How to copy someone's travel itinerary and make it your own

The fastest way to plan a trip is to start from one that someone already took and loved. In Wander Off, any public adventure can be copied with Copy this trip, which puts all of its places onto your own dates as a new adventure you can edit. You skip the blank page and go straight to making the trip yours.

Why copying a trip makes sense

Think about how most people actually plan. A friend comes back from a great weekend and you ask, "Where did you eat? What would you do again?" Then you scribble their answers into a note and try to rebuild their trip from memory.

What you really want is their whole plan. Day by day, place by place, ready to adjust. Someone else has already done the research, tested the pace and found out which stops were worth it. Copying that plan is not cutting corners. It is using the best travel advice there is: a trip a real person took.

The trouble with borrowing a trip the old way

• Recommendations arrive as fragments. A list of restaurant names in a text, a few screenshots, a voice memo.
• You lose the structure. You know the places but not which day they went or how they grouped them.
• Retyping is tedious. Moving forty places from a blog post or a friend's notes into your own plan takes an evening.
• Dates never match. Their Friday is not your Friday, and rearranging everything by hand is fiddly.
• The details go stale. Without a clear plan to check against, it is easy to forget which spots you meant to look up.

How Copy this trip works in Wander Off

1. Find a public adventure

Every trip in Wander Off is an adventure. Creators can keep an adventure private, share it with the trip or make it public. Public adventures are the ones you can copy.

A friend might send you theirs, or you might come across a public adventure for a city you are heading to.

2. Tap Copy this trip

Copy this trip puts their places on your own dates. You get a new adventure in your travel trunk, already filled in by day, with the restaurants, sights, excursions, nightlife and shopping from the original.

Your copy is yours. Nothing you change touches the original.

3. Make it fit you

Open the Plan tab and adjust. Swap the steakhouse for a vegetarian spot. Drop the late night bar if you are traveling with kids. Move the museum to the rainy day. Add the places you were already excited about.

If you want a deeper walkthrough on shaping days, see the trip itinerary planner page.

4. Bring your group in

Invite the people you are traveling with. Everyone on the trip can vote on places, so a copied itinerary quickly becomes a group plan that reflects what your crew actually wants. The group trip planner page covers that process.

5. Book and ask questions

Book flights, hotels and things to do in the Tickets tab, with prices kept private. If you have questions about the destination or need options for where to stay, ask the AI Travel Concierge, which answers questions and finds flights, stays and things to do in a chat.

6. Check current details

A copied itinerary gives you the places. Before you go, check current hours and whether reservations are needed, since those details change.

Sharing your own trips for others to copy

Copying works both ways. If you planned a trip you are proud of, make the adventure public. Other travelers can open it and copy it to their own dates.

Creators see how many times their trips were copied. It is a simple, satisfying signal that your planning helped someone else have a good trip.

To make your public adventure genuinely useful:

• Log as you go. Mark places visited and give them ratings in the Log tab so people know what you loved.
• Write short reviews. One or two honest sentences per place help the next traveler decide what to keep.
• Pick strong cover photos. They make your trip easy to browse.
• Keep the pace honest. If a day felt rushed, trim it before you publish, or say so in a review.

Comparing ways to borrow someone's itinerary

Screenshots and texts

Quick to send, painful to use. The information is scattered across messages and has no structure by day.

A notes app list

Better than nothing, but you still retype everything, and it has no dates, no votes and no bookings.

A shared spreadsheet

Someone might send you their trip spreadsheet. It is organized, but you have to rework it for your dates and it does not travel well on a phone.

A generic photo album

Their photos can inspire you, but a photo album tells you where they went only loosely and gives you nothing to plan with.

A copyable itinerary

Wander Off copies the actual plan, places and days included, onto your dates in one step. From there you edit, vote, book and travel from the same adventure.

Where copying shines

Short city trips are perfect for this. A weekend has limited time, and a tested plan helps you avoid wasting a morning in the wrong neighborhood. Our Savannah weekend itinerary is the kind of plan that works well as a starting point.

It also shines for:

• First visits. You do not know the city, so a real traveler's plan is a huge head start.
• Repeat trips with new people. Copy your own past adventure and update it for a new group.
• Special trips. An anniversary or a reunion where you want a proven plan and fewer surprises.

Start from a trip that already worked

You do not have to plan every trip from scratch. Find a public adventure you like, tap Copy this trip, and its places land on your dates, ready for you to adjust, share with your group and book. Then, when you get home, make your own adventure public and pass it forward.

Download Wander Off for iPhone or Android and copy your next trip.