6 min read
Who pays for what on a group trip: an etiquette guide
Which costs are genuinely shared, who absorbs the awkward ones, and how to raise any of it without making the trip weird.
- Money
- Etiquette
- Group travel
Field notes
The Caravan blog
Practical writing about the unglamorous parts of travelling with other people — who paid, who decides, and who is picking everyone up from the airport.
5 min read
How to split group trip expenses without a spreadsheet
Equal, by-share, and exact-amount splits, why pairwise settling explodes into N² payments, and how to handle more than one currency.
- Expenses
- Money
- Group travel
6 min read
How to decide where to go when everyone wants something different
Why open-ended destination threads never converge, and the constraints-first process that gets six people to one answer.
- Planning
- Decisions
- Group travel
6 min read
Keeping a shared itinerary in sync when plans keep changing
One source of truth, who gets edit access, and why a static calendar export goes stale the moment a flight moves.
- Itineraries
- Collaboration
- Group travel
6 min read
A 7-step checklist for planning a group trip everyone shows up to
Seven decisions — dates, budget, owners, bookings, how you decide, downtime, and the 48-hour check — that keep a group trip from quietly falling apart.
- Planning
- Checklists
- Group travel
7 min read
Planning a group ski trip: the logistics nobody warns you about
Lodging deposits land before the money conversation, lift-pass maths breaks even sooner than you think, and day one goes to the rental queue.
- Ski
- Logistics
- Group travel
Stop running the trip out of a group chat
Itineraries, shared expenses, and assigned tasks in one place everyone on the trip can open.
Plan your first trip