Interesting. As I am closing in on a travel plan for next May, just for grins I asked Trip Advisor's AI bot the following:
30 days in England with 7 nights in London, two leisure cycle tours, historic houses and gardens.
It came up with:
- Days 1–4: London (4 nights) — parks + palaces + gardens
- Days 5–10: Cornwall (6 nights) — Leisure e‑bike tour #1: Camel Trail + a
blockbuster garden - Days 11–16: Bath + Cotswolds edge (6 nights)
— Leisure e‑bike tour #2 + classic landscaped estates Bike Cotswolds manor-country. - Days 17–22: York + North Yorkshire (6 nights) — abbeys + grand estates + gardens
- Days 23–25: Peak District (3 nights) — England’s great stately home day
- Days 26–30: London (3 nights) [QUERY - Can AI count? The nights of Days 26, 27, 28 and 29 = 4. But its all good.]
Compared to what I have been looking at, most recently
- Days 1-7 - London (incl. Greenwich, which AI did not suggest)
- Days 8-10 - Peak Dist. (incl. Chatsworth)
- Days 11-15 - Lake Dist. leisure cycle (incl. Beatrix Potter and Wordsworth Houses)
- Days 16-18 - Stratford and Warwick or Baddsley Clinton
- Days 19-24 - Cotswolds to Bath Leisure Cycle
- Day 25 - Bath (2 nights)
- Day 26 - To Salisbury by Car (Interestingly, AI suggested Stourhead, which has been on my list, as well)
- Days 27-29 - Sussex and Kent/Canterbury by Car
- Day 30 - Fly Home (If we add Cambridge/East Anglia, that would add about 3 more days. THAT is a family discussion.)
The Lake District was always on my itinerary; not on AI's. Kent/Sussex is shown in the AI thought process, but did not make the grade at the end.
Quite some time ago, with your help, I added the Peak Dist. and the car trip from Bath to Kent. Months ago, I struck Cornwall and York. You just can't do it all.
My thoughts about this exercise ...
- I think AI did pretty well, overall. Moreover, I had not identified Cornwall's Camel Trail.
- I am fine that we added the trip from Bath to Canterbury, even at the expense of Cornwall.
- Yes we are missing York/Yorkshire, but I am looking forward to the Lake District which was on my radar from the start.
- In terms of transportation, as well as places to see, I think Stratford/Warwickshire fits well.
- The idea of splitting up London so that we would spend 4 nights there at the start and 3 nights at the end is worthy of consideration.