artifacts that can be published and shared, and files that open up directly in your work spaces, like Google Drive. Easily share the itinerary with your group and collect their input. You can either make adjustments directly in your file or revisit your chat with Claude to conduct additional research or make changes.

Ready to try for yourself?

Tell Claude where you're going and what matters to you—it researches current recommendations and builds an itinerary that fits how you actually travel.
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