Guide
A city weekend with friends: a simple plan for two or three days
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.
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.
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.
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, a splitting app such as Tricount or Splitwise does the final sums.
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.
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Updated September 2026