ROUTES FROM OUR TRAVEL LIBRARY
These routes are built from our own blog posts and travel videos. Where we documented an exact stay or activity, we keep it. Where the exact night split was not published, we label the trip as a version based on our travels rather than pretending it was our exact schedule.
DON'T KNOW WHERE TO GO YET?
Choose the way you travel, the kind of stay you prefer and one or more parts of the world. We’ll rank destinations that fit rather than making you scroll through every country.
FIND MY TRIP
You don’t need to know the country yet — that’s what this tool is for.
Season scores are broad planning guidance for climate and typical travel conditions, not a weather forecast.
YOUR MATCHES
Open any option for the full explanation, cost breakdown and starter route. For multi-country trips, we’ll suggest nearby countries and you can swap any of them from a dropdown.
SAM & RACH · FREE TRIP PLANNER
Plan one country, combine several, or start with a regional route. Choose your stops, pick the things you actually want to see, compare ways to travel between them, browse accommodation prices and save it all as a clickable PDF.
STEP 2 · YOUR ROUTE
YOUR ROUTE MAP
Change a city, adjust nights or move stops around. Dates and booking links recalculate automatically.
STEP 5 · THINGS TO DO
Choose activities, keep possibles in your Maybe list, then let the planner spread your choices across each day with broad local travel-time estimates.
Prefer the easy option? Use our recommended picks, then let the planner spread them across your days.
STEP 4 · GETTING AROUND
We’ll show the most useful travel modes for each leg, then send you to live comparison and booking pages for current fares and schedules.
STEP 5 · ACCOMMODATION
Browse live Stay22 options for each stop, choose a property if you find one you like, or enter a realistic estimate to keep your trip budget useful.
STEP 6 · YOUR TRIP
TRIP MAP
TRAVEL BETWEEN STOPS
BEFORE YOU GO
Tick things off as you book and prepare. The checklist saves with your itinerary.
MY BOOKINGS
Bookings made on another site cannot be detected automatically yet, so mark them here once you book. Everything below is saved only in this browser unless you download a backup file.
SAVE YOUR TRIP
Save this itinerary on this device, download a backup, or open a ready-to-send email draft to yourself. Your email address is not stored or sent to Sam & Rach.
Preview mode: your own email app will open. When we connect a secure mail endpoint on the published site, this can be sent directly from sandr.travel@outlook.com without exposing the mailbox password.
Share links work best once this planner is published on samandrachtravel.com. The full itinerary is packed into the link — no account or database needed.
WANT A SECOND OPINION?
Not sure if the route is too rushed, where to stay, or which activity is worth it? Email us or message us on Instagram and tell us what you’re deciding between.