Friday, February 1, 2013

How to organize a hassle free trip



1.       Choose a place.

If it’s in the Philippines you can never get enough of beautiful places here. Try the most accessible places first.

2.       Research

Read articles on the internet about the place so you will not miss any attraction and activities that you can do for the trip.

3.       Cut the expense, Invite people

The more the merrier and truly way cheaper J it is really ideal for organizing a trip since you have a great number of participants, more people will split the expenses. You can always create an event in Facebook to have a wide discussion for the trip.

4.       Give timeframe, choose a date

Once you already have the list of participants choose a possible dates for the outing and make them vote which date is the most ideal for all. Make sure that you will give them time to prepare financially, give consideration for the pay day J

5.       Call and book.

This is the most challenging part, you really have to exert effort to find a decent place to stay, but remember, you will not go to that place to spend all of your time in the hotel, most of the time, you will be out to enjoy the place, the only use of the hotel is for sleeping so don’t look for the most expensive hotel, try to minimize the expenses. Consider the proximity as well.

6.       Get the final list.

When you already found a decent place to stay that can accommodate all of the tentative participants before depositing down payment get the final list first and;

7.       Collect and secure

After getting the price of hotel and other transportation such as van, boat, bus, and all other things that has fixed price, sum it up and divide it equally, post it on the Facebook event you created. And to secure the money give them options to deposit their share, you can always give them a bank account number, remittance center or if possible they can give it in cash. Make an agreement that it is non-refundable to eliminate the stress that last minute back out people will give you. On this set up, once they gave the money they will be more hesitant to back out.

8.       Update

Always inform them about the reservation and any other changes and issues that will occur after that, you are all good to go J

 

Have a happy trip J

 

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