# How to plan a trip itinerary, step by step

> Build a travel itinerary with real stops, costs, time and transport — from an empty trip to one you can share.

A trip in Ntripi is an ordered list of stops. Each stop is a real place with a location, a rough cost, and how long you expect to spend there. Between stops you record how you travel. Build it in four passes: create the trip, add stops, connect them, then choose who can see it.

## Create the trip

In the **Itineraries** tab, tap **+**. You need a title to start; everything else can wait.

- **Title** — what the trip is. "Four days in Marrakech" beats "Morocco".
- **Currency** — every cost you record uses this, so the total adds up. Pick the one you will actually be spending.
- **Cover image** — optional, and you can add it later. It is what people see in the feed and in a shared link.
- **Best time to visit** — the months this trip works. Useful for anything seasonal.

## Add your stops

Tap **+** inside the trip to add a stop. A stop holds:

- **Name and address** — what the place is called.
- **Location** — pick a point on the map, or paste a Google Maps link and let Ntripi read the coordinates out of it.
- **Place type** — food and drink, sleep, sights, nature, shopping and so on. This is what draws the right icon on the map and in the list.
- **Cost** — roughly what it costs per person. Leave it empty or mark it free.
- **Time to spend** — how long to allow. This is what makes a plan realistic rather than optimistic.
- **Notes** — anything you want to remember.

Add stops in the order you will visit them. You can drag them around afterwards.

## Record how you get between stops

Between two stops you can add a **transit segment**: how you travel, how long it takes, and what it costs.

A segment can have more than one leg — a bus to the station, then a train — and each leg can carry the line number and the direction, which is exactly the detail you cannot remember on the day.

## Add warnings and tips

Any stop, and the trip as a whole, can carry short notes in four flavours: **advice**, **caution**, **avoid** and **info**. They render as coloured chips so they are hard to miss.

This is where "buy tickets before you go" and "the north entrance is closed" belong — the things a plain itinerary never tells you.

## Choose who can see it

New trips start as **only me**. When you are ready, open the trip's settings and pick one of four levels — public, followers, specific people, or only you.

See [how to share a trip without making it public](/help/share-an-itinerary-privately) for what each level means in practice.

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Source: https://ntripi.app/help/plan-a-trip-itinerary