Travel days and rest days

When a day's main event is getting from one area to another, it's a travel day. It opens like any other day but is built around the move.

What's different

• The photo and title show the way you travel, such as a plane, and the route: "Melbourne, Australia → Hakata Ward". A line says "Day 1 of 10 · rest day · by air".
• The journey sits first under "Your day, in order": where you leave, how long you'll be travelling, and when you expect to arrive, such as "about 16 hrs travelling · about 10 hrs 15 in the air" and "about 11:00".
• Your plan around it is light, and says why.

Rest days after a long flight

If the flight is long, the app plans the first night around sleep: "It's a long flight, so we've planned tonight around a proper sleep and start the trip tomorrow. You're staying close to where you land. If you're up for it, a stroll and something to eat nearby is plenty — nothing that needs booking." Day 1 then holds the flight, a hotel near where you land, and little else.

Long journeys on the ground

• A journey of more than about three and a half hours leaves at checkout time for the country, so it doesn't clash with breakfast or a visit.
• The day after it is for settling in: bags, rest and a wander. The day says "Light day".
• A shorter transfer can leave earlier, and the morning is planned around it.

Excursions and days out

A day that's an out-and-back from a base, to a distant stop and back, is labelled that way. In some countries with a long midday heat, the afternoon is left lighter on purpose and nothing is planned from late morning until mid-afternoon.

Free time

A travel day with nothing else on it can offer ideas for the free time. See Day ideas for a free day.

The flight home

The last day shows the flight home and no hotel card. The plan leaves time to reach the airport before it.

See also How you move and Reading a day.