PlanetEye

April 8th, 2008

Making Travel Planning Simple

If you’re like me, you read a lot of travel and food magazines and come across a lot of material on the Web that talks about the great things to do here, there and everywhere.

The problem is most times I’m not going to that particular place anytime soon, or if I am, I don’t know about it yet. But I do know that if I make it to Madrid soon, I want to scope out the tapas focused restaurants in the Las Letras neighborhood, especially Casa Alberto,

I got to thinking more about this problem while reading the latest annual magazine of Real Simple Travel, One of the articles talked about traveling to three places for under $1,000. In each summary, the author/traveler mentions clipping out reference material and saving it in their California manila folder (i.e I pulled out that article from Bon Appetit seven months ago, etc.)

There’s some other great content from Real Simple Travel, and I’ll share more on that in a minute but I wanted to speak about how PlanetEye will be helping you capture and access this information when you actually need it.

One of the central ideas around PlanetEye is aggregating all the relevant travel media available today, and presenting and personalizing it for you exactly when you need it (e.g. When you’re planning a trip.) We have some exciting new features rolling out soon to make this process much easier and more powerful.

In the meantime, back to the great content in this month’s RealSimple Travel. I’m going to add the seven castles they identified as “Castles You Can Sleep In” into the PlanetEye database for future reference.

To be honest, the thought of sleeping overnight at a castle doesn’t sound that appealing to me, but my 10-year-old son, who seems to want to spend less and less time with his Dad every day, might find it cool enough for us to have a bonding weekend some time in the future. When the day comes for Dad to pull that great weekend out of the blue, I’ll know just where to go.

You can check them out here.

Ashford Castle, (the photo above) County Mayo Ireland, Doubles from $358

Castello di Ripa d’Orcia, Ripa d’Orcia, Italy, Doubles from $138

Chateau de Salettes, Cahuzac sur Vere, France, Doubles from $192

Inverlochy Castle, Fort William, Scotland, Doubles from $585

Pousada do Obidos Castello, Obidos, Portugal, Doubles from $278

Schoenburg Castle, Oberwesel, Germany, Doubles from $234

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