Keys to Planning Stress-Free Group Travel

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As the first ever travel site just for group travel, at Triporama we get asked a lot about how to ease the pain of planning a trip together. Of course we recommend using our trip planner just for friends and family travel, but there are also a few important, inter-personal things you can do to [...]

Plan Ahead for Her Surprise Girlfriend Trip

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Repost from The Telegraph 10/23/12 – great info for guys if planning a romantic getaway: Women may claim that they desire spontaneity from their man, but a study suggests they actually want eight days' notice of any surprise trip. Planning a surprise trip? Give her eight days' notice Three out of five women in the [...]

Girlfriend Getaway – Surfing Safari

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One of the coolest travel trends today is getting your best girlfriends together and heading to a tropical beach location for a surfing safari. Imagine the exhilaration of communing with the ocean, incredible weather, laughing together, some yoga, and the freedom of just the girls, together, enjoying each other and the beach life. We, of [...]

Top 5-O-Rama Reasons it’s Tough to Work on Your Trip Planner when Trip Planning

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It is really difficult to get work done when you have the annual guy’s adventure vacation coming up. And there is so much to get done at Triporama right now. We’re updating the site based on your feedback (thank you, BTW) and I’m super behind in one of my favorite things, blogging about group travel [...]

In Trip Planning and in Life it’s All About the “Happy Accident”

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I hit a wall. The worst kind of wall. A mental wall. A writers wall. Everyone has experienced it at one time or another. I was humming along with lots to chat about with the amazing, fun, super handsome community regarding friends and family travel. Heck, I was even making some progress in organic search [...]

Plan a Mountain Bike Trip for Group Epic-ness

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I’m getting ready to take our annual adventure trip with the guys in just a few weeks. This year it’s Central Oregon for epic whitewater rafting and canyoneering. When I joined the group a few years ago I brought mountain biking into the mix and it’s been a part of our group travel sojourns ever [...]

Top 5-O-Rama Trip Planner Apps that aren’t TripIt

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Truth is, we love Tripit too, but come on now, at 15 downloads/minute, you hardly need our blog to let you know about their service. Plus, I feel that most of the usual travel app lists use them as filler. So here are some less known trip planner apps to make your family’s trip planning [...]

Dios Mio! The Internet is Littered with Dead Trip Planners

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We had been working on a post, for the past two days, about the best trip planners online to recommend. We had content on some of our personal favorites like Yahoo Trip Planner and TripIt. But as we began to dig more and search for old and new compadres, we had a startling revelation. Either, [...]

Friends & Family Trip Planner Timeline – When to do What

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“Fail to plan, plan to fail.” This is very true when planning travel together. Each group has its own persona, so be sure that you’ve started planning far enough in advance to adjust to all of the different traveler types and any unforeseen issues that may arise. But always keep in mind, you are doing [...]

Weekend Getaway – Family Travel Tips-O-Rama

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Travel is More Fun When You’re in Travel I’m not sure if other folks in the travel industry (“travel industry” always sounds like an oxymoron to me) feel the same way, but when you write about travel, actually going on a trip increases your fun-O-rama exponentially. I really do enjoy traveling more because I’m closely [...]