If you're like me, you can spend more time planning for a long weekend than actually on the long weekend. There's the research on things to do, mapping out how to get everywhere, picking restaurants, making reservations, finding out how much these things will cost, when they're open, making reservations, and so on. A new site hopes to ease this process by helping plan your trip to major cities in the US.
Go Planit (www.goplanit.com) helps plan your trip by providing all of your planning needs in a simple schedule format. You are able to build your own trip manually by selecting things like restaurants and lodging from the built-in directories, or push the "Plan It" button for the system to build you out a full itinerary. There are some fantastic shortcuts built in as well. If you choose a popular restaurant, for example, you can click "Reserve" to go to Open Table and make your reservation online. You can also go more or less expensive by sliding a scale. The system also maps out your itinerary in Google maps. The "Plan It" option showed some things I probably would never have found on my own. I tested the program out in a few cities and was surprised to find a good mix of tourist classics and some lesser known spots. In Seattle, Go Planit recommended some of my very favorite restaurants like Wasabi Bistro, Wild Ginger and Piroshky-Piroshky, a festival taking place the weekend I'd entered, and even let me in on a downtown park that I'd never visited. Go Planit's homepage doesn't do the site justice - it's definitely worth the sign-up.
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