Giuseppe G.

Giuseppe is the person every friend group relies on to actually book the thing. He's organized over 40 group trips since 2018 — bachelorettes, family reunions, hiking groups, friends-of-friends weddings — and the recurring patterns of what works (and what blows up the group chat) became the basis for most of his coverage on this site.

His writing is the operational kind: how to split costs without resentment, how to set a budget BEFORE picking the destination, why the trip dictator wears out by Day 3, what to put in a packing list so nobody arrives without a power adapter. He's based in Naples, travels with a clipboard he claims is ironic, and takes a photo of every parking ticket so he can expense it back to the group.