Family Road Trips, Japan Circuits, and Swiss Alps Dreams Dominate Today’s 160 Trip Plans
Plantrip.io users created 160 new itineraries on February 2, 2026, with family-friendly road trips, epic Japan rail circuits, and a dreamlike Swiss Alps escape leading the day’s travel planning. From cross-Canada overland adventures to tightly timed city hops across Scandinavia and Central Europe, travelers are mapping ambitious, detail-rich journeys.
Road trips are prominent. Multiple planners are charting an 8–9 week cross-Canada loop from Terrebonne, Quebec, threaded with kid-friendly hikes (3–4 hours max), national parks, dinosaur digs in Drumheller, and a Rockies core between Calgary, Banff, the Icefields Parkway, Jasper, and Edmonton. The return pushes through the U.S. north with must-stops in Seattle, Leavenworth, Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Minneapolis, and Chicago before re-entering via Niagara Falls. Elsewhere, a Minnesota-to-Tampa family road trip and short coastal drives like Monterey to Santa Barbara along the Pacific Coast Highway underscore the appetite for scenic, flexible travel.
Japan is the day’s most repeated international request. Numerous itineraries start in Kyoto and end in Tokyo in mid–late spring, weaving World War II history (Hiroshima), classic castles and shrines, a Nara day trip, possible hikes near Mt. Misen, a Lake Ashi cruise, and even sumo demonstrations. Separate plans call out cherry blossom timing, Universal Studios Japan, Kyoto’s temples, the Japanese Alps with a private-bath ryokan (tattoo-friendly), Hard-Off thrifting, and samurai heritage—often moving by train or bus for efficient city-to-city connections.
In Europe, travelers are plotting complex rail-led circuits. One standout strings Stockholm to Venice, Ljubljana and Lake Bled, Budapest, and Vienna—with Eurovision at Wiener Stadthalle and a Salzburg Sound of Music day tour—while avoiding cars. Another mid-May week splits time between Brussels and Paris, layering in The Dominican Hotel and Hotel Le Pradey, a Bruges day trip, a waffle-making workshop, a chocolate museum visit, lunch at the Eiffel Tower’s Jules Verne, and a guided, in-depth Notre-Dame tour.
Other notable plans include a “storybook” once-in-a-lifetime Switzerland itinerary laser-focused on the Alps and scenery; Boston, Cambridge, and Martha’s Vineyard stays anchored at the Boston Marriott Peabody; Thailand twin-center breaks in Phuket and Krabi; Goa and Manali short escapes; and hyper-local requests like a dog-friendly lakeside cabin with easy biking and water activities. Families are also lining up coastal India circuits (Trivandrum, Kanyakumari, Munnar) and temple trails from Udaipur to Kanyakumari or across Uttar Pradesh from Chennai, while Toronto and Las Vegas city breaks, Santorini honeymoons, and Scandinavia-to-Nordkapp overland routes round out a day heavy on varied, experience-first travel.