Where are you going?
57 destinations with the details that decide a plan: how many days to spend, the months worth targeting, which neighborhood to sleep in, and the stops to build around.
United States
New York
3–5 days · United States
A first trip to New York is usually Manhattan plus one full day in Brooklyn. The city rewards picking three neighborhoods and walking them properly.
Las Vegas
3–4 days · United States
Vegas runs on reservations and walking distance. Lock the dinners and the one big night early, then leave the afternoons loose.
New Orleans
3–4 days · United States
Compact, walkable, and built for a long weekend. The good version of this trip alternates a big meal with a live-music room.
Austin
3–4 days · United States
Barbecue, swimming holes, and a live-music calendar that fills up on weeknights. Most of the good stuff sits within a few miles of the river.
Nashville
3–4 days · United States
Broadway carries the nights and the neighborhoods carry the days. Groups do best booking one nice dinner and letting the rest stay flexible.
Charleston
3–4 days · United States
A walkable historic peninsula with a restaurant scene that outpaces the city's size. Reservations are the whole game here.
Palm Springs
3–4 days · United States
Pool days, mid-century architecture, and a national park an hour out. The trip shapes itself around the heat.
San Diego
3–5 days · United States
Beaches, a very good zoo, and weather that rarely forces a change of plan. Spread out enough that a car earns its keep.
Chicago
3–4 days · United States
A big-museum, big-architecture city with the best restaurant value of any major US metro. Summer and early fall are when it opens up.
Sedona
2–4 days · United States
Red rock hiking with spa and wine infrastructure attached. Trailhead parking is the constraint that shapes every day.
Napa Valley
2–4 days · United States
Thirty miles of valley floor with tasting rooms that now run mostly by appointment. Book two a day and eat a long lunch between them.
Maui
5–8 days · United States
A volcano summit, a coast road, and some of the easiest snorkeling in the islands. Distances are long, so pick one side of the island and stay there.
Orlando
4–7 days · United States
Four Disney parks, three Universal parks, and a space center an hour east. Park reservations and early mornings decide whether the trip works.
Moab
3–5 days · United States
Two national parks within an hour of one small town. Arches now runs a timed-entry reservation in peak season, which is the first thing to sort out.
Miami
3–4 days · United States
Beach mornings, Cuban lunches, and a design district worth an afternoon. The city spreads across a bay, so pick your side before booking.
San Francisco
3–4 days · United States
Seven miles square, which makes it one of the few US cities you can cover without a car. Layer up; the fog decides the temperature.
Los Angeles
4–6 days · United States
A collection of neighborhoods forty minutes apart in good traffic. Plan by geography, one region per day, and the city gets much easier.
Seattle
3–5 days · United States
A market, a waterfront, and two national parks within a few hours. July through September is the stretch when the mountains are reliably visible.
Denver
3–5 days · United States
A flat, walkable downtown that works as a base camp for the Front Range. Give yourself a day at altitude before hiking anything serious.
Savannah
2–3 days · United States
Twenty-two squares laid out on a grid, which makes this the rare southern city you can see entirely on foot. Two days covers it.
Boston
2–4 days · United States
Small, old, and dense enough to walk end to end. Pair the history downtown with a day across the river in Cambridge.
Washington, D.C.
3–4 days · United States
Nearly every major museum is free, which makes this the best-value city trip in the country. The Mall is longer than it looks on a map.
Portland
2–4 days · United States
A food-cart, bookstore, and garden city with a river gorge forty minutes east. Neighborhoods are the point, and each one covers a few blocks.
Canada & Mexico
Banff
4–6 days · Canada
Turquoise lakes and a mountain highway connecting them. Parking at the famous lakes is now the hard part, and shuttles solve it.
Vancouver
3–5 days · Canada
Mountains on one side, ocean on the other, and a seawall connecting most of what you came for. Easy to do without a car.
Montréal
3–4 days · Canada
French-speaking, walkable, and one of the best-value food cities in North America. Summer runs on festivals; winter runs underground.
Toronto
3–4 days · Canada
One of the most diverse cities anywhere, which shows up first in the food. Neighborhoods sit along a few subway lines and reward picking two a day.
Mexico City
4–6 days · Mexico
One of the great food cities, at 7,350 feet. Give the altitude a day, eat at street stands, and book the big museums in advance.
Tulum
4–6 days · Mexico
Beach road hotels, cenotes inland, and Maya ruins on a cliff. The new airport nearby has cut the transfer from three hours to under one.
Cancún
4–7 days · Mexico
A resort strip with white-sand beaches, plus ferries to Isla Mujeres and ruins within a couple of hours. Works as a base for the whole Yucatán.
Cabo San Lucas
4–5 days · Mexico
Desert meeting the Pacific, with a marina town at one end and a quieter art town at the other. Most beaches here have strong surf, so check which ones swim.
Caribbean & Central America
Europe
Paris
4–6 days · France
Twenty arrondissements spiraling out from the Seine. Book the two or three timed-entry sights and let the rest of each day be a neighborhood walk.
Rome
3–5 days · Italy
Three thousand years stacked within walking distance. Reservations for the Colosseum and the Vatican are the two things that must happen before you land.
Florence
2–4 days · Italy
The densest concentration of Renaissance art anywhere, in a center you can cross in twenty minutes. Two museums need advance tickets and the rest is walking.
Amalfi Coast
4–6 days · Italy
Cliff towns strung along one narrow road. Ferries beat driving between May and October, and the town you sleep in shapes the whole trip.
Barcelona
3–5 days · Spain
Gaudí architecture, a beach inside the city, and dinner that starts at nine. Everything popular now needs a timed ticket.
Lisbon
3–5 days · Portugal
Seven hills, tiled facades, and the best food value in Western Europe. Wear shoes with grip; the pavement is polished limestone.
Porto
2–4 days · Portugal
A river gorge lined with port cellars, and a compact old town on the slope above it. Cheaper and calmer than Lisbon, and two days go a long way.
London
4–7 days · United Kingdom
Enormous, and best handled as a set of villages linked by the Tube. The major museums are free, which changes how you budget a week.
Amsterdam
2–4 days · Netherlands
Canal rings you can cross on foot in half an hour, and two world-class museums next to each other. Book both before you fly.
Copenhagen
3–4 days · Denmark
Flat, bikeable, and organized around water. Design, pastry, and a restaurant scene that spans hot dog stands to tasting menus.
Prague
2–4 days · Czech Republic
A medieval center that survived the twentieth century largely intact, at prices well below Western Europe. Early mornings are when it belongs to you.
Dublin
2–3 days · Ireland
A small capital with a big pub tradition and coastal walks twenty minutes out by train. Two days in the city, then head for the coast.
Athens
2–3 days · Greece
The Acropolis above a dense modern city, with island ferries leaving from the port below. Two days here pair naturally with a week in the Cyclades.
Reykjavík
4–7 days · Iceland
A small capital used as a base for waterfalls, glaciers, and hot springs. Weather changes hourly, and the road conditions decide your day.
Asia
Tokyo
4–7 days · Japan
A city of distinct centers rather than one downtown. Pick two neighborhoods a day, and let the trains do the work.
Kyoto
3–5 days · Japan
Sixteen hundred temples across a valley, and the crowds concentrate at five of them. Early mornings change this trip completely.
Seoul
4–6 days · South Korea
Palaces on one side of the river, glass towers on the other, and food at every hour. One of the easiest big cities to navigate as a visitor.
Bangkok
3–5 days · Thailand
Temples, canals, and the best street food in the world at almost any budget. Traffic is the enemy, so plan around the river and the elevated trains.
Singapore
2–4 days · Singapore
Compact, efficient, and organized around hawker centres that serve some of the best cheap food anywhere. Three days is enough, and it makes a good stopover.
Bali
7–12 days · Indonesia
Rice terraces inland, surf breaks on the coast, and traffic between them that runs slower than any map suggests. Two bases beat one.
Oceania
Africa & Middle East
Dubai
3–5 days · United Arab Emirates
Built along one highway, with the old creek at one end and new towers at the other. Winter is the season; summer sends everything indoors.
Marrakech
3–5 days · Morocco
A walled medina of alleys and courtyards, with the Atlas Mountains an hour south. Stay inside the walls in a riad and the city makes sense.
South America
Rio de Janeiro
4–6 days · Brazil
Mountains dropping into beaches inside a city of six million. The famous views depend on clear weather, so keep them flexible.
Buenos Aires
4–6 days · Argentina
European architecture, Italian food traditions, and dinner at ten. Neighborhoods are large and flat, and walking them is the trip.