Group trip planning guides
Everything we have learned about getting a group of friends to agree on a trip and actually go on it. No sign-up needed to read any of it.
How to plan a group trip without becoming the group's project manager
Every group trip has one person chasing everyone else. Here is how to structure the planning so the job gets shared instead: the order to make decisions in, how to time-box them, and what to do when the group stalls.
How to split trip costs with friends without it getting awkward
Agreeing the rules before anyone spends money is what stops a group trip ending in a bad conversation. How to decide what gets shared, how to track it, and how to settle up in Australia.
How to get six friends to actually agree on trip dates
Picking dates is where most group trips die. Why open-ended date questions fail, how to ask for availability instead of preference, and how to close the decision without chasing anyone.
Your first big group trip: a planning checklist
A timeline for planning a first big trip with friends, from three months out to the week before, plus the things groups reliably forget until it is too late to fix them.
The best group trip planning apps, compared honestly
An honest comparison of the main group travel planning tools — Wanderlog, Splitwise, Troupe, TripIt and the all-in-ones — including where each is genuinely better than the others. Written by the team behind one of them.
What a group trip actually costs, and how to budget for one
A framework for working out what a group trip will cost per person before you commit, including the costs groups routinely leave out and how to handle a group with different budgets.
Planning a Gold Coast group trip
A practical guide to planning a Gold Coast trip with a group: choosing between Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach, Burleigh and Coolangatta, getting around without hiring cars, when to go, and what it costs.