Frequently Asked Questions

Road Trip Guides are travel guides designed to let you take a road trip effortlessly. Guides include detailed itineraries, recommended places to stay, and restaurants, saving you time on travel planning. Travel experts create guides to provide the best thematic travel experiences that fit your interest in a specific category. Guides do not include in-person travel curation, but you can customise the itinerary using a trip planning tool.

Touring Club Switzerland partnered with Road.Travel and created a catalogue with curated for self-guided road trips . Explore numerous travel guides all over the world and travel any time you want, following the routes recommended by TCS. Two travel guides are free to explore and can be found here.

You are free to select any dates you like. With some travel guides, the trip has seasonal limitations. Take this into consideration when planning your next road trip.

Yes, of course! We have created a number of travel guides worldwide that are adapted to the needs of the youngest travellers. With some Road Trip Guides, the trip has seasonal limitations. Take this into consideration when planning your next road trip. You can find all the family-friendly travel guides here.

Currently, there are 27 Road Trip Guides in the catalogue all over the world, including Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Norway, the UK, and the USA. Our Road Trip Guides offer various kinds of road trips, whether you would like to spend time outside of the city, explore historical locations, go on a casual trip, or travel with your family.

We are constantly enriching the platform and developing more travel guides to cover as many travel destinations as possible. If you have some specific travel destination in mind that we haven’t covered yet, feel free to reach out to us via the contact form here.

Each Road Trip Guide contains a detailed itinerary for each day of your road trip: landmarks, museums, sights in nature, wineries, cafés, restaurants, and hotels for overnight stays – complemented by the author’s story and practical information required for a self-guided trip. Road Trip Guides are built to save you time when trip planning. Each day in the itinerary is designed to give you the ultimate road trip experience, without stress or rush. Press “Start Driving” and enjoy!

Click the “Start Driving” button in the top right corner of the travel guide’s page to launch driving mode. If you are on desktop, scan a QR code to get the travel guide on your mobile device. When driving mode is launched on your mobile device, each place in the travel guide will have a “Send to Navigation” button. Click it and choose your preferred navigation app on your smartphone.

Each Road Trip Guide is created by local experts who know the area well, have wide experience in planning road trips, and are trusted by TCS.

Each location in every travel guide is verified regularly by contacting the representatives and getting all the required information about the visit. Please note that we cannot guarantee every detail – something might change at the time of your travel due to unforeseen circumstances.

No, you can choose any location where you would like to navigate next. Although, please note that we recommend visiting all the places in the order recommended. Don’t worry! We have already checked the parking situation, included the places to eat, and taken into consideration the driving time from one place to another.

You can find information about traffic regulations, as well as other travel information about various travel destinations, via this link. 

TCS has a car rental platform that allows you to compare offers from different car rental companies all over the world. If you are a TCS member, don’t forget to enter your TCS membership number to receive a discount.

Each hotel in the travel guides has a link to Booking.com or the official hotel website, where you can request availability and prices.

Each location that might require booking in advance contains official contact details inside the travel guide, including phone number, website, and working hours.

With the purchase of an individual travel guide, you get access to this single travel guide and all features of the platform within it. This travel guide becomes available in your profile and can be accessed at any time.

The access to individually purchased travel guides starts right after payment and stays in your profile forever.

In order to get a discount for TCS members, you will need to enter your TCS membership number when signing up. Please note that you should enter the same information as in your TCS account (e.g. First name, last name, email address, etc). If your discount isn't applied or you forgot to add your TCS membership number, please contact our support team via our contact form.

You cannot download a travel guide, but it’s saved in your profile that is accessible from any device via a web browser.

If you want to delete your profile, please contact us via email: [email protected]