I am not the least bit inclined to use AI for much of anything, let alone plan my vacations. I enjoy the work that goes into planning a trip—why would I want to give that over to a computer? And who is responsible for errors in planning? Is AI going to refund you when it makes a booking error?
I agree. For me, half of the fun of travel is planning, researching the options at my destination and along the way. But as a retiree, I have that extra time to do so.
I don't understand this move away from good, old fashioned human intelligence. The brain is a wonderful resource, something not be wasted or insulted. And besides, part of the fun of traveling is planing your trip to imagined destinations. In 2015, after receiving multiple quotes of $1000.00 plus for my planned side excursion to Saint Petersburg, Russian from Tallinn, Estonia, I thought it better to wait until I got to Tallinn. Once there, I walked into a local travel agency and this is what I got for $290.00: RT from Helsinki to Saint Petersburg on the ship ferry along with overnight cabins; and two nights in a Saint Petersburg on the Neva River, serving a complimentary huge breakfast in the morning. What a deal! And I found it on my own by thinking, relying on my own thought-process. What is AI good for? Performing invisible lobotomies on the unsuspecting human brain. We don't need that. I suggest that everyone THINK about AI's implications. What and why is general society embracing yet another machine? Our brain is our perfect machine. Use it!
No, nope, never. I don't need to be telling some insecure website all about my likes and dislikes, medical conditions, or travel plans. It's bad enough that Musk's Monkeys have all of our social security and Medicare numbers available for sale. I don't need them turning up on random sites as well.
The first time I even asked ChatGPT to write a short essay (as a test) about a familiar tourist attraction, there was a glaring error in the first sentence. I wouldn't trust AI to get me to the grocery store let alone plan an expensive trip.
Absolutely not. If I have never been someplace before, how would I know where to go and what to do and when to do it, if I wasn't directly involved in planning my trips? If you want to book a hotel and don't care where you are going to stay or the kind of service youre going to get or care how much it costs well fine. But I want to read reviews of everything I want to do and it's important to know what services are offered, location to other things I want to do or access to transportation, and is it a good value. I actually make maps to decide where I am going to stay relative to my plans for touring. It would be impossible to explain my criteria to a travel agent never mind a computer program.
I would never. Enough that Flair airlines make a mistake and write back three times that they can do nothing to clean up their own mess but were happy to take my money, what about AI? Whom can we hold responsible if they make a mistake?
I love researching and planning trips. It's a way to use my own mind, and it's also fun!
I don't plan on using AI for anything, ever—if I can help it. It bothers me that no one—not even my very liberal friends—cares about how incredibly damaging AI is to our environment. Here's a new technology that is totally unnecessary—especially for trip planning—and everyone is ready and willing to discount its effect on our planet? I just don't get it.
No, I will avoid it at all cost. It's bad enough the algorithms when just looking at airline websites or schedules. Look for a specific flight/ seat and if you don't book it immediately, it will suddenly not show/ be "gone" an hour or less later. I don't even think going incognito in a browser will avoid this. Are we really going to be at the mercy of AI and robots ???
Definitely not yet. A month ago, I was planning a quick trip to Las Vegas in 2026. Google's AI was telling me that a certain hotel was closing at year-end 2025 and being torn down in March. The hotel's website was still taking reservations for April, however. A call to the hotel revealed that somebody had posted a false message on Facebook. It apparently was re-posted enough times that Google's AI function was treating it as "true". I wouldn't say all AI is worthless, but until they can verify that it's not "garbage-in / garbage-out", I wouldn't trust it.
I've worked in tech my entire career. I use AI, but treat the output with great care. It is very confident, clearly expressed and frequently totally and utterly wrong.
My flight was recently diverted because of a bird strike. We were told our flights would be rebooked by AI if we did nothing, so we could relax. My new flight was absurd, taking 19 hours instead of 4 with two stops, one of which had a 10 minute connection and one with a 12 hour connection. Then we were told to go online and change our flights ourselves if we didn’t like them, and the two overwhelmed agents in the gate area started taping QR codes all over the place for people who didn’t have the app. This was tough because the site kept crashing with all the people trying to get on it at once. Eventually I went downstairs to the check in counter and got an agent to put me on a reasonable flight, which meant going through security again. The AI technology was clearly not ready for prime time, and this situation was particularly hard on the elderly, less tech savvy travelers.
I am not the least bit inclined to use AI for much of anything, let alone plan my vacations. I enjoy the work that goes into planning a trip—why would I want to give that over to a computer? And who is responsible for errors in planning? Is AI going to refund you when it makes a booking error?
I agree. For me, half of the fun of travel is planning, researching the options at my destination and along the way. But as a retiree, I have that extra time to do so.
I don't understand this move away from good, old fashioned human intelligence. The brain is a wonderful resource, something not be wasted or insulted. And besides, part of the fun of traveling is planing your trip to imagined destinations. In 2015, after receiving multiple quotes of $1000.00 plus for my planned side excursion to Saint Petersburg, Russian from Tallinn, Estonia, I thought it better to wait until I got to Tallinn. Once there, I walked into a local travel agency and this is what I got for $290.00: RT from Helsinki to Saint Petersburg on the ship ferry along with overnight cabins; and two nights in a Saint Petersburg on the Neva River, serving a complimentary huge breakfast in the morning. What a deal! And I found it on my own by thinking, relying on my own thought-process. What is AI good for? Performing invisible lobotomies on the unsuspecting human brain. We don't need that. I suggest that everyone THINK about AI's implications. What and why is general society embracing yet another machine? Our brain is our perfect machine. Use it!
No, nope, never. I don't need to be telling some insecure website all about my likes and dislikes, medical conditions, or travel plans. It's bad enough that Musk's Monkeys have all of our social security and Medicare numbers available for sale. I don't need them turning up on random sites as well.
The first time I even asked ChatGPT to write a short essay (as a test) about a familiar tourist attraction, there was a glaring error in the first sentence. I wouldn't trust AI to get me to the grocery store let alone plan an expensive trip.
Absolutely not. If I have never been someplace before, how would I know where to go and what to do and when to do it, if I wasn't directly involved in planning my trips? If you want to book a hotel and don't care where you are going to stay or the kind of service youre going to get or care how much it costs well fine. But I want to read reviews of everything I want to do and it's important to know what services are offered, location to other things I want to do or access to transportation, and is it a good value. I actually make maps to decide where I am going to stay relative to my plans for touring. It would be impossible to explain my criteria to a travel agent never mind a computer program.
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I would never. Enough that Flair airlines make a mistake and write back three times that they can do nothing to clean up their own mess but were happy to take my money, what about AI? Whom can we hold responsible if they make a mistake?
I love researching and planning trips. It's a way to use my own mind, and it's also fun!
I don't plan on using AI for anything, ever—if I can help it. It bothers me that no one—not even my very liberal friends—cares about how incredibly damaging AI is to our environment. Here's a new technology that is totally unnecessary—especially for trip planning—and everyone is ready and willing to discount its effect on our planet? I just don't get it.
No, I will avoid it at all cost. It's bad enough the algorithms when just looking at airline websites or schedules. Look for a specific flight/ seat and if you don't book it immediately, it will suddenly not show/ be "gone" an hour or less later. I don't even think going incognito in a browser will avoid this. Are we really going to be at the mercy of AI and robots ???
Definitely not yet. A month ago, I was planning a quick trip to Las Vegas in 2026. Google's AI was telling me that a certain hotel was closing at year-end 2025 and being torn down in March. The hotel's website was still taking reservations for April, however. A call to the hotel revealed that somebody had posted a false message on Facebook. It apparently was re-posted enough times that Google's AI function was treating it as "true". I wouldn't say all AI is worthless, but until they can verify that it's not "garbage-in / garbage-out", I wouldn't trust it.
I've worked in tech my entire career. I use AI, but treat the output with great care. It is very confident, clearly expressed and frequently totally and utterly wrong.
My flight was recently diverted because of a bird strike. We were told our flights would be rebooked by AI if we did nothing, so we could relax. My new flight was absurd, taking 19 hours instead of 4 with two stops, one of which had a 10 minute connection and one with a 12 hour connection. Then we were told to go online and change our flights ourselves if we didn’t like them, and the two overwhelmed agents in the gate area started taping QR codes all over the place for people who didn’t have the app. This was tough because the site kept crashing with all the people trying to get on it at once. Eventually I went downstairs to the check in counter and got an agent to put me on a reasonable flight, which meant going through security again. The AI technology was clearly not ready for prime time, and this situation was particularly hard on the elderly, less tech savvy travelers.