Every day of the trip, written out in order

No, and checklists often ask for both. A flight itinerary is the flight reservation, carrying the route, flight numbers, dates and a booking reference, and it answers how you enter and leave the country. A travel itinerary is the day-by-day plan for everything in between: which city you are in on which date, where you stay each night, and how you move. This page is the second one. If what you were asked for is the flight document, that is our Flight Itinerary product.

A dated entry for every day between arrival and departure, showing the city you are in, where you are staying that night, and roughly what the day is for. Movements between cities go in as their own entries with a date, a direction and a means of travel. Travel days and quiet days count as days. State the trip dates, the total length and the nights in each city explicitly rather than leaving them to be added up.

One entry per day, in date order. A typical day reads: “14 May — Rome. Arrive FCO, check in to the apartment in Trastevere. Afternoon: Colosseum and Roman Forum. Night 1 of 4 in Rome.” A travel day reads: “18 May — Rome to Florence by train from Termini. Night 1 of 3 in Florence.” The last entry names the airport you fly home from. No clock times, and nothing presented as a booking you have not made.

Detailed at the level of places and dates, not hours and bookings. Naming the city, the area you are staying in and the two or three things a day is built around is plenty; a timetable of museum entries is more than a plan needs and commits you to things you have no reason to commit to. The one place to be precise is the skeleton: the dates, the sequence of cities and the nights in each. That is the part the rest of your documents are read alongside.

No. Checklists ask for a proposed or intended itinerary, and the wording is deliberate: it describes the trip you plan to take, not a schedule you are contracted to. What is worth getting right before you submit is that the plan is coherent: the days run from arrival to departure with none missing, the route is one you could actually travel, and the nights add up to the stay you have applied for. If the trip changes substantially while you are still assembling the file, ask us to reissue it.

Yes, and that is the case it is built for. Each city gets its days, each move between them gets its own dated entry with the direction and how you are travelling, and the whole route reads in sequence, including trips that fly home from somewhere other than where they landed. For multi-country trips the nights in each place are set out so they can be counted: Schengen guidance commonly asks you to apply to the country where you will spend the most nights, or, where the nights are evenly split, to the country you enter first.

No. A travel itinerary describes an intended trip, so it can be written from the route and the dates you have in mind before anything is booked. That is the ordinary way round, given that a good deal of published guidance advises against buying tickets before a decision is issued. If you are ordering a flight itinerary or a hotel reservation from us as well, give us the same dates and we will write the plan around them. If you have already booked elsewhere, send us those dates and we will work to them.

It depends on the post, and the document goes by different names. Schengen checklists commonly list a trip plan or proof of travel arrangements alongside accommodation and insurance. UK visitor guidance treats a proposed itinerary as supporting evidence rather than a required form. Japan publishes an actual form for it, the Schedule of Stay or Taizai Yoteihyo, asking for a daily breakdown of dates, places and accommodation. US and Australian visitor applications ask about your intended travel within the form itself rather than as a separate attachment, so a written plan is what you work from when filling those sections in. Work from the checklist your own post publishes. We supply a day-by-day itinerary PDF, not a completed government form; where a post has its own template, ours gives you the content to fill it in.

No. One plan covers the trip you give it, whether that is four days in one city or three weeks across five. Multi-city routing is included rather than charged for, and there is no day limit to buy your way past. Delivery estimates are shown at checkout, where you can also pay to move up the queue if your appointment is close; those are the usual times rather than a guaranteed slot. Everything arrives by email as a PDF.