The group trip planner where
everyone actually plans.
One living itinerary, one shared map, your whole crew editing it together in real time. No forwarded spreadsheets, no "final_plan_v3", no one person stuck doing all the work.
No credit card required
How it works
Plan a trip together in three steps
Start the trip — your way
Create the trip from a blank slate, copy a guide, or ask Chic, your copilot, to draft a day-by-day starting point ("a long weekend in Barcelona for six friends"). The draft is just the opening move — the group does the rest.
Invite everyone who's going
Send your travel companions an invite and they join the same living itinerary as collaborators. No version numbers, no "final_plan_v3" — there is exactly one plan, and everyone is looking at it.
Plan together, live, on one map
Every edit — a dragged day, a swapped restaurant, a note on a museum — appears for the whole group in real time, with every stop pinned and routed on a shared map. Planning night becomes everyone editing at once instead of one person typing.
The group chat problem
Group trips don't fail at the destination. They fail in the planning.
You know the pattern. Someone proposes the trip and the group chat lights up — links, screenshots, "omg we have to do this" — and then it all scrolls away. Someone makes a spreadsheet nobody opens twice. Eventually one person becomes The Planner, does everything alone, and spends the trip fielding "wait, what's the plan today?"
A collaborative trip planner fixes the structural problem: the plan lives in one place everyone can edit, on one map everyone can see, updating live as the group shapes it. Ideas land in the itinerary instead of scrolling past it — and the work spreads across the people actually taking the trip.
What's inside
Everything a collaborative trip planner needs
Real-time collaborative editing
Everyone in the group edits the same itinerary at the same time, and changes sync live — closer to a shared doc than a forwarded plan.
One shared live map
Every place anyone adds lands on the same map, with routes and travel times between stops, so the whole group sees the shape of each day.
A copilot that drafts for the group
Chic, the built-in copilot, turns "5 days in Lisbon for 6 people, mixed budgets" into a real starting itinerary the group can immediately start pulling apart.
Drag-and-drop days for everyone
Any collaborator can reorder stops, move things between days, or shift whole days — and the map and routes keep up instantly.
Shared budgets and expenses
Set the trip budget and log expenses where everyone can see them, so money conversations happen during planning, not at the ATM.
Share links and copyable guides
Send a read-only link to the family members who just want to know the plan, or publish the finished trip as a guide other travelers can copy.
Who it's for
One planner, every kind of group trip
Friends' trips and reunions: the classic case. Six people, six opinions, three budgets. Everyone adds their must-dos directly, the vetoes happen in planning instead of on the sidewalk, and nobody is The Planner by default.
Family vacations: the organizers collaborate on the itinerary; the relatives who just want to know when dinner is get a read-only link. The shared map settles "how far is that from the hotel?" before anyone books anything.
Bachelor and bachelorette weekends: high stakes, short timeline, one person traditionally drowning in logistics. Let Chic draft the weekend, split the days among the group, and keep the budget visible to everyone before the deposits go out.
Couples and travel partners: the smallest group is still a group. Two people editing one itinerary together beats one person planning and the other discovering the plan at the airport.
FAQ
Group trip planner questions, answered
Is ChicTravel's group trip planner free?
Yes. Creating trips, AI itinerary drafts, the live map, and real-time collaboration with your whole group are all free, with no ads. Pro adds extras like the ChicReview trip audit and PDF/calendar export, but group planning itself never hits a paywall.
How many people can plan a trip together?
Invite your whole travel group — there's no practical cap for a normal trip. Everyone you invite becomes a collaborator on the same itinerary and can add places, edit days, and leave notes.
Do my friends need an account to see the plan?
No — anyone with the share link can view the full itinerary and map without signing up. To edit together, collaborators create a free account so every change is saved, attributed, and synced live to everyone else.
What happens when two people edit at the same time?
It just works — that's the point. ChicTravel syncs in real time, so when one person reorders day two while someone else adds a dinner spot, both changes appear for everyone within moments. There's no locking, no merging, and no "someone else has this open" warning.
How is this better than planning in a group chat?
The group chat is where ideas appear — and where they scroll away. A collaborative trip planner gives those ideas a permanent, structured home: every suggestion becomes a pinned place on a map, in a day, in an order. Keep the group chat for the jokes; keep the plan somewhere it can't be buried by them.
Can we still use AI if we're planning as a group?
Yes — as a copilot, which is the best version of it. Chic drafts the skeleton in seconds, then the group does what groups are good at: arguing taste, vetoing, and adding the one bar somebody swears by. You can also connect ChicTravel to Claude and make group edits from a chat window.
Plan the trip together. Take the trip together.
Start the itinerary, invite your crew, and watch the plan come together on one live map — free, for everyone going.
No credit card required