When you’re making plans to explore the wide world, there are a thousand and one things to consider. That’s all well and good, but it’s important to remember one thing: we’re just people! Taking some of the weight off your brain to plan your trip with RoutePerfect’s trip planner is a great way to make things more effective.
Here, let’s talk about three great ways that RoutePerfect’s trip planner can help you to find the optimum route for your travel, and do all the things that you love!
Alter your stops
The way that RoutePerfect’s trip planner works is that you start off by adding in your start and end locations. Then, the planner will create an optimized route for you between those two locations, and add in a few fun stops along the way.
The fun, freedom, and excitement of the trip planner come in the ability to change your stops! Don’t be one of the millions of tourists who miss the little gems through a lack of planning.
For example, if you’re going on a long trip across the UK, and you want to track down a couple of great points of interest that you might enjoy, you might find it helpful to alter your stops to be closer together.
If you’re starting off in London, and the first stop on your trip that RoutePlanner suggests is Birmingham, you’re missing out on a lot of great people and experiences by driving past them! To get yourself a piece of that fun, add in some extra stops between those two locations - you could go west to Bath and experience history, or northeast to Norfolk to take in some of the amazing natural landscape that’s present there.
By adding these stops in locations you otherwise may not have visited, you can optimize your route for fun, rather than for time.
Alter your route
RoutePerfect impressively presents you with a list of routes that are designed to be as efficient as possible. This is all well and good, as it ensures that you’re not taking too much time to travel, and instead spending more time having fun.
However, most of the time, the most efficient route will be on a highway or a similar type of development. While this is definitely a great way to ensure that you make good time, it’s not a great way to ensure that you have a great time. You might choose to alter your route to take you on a more winding path through some nature or along the coastline - this would grant you access to some amazing vistas that you otherwise wouldn’t have seen.
You could also alter your route to allow you to drop in on a friend or family member that you haven’t seen in a while. While your vacation can be a weeks-long road trip across different countries, you might want to make a drop-in on some family a much quicker event. You can make this happen by adjusting your route on the provided map to take you closer to the relevant town or city, and perhaps just go for a quick lunch rather than an overnight stay.
Consider the travel time
The travel time between locations is something that’s often forgotten about during vacation planning, and for good reason: it’s no one’s favorite part of a trip! RoutePerfect displays the projected travel time between each stop on your trip, allowing you plenty of knowledge about exactly what you’ll be doing on the road.
This can allow you to involve fun activities to break up this tough period. After all, people typically have much more fun with their friends than when they’re alone! Take the journey time as an opportunity to chat with your friends, play games, and rediscover the reasons you’ve got such a good relationship with them!
With a little planning in advance, even the longest, most boring journey can be made fun - optimizing your time for excitement and collaborative fun is often more engaging than optimizing to get from A to B as quickly as possible.
RoutePerfect can be used to optimize your travel route in far more ways than just saving time. With a little planning in advance, you can take the time to create a wonderful travel route with much less effort than it otherwise may have taken. Using RoutePerfect as a collaborative tool in this way is powerful and very effective.
