About Squadcation
Squadcation is a free group-trip planner and a growing library of group-travel guides. It exists to fix the one thing that makes group trips hard: the planning, which usually dies in a 200-message group chat where nobody decides anything.
What Squadcation does
The planner turns a scattered group chat into one shared plan. A group can vote on dates and destinations, compare and pick lodging, build a day-by-day itinerary together, and split the cost fairly — all on a single link that everyone can open without creating an account. The cost splitter does real math: it nets out who paid for what and returns the fewest payments needed to settle up, the same way a group would want to divide a shared house and shared meals.
Alongside the planner, we publish practical guides for the situations groups actually run into — renting one big house for a large group, splitting the cost of a group rental, planning a bachelorette or bachelor party, a family reunion, or a milestone-birthday trip.
How the guides are made
Every guide is researched and written by the Squadcation team, focused specifically on the group angle — where a big group should stay, how to size a rental to a headcount, and how to divide the bill — rather than being a generic travel article. Destination guides draw on the real logistics that matter for a group: neighborhoods with walkable nightlife or getting-ready space, honest notes on short-term-rental rules that trip groups up, and realistic per-person cost ranges. Each page carries a "last updated" date, and we revise pages as details change.
We're honest about what the guides are: general information, not a booking system. We don't hold inventory or live prices — where it helps, we point you to the provider (a rental platform, a resort, a flight search) to check current availability and book directly. Verify prices, dates, and policies with the provider before you rely on them.
How Squadcation makes money
The planner and the guides are free. Some outbound links are affiliate links — if you click one and book or buy, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. It never changes what you pay or which option we recommend, and affiliate links are disclosed on the pages that use them. We do not run display ads on the planner, and we never sell your personal information. See our Privacy Policy for the full detail.
Who's behind it
Squadcation is an independent project built by a small team that plans a lot of group trips and got tired of doing it in a spreadsheet and a group chat. We're not a travel agency or a booking platform — we're the planning layer that sits in front of wherever you actually book. Have a correction, a suggestion, or a destination you want covered? We'd genuinely like to hear it — get in touch.