AI Travel Oddities
Strange, wrong or outdated things AI assistants say when travelers ask where to go, eat and stay.
Each oddity below was observed in a real answer from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity to one of the travel questions TakeScout asks every month. Every one was then checked by a human against a source before being published here.
- Two AIs still send families to a zoo that closed in 2012
Recommended as a family attraction in 7 answers across 4 questions.
- Ask Claude where to eat in Thompson and you get no names
Claude names zero restaurants in 4 Thompson food answers.
- AI still calls it Dover Downs, five years after the rebrand
Recommended under its old name for rainy days and family stays.
- The Green Room keeps coming back in AI answers
Presented as Hotel du Pont's current fine-dining restaurant in luxury-hotel answers.
- Claude still thinks the Original Pantry never closes
Described as open 24/7.