As of 13 August 2026, AI can plan a group holiday in the UK.

What to actually do

1. Use a tool built for this

   The route this page recommends

2. Do it yourself

   Second choice

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open a note or shared document and gather the dates, group size and ages, starting points, budget, travel limits, interests, accessibility or dietary requirements, and activities the group wants to avoid.
   2. Paste the gathered information into the prompt and ask the chatbot to produce three UK holiday options with a day-by-day itinerary and a booking checklist.
   3. Send the three options to the group in the shared document, asking each person to confirm their availability, budget limit, essential requirements and preferred option.
   4. Open the official websites for each proposed attraction, accommodation provider, transport operator and local tourism service, then compare current availability, prices, opening times, travel times, accessibility information and cancellation terms with the draft.
   5. Replace every CHECK item and unsupported estimate with information from the relevant website, remove options that do not meet the group’s confirmed requirements, and ask the chatbot to revise the itinerary using only the checked details.
   6. Send the revised plan to the group for final agreement, then make the accommodation and activity bookings directly through the relevant provider and save the confirmations and cancellation terms.

   Prompt

   Plan a group holiday in the UK using the information below. Do not invent availability, prices, opening times, travel times or accessibility details. If you cannot verify a detail, mark it as CHECK rather than guessing. Give me three realistic options, then recommend one.
   
   Dates: [dates or date range]
   Group size and ages: [number of adults and children, with ages]
   Starting points: [towns or cities]
   Destination preferences: [coast, countryside, city, or other]
   Accommodation budget: [total or per night]
   Overall budget: [amount and whether it includes travel, food and activities]
   Travel limits: [maximum journey time, driving or public transport preferences]
   Interests: [activities and places the group enjoys]
   Avoid: [activities, areas, accommodation types or other constraints]
   Accessibility, dietary or medical requirements: [requirements]
   Accommodation preferences: [hotel, cottage, campsite or other]
   Booking flexibility: [refundable only, flexible dates, or other]
   
   For each option, provide the proposed base, accommodation type, day-by-day itinerary, travel approach, estimated costs labelled as estimates, wet-weather alternatives, and the main drawbacks. Keep the plan practical for the whole group. Separate facts that need checking from planning suggestions. End with a booking checklist and a short message I can send to the group asking them to confirm the dates, budget and preferred option.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

3. Hand it to a person

   The distant third

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.