Woman uses ChatGPT to plan her entire Europe backpacking trip for £800
A travel expert used ChatGPT to plan her entire European backpacking trip - on a £800 budget.
Madison Rolley regularly posts tips on her TikTok for finding the cheapest flights and hotels.
The 24-year-old recently tried asking AI tool ChatGPT to plan her two-week trip to Europe, setting the bot a budget of $1,000 (£800) per person.
The digital nomad coach asked the software to construct a fortnight long break to Europe, visiting between four cities which included travel and accommodation.
The Nashville, Tennessee resident also asked for three activities in each location, and tasked the tech with including those costs - and food - within the budget.
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The 24-year-old has spent a lot of time travelling the world on a budget (Madison Rolley / SWNS)
Madison gave the bot a £800 budget for the trip (Madison Rolley / SWNS)It laid out the perfect plan - setting out a route using planes and trains.
The software originally recommended Stockholm, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona and Copenhagen - but the digital nomad tailored her trip and is now visiting Stockholm, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam
To keep them entertained, Chat GPT recommended they visit the Anne frank museum, the Van Gough museum and take a canal cruise in Amsterdam.
Then the technology suggested the Lourve and Eiffel Tower for their time in Paris.
Madison and her friend have booked their trip and will leave on July 3 this year.
For the trip for two people, ChatGPT allocated $1,300 for 13 nights accommodation, $300 for 12 attractions and $500 for travel, coming in at $2,100 (£1,686) for the trip between two - not including a flight home.
That means the AI bot's plan came a fair deal over budget.
ChatGPT included Amsterdam in the itinerary (Getty Images/iStockphoto)Another point to note is that ChatGPT's information source is two years old, so flight and hotel prices may be wrong.
Madison was still impressed with the AI's efforts as she said planning the trip herself would have taken her days.
The most impressive part of the software was that it gave Madison "inspiration" and that it could "easily be tweaked further to show free attractions or unusual ones".
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She said: "It was brilliant for sorting it out logistically and setting it in a timeline that was easy to follow.
"I was trying to figure out what the perfect itinerary would be to visit multiple places in a way that made sense and flowed well and also be able to budget it out.
"I wanted some inspiration, and I've been obsessed with ChatGPT from a marketing standpoint.
"I do marketing on the site as well. And also just in life, I just feel like it's such a hack for everything.
"I was on ChatGPT and I was like 'Oh, you know what? I should see what it will spit out because people have been testing this for the most crazy things.
"One of the things it came with was, in Amsterdam, it was like 'go on a canal cruise' I would have never really thought to do that.
"The way the ChatGPT laid it out for me, I went from Stockholm to Paris and then to Brussels and then to Amsterdam, which you can all do by train.
The bot recommended a visit to Barcelona (Getty Images)"It very much laid out a path that made sense to travel and it also showed how you would go about booking everything, which I thought was really cool.
"It was like, okay, you're going to go by plane here and then you're going to take a train here and that's roughly how much it's going to cost, which was really neat."
Madison said she would recommend using the tool if you're planning a holiday, especially if you're looking to do it on a budget.
She said: "It's giving a general guide - it's giving you that inspiration.
"You can get a little bit of an understanding of what the price is going to look like from country to country or that flight is going to look like.
"Then you can go from there and actually book things and do your research and build out your budget."
Madison started travelling as a student and has since been to Europe, North and South America and other countries around the world, on a budget.
She uses airline notification services and online sites that fill vacant hotel rooms to travel on the cheap, and shares her best hacks with her viewers and clients online.
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