Plan family vacations with Deep Research
Author uses ChatGPT Deep Research with detailed family prompts to find destinations, attractions and schedule trips; it can't yet filter and book accommodation.
Done withChatGPT Deep Research
- What they did
- The author runs ChatGPT's Deep Research on family vacations, writing long prompts packed with detail about the family and what each member likes. It finds areas with favorite activities for parents, teens and kids, identifies the must-see attractions, and schedules the trip around them.
- How it went
- The author calls it invaluable, with very few mistakes and more flexibility and understanding than past travel agents, and it surfaced unfamiliar places abroad. It can't yet find, filter, compare or book accommodation reliably.
- Worth knowing
- Prompt quality drives results: the author writes long prompts with lots of family detail. Plan on handling accommodation search and booking yourself.
Try it yourself with ChatGPT Agent
Plan a [number]-day family trip for [number] adults and [kids' ages] in [month or season], with a budget of [amount] and a departure from [city]. Suggest [number] destinations, then for my favorite, build a day-by-day schedule of attractions and a shortlist of places to stay with prices and links. Stop at the shortlist, and do not book anything.
Source: HN · Jun 9, 2026
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