About Quiet Route

Most trips start with a plan that never quite comes together.

How a van, a spreadsheet, and too many AI chats became Quiet Route.

The story

The trips were great. The planning never was.

We travel in a self-converted VW Crafter most summers. The trips are the best part of the year. Planning them never has been.

A shared spreadsheet nobody updates, a dozen browser tabs, and half a conversation with ChatGPT that confidently put a campsite in a car park. We'd wing it, or not go at all.

Nothing took the whole job on. Where you're going, how you travel, what you enjoy, what you can spend. Nothing gave you back a plan you could actually use. Quiet Route is the thing.

A self-converted VW Crafter campervan parked under trees
Casper, the van it all gets planned in.

The build

I build things for the web. So I built this one.

I've spent more than ten years making websites and software. The summer we finished the van, I kept reaching for one tool that would take the whole trip on, and there wasn't one. So I started building it. A spreadsheet first, then something that could hold a trip together without inventing a campsite that wasn't there.

Eighteen months into van life, I'm still working a lot of it out: where the good overnights are, which roads a high-top van has no business on, what's worth the detour and what isn't. Quiet Route gets a little better each trip, because I'm planning the same trips you are.

The campervan parked beside the town sign for Carentan in Normandy, France
Casper at Carentan, Normandy.

Giving back

The National Trust.

5% of Quiet Route's annual profit goes to the National Trust. They look after the coastline, countryside and historic places across England, Wales and Northern Ireland that make these trips worth taking in the first place.

This isn't a token gesture. The amount gets published on this page every year, starting April 2027, covering the first year of trading. If Quiet Route does well, the donation grows with it.

A walker carrying a child on their shoulders along the clifftop path above the sea at Filey, North Yorkshire
The cliff path above Filey, on the North Yorkshire coast.
David O'Sullivan with his dogs in autumn woodland

David O'Sullivan

Founder, Quiet Route

I designed Quiet Route, I built it, and I maintain every part of it. It's one person in Merseyside, not a company with a support queue. If you email me, I'll reply.

david@quietroute.io

Stop bookmarking.
Start planning.

Plan my trip

£28 a year. Full refund within 14 days, no questions asked.