About Trips That Fit
Travelling as five is not travelling as two, twice. Trips That Fit reads what operators and properties actually publish, and answers the question their listings never do: does this work for our family?
Why this exists
Every listing you have ever seen quotes the lowest per-person fare. For a couple that is nearly the whole story. For two adults and three children it is a fifth of it — and the tour beside it, at three times the headline price, can be the cheaper day out because that one price covers everyone. In Cancún, 21.2% of the featured experiences we read are priced that way. Nobody lets you filter for them.
The second trap is quieter. Operators publish the ages they sell to, and a surprising number of the best-reviewed experiences start at eight, ten, even eighteen. In Dublin that shuts a six-year-old out of 25.5% of what we read. Families normally find out at checkout, after the afternoon has been planned around it.
Neither fact is hidden. Both are published, in structured fields, by the operator. They are simply never surfaced where you choose.
What we do about it
We read 1307 experiences across 5 cities in full — pricing model, age bands, group caps, durations, inclusions, cancellation terms, accessibility notes, locations — and refresh them daily. Then you tell us who is coming, once, and every card on the site answers for that family: whether it fits, whether your youngest is old enough, and what the day actually costs for all of you rather than for one of you.
The same arithmetic applies to where you sleep. Our accommodation research — 25 properties read by hand from their own room pages — exists because “sleeps 5” can mean two bedrooms and four real beds, or one room with a sofa bed, and most listings will not tell you which.
What “fit” means here
Fit is not merely whether you are permitted to book. It is whether the arrangement works: whether the whole party can be booked together, whether your youngest is admitted, whether the price multiplies by the size of your family, whether the two things you planned for one day are walkable from each other, and — for a room — whether everyone has somewhere proper to sleep and parents get a door.
Published facts versus our analysis
We keep these separate everywhere. What an operator publishes — “maximum 15 travellers”, “child 8–12”, “from $97 per person” — is quoted as theirs, dated, and linked. What we work out from it — that this fits your five, that it costs roughly $485 for your party, that it sits 0.7 km from the centre — is ours, and the reasoning is on screen. How it works sets out the whole method, including how we sample and what we deliberately refuse to claim.
How we make money
When you click through and book, the supplier may pay us a commission. You pay the same price either way. Commission never affects which experiences appear or how they are ordered — ranking comes from published facts and review weight alone, and we say so in the affiliate disclosure linked from every page. We would rather tell you that a tour has a 31% one-star tail, or that it will turn your six-year-old away, than earn a commission on a day out that goes wrong.
Things change
Prices, age policies, group limits and availability all change. Every figure here is a research summary carrying the date we last checked it, and the operator’s own page is always the final word. We publish no availability and take no bookings.
Where this is going
Things to do came first because it is where published data lets us help most today. Stays research continues by hand, and will grow into something closer to the activities side as licensed supplier access allows. The direction is the whole trip, answered for the size of your family — and we would rather do each part properly than all of it approximately.
Something wrong, or missing? Tell us — we fix it and say so.