Where to Travel Wheel
The where to travel wheel picks a destination from your shortlist, which is most useful at the point where you have been comparing the same four places for a month.
Eight trip shapes rather than eight place names, because most people are not really stuck between Lisbon and Lyon — they are stuck between wanting to rest and wanting to see things.
Once the shape is decided, the destination gets much easier. A beach week and a city break call for entirely different research, and knowing which one you are doing removes about eighty percent of the tabs.
If you already have a shortlist, put the actual places on the wheel instead. Four or five candidates that have survived a month of comparison are exactly the situation a draw is good for, because at that point they are all defensible and you are just avoiding commitment.
Watch what happens when it lands. Relief means go. A quiet flatness means one of the others was the real answer, and now you know which. Either way you have spent two seconds instead of another evening on flight comparison sites.
Where to Travel Wheel — questions
Should I put trip types or specific places on the wheel?
Trip types when you do not know what you want — beach, city, mountains — since that decision shapes everything after it. Specific places when you already have a shortlist and are simply avoiding the commitment.
Is picking a holiday at random reckless?
It would be if you spun over every country on earth. Used properly, every option on the wheel is one you already researched and approved, so the draw only chooses between good outcomes.
Can I use it for a group trip?
It works well for groups, since the wheel removes the politics of whose suggestion won. Collect one destination from each person, put them all on, and spin in front of everybody.