Ski trips
A group ski trip planner for the costs that are not the chalet
Plan a group ski trip where lift passes, hire and lessons cost each person something different. One shared plan, what's booked, and a fair settle-up.
A ski trip has a cost structure no other group holiday has. Almost everything is paid months in advance, by one or two people, and almost nothing costs the same for everybody — passes differ by days, hire differs by whether you own boots, and lessons are only for some of the group.
That is why ski trips generate more settling-up arguments per person than anything else. A shared plan with per-item splits handles it while people still remember who was on what.
What actually goes wrong
Not the trip — the admin around it. These are the failures specific to this kind of group.
The money all goes out before anyone travels
Chalet deposit in September, lift passes in November, transfers in December. One or two people carry several thousand pounds for a season, and the reckoning happens much later against much fuzzier memories.
Nobody's costs are the same
Two people hire skis and boots, one hires boots only, one brings everything. Three take lessons. One skis four days of six. Splitting the total evenly is wrong for everyone and splitting it properly by hand is genuinely tedious.
Non-skiers exist and get billed for a lift pass
There is almost always someone who is there for the mountain restaurants and the spa. An even split quietly charges them for six days of skiing they did not do.
The evenings are unplanned and the good tables go early
Resort restaurants in a good week are booked out. The group that decides at 4pm eats badly all week.
What the app does about it
One plan covering the days off the mountain too
Dinners, the day somebody isn't skiing, the spa afternoon, the transfer times. The parts of a ski week that actually need coordinating are the ones nobody plans.
Splits that follow who was actually on what
Lift passes split between the people who had one. Hire against the people who hired. Lessons against the three who took them. Each expense carries its own list of people rather than everything defaulting to the whole group.
A visible record of what has been paid and by whom
When the chalet deposit went out in September and the balance in December, and two different people paid them, the trip remembers. Nobody has to reconstruct it from bank statements in April.
Dietary requirements in a resort that mostly serves cheese
Alpine menus are hard work for a coeliac or a vegan. Venues are checked against what they publish, and where nothing could be confirmed the card says so.
Why ski trips settle badly, and what fixes it
The problem is not the size of the numbers, it is that they are all different and all months old. Logging each cost against the people it applied to, as it happens, means the settle-up at the end is arithmetic rather than negotiation. Currencies are netted separately — a euro chalet balance and a sterling transfer do not get merged at a rate nobody agreed — and the app gives you the shortest set of transfers that squares the whole group.
Questions people ask
- Can it plan the skiing itself — runs, areas, conditions?
- No. It plans the trip around the mountain: meals, transfers, rest days and evenings, with honest travel times. Where to ski on a given day is a conditions question, and a plan written in October has no business answering it.
- Can we log costs in euros and pounds on the same trip?
- Yes, and they settle separately. Converting between them would need a rate, and a rate the app invented would put a number on somebody's debt they never agreed to.
- How do we handle someone who skis fewer days?
- Put them on the splits for the days and items they were part of. Each expense has its own list of people, so a four-day pass in a six-day week is straightforward.
- Does it book lift passes or equipment hire?
- No. Those are resort-specific and usually cheaper direct. Log them as expenses so they end up in the settle-up.
- Is it useful for a group that has already booked the chalet?
- That is the common case. Tell it where you are staying and it anchors each day to that, plans the evenings, and handles the money from there.
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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