Five of the Best Route Planners

We start our list with the AA Route Planner, a back-to-basics planner with a simple interface.

The AA Route Planner is a simple to use and basic route planner which makes it easy to plan a journey in the UK, Ireland, and EU, thanks to buttons on the page. It lacks geo-location, so you have to input your journey details manually, but thanks to Google Maps it provides a decent list of text-based directions and an eye catching map which can be printed out. You can also save routes and view traffic news, although this is on a separate tab and isn't included in the planning stage.

With this route planner you can also located hotels and B&Bs. The AA has 1000s of hotels and B&Bs stored on its database so if you're travelling somewhere and need a place to stay this will be invaluable.