Pricing pages are lists. Trips are stories. So instead of a feature grid, here's what actually happens to three real kinds of trips — one on each tier.
Free: you have an idea, not a plan
You've been saying "Lisbon in October?" for three months. You know two things: you want the old neighborhoods, and somebody told you about a bakery. That's not a plan. That's a vibe with a bakery in it.
This is exactly what the free tier is for. You answer a few questions — who's going, when, what you care about — and tripcoord builds the whole thing: day-by-day, real restaurants we've verified are open, the sights sequenced so you're not crossing the city and coming back, travel times included. Your bakery goes in as a must-have, and if it genuinely can't fit, we tell you instead of quietly dropping it.
One full itinerary build, up to a week, up to four travelers, no card. The gap between "we should go" and "here's the plan" closes in about ten minutes.
Trip Pass: the trip is real and so are the eight people on it
Now the other kind of trip: the dates are booked, the group chat exists, and it has opinions. A bachelorette, a family reunion, the friends trip that finally got off the ground. Lots of players, one plan, nobody in charge until someone pays the price of being in charge.
A Trip Pass is a one-time $36 for that trip — six travelers included, and seats past that are a flat $4 each (the eight-person bachelorette lands at $44 all-in). The whole crew gets the coordination features, not just the person who paid. Everyone fills in their preferences privately, and the itinerary gets built from what people actually said. When half the group wants the museum and half wants the hike, the day splits into two tracks and rejoins for dinner. Expenses get logged as you go instead of reconstructed on the last night. You can promote a co-organizer so planning isn't one person's unpaid job. Voting, group chat, packing lists — all on the same trip, up to two weeks, with room for the whole crowd.
One trip, one price, whole crew. It never expires on you.
Travel Pro: you are always planning something
Then there's the person with six tabs open who plans trips the way other people watch television. The anniversary trip is in May, the college friends are noncommittal about September, and you're pretty sure there's a long weekend hiding in November.
Travel Pro is for keeping all of it in one place: four full itinerary builds a month and every feature unlocked, alongside the pieces every account gets — On My Radar for the destinations you're circling, My World for the map of everywhere you've been (with the passport stamps to prove it). Ideas on one shelf, active plans on another, finished trips in the trophy case. $14.99 a month, or $149 a year if you're being honest with yourself about how often you do this.
And the booking part?
Here's our honest position: tripcoord is where the trip gets planned and run — we don't sell you flights or hotel rooms. If you have a travel agent you love, hand them the finished plan and let them do what they're great at: the flights, the hotels, the tricky connections. (We wrote a whole post about that — this app and a good agent are a genuinely great team.)
What you can do right from the itinerary: book the excursions and activities, and find tickets for the concert or the match — every activity card links straight out to the tour or the ticket. The plan and the booking links live on the same page, which is the whole point.
Start with the free build. If the trip gets real, bring the crew.