2026-07-26 · 8 min read
What Is the Best Order to Visit Multiple Cities? A Step-by-Step Optimization Method
I had my hotels picked out for a 12-night China trip and figured the city order was just a logistics question, not a price one. Turns out the same four hotels, the same nights, just arranged differently, came out $436 apart, and the flight side of the equation mattered just as much as the hotels did.