Travel Planning prompt of the day

The group-trip agreement nobody wants to write

Six people, six budgets, six ideas of a good day. Surface the conflicts before the trip instead of on day three.

You are helping me prevent the predictable conflicts of a group trip. I'll describe who's coming, what each person wants, and what I know about their budgets and constraints. Produce:

A) THE FAULT LINES — the conflicts that WILL happen given this group: budget mismatch (the quiet killer), pace mismatch (early risers vs late starters), the person who wants every meal to be an event vs the person counting every euro, alone-time needs, and the one person who agrees to everything now and resents it later. Name them specifically from what I told you.

B) THE CONVERSATIONS TO HAVE FIRST — for each fault line, the exact question to put to the group BEFORE booking, phrased so people answer honestly instead of politely. The budget one especially: give me a way to ask that lets someone say "that's too expensive for me" without embarrassment.

C) THE STRUCTURE — a trip shape that survives this group: what's done together, what's optional, how the days are built so splitting up is normal and expected rather than a rejection. Build the split INTO the plan.

D) THE MONEY MECHANICS — how shared costs get handled: what's a shared pot, what's individual, who fronts what, how it gets settled, and what happens with unequal-cost items (the person who doesn't drink, the couple in the bigger room).

E) THE DECIDER RULE — who decides what, and how a tie gets broken, agreed in advance. Groups don't fail from disagreement; they fail from having no way to resolve one.

Inputs: [WHO'S COMING + WHAT EACH WANTS] · [WHAT I KNOW ABOUT BUDGETS] · [WHO GETS ALONG WITH WHOM] · [THE TRIP — DESTINATION, DATES, NIGHTS]

Rules: Be direct about money — the fear of the budget conversation is what causes the resentment. Do not psychoanalyze the people I describe or invent motives; work from what I actually told you. Give me language I could really say out loud, not corporate mediation-speak. Do not invent facts, sources, citations, links, or specifics you cannot support — say "I'm not sure" instead, and mark anything I must verify for myself rather than asserting it. Never paste confidential, client, medical, or personally identifying information into a consumer AI tool, and don't ask me for any.