What you’ll need
- A free Muse account at muse.ai, and about 5 minutes.
- Your email and calendar connected under Muse’s connections, so it can plan around your bookings and your week.
The one workaround
Muse’s first options were good and well priced, and I’d have been happy booking them. The catch is that its own flight search uses one booking company, not the whole market. It told me the cheapest flight home was gone, and I found the same airline on Google Flights for about $200 less. I tested it on three more routes, and Muse came in higher every time.
So the fix is simple: have it search the sites you trust instead of only its built-in one. I haven’t tested hotels the same way yet, but I’d do the same there.
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Plan my trip from [where you are] to [where you're going], leaving around [date]. Find my current booking in my email and plan around my checkout time and my calendar. Give me every leg, like ferries, buses, trains and flights, with the times. Your own flight search only covers one booking company, so before you call any flight the cheapest, check Google Flights and Skyscanner for the same route and dates. Show me all three prices side by side, with the airline, the stops and whether bags are included. If I need somewhere to stay, find a few options and check Booking.com, Agoda and Airbnb for the same dates, with the total price on each. If you can't check a site, tell me instead of guessing. Don't book anything or enter any payment details until I tell you which option I want.
How I use it now
- Let Muse plan everything: the dates, the connections, the stays and what fits your calendar.
- Have it check Google Flights, Skyscanner, Booking.com, Agoda and Airbnb before it calls anything the cheapest.
- Pick the one you want, and book it.
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Booking for work
For a work trip, add “keep a list of every booking with the total cost” to the prompt. You get one summary for your records, and you can forward it to whoever handles your books.
Want Muse to plan the rest of the week too? Here are my three travel prompts.
Stuck? Message me on LinkedIn and I’ll help you get it running.