How It Works

How it works

From a trip idea to a plan you can follow.

Add what you know. See what the trip may cost. Bring the bookings together and keep track of what still needs attention. Then use the same plan while you travel.

How it works

Add what you know. Build the rest at your pace.

You add

Your dates, destinations, budget and bookings. You can start with an outline and fill in the detail later.

The planner helps you

Estimate likely costs, build the route, track spending, spot gaps and bring bookings together in one place. Ask Travel Oracle for help with your trip.

You get

A live trip plan, booking records, budget tracking, Daily Schedule, offline trip details and a Travel Pack you can download or share.

Step 01

Start with the trip basics

Add your dates, number of travellers, planning currency and overall budget if you have one. Start here points you towards the next useful step.

My Trips screen showing the Create Trip form

My Trips, Create Trip

Step 02

Compare destinations and likely costs

Choose destinations and travel style. Use research-based estimates to help set realistic expectations before you book.

How Much Will It Cost?

Use the estimate as a planning guide, not a live quote. Check current prices with providers before booking.

Cost estimate screen with demonstration trip data

Step 03

Build your route

Add your destinations, arrival dates and nights in order. ETP helps you see how the trip fits together and highlights missing accommodation or onward travel.

Route screen showing destinations arranged in trip order

Route

Step 04

Add your bookings and track the real cost

Add accommodation, flights, trains, buses, transfers, car hire, cruises, activities and restaurant reservations.

Link bookings to the relevant part of your route and record dates, times, providers, costs, payments and balances.

Bookings can be recorded in the currency you actually pay while your trip stays organised in your planning currency.

My Bookings showing confirmed travel arrangements

My Bookings

Step 05

See what still needs attention

Use Trip Check and Checklist to spot missing bookings, gaps in your route, unpaid balances and unfinished planning tasks.

  • Accommodation or arrival transport missing
  • Booking balance due
  • Short stay worth reviewing
  • Planning task overdue

Review suggestions and decide what, if anything, you want to change.

Trip Check

A second pair of eyes on your trip

Trip Check highlights details that may need attention. You can review a suggestion and keep the trip as planned.

Travel Oracle

From advice to action. With your approval.

Travel Oracle understands the trip you are already planning. Ask about your route, budget, bookings, activities or practical travel questions.

If Travel Oracle suggests a change, you review it before anything is applied to your trip.

Can we spend two more nights in Bangkok?Suggest something to do on our free afternoon in Paris.Add Chiang Rai after Chiang Mai.

Travel Oracle can help with your plan, but it does not book or cancel travel for you.

Daily Schedule

Know what is happening each day

Daily Schedule brings together transport, hotel check-in and check-out, activities, restaurant reservations and other timed plans in the order they happen.

Daily Schedule showing the day's travel, activities and hotel check-in

Daily Schedule

Available while you travel

Keep key trip details available offline

Save important trip and booking information to your phone so you can still check dates, times, providers and booking details when you do not have reliable internet.

Mobile view of saved booking details available offline

Offline mobile view

Final step · Take your plan with you

The useful details, ready to download.

Generate a Travel Pack with your route, bookings, payment status, outstanding actions and useful destination information.

Keep it as a backup, print it, or share it with someone at home.

Current Travel Pack showing the trip summary and priorities

Travel Pack

One place for the whole trip.

Start planning your trip