App guide

Plan a multi-day trip

Split a route into days, choose where you sleep each night, and save the trip with one route per day.

Route Companion splitting Zurich to Strasbourg into 3 days of about 120 km, with each day's distance, climbing and riding time

Split the route into days

  1. Open your route on the map.
  2. Tap More, then Split into days.
  3. Under Split by, choose Days, Distance or Riding time.
  4. Set how many days, or how far or how long you ride each day.

Each day lists its distance, climbing and riding time. Turn on Start time to give the days dates and arrival times.

Choose where you sleep

  1. Tap Choose nights, or tap the moon marker at the end of a day on the map.
  2. The map moves to the end of that day and shows hotels and campsites within 2 km of it for a bike trip, or 1 km for a trip on foot.
  3. Tap a place to open its details, then tap Sleep here.
  4. Switch to Night 2 and do the same for the next day.

To search further from the day's end, tap the chip under the nights that reads Hotel, Camping and the search distance.

Night 1 in Route Companion: hotels and campsites on the map near the end of day 1 in Basel
Places to sleep near the end of day 1
A hotel's details in Route Companion, 21 m off the route, with the Sleep here button
Sleep here makes it the night after that day

Ride to the door or end on the route

When the place you choose is more than 50 m from the route, the app asks how the day ends.

  • Ride to the door adds the way there to that day. The next day starts at the door and rejoins the route.
  • End on the route keeps the day on the route.
Route Companion asking whether day 2 rides to the door of a hotel 99 m from the route, with Ride to the door and End on the route
The question for a place off the route

Save the trip

  1. Tap Save trip.
  2. Keep the suggested name or type your own, and choose an icon.
  3. Tap Save trip again.

The trip is in History under Collections, with one route per day in day order. Open a day to ride it like any other route. To change the plan, tap Edit trip on the collection.

A saved trip in Route Companion's Collections, Zurich to Innsbruck in 3 days, open to show one route for each day
The saved trip, one route per day