I want to plan a trip to Bali (why not go to paradise on this fictional vacation?) with three of my closest friends. Normally, we would send strings of emails with links to various hotels, locations, and activities to get the ball rolling. Inevitably links get lost in the shuffle, decisions get put off until last minute, and one person ends up having to take responsibility for the whole trip. Travelstormer aims at changing that. Launching just over a month ago, Travelstormer provides a service where friends, family, or travel companions can login, and start brainstorming a vacation together in an organized and structured manner.

So, back to my Bali trip. To start, I sign up for free account with Travelstormer and creates a new trip… I’ll call it: “Bali: The Pipe Dream.” Then, I send the invite to my three friends and the brainstorming begins. My friends sign-in, click on the trip, and start conversations on whatever they want. We can start a brainstorm about travel dates, locations, activities, accommodations, transportation, etc. If for example my friends and I need to find dates where we can all travel, I can even start a brainstorm where we all put dates into a calendar and Travelstormer shows us when we are all available.

The Expenses tab is especially useful. Travelers can input what they’ve spent, and everyone can remain updated about who owes money still, how much, and to whom. The Expenses tab shows who owes what, and we can use a service like WePay to collect payments from eachother if needed.

Users can also delegate jobs on the Tasks page and ensure people follow through on things. So, we can all make sure someone has booked the hotels in Ubud, and gotten the scuba trip from Seminyak. It’s all been laid out for us.

We can also privately message each other, and get updates when someone makes a change to the Travelstormer page.

This service seems like it will be especially useful for people organizing Bachelor and Bachelorette parties, destination weddings, young people doing around the world travel, and family reunions trips, to name a few ideas.

UK-based Travelstormer has been built by entrepreneurs George Coltart and Colin Armstrong, in partnership with London agency Harmonypark.

This seems very useful. Will you use it?

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