LOCAL PICKSGUIDE

Custom destination guides, built after you book.

We built a recommendation model that finds where locals actually go.

Tell us how you travel and we'll build a guide that's genuinely yours — the hidden gems, the timing that dodges the crowds, the places worth the detour, and the tourist traps to skip. Built after you book, around your real dates and your real base. Not a template with your city swapped in. Not a chatbot's list of the same ten restaurants.

A Glacier National Park road trip, 14 days, built for a family of four. Every page of a real guide — the summary itinerary, the day-by-day, the picks, the tourist traps named, the booking dates. A composite traveller; the destination research is real. Not sure yet? Tell us the trip and we'll come back before you pay.

What's actually different from asking a chatbot

Not "better AI" — anyone can say that, and it means nothing. These are the specific things we do that a chatbot answer doesn't:

  • Everything's still openWe check before a place goes in your guide. Ask a chatbot and it will recommend, with total confidence, a restaurant that shut two years ago.
  • The rules are right for your datesPermits, timed entry, shuttles, seasonal closures — checked for the year you're actually travelling, with the date we checked it printed next to it. A chatbot repeats last year's rule.
  • Ranked by what regulars say, not by star averageA 4.5-star average is a popularity contest, and popularity is how you end up at the tourist trap with the queue outside. We read what people who keep going back say about a place.
  • Built after you bookYour real dates, your real base, the actual season. Not generic advice for "a week in Montana".
  • Tourist traps named, not just left outKnowing what to skip saves as much of a trip as knowing what to book.
  • Every guide makes the next one betterWhat travellers tell us goes straight back in. A chatbot starts from nothing every time you ask.

What you get

A single PDF, made for your trip and nobody else's. The second page is the one that earns its keep: a one-page Summary Itinerary built to be screenshotted and glanced at on a phone with no signal — day-by-day in one line each, your top picks, the reservations with their booking deadlines, and the handful of things that ruin a trip if you miss them.

  • Built around your questionnaire — your pace, your food, your people
  • A one-page Summary Itinerary you can screenshot and use with no signal
  • Day-by-day spine for your real dates
  • Every pick opens in Google Maps with one tap
  • Know-before-you-go: the things that ruin a trip if you miss them
  • Reservations you need, and the date you need to book each by
  • Print-ready PDF
  • Built for everyone travelling with you, not just one person
  • One free rebuild if it isn't right
  • A real reply address on the last page — a person answers

Standard turnaround is 48-72 hours.

A page from a real guide. The number is our local-favourite ranking — it is not a star average.

How it works

Step one

You book your trip

Flights, hotel, dates — all yours. We don't sell travel and we don't book anything for you.

Step two

You tell us how you travel

A short questionnaire: your pace, your food, who's coming, and what would make this trip a win for you. That last one is the question a template can't ask.

Step three

Your guide arrives

A PDF built for your dates and your base, in 48-72 hours. If it isn't right, tell us and we rebuild it once, free.

Where we build guides

Right now, the United States and Western Europe at full price — that's where we can do the job properly, and we'd rather say so than take your money and hand you something thin.

Going somewhere else?

Tell us where. If we can do it justice we'll say yes and quote you; if we can't yet, we'll say that instead. Either way you'll get a straight answer from a person.

Pricing

Priced by how long you're travelling, because that's what changes the work. One guide, one price, no subscription.

Short

3-5 days
$29

One guide, one price.

Buy the Short guide — $29
Most trips

Standard

6-10 days
$49

One guide, one price.

Buy the Standard guide — $49

Extended

11-15 days
$79

One guide, one price.

Buy the Extended guide — $79

Grand

16-20 days
$99

One guide, one price.

Buy the Grand guide — $99
Straight answer

My email is on the last page of every guide, and I read the replies. If something in your guide is wrong, or you want more of one thing and less of another, that's the most useful message I get all week — it fixes your guide and it improves the next person's.