Guide
A city weekend with friends
Plan two or three days with one fixed point a day, such as a booked Saturday dinner, and let everyone add one wish. Group the ideas by neighbourhood, leave the afternoons open and keep one indoor plan for rain. Put the arrival times in first, and note costs as you go, so the total is never a surprise.
A city weekend is short, and six people have six ideas. The plan that works has few fixed points, lets everyone bring one wish, and leaves the rest of the city to chance.
Start with the arrival times
Friday evening or Saturday morning changes the whole weekend. Put the flights or trains in first, with local times, and plan the first evening around when the last person lands.
Keep meeting and departure times separate
For a Copenhagen weekend, an example might read: “Meet at the ferry terminal at 14:30; departure at 16:30.” These times are illustrative. Copy the actual departure, terminal and check-in deadline from your booking, then agree on the group’s meeting point and time.
Keep the booking reference with those details.
One fixed point a day
Book the one thing that needs booking: the Saturday dinner, the match, the concert, the museum with timed tickets. One fixed point a day is enough; everything else can move.
| Day | Fixed point | Left open |
|---|---|---|
| Friday evening | Arrival times, then a simple dinner near where you stay | The first bar someone spots |
| Saturday | The booked dinner, or a museum with timed tickets | One neighbourhood on foot, a long lunch |
| Sunday | The meeting time for the trip home | One wish from the idea list, and an indoor plan if it rains |
Let everyone add one wish
Ask each person for one thing they want to do, and put it in the shared idea bank. It is fairer than letting the most active planner decide, and it spreads the weekend across what the group actually likes. Shared interest does not mean a table or ticket is booked.
Choose who will book with the provider, then save the confirmation in the trip.
Group by neighbourhood
Look at the ideas on a map. What lies close together belongs to the same half-day; crossing the city three times a day eats the weekend.
Leave the afternoons open
A long lunch, a bar someone spots, a market that happens to be on: a city weekend is remembered for what nobody planned. Leave room for it.
Keep a plan B for rain
Have one indoor idea per day ready. In the days before you leave, Awayfolk shows the forecast for each day and offers to move an outdoor plan to the nearest drier day with one tap.
Note costs as you go
Write down what the dinner, the tickets and the rooms cost as you go, so the weekend’s total is never a surprise. For who owes whom afterwards, add what each person has paid, and Awayfolk works out the repayments.
On the day
Everyone should see today’s plan, the next booking and the way there on their own phone. That is what Awayfolk’s Today view is for.
Updated 3 November 2026
Image credits
- Rabelo boats on the Douro below Porto’s Ribeira: Jakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0
- Red and white houses of Reine in Lofoten under jagged peaks at sunset: Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) · CC BY-SA 4.0
- A timber cabin among pine trees beside Frøylandsvatnet in Sandnes: Jules Verne Times Two · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Christmas lights along Nyhavn at the blue hour: John D. from Pasadena, USA · CC BY 2.0
- Manarola lit up at dusk above the sea: kuhnmi · CC BY 2.0
- Small boats and sunbathers below the sea stacks at Tonnara di Scopello, Sicily: Michal Osmenda · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Hallstatt’s waterfront and church spires from the Hallstätter See: David Kernan · CC BY 4.0
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