MAXDAYS — Time-Off & Travel Optimizer
MAXDAYS — Time-Off & Travel Optimizer
Stop wasting vacation days. MAXDAYS calculates the best holiday bridges, optimizes your leave allocation, compares destinations, and maximizes your travel time for your budget.
🚀 What is MAXDAYS?
MAXDAYS is a decision engine designed to answer one simple question:
“How can I get the most travel time out of the fewest vacation days?”
Instead of guessing destinations or manually counting public holidays, MAXDAYS combines deterministic calculations, verified travel data, budget constraints, and personal preferences to build an optimized travel plan.
✨ Capabilities
📅 Optimize Vacation Days
- Detects the best holiday bridges from actual public holidays.
- Calculates exactly which weekdays to take off.
- Measures leave efficiency: free days gained per vacation day used.
- Optimizes an entire annual leave allowance, not just individual trips.
- Uses combinatorial optimization to avoid wasting available days.
✈️ Compare Destinations
MAXDAYS compares multiple options using measurable criteria:
| Metric | What MAXDAYS evaluates |
|---|---|
| 💰 Total cost | Transport + accommodation + relevant trip costs |
| €/day | Cost relative to usable travel days |
| 🕐 Travel time | True door-to-door journey time |
| 📅 Leave required | Number of vacation days consumed |
| 🌍 Free days | Total usable days away |
| ⚡ Efficiency | Free days gained per leave day |
| ⭐ Experience | Quality and suitability of the option |
🚆 Real Door-to-Door Travel Time
MAXDAYS does not treat flight duration as total travel time.
It can account for:
- Getting to the departure airport/station
- Transfers
- Waiting and connection times
- Flight/train/ferry duration
- Arrival transfers
- Final journey to the destination
This makes comparisons much closer to the real time you spend travelling.
🧮 Annual Leave Optimization
For users with a fixed annual leave allowance, MAXDAYS can determine:
- Which travel windows are worth taking.
- How many days to allocate to each.
- Which combinations maximize total free time.
- Which options conflict with each other.
- Where using one additional vacation day creates the biggest benefit.
The goal is not simply to find the best trip — it is to optimize the whole leave portfolio.
👨👩👧 Family Constraints
MAXDAYS can incorporate constraints such as:
- School holidays
- Family availability
- Preferred travel periods
- Maximum trip duration
- Budget limits
- Transport preferences
- Destinations to avoid
🔄 What-If Scenarios
Plans can be recalculated without starting over:
“What if I add 2 vacation days?”
“What if my budget increases to €1,500?”
“What if I can only travel by train?”
“What if I want to avoid flying?”
MAXDAYS shows how these changes affect the optimal solution.
📊 Typical Output
Every recommendation is designed to be comparable and actionable, rather than a generic travel suggestion.
Example structure:
| Option | Leave Days | Free Days | Efficiency | Total Cost | Travel Time | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plan A | 2 | 5 | 2.5× | €420 | 5h 20m | 🏆 Recommended |
| Plan B | 3 | 7 | 2.3× | €610 | 4h 10m | Strong alternative |
| Plan C | 4 | 7 | 1.75× | €780 | 9h 30m | ❌ Dominated |
The exact figures depend on the user's location, dates, budget, and live travel data.
🏆 Decision Logic
MAXDAYS does not simply return the first attractive option.
It identifies dominated options — alternatives that cost more, take longer, require more leave, or provide less usable travel time without delivering a meaningful advantage.
The result is a shortlist of options with:
- Plan A — best overall choice
- Plan B — strongest alternative
- Plan C — fallback option
- Red flags — options rejected and why
🔎 Data Integrity
MAXDAYS is designed around a strict principle:
No invented numbers.
Variable information such as:
- Public holidays
- Prices
- Transport schedules
- Travel durations
- Availability
- School holiday dates
should be verified against current sources rather than guessed from memory.
MAXDAYS does not book trips on the user's behalf.
🧠 Why MAXDAYS?
Generic AI travel planning often looks like:
“Here are 5 destinations you might like.”
MAXDAYS works differently:
Constraints → Data → Optimization → Comparison → Recommendation
The objective is not to produce more suggestions.
It is to find the best decision for the available vacation days, budget, and travel constraints.
💡 Example Prompts
I have 4 days off in May and a €500 budget. Where should I go?
Help me optimize my 2027 vacation days.
What is the best holiday bridge this year?
I have 25 vacation days. How can I maximize my travel time?
I want to travel from July 10 to July 20. How many vacation days should I take?
What changes if I add 2 vacation days?
Compare these destinations for a €1,500 budget.
🎯 Core Principle
Don't optimize the destination first. Optimize the vacation days first.
MAXDAYS turns limited PTO into a measurable travel resource — then finds the trips that make the most of it.
