Eat Where People Eat

Local Intel

For: Travellers who don't want the top-10 list every other tourist is standing in

Neighborhood brief: how to find the real thing yourself

Instead of a list of restaurants the model may have invented, get the local logic — and the search strategy to find the real ones.

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You are briefing me on a place like a well-travelled friend who is honest about the limits of what they know. Do NOT hand me a list of specific restaurants and bars as fact — you will get some of them wrong, closed or invented. Instead:

A) THE MAP IN MY HEAD — the neighborhoods: what each is actually FOR, who's there, and what time of day it comes alive. Which one to stay in given what I told you, and which one every tourist stays in and probably shouldn't.

B) THE FOOD LOGIC — what this place is genuinely great at, what's overrated, when people actually eat, what a normal meal costs relative to a tourist meal, and the two or three ways to spot a tourist trap HERE specifically (not generic advice).

C) THE SEARCH STRATEGY — exactly how I find the good places myself once I'm there: what to search, what review patterns to trust and distrust in this country, which local platform or app people actually use (say clearly if you're unsure), and the one question to ask a local that gets a real answer instead of a polite one.

D) THE ETIQUETTE — the three things visitors get wrong here that locals notice: tipping, queuing, greetings, volume, shoes, whatever is actually true for this place.

E) WHAT I'M UNSURE ABOUT — list explicitly the parts of this brief that may be out of date or that you're not confident in.

Inputs: [DESTINATION] · [WHAT I LOVE / WON'T EAT] · [WHO I'M WITH] · [HOW I TRAVEL — EARLY RISER, NIGHT OWL, WALKER]

Rules: Do not name specific restaurants, bars or shops unless you are highly confident they exist and are open — and if you do, say explicitly that I must verify before going. Do not invent local apps, phrases or customs. If you don't know something about this specific place, say so — generic advice dressed up as local knowledge is worse than admitting the gap. Never paste confidential, client, medical, or personally identifying information into a consumer AI tool, and don't ask me for any.

Why it works: The model's specific restaurant recommendations are the least reliable thing it produces and the most likely to send you to a closed door. Trading that for the local LOGIC — neighborhood character, food norms, how to search, how to spot the trap — gives you something that stays true and lets you find the real places yourself.

Useful? 👍 Yes👎 No

Don't Waste the Days

Itinerary Design

For: Anyone whose last trip was a forced march between things they didn't care about

Itinerary paced for real humans, not a checklist

You have limited days and a list of 30 attractions. Get a plan built around how you actually travel — and one that admits what it can't know.

Why it works: The two failure modes of AI trip planning are over-packing the days and hallucinating specifics. The anchor-per-day structure fixes the first; the mandatory VERIFY list — and the hard ban on inventing hours, prices and places — fixes the second by making the model's uncertainty explicit instead of hiding it behind fluent prose.

Useful? 👍 Yes👎 No

Pay Less, Honestly

Budget & Deals

For: People who budget the flight and the hotel and then get destroyed by everything else

The honest trip budget — including what always gets forgotten

Build a real budget, with the model naming what it can't know instead of guessing at prices.

Why it works: Budgets blow up on the categories nobody lists — transfers, the first and last day, fees — not the flight. Refusing to quote prices (and instead producing a lookup list plus the three decisions that actually move the total) turns the model into a checklist engine rather than a fabrication engine.

Useful? 👍 Yes👎 No

Nothing Blows Up at the Airport

Logistics & Documents

For: Anyone who has ever discovered a visa or passport-validity rule too late

Pre-trip sweep: the things that end trips before they start

Two weeks out. Run the sweep that catches the passport, visa, medication, card and booking problems while there's still time to fix them.

Why it works: This is the highest-stakes, lowest-glamour part of travel and the place where an AI's confident wrongness is most expensive. Structuring it as a verify-against-official-source sweep — rather than an answer — makes the model useful (it remembers what to check) without letting it be authoritative about rules it can't know.

Useful? 👍 Yes👎 No

Travel Together, Stay Friends

Group & Family Trips

For: Whoever got stuck organizing it — and is quietly dreading the money conversation

The group-trip agreement nobody wants to write

Six people, six budgets, six ideas of a good day. Surface the conflicts before the trip instead of on day three.

Why it works: Group trips fail on unspoken budget mismatch and pace mismatch, and both are entirely preventable with one honest pre-booking conversation. This prompt does the emotionally hard work — it drafts the scripts, builds the split into the plan, and forces a tie-break rule before there's a tie.

Useful? 👍 Yes👎 No

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