Who writes this
Arriv
Planning desk
Arriv started as a fix for a problem we kept hitting: every trip with friends ran on a group chat, a shared note nobody updated, and a folder of screenshots from places we never found again. We wanted the saved places on a map, in an order, on a link everyone could open.
We write the planning pages on this site. Where a page gives you a number, it comes from a trip somebody took and wrote down: what the train cost, how long the queue ran, which day the market is closed. When we have not been somewhere, the page says so instead of borrowing confidence from a guidebook.
If a detail here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it and move the date at the top of the page.
Where the numbers come from
- Plans and takes roughly a dozen trips a year, mostly city weekends and group trips
- Built Arriv's itinerary and mapping product end to end
- Checks every price, opening hour, and travel time on these pages against a primary source
How these pages get checked
Every planning page carries a date at the top. That date is the last time a person opened the page and confirmed the facts on it: the prices, the opening hours, the walking times, whether the restaurant is still there.
Prices move and places close. If you find something here that is wrong, or a page that sent you somewhere shut for the season, tell us. We will fix the line and move the date.
We use AI in the product to find and map places, and we use it as a drafting tool for research. What we publish gets read and corrected by a person first, and no page ships with a number nobody has checked.