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✦ A four-step tour · about 3 min read

How Runtrip turns one sentence
into a full trip.

Runtrip is an AI travel planner: you describe the trip you want, it searches flights, hotels and activities, and hands you a day-by-day itinerary in about 30 seconds. Here's exactly what happens between your sentence and your suitcase.

The four steps

From sentence to itinerary in four moves.

Most plans come together in under a minute. Here's what each step does — and what you do.

1
Step one

Describe your trip

No multi-step form, no dropdowns. One sentence that sounds like you.

Tell Runtrip where you want to go, when, with whom, and roughly what you can spend. The more specific you are, the better the first draft — but a one-line brief is plenty to start. Runtrip reads dates, traveller counts, budget tier, vibe (chill, packed, romantic, with kids) and accessibility hints, asking only about what's genuinely ambiguous.

  • →"Weekend in Lisbon for 2, May 15–18, budget $1,200."
  • →"Family of 4 to Tokyo in spring, low-stairs, ~$5k for the week."
  • →"Somewhere warm in February, beaches, under $1,500 for two."
Natural-language input
✦
Weekend in Lisbon for 2, May 15–18, budget $1,200
↑
Lisbon
May 15–18
2 travellers
$1,200
weekend
Parsed in real time
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Step two

Runtrip plans it live

You watch the plan come together — flights searched, days sequenced — in real time.

You'll see the work happening: "searching flights", "building day-by-day itinerary", "checking the weather". Behind the scenes the planner queries real flight data from Travelpayouts, pulls the forecast for your dates, and sequences activities into a day-by-day itinerary that respects travel times — then a critic checks the plan holds together before you ever see it.

  • →Searches 100+ airlines for the best routing
  • →Sequences days by area, not random order
  • →Checks the forecast for your exact dates
25–40 seconds, typical
Working on your Lisbon plan…
✓
Searching flights NYC ↔ LIS
12 options · best from $640
Sketching the day-by-day
3 days · 9 activities
Checking weather for May 15–18
Planning in progress
~28s
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Step three

Refine in plain English

No filters or forms — just say what you want changed.

Don't love something? Tell Runtrip. "Cheaper flights." "Make Day 2 less touristy." "Swap dinner for something with sea views." "Add a fado night." The plan rewrites in seconds, and Runtrip remembers your preferences across the rest of the conversation — so it stops suggesting museums if you said you hate them on Day 1.

  • →"Cheaper flights, OK with one layover."
  • →"Move the wine tasting to a morning."
  • →"Day 3 should be all hiking, no city stuff."
Edits in seconds
Make Day 2 less touristy. And cheaper flights please.
Done. Here's what changed:
→Flights: $640 direct → $420 with 1 stop
→Day 2: swapped Belém Tower for LX Factory & Time Out Market
→Dinner: locals-only tasca in Alfama
Saved $220 · 4s
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Step four

Book where you trust

Runtrip never holds your card. You book on Skyscanner, Booking, GetYourGuide.

When the plan looks right, hit "Book" on any leg and you'll deep-link straight to the partner site — pre-filled with your dates, traveller count and selection — so you complete the purchase exactly where you would have anyway. Your payment details stay with the airline, hotel or tour operator. Runtrip earns a small affiliate commission at no extra cost to you.

  • →Flights → Skyscanner (via Travelpayouts)
  • →Hotels → Booking.com
  • →Tours → GetYourGuide
You book, we plan
Your bookings
Deep-linked
Flight TAP 219
JFK → LIS · May 15 · via Skyscanner
$420Book →
Solar dos Mouros
3 nights · Alfama · via Booking.com
$540Book →
Fado night
Tasca do Chico · via GetYourGuide
$28Book →
Total ~$988You pay them, not us
Anatomy of a plan

Everything you'd open six tabs for — in one.

A Runtrip plan isn't a wall of links. It's a structured itinerary with the trade-offs already weighed.

01

Flights

Best routing across 100+ airlines, with prices live as of search time. Direct vs. cheap clearly marked.

02

Stay

Usually one pick with two alternates, with a one-line reason — location, vibe, who it suits — not just a star count.

03

Day-by-day

Activities sequenced by neighbourhood, with realistic times. Lunch and dinner picked; mornings open if you want.

04

Getting around

A note per leg — walkable, a metro hop, or worth a taxi — rather than a vague hand-wave.

05

Weather

Live forecasts for your exact dates from Open-Meteo, so you pack right and the days are paced around the rain.

06

Running budget

A live total that updates as you swap things in and out, so you always know where the trip stands.

Under the hood

One planner, a few specialist stages, real travel data.

When you hit send, your sentence runs through a short pipeline: a router, a conversation, a planner that calls real APIs in a tool-loop, and a critic that checks the result. You see the plan, not the wiring.

Your sentence
"Weekend in Lisbon for 2, May 15–18, budget $1,200."
→ city, dates, party, budget, tier

1Router

Reads each message
Is this a new trip, a tweak, or just chat? Routes accordingly — cheaply.

2Conversation

Gathers the brief
Infers sensible defaults, asks only what's genuinely ambiguous, then signals "ready to plan".

3Planner

One tool-loop, typed output
Calls the flight-search tool (Travelpayouts) and assembles a structured day-by-day plan; weather and the cover image are fetched alongside in code.

4Critic

Validates before you see it
Checks the plan against the rules — dates, sequencing, budget — and flags anything that doesn't hold together.

Where the data comes from

Source
Status
Travelpayouts
Flights
Live
Skyscanner
Flight booking
Live
Open-Meteo
Weather
Live
Unsplash
Cover imagery
Live
Booking.com
Hotels
Partner
GetYourGuide
Tours
Partner

Live sources are queried at search time. Hotels and tours deep-link to trusted partners for booking today; live search for those is on the way. Availability can shift between planning and booking — Runtrip re-checks before it deep-links you out.

Refining in plain English

No filters. No forms. Just a conversation.

The plan is a draft, not a verdict. Push back on anything — Runtrip rewrites instead of asking you to start over.

Cheaper flights, OK with one stop.
Before
TAP direct · $640
After
Iberia 1-stop · $420
✓ Saved $220
Make Day 2 less touristy.
Before
Belém Tower + Jerónimos
After
LX Factory + Time Out Market
✓ Locals' picks
Swap dinner for something with sea views.
Before
Cervejaria Ramiro (no view)
After
Ponto Final, Cacilhas (river view)
✓ Same price tier
Add a fado night.
Before
— nothing planned
After
Tasca do Chico, Alfama, 9pm
✓ Slotted into Day 2
Where you book

You book on the sites you'd trust anyway.

Runtrip is a planner, not a booking funnel. We hand you off to the partner site with your selection pre-filled — and earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you.

Flight in your plan
Pre-filled route, dates, passenger count
→
Skyscanner
Hotel in your plan
Pre-filled property, dates, room count
→
Booking.com
Tour in your plan
Pre-filled activity & date
→
GetYourGuide

No card on file

Runtrip never asks for payment details. You pay the airline, hotel or operator directly.

Same protections

Refunds, changes and disputes go through the partner you booked with — exactly as they normally would.

How we make money

A small affiliate commission, paid by partners, when you complete a booking. Your price is identical.

Frequently asked

Questions, answered.

The honest version of every question we get.

Yes — planning trips is free, with no credit card required. Runtrip earns a small affiliate commission when you book through a partner link (Skyscanner, Booking.com, GetYourGuide). Your price stays the same whether you book through us or not.
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