Index
Guides to planning a trip
Practical guides to planning a trip, with complete examples and links to official sources. They’re useful even if you don’t use Kokai, and when you do, they tell you which screen each thing happens on.
In a nutshell
- Who they’re for
- Anyone planning a trip on their own, with or without Kokai.
- How they’re made
- With an example from start to finish, the app’s figures taken from its code and links to official documentation.
- Travel requirements
- We link to the official sources: entry requirements change, and Kokai doesn’t check them for you.
- Glossary
- The terms that come up in the guides (geofence, stay, booking reference, median…), defined one by one.
- How to plan a trip step by step: a 5-day Lisbon and Sintra itinerary A five-night trip to Lisbon and Sintra planned from start to finish: places, accommodation, a timed plan, documents, packing list, alerts and On the road mode.
- Which travel documents to carry on your phone (and have them offline) Travel documents checklist: ID, passport validity, visas and ETIAS, insurance and EHIC, tickets, driving and health, with official sources.
- Which booking confirmation PDFs Kokai reads, and how What Kokai reads from a booking confirmation PDF offline without AI: 65 brands, 8 classes, labels in 7 languages, dates, price, cancellation and an example.
- Open Booking.com, Airbnb or Expedia with your dates already filled in How to build Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia, Vrbo, Agoda, Trip.com, Kayak and Google Hotels search URLs with destination, dates and guests, with examples.
- Travel glossary: trips, maps and location-based alerts Travel glossary: what a geofence, a stay, a booking reference, GPS hysteresis or PMTiles is. 35 travel and map terms, with the figures Kokai uses.
Where to start
- If you’re planning your first trip with Kokai: five days in Lisbon and Sintra, step by step.
- If you’re worried about not having your tickets or passport to hand: which documents to carry on your phone.
- If you already have bookings as PDFs: which confirmations Kokai reads and how.
- If you still have nowhere to sleep: open Booking.com, Airbnb or Expedia with the dates already filled in.
- If a word doesn’t ring a bell: the glossary.
And if what you’re after is how a specific part of the app works, it’s in Features.
Sources and references
The original documentation for what is cited here, checked on this page’s review date.
- Travel recommendations by country Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Keep reading
- FeaturesWhat Kokai does before and during your trip: a map of your places, a daily itinerary, AI, offline documents, where you stay and proximity alerts.
- GlossaryTravel glossary: what a geofence, a stay, a booking reference, GPS hysteresis or PMTiles is. 35 travel and map terms, with the figures Kokai uses.