Notes from the group chat
What we learn from real trips, real ballots, and real spreadsheets. Mostly about the one person who ends up doing everything.
Someone is planning your vacation. It isn't you.
We asked 800 people who took a group trip last year who actually did the work. One person did almost all of it, and now there's a number for how much.
Why Splitwise's free tier broke group travel specifically
The cap isn't the problem. Batching six days of receipts on the seventh is.
Please rank in order of preference: 1. The Grand Palladium 2. Secrets Cap Cana 3. Sandals Royal Curaçao 4. Hyatt Ziva DUE FRIDAY.aug 2024
The vote you can't see
A group was asked to rank four resorts, from a list of hotel names that didn't say what country they were in. That ballot is why this app exists.
TRANSPORT — AIRPORT $260 $260 $193 $193 $150 ...3 did not gothe expense matrix
Split by who did what, not one big pot
Nine of twelve people went. Transport ran at three price tiers. No app can represent that.
How groups actually decide where to go
Ranked-choice works. A group chat doesn't. Here is a real ballot, and what it got wrong.
costa mujeres, mxWhat makes a resort work for fifteen people
Room blocks, one bill, and whether the restaurant can actually seat you together. Most of them can't.
DL 202 ATL → ATH seat 14C seat 22F seat 31A seat 8B seat 19D seat 27Cbooked separately
Six women, one flight, and nobody knew
They booked separately and ended up on the same Delta 202. The trip ran on ten systems and none of them talked.