5 Tips For Planning A Girls Trip
Traveling with girlfriends is one of my favorite things. If you’re planning your own girls trip, here are five things I’ve learned that can help you plan a lovely vacation with your crew.
Set ground rules. The rules should reflect your friend group, but here are three of ours:
- This is a group trip, but we do not need to do everything together. Three people want to do one thing and two want to do something else? Great. For safety, find at least one person that wants to do the same thing. This doesn’t include sleep. If someone wants to spend the day resting or sleeping, they can stay behind.
- A few activities will be planned for the entire group. This is also optional, but try to choose things that appeal to the group.
- Shared spaces are respected. This means no third parties in shared rooms, no smoking or illegal substances.
Vote on key parts of trip like location, dates and accommodations. The majority wins, but it is equally important to understand why your friends are voting a certain way. For instance, if a friend has a problem with stairs and you’re pitching a three-story home, is that really fair to your friend? Is there a way to compromise so that the trip is fun for everyone?
Choose comfortable accommodations. I can’t stress this enough. Pick accommodations where everyone gets good rest, can access luggage, and can get ready in a timely manner.
If you’re doing roommates, pair wisely. Consider personalities, if someone is a night owl, etc.
Create a spreadsheet for possible activities and allow everyone to contribute ideas. This gives your group one place to store ideas. Discuss ideas a few weeks before the trip and purchase necessary tickets. Google sheets is a free way to do this.
New York City Girls Trip
To show how these tips can help you plan, here is a brief summary of a girls trip I did last fall to New York City. There were 11 of us and we had a fabulous time!
Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge
We stayed in Midtown at Club Wyndham Midtown 45 and Residence Inn New York Manhattan/Midtown East. They were only a couple of blocks apart and allowed us to accommodate everyone comfortably.
Our together activities were:
- Broadway show (The Piano Lesson)
- Dinner at Tao
- Shopping
- Rooftop bar
For the show we purchased tickets ahead of time.
Activities that we did in smaller groups were:
- additional shopping in SoHo
- additional shopping on and off 5th Ave.
- hanging out in Harlem
- roller skating and hanging out in Central Park
- cruise around NYC
- other meals
- visiting Chelsea neighborhood
To share flight information we created a google sheet and coordinated rideshares accordingly.
To communicate before and during the trip we used a GroupMe chat.
Want more info on planning? I’m happy to share :-).
Enjoy your girls trip!