Use ChatGPT for Easy Vacation Planning (Mobile Device version)

Updated July 4th, 2024.

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ChatGPT is incredibly useful for vacation planning. Read on as ChatGPT helps me plan a three-day weekend in Santa Barbara, offering suggestions for hotels, restaurants, and attractions– all tailored to my liking.

Note: the screenshots here are from the free ChatGPT iPhone app, available on the iPhone App Store. There are many, many apps claiming to be “the” ChatGPT app, but only one is, and here’s the link to it.

All of the following can be done for free.

Trip to Santa Barbara

Who wouldn’t want to go to Santa Barbara? Here’s how I used ChatGPT to plan my trip:

Here’s ChatGPT’s response. First a list of hotels that meet my specifications (small, near the beach, etc.):

ChatGPT did a great job of this, and it did it in seconds, and all from a single prompt. One small problem: ChatGPT didn’t anticipate that I would want contact information for every place suggested. So I asked for contact info. And I got it!

Notice that I don’t ask my original question again, with the contact info modification added. I just asked for contact info, as I would of a person. There’s a reason they call it ChatGPT.

Imagine trying to get that information via Google searches. You’d be at it all day. And remember, this was all tailored to me: the kinds of hotels I like. The kinds of restaurants I like. The kinds of attractions I like.

Same thing, for Laguna Beach

I had the idea that maybe I should try going South, to Laguna Beach. So I asked for a similar itinerary, with Laguna Beach as the destination. ChatGPT came through with flying colors. Notice that ChatGPT remembered that I like contact information. Also notice how little I had to do to get ChatGPT to do the work for Laguna Beach.

Again, all of that was done in seconds. And all I did was ask “Could you give me a similar itinerary for a trip to Laguna Beach?“

Finally I thought, “Let’s get some new ideas. Santa Barbara is always great, Laguna Beach is nice too, but maybe I’m overlooking something.” So I asked ChatGPT for suggestions.

How cool is that! Great ideas, and if I picked any one of them ChatGPT would prepare an itinerary for me in an instant.

What a time-saver. Give ChatGPT a try when planning your next vacation. It’s fantastic.

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