Family reunions
A family reunion trip planner that works for three generations at once
Plan a family trip across three generations: a pace that suits everyone, dietary needs checked properly, and a way to split costs that nobody finds awkward.
A family trip is the hardest group trip to plan and the one people plan with the least help. You have a toddler's nap schedule, a grandparent who can manage about a mile, three separate households with different amounts of money, and a dietary requirement that is medical rather than a preference.
Generic recommendations are useless here. What you need is a day that fits everybody, checked rather than guessed, and a way to handle the money that does not involve asking your parents for forty pounds.
What actually goes wrong
Not the trip — the admin around it. These are the failures specific to this kind of group.
One pace does not fit three generations
A day that works for the adults exhausts the grandparents and overruns the toddler's nap. The usual result is a plan that quietly excludes somebody every day.
Dietary needs are medical, not fussiness
Coeliac disease, a nut allergy, a diabetic grandparent. A list of the top ten restaurants in a city is not just unhelpful here, it is actively risky, and checking twenty venues properly is hours nobody has.
Money across households is genuinely awkward
One sibling earns three times what another does. One set of grandparents wants to pay for everything and shouldn't. Nobody wants to itemise, and so one household silently absorbs most of it.
Everyone assumes someone else booked it
Across four households, "I thought you were doing the restaurant" is the single most common failure. There is no shared view of what is actually confirmed.
What the app does about it
A pace dial rather than a rebuild
Say the day is too full and it shows you less of it, instantly, without regenerating anything or touching what is already booked. The full day stays there for the people who want it.
Every venue checked against every requirement
State them all once — coeliac, nut allergy, whatever else — and each restaurant is checked against what it actually publishes. Where nothing could be verified it says "not checked", which is the honest answer and the one that matters when the requirement is medical.
Honest travel times, which is a mobility question
The plan shows how long it really takes between stops and lets you change the mode. "Twenty minutes" means something quite different to someone with a walking limit, and the plan tells you rather than assuming.
One view of what is booked, across four households
Everyone on the link sees the same thing and can see which items are confirmed and whose name is against them.
Splitting family costs without anybody having to ask
Log what each household paid and who it covered, and let the arithmetic do the asking. The app produces the minimum set of transfers that settles everyone — so the sibling who paid for the house gets squared off without ever sending a message about it, and the household that can only do its share does exactly its share without that being a conversation. Where somebody genuinely wants to cover more, leave them off a split and it simply never appears as a debt.
Questions people ask
- Can it plan around a toddler's nap or a mobility limit?
- Tell it the pace and the walking appetite when you set the trip up, and both feed into how the day is built. The pace dial then adjusts how much of the day is shown without rebuilding it, and every travel leg shows a real duration you can change the mode on.
- How reliable is the dietary checking for a serious allergy?
- It checks each venue against what that venue publishes, and reports three states: catered for, not catered for, or not checked. It never shows unverified as safe. For a severe allergy treat it as a filtered shortlist and still call ahead — the value is that twenty venues have already been narrowed to the ones worth calling.
- Can different households see different things?
- No — everyone on the trip sees the same plan. That is the point: the most common family-trip failure is two households holding different versions of the same weekend.
- Can we leave the grandparents off the money side entirely?
- Yes. Leave them off the splits and no debt is ever created for them, while they can still see and edit the plan itself.
- Does it work for a big house share rather than a hotel?
- Yes. Tell it where you are staying and it anchors every day to that address rather than to the city centre.
Plan it in about a minute
Four questions — where, when, who with, and anything the group can't eat. You get the whole trip back, day by day, and a link to send the others.
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