Budget-First Travel Planner

Find trip options around a destination or a budget. Compare current flight and lodging listings, discover local places, read a small sample of traveler reviews, and see source-linked meal and ground-transport price evidence. The Actor plans; it does not book travel.

Price

The Actor's fee is $0.05 per completed itinerary plan. Apify platform usage and any separately billed source Actor usage may add to the total; check the run's source costs and Apify Store pricing before starting.

Choose a planning mode

• Cheapest destinations: Enter a departure city to see up to five current flight deals. Add a country to filter them. Local suggestions and cost research use the cheapest matching destination.
• Specific destination: Enter a destination and travel dates. Add airport or metro codes if you want airfare, and choose which costs to include.
• Budget: Enter a total budget. Add a destination and dates to compare that place, or leave the destination blank to start with current flight deals from your departure city.

Choose Cheapest, Best value, or High-end. Cheapest sorts by known costs, then airfare when a full subtotal is unavailable. Best value considers lodging ratings and known costs. High-end favors higher-rated stays. Ratings are user-submitted summaries, not professional reviews.

What the Actor checks

• Flight offers and current destination deals.
• Lodging listings and ratings when dates are available.
• Local attractions, restaurants, and a small sample of Google Maps reviews, with reviewer identity omitted.
• When meals or ground transport are selected, local fare and meal searches, traveler reports, and up to four opened source pages. Clear amounts found on those pages are returned with their text, link, currency when known, and check time. If a page cannot be opened or no clear amount is found, the search preview is kept and labeled.
• Draft day plans that group places across the trip. They are suggestions, not verified routes or travel times.

How to read costs

The known-cost subtotal is not the final trip price. It includes returned airfare and lodging prices, plus meal or ground-transport allowances only if you enter them. It excludes unconfirmed local cost evidence, baggage, taxes and fees, activity tickets, and other missing costs. A price quoted on an opened page can still have conditions or be out of date, so it is shown separately instead of being silently added to the subtotal. Prices in different currencies are not converted or combined.

Traveler reports and reviews are anecdotal, not official prices. A date shown by Google may not be the date the linked page was last updated. The page check time shows when the Actor opened it.

Keep costs predictable

• The default pay-per-event source cap is $0.15. Within it, up to $0.02 is reserved for local searches and $0.01 for opening source pages; local places and reviews use a separate shared allowance. Lower caps can cause some sources to be skipped. Check SUMMARY for the actual source status and limits.
• The flight-deal source is billed by its author as compute usage and is outside that pay-per-event cap. Its result count is limited.
• Flexible-date price trends are off by default because they use a browser-enabled source run.
• Search and source Actor prices can change. Check their linked Apify Store pages before increasing use or scheduling runs.

Example inputs

Plan a specific trip

{
  "mode": "specific_destination",
  "origin": "PHL",
  "destination": "Paris",
  "destinationCode": "PAR",
  "departureDate": "2027-04-10",
  "returnDate": "2027-04-15",
  "adults": 2,
  "travelStyle": "best_value",
  "budget": 2500,
  "currency": "USD",
  "include": ["airfare", "lodging", "meals", "ground_transport", "local_places"],
  "mealBudgetPerPersonPerDay": 60,
  "country": "France"
}

Find destinations with cheap flights

{
  "mode": "cheapest_destinations",
  "departureCity": "New York",
  "country": "Italy",
  "travelYear": 2027,
  "travelStyle": "cheapest",
  "currency": "USD",
  "include": ["airfare", "lodging", "meals", "ground_transport", "local_places"],
  "tripDays": 5
}

Search destinations within a budget

{
  "mode": "budget",
  "departureCity": "New York",
  "country": "Italy",
  "travelYear": 2027,
  "budget": 1800,
  "travelStyle": "cheapest",
  "currency": "USD",
  "include": ["airfare", "lodging", "meals", "ground_transport", "local_places"],
  "tripDays": 5
}

For fixed-destination airfare, use airport or metro codes for both ends (for example, PHL and PAR). Enter the city name separately for lodging and local searches. For broad deal searches, the source may omit the year; enter travelYear to check lodging dates without guessing.

Results

The dataset can contain itinerary options, flight deals and offers, lodging listings, local places, reviews, draft day plans, and local_cost_evidence rows. The SUMMARY key-value record lists source status, result counts, destination coverage, price notes, and spend caps. Inspect the evidence status before relying on an amount.

Sources

• Google Flights Deals
• Google Travel
• Google Maps Places
• Google Maps Reviews
• Google Search Scraper
• Web Fetch

Each source Actor is maintained separately. Its availability, output, and price can change.