🚗 Getting everyone there: travel plan for a group weekend

The journey is the first thing that can go wrong and the easiest to fix. Match the seats to the people, agree a meeting point that exists, and decide before you leave who is paying for the fuel.

33 items

1. List who is coming from whereHalf the car-sharing solves itself once this is written down instead of guessed at.
2. Count the seats, count the people
3. Who is driving
4. How many seats each car really has, with the luggage in it
5. Child seats, and who has one
6. Anyone with no way of getting there yet
7. Fill the cars on purpose
8. Pick up the people who are on the way
9. Tell each driver who is in their car, by name
10. Give every passenger their driver's number
11. Agree the money before leaving
12. Fuel split between everyone in the car
13. Tolls
14. Parking at the destination, if it is paid
15. Meeting point and times
16. A place with a name and a car park
17. A meeting time and a leaving time, ten minutes apart
18. What happens if someone is lateDecided in advance, it is a plan. Decided in the car park, it is an argument.
19. For anyone coming by train
20. Book early enough that the fare is still sane
21. Check the last train back on the Sunday
22. Arrange who collects them from the station
23. Before the drivers set off
24. Tyres, oil and screen wash checked
25. Tank filled the night before, not in the morning
26. The route downloaded for offline use
27. The address saved in the phone, not just in the chat
28. Agree the stop: one proper break rather than four small ones
29. Something to eat in the car, and water
30. A phone holder and a charger in each car
31. Tell the house what time you expect to arrive
32. Plan the way back too, including who leaves when
33. Make sure nobody drives home on three hours of sleep