Your first adventures
Appia
£29/year
App access and 3 specialist curated routes per membership year.
- Build your own road trips
- Choose 3 specialist curated routes each year
- Save trips in your browser
Appia memberships
Choose how far you want to explore.
Three ways to make the road your own. Start with specialist routes, discover a whole region, or explore the full collection.
Bespoke from £295 · Concierge from £795 · Accompanied, guided & personal journeys by enquiry →
Your next journey starts in the app.
Already have active access? Open the Appia app and sign in. New here? Compare memberships below, or try our two free featured book routes.
Open the Appia app →Create an account · Explore free routesExplore a region
Appia Select
£39/year
App access and all curated routes in one chosen region.
- Build your own road trips
- Explore the curated routes of your chosen region
- Add the matching regional book for an additional fee when available
The whole collection
Appia Plus
£49/year
App access and the full curated-route catalogue across all regions.
- Build your own road trips
- Full curated-route access
- Explore across regions with one membership
Create an account or sign in to choose your membership and continue to secure checkout. Account creation alone does not unlock the planner. Annual memberships renew automatically each year. Cancel before your next renewal; access continues until the end of your paid period. Regional books are planned and sold separately when available.
Own the paperback or hardback? Your included 12 months start when you register and activate your book, with no automatic paid renewal. Activate your book access →
Trips are saved in this browser. Check road conditions, opening times and travel availability before departure.
Personal journeys
Your adventure. Our personal attention.
From a route designed around you to an accompanied adventure, tell us what you have in mind.
Made for you
Appia Bespoke
From £295/trip
A consultation, personally tailored route, daily itinerary, suggested stays and one revision.
Enquire about Bespoke →Personal support
Appia Concierge
From £795/trip
Bespoke planning with an agreed period of personal support to refine arrangements and help with changes before departure.
Enquire about Concierge →Share the adventure
Accompanied, guided & personal journeys
By enquiry
A journey shaped around you, with scope, availability and price agreed individually, case by case.
Enquire about your journey →Personal services are separate from annual memberships. We agree availability, scope, price and any separate travel costs with you before you book.
Why Appia?
Every road leads somewhere. Choose one worth remembering.
The Via Appia became one of history’s great roads because of everything it connected—people, places, cultures and possibilities.
Appia Adventures carries that spirit into the modern road trip. It helps travellers look beyond the fastest route, shape journeys around the roads they want to experience and turn the distance between destinations into part of the adventure.
Plan the journey. Live the adventure.
Built on the road
Developed in the real world.
Appia Adventures is taking shape on real long-distance European road trips, not just behind a desk. Every journey exposes the decisions, practical details and unexpected questions that conventional route planners often miss.
That real-world experience is helping us understand what a genuinely useful touring companion should become.
The Appia Way
The journey should be as memorable as the destination.
Plan with purpose
Bring routes, stops, stays and practical details together around the journey you actually want to make.
Travel with freedom
Stay in control of every choice while Appia helps with the research, comparisons and practical decisions along the way.
Choose roads worth remembering
Treat the driving experience as part of the adventure—not simply the time between two pins on a map.
From the book to the road
Choose your next great road.
Available now
Explore the book routes
Discover Route Napoléon or the Swiss Susten–Grimsel–Furka loop. Explore the full driving route, plan the featured stops and follow driving directions with Appia.
Explore the Book RoutesPublic experiment
Route Preference Lab
Explore how speed, scenery, driving enjoyment and personal preferences can change the shape of a road trip. It’s a focused public prototype, not the full Appia experience.
Explore Route Preference LabThe Appia Experience
One companion for the whole journey.
Appia Routes
Evidence-backed route choices shaped around speed, touring character and the kind of journey you want to experience.
Appia Journeys
Build, organise, save and share complete adventures—from the first road to the final destination.
Ask Appi
Traveller-facing help with routes, stops, places and the practical questions that arise along the way.
Appia Stories
Real roads, memorable places and the journeys helping to shape Appia Adventures.
Follow the journeyThe Appia Adventures books · Available now
The complete journey. Or the region you need.
Appia Adventures: The Great Driving Roads of Europe and Beyond is available now on Amazon in paperback and hardback. Every complete paperback and hardback includes a 12-month Appia subscription. The book inspires the adventure; Appia’s digital route companion helps you take it onto the road. Explore featured driving routes, discover stops and view driving directions alongside your reading. Regional paperbacks are also planned.
Your book. Your route. Your adventure.
Bring the pages to life with Appia.
Start with the book, then open our interactive companion routes. Explore Route Napoléon or the Swiss Susten–Grimsel–Furka loop, plan the featured stops and view driving directions. Two great journeys are ready to explore today.
Explore the Book RoutesBoth the paperback and hardback include a 12-month Appia subscription. Register your book in My Appia, activate your included year and open your route planner.
Complete coverage · Available now
Premium hardback
12 months’ Appia subscription included
The complete Appia Adventures main book in a larger illustrated coffee-table edition, designed to enjoy at home or give as a gift.
Buy the hardbackComplete coverage · Available now
Main paperback
12 months’ Appia subscription included
The same complete coverage in a more accessible paperback. One book for readers who want the whole Appia Adventures journey.
Buy the paperbackDigital edition · Coming soon
Kindle edition
Book only · Appia access sold separately
Read Appia Adventures on Kindle with adjustable text, photographs and maps. The Kindle edition does not include access to the Appia planning and guiding service.
Kindle edition detailsFocused coverage · Planned
Regional paperbacks
Lower-cost guides for individual regional road trips. Choose the area you need, then add another region when your next adventure takes you somewhere new.
Real journeys. Real testing.
The journey is part of the development.
Appia Adventures is being developed during a real long-distance European road trip — planning journeys, finding great roads, managing stops, researching destinations and solving the everyday problems that conventional navigation doesn’t.
What works on the road shapes what comes next.
Follow the journey
Come along for the ride.
See the real places, roads and travel lessons shaping Appia Adventures as the journey — and the platform — develops.