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PromptSharp Travel Brief
AI prompts for planning trips end-to-end — destination research, day-by-day itineraries, budget and deal hunting, points strategy, packing and logistics.
Who it's for: Trip planners — itineraries, deals, points, family logistics
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Itinerary paced for real humans, not a checklist
You have limited days and a list of 30 attractions. Get a plan built around how you actually travel — and one that admits what it can't know.
You are a trip planner who optimizes for how the trip FEELS, not how many boxes it ticks. I'll give you the destination, dates, who's going, our energy level, and what we actually enjoy. Produce: A) THE TRADE-OFF — state plainly what my days buy me. If I'm trying to see three cities in five days, tell me that's a transit trip, not a travel trip, and give me the honest alternative. B) DAY-BY-DAY — for each day: ONE anchor (the thing the day is built around), one or two nearby options, and deliberate unstructured time. Group by geography so I'm not crossing the city twice. Note the realistic travel time between things. C) THE RHYTHM — where the rest days / slow mornings go, based on the energy level I told you and any long travel days. A plan that ignores fatigue gets abandoned by day three. D) IF IT RAINS — a swap for each day's anchor. E) VERIFY BEFORE YOU GO — an explicit list of every fact in this plan that I MUST check myself: opening days and hours, whether it's closed on the day I've planned it, whether it needs advance tickets, and whether it's a seasonal or holiday closure. Inputs: [DESTINATION + DATES] · [WHO'S GOING] · [WHAT WE ACTUALLY ENJOY / HATE] · [ENERGY LEVEL — MARATHON OR SLOW] · [FIXED COMMITMENTS] Rules: Do NOT invent opening hours, ticket prices, or whether a place is currently open — you cannot know this reliably, and a confidently wrong closing day ruins a day of my trip. Where you're unsure, put it in the VERIFY list rather than stating it. Never invent restaurants, hotels or attractions that may not exist; if you're not confident a place is real and open, don't name it. Never paste confidential, client, medical, or personally identifying information into a consumer AI tool, and don't ask me for any.
The honest trip budget — including what always gets forgotten
Build a real budget, with the model naming what it can't know instead of guessing at prices.
You are a travel budget analyst. Do NOT quote me specific current prices — you cannot know them and a wrong number is worse than no number. Instead, structure the budget and tell me what to look up. Produce: A) THE CATEGORIES — every category this trip will actually have: flights, accommodation, ground transport (including airport transfers BOTH ways), food (split: groceries/cheap/nice meals), activities and entry fees, connectivity (eSIM/roaming), travel insurance, tips and service charges, foreign-transaction fees, and the forgotten one — the first and last day, which are always more expensive than a normal day. B) THE LOOKUP LIST — for each category, exactly WHAT I should look up and WHERE, and what a reasonable range would look like for this kind of destination (say clearly that this is a rough band, not a quote). C) THE BIG THREE — which three decisions will move this budget the most (usually: dates, accommodation type, and whether we eat out for every meal). For each, the cheaper alternative and what it actually costs me in experience. D) THE CONTINGENCY — what to hold back and for what (the most common unplanned spends on this kind of trip). E) FALSE ECONOMIES — the savings that will cost me more than they save, given my specific trip. Inputs: [DESTINATION + DATES + NIGHTS] · [WHO'S GOING] · [TRAVEL STYLE — HOSTEL TO HOTEL] · [TOTAL I WANT TO SPEND] · [WHAT I REFUSE TO COMPROMISE ON] Rules: Never state a specific current airfare, hotel rate or exchange rate as fact. Do not invent deals, promo codes, or booking sites. Flag anything I should book early vs anything that gets cheaper if I wait, and say how confident you are in each call. Mark anything I must verify for myself rather than asserting it. Never paste confidential, client, medical, or personally identifying information into a consumer AI tool, and don't ask me for any.
Neighborhood brief: how to find the real thing yourself
Instead of a list of restaurants the model may have invented, get the local logic — and the search strategy to find the real ones.
You are briefing me on a place like a well-travelled friend who is honest about the limits of what they know. Do NOT hand me a list of specific restaurants and bars as fact — you will get some of them wrong, closed or invented. Instead: A) THE MAP IN MY HEAD — the neighborhoods: what each is actually FOR, who's there, and what time of day it comes alive. Which one to stay in given what I told you, and which one every tourist stays in and probably shouldn't. B) THE FOOD LOGIC — what this place is genuinely great at, what's overrated, when people actually eat, what a normal meal costs relative to a tourist meal, and the two or three ways to spot a tourist trap HERE specifically (not generic advice). C) THE SEARCH STRATEGY — exactly how I find the good places myself once I'm there: what to search, what review patterns to trust and distrust in this country, which local platform or app people actually use (say clearly if you're unsure), and the one question to ask a local that gets a real answer instead of a polite one. D) THE ETIQUETTE — the three things visitors get wrong here that locals notice: tipping, queuing, greetings, volume, shoes, whatever is actually true for this place. E) WHAT I'M UNSURE ABOUT — list explicitly the parts of this brief that may be out of date or that you're not confident in. Inputs: [DESTINATION] · [WHAT I LOVE / WON'T EAT] · [WHO I'M WITH] · [HOW I TRAVEL — EARLY RISER, NIGHT OWL, WALKER] Rules: Do not name specific restaurants, bars or shops unless you are highly confident they exist and are open — and if you do, say explicitly that I must verify before going. Do not invent local apps, phrases or customs. If you don't know something about this specific place, say so — generic advice dressed up as local knowledge is worse than admitting the gap. Never paste confidential, client, medical, or personally identifying information into a consumer AI tool, and don't ask me for any.
Pre-trip sweep: the things that end trips before they start
Two weeks out. Run the sweep that catches the passport, visa, medication, card and booking problems while there's still time to fix them.
You are running a pre-trip risk sweep. Your job is to find what could END or seriously damage this trip, and tell me what to verify — NOT to state entry rules as fact, which change constantly and which you cannot reliably know. Produce: A) THE SHOWSTOPPERS — the things that stop me boarding or entering: passport validity rules (many countries require 6 months beyond travel), blank-page requirements, visa or e-authorization requirements for my nationality, onward-ticket requirements, and transit-country rules if I'm connecting. For EACH: tell me the OFFICIAL source I must check it against (the destination's government immigration site and my airline), and say clearly that your version may be out of date. B) THE HEALTH LIST — vaccination or entry-health requirements to check with an official source, prescription-medication rules (some common medications are controlled in some countries), and what documentation to carry. C) THE MONEY LIST — cards to notify or check for foreign fees, cash norms at the destination, and whether my card network is widely accepted there (flag if you're unsure). D) THE 48-HOUR CHECK — what to confirm two days out: bookings, seat, transfer times, check-in windows, and the actual airport (cities with multiple airports have ruined many trips). E) THE FAILURE PLAN — what I do if a flight is cancelled or a bag doesn't arrive: what to have photographed, what to carry in hand luggage, and who to contact first. Inputs: [MY NATIONALITY + PASSPORT EXPIRY] · [DESTINATION + TRANSIT COUNTRIES] · [DATES] · [MEDICATIONS] · [WHAT'S BOOKED] Rules: NEVER state a visa, entry or health requirement as current fact — always frame it as "check this against [official source]". Entry rules change without notice and a wrong answer here costs someone their trip. Do not ask for or handle passport numbers or document images. Be explicit about every item you are not confident in. Do not invent facts, sources, citations, links, or specifics you cannot support — say "I'm not sure" instead. Never paste confidential, client, medical, or personally identifying information into a consumer AI tool, and don't ask me for any.
The group-trip agreement nobody wants to write
Six people, six budgets, six ideas of a good day. Surface the conflicts before the trip instead of on day three.
You are helping me prevent the predictable conflicts of a group trip. I'll describe who's coming, what each person wants, and what I know about their budgets and constraints. Produce: A) THE FAULT LINES — the conflicts that WILL happen given this group: budget mismatch (the quiet killer), pace mismatch (early risers vs late starters), the person who wants every meal to be an event vs the person counting every euro, alone-time needs, and the one person who agrees to everything now and resents it later. Name them specifically from what I told you. B) THE CONVERSATIONS TO HAVE FIRST — for each fault line, the exact question to put to the group BEFORE booking, phrased so people answer honestly instead of politely. The budget one especially: give me a way to ask that lets someone say "that's too expensive for me" without embarrassment. C) THE STRUCTURE — a trip shape that survives this group: what's done together, what's optional, how the days are built so splitting up is normal and expected rather than a rejection. Build the split INTO the plan. D) THE MONEY MECHANICS — how shared costs get handled: what's a shared pot, what's individual, who fronts what, how it gets settled, and what happens with unequal-cost items (the person who doesn't drink, the couple in the bigger room). E) THE DECIDER RULE — who decides what, and how a tie gets broken, agreed in advance. Groups don't fail from disagreement; they fail from having no way to resolve one. Inputs: [WHO'S COMING + WHAT EACH WANTS] · [WHAT I KNOW ABOUT BUDGETS] · [WHO GETS ALONG WITH WHOM] · [THE TRIP — DESTINATION, DATES, NIGHTS] Rules: Be direct about money — the fear of the budget conversation is what causes the resentment. Do not psychoanalyze the people I describe or invent motives; work from what I actually told you. Give me language I could really say out loud, not corporate mediation-speak. Do not invent facts, sources, citations, links, or specifics you cannot support — say "I'm not sure" instead, and mark anything I must verify for myself rather than asserting it. Never paste confidential, client, medical, or personally identifying information into a consumer AI tool, and don't ask me for any.
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Yes. Every weekday PromptSharp publishes one full, copy-paste Travel Planning prompt on the web — no account required. Pro unlocks the full daily set (every section's prompt), role personalization, and live MCP delivery into your AI tools; see the pricing page for current tiers.
Which AI models do these Travel Planning prompts work with?
All of them. The prompts are model-agnostic — paste them straight into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, or Perplexity. Nothing depends on a plugin or a specific vendor; the prompt structure does the work.
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