About PlanTheAlps
PlanTheAlps was built to make Alps road-trip planning feel clear, exciting, and deeply human. Every page is designed to answer the questions travelers actually ask before they book flights and hotels.
How we plan content
We focus on actionable route structure, realistic driving times, and easy-to-follow stay strategies for US and UK travelers. The goal is less overwhelm, greater confidence, and better memories on the road.
This site is intentionally lightweight and fast so planning pages load quickly on both desktop and mobile, even while you are actively comparing stops.
Methodology: how our facts are made and checked
Distances and drive times. Route figures are derived from standard car routing (Google Maps, default car profile) captured when each route guide was built, and are periodically re-checked. They are direct road figures without stops; every guide says so next to the number. The Trip Planner uses those same figures and links each one to its source guide.
Rules, tolls and seasonal status. For regulations and prices we cite official sources — ASTRA and TCS for Switzerland, ASFINAG for Austria, national road codes for Germany, France and Italy — and link them on the page where the claim is made. Mountain-pass status tables carry their own verification date, separate from the page’s last-updated date, because a page edit is not a fact check. Where we cannot verify something to that standard, we say so or leave it out.
What is judgement. Which stops are worth your time, how many bases a week supports, and pacing caps are editorial judgement built from the route data — not measurements, and we label them accordingly.
Corrections. Every page has a feedback form (it posts to us directly). If you spot an error, tell us on the page where you found it — verified corrections are applied to the page itself, not hidden in a changelog.
Independence. Booking links are affiliate links and are always marked sponsored. Partners never pay for placement or ranking, and itineraries and recommendations are never altered for commission.
Image credits
Some photographs on this site are used under Creative Commons licences. We credit their authors here:
- zermatt.jpg — Matterhorn above Zermatt photo by Svein-Magne Tunli - tunliweb.no.jpg by Smtunli, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- innsbruck.jpg — Goldenes Dachl from Innsbruck 2.jpg by Wilfredor, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
- lucerne.jpg — Chapel Bridge (Kapellbrücke), Lucerne, Switzerland 02.jpg by Godot13, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- grossglockner-high-alpine-road.jpg — Großglockner Hochalpenstraße 21082018 102.jpg by PantheraLeo1359531, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Images were cropped to fit the site layout. Other photographs and illustrations are our own or licence-free.
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