Travel Stories
May 15, 2025
Boutique Beds and Quiet Mornings: How AI Helped Me Travel Slowly Through Italy
Forget loyalty programs and chain hotels—I wanted sunlit balconies, handwritten welcome notes, and mornings without alarms. By using iMean.ai to plan a slow trip through Italy, I stayed in places that felt more like homes than hotels: a restored farmhouse in Umbria, a quiet B&B in Florence's Oltrarno district, and a lakeside villa in the north. The AI didn’t just optimize distance or price—it understood pace, mood, and soul. This is what happens when technology learns to plan for how you want to feel, not just where you want to go.