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A family vacation planner the whole family can actually use

Family trips have a coordination problem nobody warns you about: three households, four flight bookings, a grandparent who needs the plan printed, and a teenager who won't read anything that isn't on their phone. bothways gives everyone one plan they can open on whatever device they have.

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Lisbon
5 days · with Sam & Mia
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Time Out Market9:00 AM
Belém Tower11:30 AM
Sunset · Miradouro6:30 PM
One plan, every household
Flights
Everyone's arrivals in one place
TP 209On time
JFK
7:45 PM
LIS
7:10 AM
Sam · BA 5038:20 AM
All the arrivals together
Passport
Sunscreen
Chargers
Swimsuit
Camera
Shared and personal packing

One plan across separate households

When two or three families travel together, each one books its own flights and each one has its own ideas about what a good day looks like. Put the whole thing in one shared trip and the negotiating happens once, in the open, instead of over three parallel text threads that all say something slightly different.

Everyone's flights in one arrivals view

Your sister's family lands Thursday morning, your parents Thursday night, and you're driving. Add each flight and see all the arrivals side by side with live status, so you can plan the first dinner around when people actually get in — not the times everyone quoted you six weeks ago.

Pace it for the slowest person, not the fastest

The single biggest cause of family-trip meltdowns is a schedule built for adults and imposed on a four-year-old or a grandparent. Two fixed things a day and a visible open block gives everyone room to opt out of an afternoon without derailing the plan.

  • A shared itinerary anyone can open, no app-store hoop required
  • Flights for every family member in one place
  • A packing list that separates the kids' stuff from the shared gear
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