Destinations 1 October 2026 3 min read

Lisbon, Barcelona, Paris or Rome for 5 days.

We gave Plan4Me one brief and four European cities. Here is how the four plans differ: how many stops, how much travel and how many meals.

The Plan4Me team Written from the four published plan files.

A yellow tram on a steep Lisbon street in daylight

The short version.

Paris is the fullest plan, with 29 stops.
Rome has the least travel, at 4 h 58 min between stops.
Paris has the most meals in the plan, with nine.

stops in Lisbon

stops in Barcelona

stops in Paris

stops in Rome

One brief, four cities.

Each plan came from the same brief: two adults, 5 October 2026 to 9 October 2026, a moderate pace, a mid-range budget of 2,000 USD and public transport.

The brief did not change, only the city. Each plan is one run. The tables below are measured from the four plan files.

The four plans in numbers.

CityFive days

Lisbon 23 stops, 24 h 45 min at stops, 6 h 15 min between them.

Barcelona 25 stops, 29 h at stops, 5 h 14 min between them.

Paris 29 stops, 31 h 15 min at stops, 6 h 52 min between them.

Rome 27 stops, 29 h 55 min at stops, 4 h 58 min between them.

CityWhat the stops are

Lisbon 16 sights, 4 meals, 3 events.

Barcelona 19 sights, 3 meals, 3 events.

Paris 17 sights, 9 meals, 3 events.

Rome 19 sights, 7 meals, 1 event.

A sight is a stop the plan types as an attraction.

CityLongest hop, in a straight line

Lisbon 23.3 km on day 3.

Barcelona 7.2 km on day 5.

Paris 8.4 km on day 4.

Rome 5.4 km on day 2.

Where the travel time goes.

Paris has the most time between stops, at 6 h 52 min. Rome has the least, at 4 h 58 min.

The Lisbon plan has 6 h 15 min between stops. One leg is 80 minutes of that: day 3 goes out to the National Palace of Pena from Carmo Archaeological Museum.

The five Lisbon days.

Day 1: Arrival in Belém: riverside monuments and contemporary culture. 5 stops, 10:00 to 16:27.
Day 2: Traditional Lisbon flavors and pastry-led wandering. 5 stops, 11:30 to 16:57.
Day 3: Sintra palace day for history and romantic architecture. 4 stops, 10:00 to 16:05.
Day 4: Quieter architecture and local design corners. 6 stops, 09:00 to 19:00.
Day 5: Easy waterfront finale at Parque das Nações. 3 stops, 09:00 to 13:45.

The five Barcelona days.

Day 1: Plaça de Catalunya and The Cult of Beauty. 8 stops, 09:00 to 22:00.
Day 2: CosmoCaixa Museum of Science and Casa Vicens Gaudí. 5 stops, 10:00 to 16:57.
Day 3: Barcelona icon by day, live music by night. 4 stops, 09:00 to 21:30.
Day 4: Montjuïc Castle and Fundació Joan Miró. 4 stops, 10:00 to 19:15.
Day 5: Easy waterfront science before departure. 4 stops, 09:00 to 14:26.

The five Paris days.

Day 1: National Museum of Natural History and Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris. 7 stops, 10:00 to 19:15.
Day 2: Parc Monceau and Europe. 5 stops, 09:00 to 16:12.
Day 3: Grand Paris monuments with a later, gentler start. 5 stops, 10:00 to 15:59.
Day 4: Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre and Louvre Pyramid. 5 stops, 09:00 to 17:27.
Day 5: Tuileries Garden and Musée d'Orsay. 7 stops, 09:00 to 19:15.

The five Rome days.

Day 1: Colosseum and Roman Forum. 4 stops, 09:00 to 13:43.
Day 2: Vatican treasures and riverside fortress views. 6 stops, 09:00 to 19:15.
Day 3: Historic-core flavors through Pantheon and piazza lanes. 7 stops, 09:00 to 19:53.
Day 4: Piazza del Popolo and Villa Borghese. 5 stops, 09:00 to 16:33.
Day 5: Giardino degli Aranci and Campo de' Fiori. 5 stops, 09:00 to 20:30.

More than one city.

Plan4Me plans several cities in one trip. You enter the country, city and dates. It estimates the travel time and cost of each hop between the cities.

Read each plan in full: Lisbon plan, Barcelona plan, Paris plan, Rome plan.

See the output.

The five day Lisbon plan.

23 stops across five days, with a start time for every stop. Free to read.

Read the Lisbon plan