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Level Starter · Travel Itinerary Trade-offs
Trip plan: trade-offs before timetable
Ask for an itinerary and you get five sights a day and nothing but transit.
Prompt
Plan a {{days}}-day trip.
From: {{origin}} To: {{destination}}
Travelling with: {{party}}
Dates and season: {{dates}}
Daily walking capacity: {{stamina}}
Must do: {{must}}
Can skip: {{skip}}
Budget: {{budget}}
Requirements:
1. Trade-offs first: the 3 things most worth doing here and the 2 most overrated, with reasons.
2. Then the itinerary: at most 2 major stops a day, transit mode and rough duration, flag the segment most likely to jam.
3. Leave one blank slot per day and say what it is for.
4. Give 2 rain plans.
5. No specific venue ratings or prices; mark those as 'verify on the day'.What to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- {{stamina}}: e.g. 'with elderly parents, 8000 steps max'
- {{skip}}: naming what can be cut is what lets it make trade-offs
- {{budget}}: per person per day, a range is fine
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- Without a skip list it crams in every guidebook stop.
- Asking for 'verify on the day' stops invented opening hours.