Multi City Vacation Planning

[Etienne Levic]

Youcan fine-tune the results by adding and subtracting legs as you start planning your itinerary. Sort the results based on time of day taking off, or landing (earliest or latest) to make things easy to sift through.

In fact, you can save money on flights by combining multiple destinations into one ticket. Sometimes, especially during peak season or between the most popular routes, booking a multi-city flight can be cheaper than booking multiple one-way tickets. And you can avoid all the search time looking for one-way tickets all over the globe.

This is a type of multi-city flight. It means that you fly into one city and out of another. For example, you can book an open-jaw flight from New York to Boston, then take the train to Providence, Rhode Island from Boston, and then fly back to New York from Providence. This way, you can explore all these places in a way that you would like, without having to necessarily backtrack or return to your original destination.

You can combine flights in and out of different airports, book multiple hotels for all or part of your stay and select car hire for any part of your vacation. Whether you want an action-packed itinerary, journey from city to city or travel from coast to coast, you can book a personalised multi-centre vacation. Take a look at our recommended routes and best combination trips, or tailor as many flights as you like, with just a couple or several hotel stays. Add car hire when you want it and look at our destination experiences for added adventure.

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Choose where you're flying from first, then add your flights to the destinations you want to visit. You can add up to six flights on British Airways multi-centre trips, which can be short stopovers or longer breaks away. Add your flight, then choose the dates you want to move on to your next destination. Select your flight class and ticket type, then your flights are ready to go.

Feeling ready for a road trip? Choose more freedom on your adventure and hire a car for your chance to explore. Select the rental destination for you, whether you want to have a car for each place you visit, or just one destination you go to, the flexibility is yours. Choose to return the car rental to the same location or select a different depot to drop off your car.

Some of our favourite cities in Europe may share a nationality but they all sparkle with individuality. For an infusion of culture combine Florence, Venice and Rome or explore the stunning Amalfi Coast.

Are you looking to go abroad anytime soon? Are you going to several different locations and worrying that you will have to sort through all the logistical mud to actually get it done? Would you like a service that can do all of the logistical legwork and leave you to worry about the more important things?

Though most travel websites offer the option for a multi-destination trip planner, Kayak is one of the main websites in the game to take it seriously, offering its very own trip builder for public consumption.

After all, 'airfares aren't as simple as buying things from your grocery store where you just add up everything. There are multiple combinations and sometimes, breaking your journey apart using separate tickets saves you money.' In this spirit, the Kayak trip builder can help to shine a light through the fog of your multi-city itinerary and work out which of your multi-destination trips to take first.

Otherwise known as Nomad, the Kayak trip builder is an incredibly useful tool (among the best travel apps) for multi-city trips, so why not try it with your own trip? Can't get it to work, well follow these helpful instructions to get started.

Starting from the very front page of the website, Triptile offers all the very same features. In fact, where Kayak's trip builder is an integral part of their website, Triptile is entirely devoted to this trip-building aspect, allowing for the linking of multiple European destinations easily and quickly.

Indeed, from the very front page, we are guided to 'start building your trip', offering a series of luscious European destinations to choose from: Florence, Milan, Venice, Barcelona, Paris, London, Madrid, Lisbon, Rome, Sicily, Dublin, Stockholm, etc. In this way, you can build your very own Europe Trip Diary!

In their own words, 'Triptile is an online European tour planner. With Triptile you can plan your trip to Europe just like you want it. Select from over 400 European destinations, 300 template programs that can be modified just like you want them, and from over 3000 activities hand-picked for each destination by expert travel planners to build your perfect European tour program.

'Triptile gives you control and the freedom to travel to Europe just like you want. Our Europe tour planner is unique and is the most powerful tool out there, which was previously available only to travel professionals, but is now open to all.'

Though Triptile is inherently dedicated to European trip planning, they have also expanded their reach to elsewhere on the planet, helpfully evinced by the drop-down menu on the front page titled 'Rest of The World'. Here, you will see Italy, France, UK & Ireland, Spain & Portugal, Scandinavia, North America, and Asia, alongside the so-called Rest of The World.

Presumably, this comes to mean South America, a markedly massive continent for all intents and purposes. Still, this oversight shouldn't discourage you from using this service, as you are likely to find the best price on your next trip.

Of course, if you are feeling confident enough, you can add destinations to your own planner. Yes, it might be a little more time-consuming than just using a ready-made planner online, but there is real art to it. For all its perks, a computer-generated journey planner isn't always going to get you the best deal or the best travel experiences.

Unless you are looking to just sun it up, then you might want to have a look and see what kinds of activities there are to do in your chosen locations. This can be anything from exciting water sports to cultural excursions, the latter of which tends to be a lot more affordable (or free altogether).

Before you head out, it is especially advisable to share your intended route and the dates on which you will be staying in certain locations with friends and family, lest anything go wrong and they have no idea where you are.

The closest you are likely to get to an actual app for planning a trip abroad with multiple destinations is the trip builder function on the Kayak website. Helpfully dubbed Nomad, this is more than just an add-on to the website. Instead, it expands the possibilities of the site, completely allowing the user total flexibility for choosing a trip with several different destinations on it. You begin by choosing your exit point of the country, choosing the airport you will use and the day you will leave, and from there you can get as flexible or inflexible as you like. Those in the former camp might not even add a time for returning, though thankfully those in the latter camp are also catered to.

This will depend on where you are going. Though Kayak's helpful trip-building add-on Nomad is a great way to visit multiple destinations just about anywhere in the world and book accommodation and flights along the way, it is hard to deny just how effective the Triptile website is for doing so specifically for European destinations. This is, in fact, Triptile's central demographic - those looking to visit multiple destinations in Europe in sequence. You can see as much when you visit the website - the front page is literally a wall of tiles, each featuring a different city in a different European country. Sure, they do also cater to those looking for places to go and stay elsewhere in the world, but if you are looking to do so in Europe, then you can scarcely do better than this.

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It can take time to find that rhythm when planning itineraries to different countries. And if you are a solo traveler like me, try not to get too frustrated with yourself if a couple of things go wrong.

A significant tip for booking a multi-city trip is how you search for your flights. Be prepared that this step can take hours, depending on how many cities you plan to see.

The best way to craft a multi-city itinerary in Europe is by using Skyscanner! I put in my departure city and search for the destination with Explore Everywhere. I also click the direct flight buttons.

The train travel time from Barcelona to Valencia is about 2 hours and 40 minutes. So I decided to add in 2 nights in Valencia and then fly from Valencia to Seville. This meant I had to axe visiting Granada for this trip, but it was the most efficient way to make my itinerary work.

If I roll up into a city by train, like when I visited Valencia, you can get away with a two-night stay. Although it all depends on when you first arrive in the city, if I arrive after 4 pm, I will stay another night for a total of three.

A great way to tackle the city sights quickly is by doing either a bike tour or a bus tour. When I plan my stay in a city, I always try to incorporate this on the first day of arriving. When given a broad overview of the town, I can spend the remaining time I have returning to the sites that piqued my interest.

I used to think it was always better to stay a night at the next destination, not considering alternatives. So that leads me to another multi-city trip travel hack. Can it be a day trip?

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