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Cool idea. A few issues: 1.) The flight section of the /destinations/ page asks me to select a departure and return date, but lacks the field to do that. It also needlessly asks for my home airport again. 2.) The exclude regions function seems to think that Turkey is in Europe. 3.) Finland, Georgia, Russia, Poland, Canada, Colorado, Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Utah are not "sunny" destinations in January.

Edit: added a few destinations to #3

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Thank you! Thanks for all your feedback! 1) We need to fix the issue of not showing date-input-fields before a proper airport is selected. 2) Ah that's true - I guess the west part of Turkey is in Europe (note: not EU) whereas the bigger eastern part indeed is in Asia. 3) True, haha, temperatures are yearly averages at this moment. Will be current temperatures in the near future :)

#3 even if you use yearly average temperature (which is a terrible metric), why would you put a 45F destination under the sunny category?

Asking for airport may make sense, when there are 3 or 4 airports nearby (e.g. Moscow SVO,DME,VKO and ZIA). But that's a big question, why only travel by air considered (it's quite common and convenient to take night sleeper cars in Russia or Shinkansen in Japan).

In the additional travel options / filters there is an option "travel by" where you can select car! :D

As future improvement, it will also make sense to consider visa money/time costs (maintain matrix of visa-free destinations/visa costs/issue times) or at least add a note in UI that valid visa may be required to some destinations.

Thanks for mentioning! That's already on our list and we will implement soon, in addition we are planning to add a safety score or safety index - which is quite relevant at the moment..

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