You know what, traveling is really fun. However, it usually will come down to who is going to do the travel plan? Unless you are a solo-traveler, planning up for your trip shouldn't be much of a hassle for you because you certainly know what you want, your budget and etc or you even have the liberty to not plan at all because you can just decide and go head on to whatever or whereever your travel will lead you to on a day-to-day basis. However, right now it boils down to the question of planning for a group of people, say somewhere between 3-4 people.
From what I've gathered, these are some of the basic things you need to get from your travel partners before you started planning up your travel. Amongst them are:
1. What is each person's individual budget?
It is always best to try working around on a budget for everyone unless someone in the groupie is willing enough to sponsor the trip for everybody, hence you can ditch the budgeting question all together. With budgeting, you get to figure out how long your travel will be, activities you can afford to do and the place you get to stay throughout your travel.
2. Figure out what kind of activities everyone is looking forward to.
If you are going to do crazy, outdoor activities - it is best to stick with a bunch of friends. Outdoor activities don't usually work if you are going with your family not unless if everyone is fit and old enough (not too young or too old) for such outdoor fun.
3. Figure out the type of accommodation everyone is comfortable with.
This eventually comes down to your budget too. Bigger budget means better hotels and the lesser budget means sticking to hostels or 3 stars hotels or below or cheap apartment where you get to cram everybody in (sleeping on the floor inclusive, hehe).
4. Deciding places to eat.
You should at least read up or figure out some good places you can eat up at least for dinner. At least have some vague idea on what you should be trying out during your travel so that you won't leave everyone hungry and grumpy at the end of the day. If you haven't done your homework, make full use of the hopefully helpful people behind the hotel's office desk and ask around for the best place or food to pig out for the day!
5. Deciding your means of transportation during your travel.
For longer stays, sometimes it is best to hire a car so that you get to travel to more places. For shorter stays, try going on the public transport because it is an experience on its own and going on a public transport is the best place for you to mingle and get to know the local.
Researching for your travel transportation is important because you can book ahead before you arrive and it won't be much of a chaos for you once you arrived at your travel destination. Also it helps to figure out the amount you should be paying for your transport, just to avoid getting ripped off by the locals.
6. Last but not least, choosing your travel partners. Haha. I know this one I should have put at the very top. The reason I have this one at the bottom of the list is, if you haven't traveled with this one person ever before, how are you going to know he/she is the right travel partner for you? Hence, if you've tried traveling with this person this time and you don't really enjoy the company, then you can make this no. 6 reason at the top of your list. You'll never know until you try, that's the concept I'm promoting in choosing your travel partner. Hah. With some risks included of course.
In conclusion, if you love traveling and is going to plan a travel pretty soon, do have all these six major points listed and discussed with your traveling partners. Whatever that you do, never ever miss out on asking about everyone's budget because hey, without a budget or cash in hand, you can't travel yeah!
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