Planning a European motorhome trip involves dozens of decisions that can go wrong quietly. These features handle the ones that matter most, before you leave the driveway.
Before plotting a single kilometre, Tripgen takes your motorhome or caravan's height, weight, and width and applies them as hard filters across the route. Roads, tunnels, and bridges that your vehicle cannot safely use are removed from consideration entirely. The route you receive is one your rig can actually drive.
Why it matters
Low bridges and weight-restricted roads are not always signed clearly in a foreign country, and a wrong turn in a heavy vehicle can end a trip on day one. This feature removes that specific risk from the planning stage.
What you see
A vehicle profile tile on your dashboard confirms the dimensions on file and flags any leg where a known restriction was encountered and an alternative was chosen.
Schengen days remaining, calculated for your itinerary
What it does
The Schengen tracker reads your planned entry and exit dates against the 90-in-180-day rule and shows your running day count for the trip ahead. It accounts for the rolling 180-day window, not just a calendar year, and updates if you adjust your itinerary.
Why it matters
An overstay is not a minor paperwork issue. It can mean fines, a ban from the Schengen Area, and serious complications at the border. Knowing your buffer before you depart removes the need to calculate manually in a spreadsheet.
What you see
A tracker tile showing days used, days remaining, and the earliest safe return date given your current plan. A warning flag appears if any itinerary adjustment pushes you over the limit.
Tripgen calculates fuel cost using your vehicle's actual MPG figure and the planned route distance, then adds toll charges, vignette fees where applicable, and nightly campsite costs. Exchange rates are pulled live so the total displayed reflects today's conversion, not a figure from three months ago.
Why it matters
Budget surprises on a motorhome trip often arrive in clusters: a toll road you did not expect, a mandatory vignette at a border, fuel costs higher than estimated. Seeing the full cost before departure means no mid-trip renegotiation with yourself or your travelling partner.
What you see
A cost breakdown table on your dashboard, itemised by category, with a single trip total converted to GBP at the live rate. The fuel line shows the distance and MPG used to reach that figure so you can verify it.
A route planned against 23 rules, not just the map
What it does
Every Tripgen route runs through 23 planning rules before it reaches you. These cover maximum daily drive time (capped at 5 hours), daily distance, rest day spacing, pet travel logistics, ferry bookings where a sea crossing is required, and budget compatibility. Rules run in sequence, and a route is only confirmed when all 23 pass.
Why it matters
A route that looks reasonable on a map can still be exhausting, border-crossing-heavy, or incompatible with a large dog or a tight budget. The rule set catches those mismatches in the planning stage, not on the road.
What you see
A planning summary that lists which rules were applied and confirms each one passed. Where a rule triggered a change, for example a rest day inserted or a ferry alternative chosen, a short note explains what was adjusted and why.
Tripgen includes guides for 23 countries and 18 tunnel and ferry crossing routes. Each country guide covers driving rules specific to motorhomes, ZTL restricted zones, vignette requirements, speed limits, and any documentation commonly checked at that border. Crossing guides cover the 11 ferry ports Tripgen routes through, with booking lead times and vehicle-dimension requirements noted.
Why it matters
Rules that apply to a car do not always apply to a motorhome of a given length or weight, and ZTL fines arrive by post weeks after a trip ends. Having the relevant country rules in hand before arrival, in plain English, removes a persistent low-level worry about getting something wrong in a foreign country.
What you see
A downloadable PDF for each country and crossing on your itinerary, formatted for offline use. The PDF is generated at the time your trip is built, so it reflects the countries you are actually visiting rather than a generic handbook.
Campsite selection from a verified pool of 50,000+
What it does
Tripgen draws campsite recommendations from a database of more than 50,000 sites, each cross-checked against live business status to remove permanently closed entries. Sites are tagged with dog-acceptance badges, facility icons, and surface type so the options presented match your actual requirements rather than a generic availability list.
Why it matters
Arriving at a campsite that has closed, does not accept dogs, or lacks the facilities you need after a long driving day is exactly the kind of friction that turns a good trip into a stressful one. Verification at the data level means the options you see are options that will actually work.
What you see
For each stop on your itinerary, you receive two or three campsite options presented as cards with the site name, key facilities, dog badge where applicable, and a direct booking link. The cards sit on your dashboard alongside the rest of that leg's information.
Each leg of your trip appears on a single dashboard page with weather information for the planned travel date, direct booking links for campsites, packing prompts relevant to that leg, and an iCal export so the itinerary feeds into your phone calendar. A built-in chatbot handles follow-up questions about the route, the stops, or the country guides without requiring a separate search.
Why it matters
Motorhome trip information typically lives across a browser full of tabs: one for the campsite, one for the weather, one for the ferry, one for the country rules. Consolidating everything into one place reduces the cognitive overhead of keeping track of a multi-country trip.
What you see
A leg-by-leg dashboard layout with collapsible panels for each category of information. The iCal file is available from a single button, and the chatbot is accessible from any panel without navigating away.
Tripgen accepts trip requests in two ways. The questionnaire walks through dates, destinations, vehicle details, pets, budget, and preferences in structured steps. The free-text brief lets you type a description of the trip in plain language, the same way you might describe it to a friend. Both inputs feed the same planning pipeline and produce the same quality of output.
Why it matters
Some people know exactly what they want and find a blank text box faster than a multi-step form. Others want the structure of a questionnaire to make sure they have not missed anything. Neither approach is better, the choice is yours.
What you see
A choice screen at the start of the planning flow with two clearly labelled options. Choosing either one takes you directly into that input method without requiring you to revisit the other.