Making A Shared Vacation Work

Manifest What you Want, Whenever you Want....

If you have a couple or a family that you and your significant other or family especially enjoy spending time with, one thing that can always be a lot of fun is planning a joint vacation with them, where the two couples or families travel to the same destination, share lodging, and do all vacation-related things together - exactly as if all of you belong to a single family! But while this sounds like a lot of fun in theory - and while it can be a lot of fun in reality as well - there are also a few complications that such a vacation can present, so before you jump up and start planning one of these vacations, you should first make your way through this short list and make sure you are not making any of these mistakes.

When you and your significant other alone - or you and your family alone - are choosing a destination for your vacation, it will be much easier, as there will generally be two people involved in the final decision. But when another couple or another family is involved, you will double the number of decision makers to four (or more!), and it will be important that you go through the various possible destinations together, making sure no one is making a compromise for their vacation.

You should also decide on how the money for the trip is going to be split before you embark on the trip itself; if you are in separate hotel rooms at a resort, this will be easy, but if you rent a boat or a beach house together - and if you go with two families that have a different number of members in each - this will be more complicated, and you will want to make sure all of this is laid out in advance.

And one of the fun things about a vacation is having everyone together - relaxing and doing the same things - but with two groups converging, there might be some different ideas about what the plans for each day will be, and for this reason, your final step of planning should be making sure everyone is on the same page with all ideas and plans!