Send us your itinerary

An operator's quotation, a programme you built yourself, or an itinerary out of a tool. We read it and tell you what we see in it.

What we will send back

Stages too short for what they contain — one night where the content asks for two, and the reverse.

Days that repeat without it being visible. The commonest defect, and the hardest to see yourself: three stops of the same kind on the same day, of which the third leaves nothing.

Driving days dressed up as sightseeing days. Three hours behind the wheel plus three cultural stops appear on the programme as a full day. They are not one.

The gap between what you asked for and what is planned. Counted in nights, not in impressions.

What needs checking: scheduled links, seasonal roads, permits with lead times.

What we will not do

The free review does not rewrite your itinerary and does not propose another — the feasibility check will offer a variant later. We do not sell trips and take no commission.

We measure what can be calculated: the legs, on the real road network, and the climate of the month at each stage. What changes from one day to the next — an open trail, a ferry, a museum that closes at five — we flag for checking: we do not check it for you.

What we get out of it

It is free, and that is not generosity: it is how we learn.

Our method rests on research into how the industry builds its circuits, and on an engine built and tested on more than forty simulated circuits. Every programme reviewed tests it against one more real case.

Your data. An itinerary contains names, dates, addresses and sometimes amounts. Three commitments: anonymisation before any reuse in our counts, no republication without your written agreement, separate from sending, and no transfer to any third party. Our privacy page sets it out.

How

Fill in the form below (or the one at the top of the page) — the reason "Have an itinerary reviewed" is already selected — and describe the itinerary or paste a link. You can also paste the text of the programme straight into the message. Where you can, say:

• the destination and the dates
• the number of people, and whether there are children
• what you had asked for — more nature, more culture, more walking
• what gives you pause, if anything does

That last line is the most useful. A vague impression beats nothing: naming it is exactly what we are trying to do.

Before you send it, you can already run these seven checks.

Turnaround

A few days. It is done by hand, by one person, alongside other things.