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Strange, wrong or outdated things AI assistants say when travelers ask where to go, eat and stay.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 GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 5, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Perplexity Sonar to one of the travel questions TakeScout asks every month. Answers come from each provider's API model, not their consumer apps. Every oddity was then checked by a human against a source before being published here.
- GPT books families into a Vegas hotel that closed in 2024
Recommended as a top family hotel with volcano show and Dolphin Habitat
- GPT sends skiers to a Georgia hill closed for 20 years
Georgia's ski resort for winter sports
- AI still books you a table at a restaurant that no longer exists
All four AI assistants still recommend Chez Muffy at the Auberge Saint-Antoine. In the October 2 check it appeared in 25 restaurant and food-experience answers; Perplexity picked it first for a romantic dinner and GPT-4o ranked it #2 among the best restaurants for couples.
- Two AIs still send families to a zoo that closed in 2012
Recommended as a family attraction in 7 answers across 4 questions.
- 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.