Trip Templates
Free, day-by-day itineraries you can preview here and use as the starting point for your own trip.
Free Tokyo Trip Template: 7-Day First-Time Itinerary
The most common complaint from first-time Tokyo visitors isn't about a specific place — it's overscheduling. This plan is deliberately paced to avoid that: one neighborhood cluster per day (old Asakusa, then Shibuya/Harajuku, then Akihabara into Ginza, then a full Nikko day trip, then a slower Tsukiji/Shinjuku close), with real walking time and buffer built in instead of a checklist of scattered landmarks. Every day is grouped so you're never crossing the city twice for one stop.
Free Paris Trip Template: 5-Day First-Time Itinerary
Paris runs on timed-entry tickets now — the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower summit, Versailles, and Sainte-Chapelle all sell specific slots, and the people stuck in two-hour lines are the ones who didn't book. This template is organized around that reality: exactly one reserved anchor per day, placed in the morning or late afternoon when slots are best, with free neighborhoods — the covered passages, Montmartre, the Marais, the Seine quais — filling the hours around it. The booking tips below tell you what to reserve at 60 days, at 30, and in the final week.
Free Rome Trip Template: 4-Day First-Time Itinerary
Rome's first-timer sights split into four zones that don't overlap: the baroque Centro Storico, ancient Rome, the Vatican, and the Borghese park district. This template gives each zone one full day with one hard-timed entry — Colosseum at opening, Vatican Museums at 8am, the Borghese Gallery's strictly enforced two-hour window — and walks everything else, because in the old center walking is genuinely faster than any vehicle. Evenings are planned as loosely as the mornings are precise: Trevi after dark, Trastevere at dinner, the passeggiata.
Free New York Trip Template: 5-Day First-Time Itinerary
The classic first-timer mistake in New York is geographic: bouncing between downtown and uptown daily and spending the trip underground. This template moves through the city in bands — Midtown's landmarks, the harbor and Lower Manhattan, Central Park and Museum Mile, the downtown neighborhoods, and a Brooklyn morning finish — so each day is one subway ride out and a walking day from there. Only three things need advance tickets (the observation deck, the ferry, a Broadway show); the rest of the city is free and open-air.
Free Orlando Trip Template: 5-Day Disney & Universal Plan
An Orlando park trip is won before 9am — which gate you're standing at when it opens, which headliner you walk to first, and whether you bought the right line-skipping tier for that specific park. This template is a battle plan per park: rope-drop routes for Magic Kingdom and EPCOT, a Universal park-to-park day built around the Hogwarts Express, the honest math on Lightning Lane versus Express Pass, and one deliberately empty recovery morning — because three consecutive 8am park days is the documented way family trips fall apart.
Free Lisbon Trip Template: 4-Day First-Time Itinerary
Lisbon is a vertical city, and most first-timer plans treat it like a flat one — zig-zagging between hills until the trip becomes a stair-climbing event. This template plans by elevation: one hill or one flat district per day, always riding up (castle bus, Sintra's 434, tram 15E) and walking down. It also encodes the queue knowledge that saves hours — the Santa Justa top entrance, boarding tram 28 at its terminus, and treating Sintra's Pena Palace like the timed-entry operation it is.
Free Prague Trip Template: 3-Day First-Time Itinerary
Prague's first-timer core fits in a 3 km walk — no metro passes, no timed-entry economy. What separates a magical Prague trip from a shuffling one is purely time of day: Charles Bridge holds mist and statues at 7am and four thousand people at noon. This template spends two early alarms where they buy the most (the bridge, the castle at opening), gives the afternoons to parks and beer gardens locals actually use, and names the tourist traps — the trdelník stands, the exchange booths, the clock-side restaurants — so you can walk past them like you live there.
Free London Trip Template: 5-Day First-Time Itinerary
London runs on a split economy: its greatest museums are free while its headline sights (Tower, Abbey, view decks) charge more than Paris — so this template alternates paid-anchor days with free days, and the budget breathes instead of bleeding. Geography gets the same discipline as NYC: one tube spine per day, walking between neighbors, contactless fare-capping doing the ticket math for you. The free layer is the point — the National Gallery for an hour, Sky Garden instead of a £30 deck, a pub garden's Tower Bridge view — because in London the free version is usually the better version.
Free Vienna Trip Template: 4-Day First-Time Itinerary
Vienna punishes the Rome-style sprint: stack three palaces in a day and the city's whole point — the sitting, the music, the coffeehouse hour — evaporates. This template schedules Vienna's rhythm on purpose: one imperial anchor per morning at its opening slot (Schönbrunn, the Hofburg, Belvedere for The Kiss), a two-hour coffeehouse sit as a fixed afternoon block rather than a maybe, and evenings that use the city's open secrets — €15 standing tickets at the Staatsoper, wine taverns inside the city limits. The pace looks gentle on paper; it's the correct pace for the only city that UNESCO-listed its cafés.
Free Nice Trip Template: 4-Day French Riviera Base Itinerary
Nice's real value is geometric: one hotel, one coastal rail line, and half the French Riviera within 40 minutes for the price of a coffee. First-timers usually get this wrong in one of two directions — never leaving the Promenade, or dragging suitcases between three coastal hotels. This template does neither: Nice as the fixed base, the suitcase unpacked exactly once, and the TER train as the entire strategy — Èze and Monaco east one day, Antibes and Cannes west the next, Villefranche's postcard harbor ten minutes away for the finale. Sequenced so the crowd-sensitive stops (Èze's lanes) come before the coach tours land.
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