Plan a 10-day Malaysia trip with flights and hotels with Gemini
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What went wrong: Gemini mixed up the travel dates when searching for flights.
Outcome
Hulry's writer asked Gemini to plan a 10-day trip from Bangalore to Malaysia for two at a moderate pace, low-to-mid budget with hotels under ₹5,000 a night. Gemini returned a decent itinerary and, using Google Flights data, flight options with accurate timings and pricing, but it mixed up the travel dates while searching for flights. The article says the whole plan took under 15 minutes.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Plan a multi-city trip with a day-by-day itinerary, flight options and hotels inside my nightly budget. Fill in before running: - From: [HOME CITY] to: [COUNTRY / CITIES] - Exact dates: [DEPART] – [RETURN] - Travellers: [NUMBER] - Pace and interests: [e.g. moderate, food, nature] - Hotel max per night: [AMOUNT] - Flight preference: [non-stop / cheapest with layovers] Rules: - Repeat my exact travel dates back to me before searching, and use only those dates for flights. - Split nights sensibly between cities and include the transfer between each. - For flights, give airline, times, stops and price, with a link. - For hotels, give 2 options per city under my nightly cap. - If a site asks for a login, a CAPTCHA or payment details, stop and hand control back to me. - Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. Output: Day-by-day itinerary, a flights table, and a hotels table per city, with a total cost estimate. You'll know it worked when: every flight and hotel matches my dates, the nightly cap is respected, and transfers fit the plan.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Plan a multi-city trip with a day-by-day itinerary, flight options and hotels inside my nightly budget. Fill in before running: - From: [HOME CITY] to: [COUNTRY / CITIES] - Exact dates: [DEPART] – [RETURN] - Travellers: [NUMBER] - Pace and interests: [e.g. moderate, food, nature] - Hotel max per night: [AMOUNT] - Flight preference: [non-stop / cheapest with layovers] Rules: - Repeat my exact travel dates back to me before searching, and use only those dates for flights. - Split nights sensibly between cities and include the transfer between each. - For flights, give airline, times, stops and price, with a link. - For hotels, give 2 options per city under my nightly cap. - If a site asks for a login, a CAPTCHA or payment details, stop and hand control back to me. - Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. - After listing flights, double-check each one's dates against mine and flag any mismatch. Output: Day-by-day itinerary, a flights table, and a hotels table per city, with a total cost estimate. You'll know it worked when: every flight and hotel matches my dates, the nightly cap is respected, and transfers fit the plan. Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.
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https://hulry.com/google-ai-travel-planner/
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