Plan the family holiday without the chaos.

Flights for four, two sets of passports, the hotel booking, who's in which seat, the kids' packing, the insurance, the transfer from the airport — a family holiday is a small project, and it usually lives in one parent's head and a dozen browser tabs. A family holiday planner gives all of it one home, so nothing depends on remembering which email the booking was in. HolidayPal keeps the whole trip — bookings, documents, seats, lists and plans — in a single shared wallet the whole family can see.

The quiet magic of a shared trip is that it stops being one person's job. Share the holiday with a code or a WhatsApp link and both parents — grandparents too — get the same bookings, seats and lists on their own phones, updating live. Add the car hire on your phone in the kitchen and it appears on your partner's instantly. There are no separate accounts to set up first, and no "can you forward me that confirmation?" Here's how trip sharing works.

Half the battle with kids is the build-up and the boredom. HolidayPal has a fun Kids Modewith a holiday countdown they'll check every day, things to spot and do, and simple games for the journey — plus a packing list they can tick off themselves, so "have you packed your…?" becomes their job, not yours. It turns getting ready into part of the holiday rather than a chore, and keeps little ones occupied on the plane without handing over your whole phone.

The hardest part of family travel is the airport, and that's where a planner really pays off. Pin everyone's passports and the family insurance to the top of the wallet, keep each child's boarding pass ready to show at the gate with their name on it, and check the Seatsview to see at a glance whether you're sitting together before you board. Live flight tracking shows the gate and any delay, and because the essentials work offline, none of it depends on airport Wi-Fi while you're wrangling a buggy and four passports.