# Using the guides

> Source: https://help.getplannery.com/finding-places/using-the-guides
> Updated: November 3, 2026

Read Plannery's country, city, and neighborhood guides, open any place to see photos, hours, and sources, and add it to a trip — or start a trip from it.

Plannery's guides are researched write-ups of countries, cities, and neighborhoods, each with its own curated places. You can read them without signing in, save any place with **Want to go**, and add a place straight onto a trip — or start a new trip from one.

## Finding a guide

Go to **Guides** (`/guides`). Every destination is a cover card, grouped by country.

![The Guides page showing country and city guide cards.](https://help.getplannery.com/-/renders/76d6e06e8ce256d578726fb3fe51ed4f84594aa98bb01ce33256cdebcdfe993e.png)

- A row of chips filters the grid: **All**, then one chip per country with its flag.
- Tap a cover to open that guide. The breadcrumb trail at the top (**Guides › Country › City**) takes you back up.

On a phone, **Guides** is also under **More** in the bottom bar.

## Country guides

A country guide opens with a short cultural overview, then four sections:

- **Cities** — the country's city guides, most popular first.
- **Language** — useful phrases, grouped by situation.
- **Etiquette** — rows such as **Tipping**, **Dining**, **Dress**, and **Greetings**.
- **Practical** — **Currency**, **Plug type**, **Tap water**, and the **Emergency number**.

## City guides

A city guide shows only the sections it has content for, so a newly added city may have fewer than the full set:

- **Top Sights** — the must-do places. In a single-neighborhood destination this widens to **Things to Do** and covers every place.

  ![The Barcelona city guide showing its tabs and Top Sights place cards.](https://help.getplannery.com/-/renders/1743dc98aab22ba9bfc3f25aa17795bfefd2016321c3bd78eaa12e8f74ebdd8a.png)

- **Neighborhoods** — one card per area, each opening its own page. Not shown for single-neighborhood destinations.

- **Day Trips** — researched trips out of the city.

- **History & Culture**

- **Practical** — local practicalities and the best months to visit.

- **Must-Eats** — the dishes to look for.

- **Sample Days** — example days built from the guide's places, which you can add to a trip whole.

## Neighborhood pages

A neighborhood page has the area's name and a one-line feel for it, a grid of its places, a **Things to know** box, and a map.

## The place sheet

Tap any place card to open its sheet.

![A place sheet for the Sagrada Família with its photo area and place details.](https://help.getplannery.com/-/renders/e1320754c7ff7434db96a89e83f7da9dc4a6ef658a71478517c78fc39c30ff19.webp)

- **Photos** — a carousel; each photo carries its own credit in the corner.
- Under the name: the rating, a **Must see** badge for marquee places, and the place type.
- **Hours** — today's hours, with a toggle for the full week. A closed venue shows **Temporarily closed** or **Permanently closed** instead.
- Sections, shown only when they have content: **Highlights** (or **Must Eats** for food and drink), **Info** (what to know before you go), **Details** (the long write-up), and **Sources** (where the facts came from).
- **Get Directions**, **Website**, and — on a phone — **Call**.
- **Ask about this place** opens **Ask Plannery** with this place as the subject.

## Saving and adding a place

Two controls sit on every place:

- The **bookmark** saves it to **Want to go**. It works with no trip open, so you can shortlist places for a trip you haven't created yet. Once saved it reads **Saved**; tap again to remove.
- **Add to Itinerary** schedules it. From inside a trip you go straight to picking a day. Otherwise an **Add to trip** dialog asks which trip first. Signed out, either control asks you to log in.

## Starting a trip from a place

1. Open the place and tap **Add to Itinerary**.
2. In the **Add to trip** dialog, tap **Create a new trip**.
3. The create-trip flow opens with the place's city already chosen as a destination. Once the trip exists, the place is added to it for you.

The same guides also appear inside a trip's **Explore** tab, under **Guides**, with each card showing your trip's state.