About Us
Our Story
Why We Built This Tool?
As frequent travelers ourselves, we’ve experienced the frustration of planning complex multi-city trips. Juggling multiple hotel comparison sites, trying to optimize costs across different cities, and figuring out the most efficient route order—it’s exhausting and time-intensive.
The breaking point came during a 10-day European capitals trip planning session that took us over 15 hours across multiple weekends. Five cities, five different hotel markets, and 120 possible route combinations to evaluate. We realized we were essentially performing complex algorithmic calculations manually, comparing hundreds of hotel combinations across different city sequences. There had to be a better way.
Our Personal Travel Challenge
Multi-city travel planning involves several interconnected decisions:
- Route Optimization: Which city order minimizes total travel time and costs?
- Hotel Selection: How do you balance price, quality, and location across multiple destinations?
- Date Flexibility: How do pricing and availability change across different date combinations?
- Budget Distribution: Should you splurge in expensive cities and save in cheaper ones, or maintain consistent quality?
Traditional booking platforms solve these problems in isolation, but no tool addressed the holistic optimization challenge.
Intelligent Route Sequencing
Instead of guessing the best city order, Routely calculates all possible permutations and identifies routes that minimize total costs while maximizing convenience.
Mixed Input Flexibility
Sometimes you have specific hotels in mind (“I want to stay at Park Hyatt Tokyo”), other times you just need a great option in a city. Routely handles both seamlessly.
Real-Time Availability
No more building dream itineraries only to discover half the hotels are booked. Routely checks live availability and shows only feasible routes.