VacayTok
Trip planner for theme park and national park trips that already knows park hours, showtimes, weather and drive times.
The need
One person plans a high-stakes park trip for a whole group in a spreadsheet that goes stale, and generic planners treat a park as one pin on a map. VacayTok builds the day-by-day plan from live park data.
What was hard
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Reel to itinerary
Paste a TikTok or Instagram travel video and the places in it are extracted, geocoded and added to the trip.
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When to go
Travel windows are suggested from booking-window rules combined with an LLM.
- 3
Concierge chat
A chat concierge refines the plan in conversation instead of making the user rebuild it.
- 4
Drive legs and rest stops
Drive legs and rest stops along the route come from OpenStreetMap Overpass.
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Day-of-stops map links
A whole day of stops opens as one Google Maps route through deep links.
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Tok feed
Questions, tips and votes are tied to a specific attraction rather than a general forum.
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Live park data
Park hours and showtimes are ingested automatically on cron, and trips can be shared through read-only links.