The Trip preferences tab
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The Trip preferences tab holds the settings that describe the trip rather than the route: how many of you there are, how you sleep and eat, your pace and budget, when you start, and any notes. Mec, the AI route partner, reads these when it suggests stages, stops and places to stay.
The settings
| Setting | What it affects |
|---|---|
| Travellers | How many of you are riding. |
| Sleep | The kind of place you want at the end of a day: hotels, hostels, guest houses, campsites and so on. |
| Lunch | Whether you'd rather stop at a café or carry a picnic. Mec searches accordingly. |
| Pace | How hard you want the days to be. It shapes the daily distance Mec suggests, and with your bike type and e-bike setting it sets the ride time and average speed in the stats bar, on the day cards and on route-option cards. |
| Budget | The price range Mec keeps to when it suggests places. |
| Start | The time of day you set off. Mec takes it into account when it plans; it doesn't change the ride-time estimate. |
| Dates | When the trip happens. |
| Scenery | The kinds of landscape you'd like the route to favour. |
| Notes | Anything else in your own words, e.g. "we'd rather avoid city centres". |
These are advisory: they shape what Mec suggests and asks about, not the geometry of the route itself. Pace is the one that also changes figures on screen, the ride times. Press Edit trip preferences to change them.
Trip settings versus your profile
This tab holds the settings for the trip on screen. Your account also has saved preferences that apply to every new trip, including the notes Mec remembers when you say something like "I always avoid busy roads". You can see and edit those in your account.
Frequently asked questions
Do trip preferences change the route itself?
No. They shape what Mec suggests — the days, the stops, the places to stay — but the path is computed by the routing engine from your points and bike profile.
What's the difference between these and my account preferences?
This tab applies to the trip you're planning now. Your account preferences apply to every new trip, and Mec follows both.