Hen dos
A hen do planner that handles the money without anyone feeling awkward
An AI hen do planner for groups of up to 20: a full weekend of bookable activities in seconds, everyone votes, dietary needs checked, and a clear record of who paid for what.
You are the maid of honour, or the organised friend, and you are trying to plan a weekend for twelve women who have known each other for different lengths of time, have very different amounts of money, and are all being extremely polite about it.
The plan is not the hard part. The hard part is that nobody will tell you the spa day is too expensive until after you have booked it. A shared itinerary with a per-head number next to every item lets people say so early, in the app, without having to say it out loud to the group.
What actually goes wrong
Not the trip — the admin around it. These are the failures specific to this kind of group.
The budget gap is real and nobody will name it
In any group of ten there is someone on maternity leave and someone who has just been promoted. Neither will raise it in a group chat. A plan with visible costs lets the quiet objection happen before the deposit, which is the only point at which it is useful.
Not everyone is drinking, and not everyone will say why
Somebody is pregnant and not telling people yet. Somebody is driving. Somebody just doesn't. A weekend built entirely around bars makes all three of them spend two days explaining themselves.
Dietary requirements across a big group are genuinely hard
One coeliac, one vegan, one serious nut allergy, and a restaurant that says it can cater and then cannot. Checking twelve venues against four constraints is hours of work and it is the work that gets skipped.
You end up several hundred pounds out of pocket
You paid the accommodation deposit in March. It is now June and four people have paid you back. Asking the others feels like asking for a favour rather than a refund.
What the app does about it
Costs visible before anyone commits
Every item on the plan carries a guide price, and the per-head number moves as you add and remove things. People can see what the weekend costs before they are emotionally committed to it.
A day that is not only bars
Tell it the pace and it plans breakfast to dinner — the long lunch, the thing in the afternoon, the good dinner — rather than assuming everyone wants the same night out. Anything that doesn't suit gets voted down or swapped in the app.
Every restaurant checked against what the group can eat
State the requirements once and each venue is checked against what it actually publishes about allergens. Anything that could not be verified is labelled "not checked" rather than quietly implied to be fine — which is the distinction that matters when somebody is coeliac rather than fussy.
Everyone can edit, so it stops being your plan alone
Anyone on the link can swap a restaurant, move an afternoon, or add the thing they found. You stop being the single point of failure for a weekend twelve people have opinions about.
Settling up without a single awkward message
Log each thing against whoever actually paid and whoever it was for — the house on you, the meal split eleven ways, the afternoon thing only six people did. The app nets it all off and gives you the shortest list of transfers that settles everybody. Nobody is singled out, nobody has to work out their own share, and you never have to send the message that begins "sorry to be annoying, but".
Questions people ask
- Can people see what everything costs before they commit?
- Yes. Every item carries a guide price and the plan shows a running per-person figure, so the group can see what the weekend adds up to while it is still easy to change.
- Can different people be on different parts of the split?
- Yes — each expense is split between the people it was actually for. If six of the twelve did the afternoon activity, only those six are on it, and the settle-up reflects that.
- Does it handle serious food allergies or just preferences?
- It checks venues against what they publish about allergens and reports three states, not two: catered for, not catered for, or not checked. It will not show an unverified venue as safe. For a severe allergy, treat it as a shortlist that has already been filtered, not as a substitute for calling ahead.
- Is this an AI hen do planner?
- Yes. Tell it where, when, who is coming and what the group can't eat, and it builds the whole weekend of bookable activities and restaurants in seconds. Then the group takes over: everyone can vote, swap things out and mark what they have booked. It works for hen groups of up to 20.
- What if the bride is meant to be surprised?
- She only sees it if you send her the link. Build and agree the whole weekend with the group first.
- Can we plan it across two currencies?
- Debts are netted per currency rather than converted, because a conversion rate the app invented would put a number on somebody's debt they never agreed to. Each currency settles separately.
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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