The Trip Compatibility Check

The trip compatibility check

Will you two survive four days together?

Seven questions, both of you, about the seven things that actually go wrong on a trip with somebody you like. You get the gaps and the exact words to fix each one, before anybody books anything.

Takes two minutes. One of you answers, hands the phone over, then the other does. No email needed to see the result.

Person one
Question 1 of 7

Halfway

Hand the phone over

Your answers are in and they are not on this screen, so nobody is copying anybody. When the second person is holding the phone, tap the button.

Answer for yourself, not for the trip you think you should want.

The trip compatibility check
Your result

Start here

Now price it

You know where you disagree. The next argument is the money, and that one has a calculator. The girls trip cost splitter does the room, the rides and the dinners separately, using the real numbers from four trips.

Work out your half

Want the receipts these came from?

The Big Sis Letters go out on the last Friday of the month with the full cost of whatever trip I just took, what I would skip, and the money moves underneath it.

Where these seven questions came from
  1. The room. Four of us in Chicago turned a $546 hotel bill into $137 each. Chicago
  2. Dinner. Paris came to about $50 a head for one proper meal a day. Paris
  3. Cars. Four Uber rides cost me $283. Four days of subway cost me $34. New York
  4. Pace. Ten days in Japan, five in one city, and slow counted as a plan. Japan
  5. Mornings. Nobody has ever won this argument at 7am.
  6. Splitting. The room is the line worth splitting. The dinners are not. The splitter
  7. Alone time. A week in DC where doing almost nothing was the point. DC

Big sis, not a travel agent. This is a conversation starter, not a verdict on your friendship.