Hello. I'm new to this forum, but I was thinking about taking a big group (roughly 10 people) on vacation. We're a group of friends, and I was wondering how all of you guys usually do this.
Hi Louis,
Industrious endeavor but sounds like fun.
A few questions...
- How soon do you plan to take this vacation?
- Is everyone paying, not necessarily arranging for, their own way - travel, accommodations, meals?
- Have you set a destination yet - where everyone agrees?
- Will people have time to explore on their own and then meet up again at certain times?
- Are you willing to do most of the 'leg work' or enlist your friends to help out?
- Is everyone currently located in the same place so bulk booking could be done for the travel end of things? (Like families doing a group flight thing to get to DisneyWorld.)
I have seen where an airline tried bumping some members of a family of 20 off the plane to Dublin. All of their tickets had been booked in advance and as a group. The airline randomly chose passengers to bump to the next flight several hours later. It was a family reunion and arranged pick-up time in Ireland. Separating them wasn't going to happen and the airline actually chose children, but not the parents, in the process. We had people waiting for us too so were happy neither of us were selected.
I've not organized a 'group vacation' but have organized TP member meet-ups in 3 countries - one being in Dublin. (It's ranged from 3-15 people.) They were organized before I joined FaceBook and Twitter. So, I relied on a TP thread announcing the planned event plus e-mail.
I would definitely recommend every social media outlet possible. Use e-mail, Skype, FaceBook, Twitter, Travellerspoint and (as I just learned myself) Google+ for any conference call type interaction.
I recommend not organizing every moment of ever day. Depending on your destination(s), find out what is there that may be of interest to everyone. Some may want to see museums while others what to know all the pubs. Options are key and find those things out so you aren't all roaming around like a group of pigeons just following the leader. (Saw that in Barbados with a group of Europeans. It wasn't a pretty sight and I think half the group wanted to kill the leader.)
Hope that helps...
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