Trip Planning 101: Keeping Track of Flights, Lodging, and Rental Cars

On a flight to Portugal in June 2015

This is the final post in a 6-part series about trip planning. If this is the first time you're seeing this series, I recommend you start here! For an overview of the complete series, please visit the Trip Planning 101 page.

Since this is the final post, the Google spreadsheet template is now available! Check out the main Trip Planning 101 page to get a copy. This post presents a few additional (and optional) tabs in the spreadsheet: Flights, Lodging, and Rental Cars. 

There's no rocket science happening here - it's simply a centralized place to keep track of booking numbers, addresses, and contact info. I don't always use these tabs, especially not for short weekend trips. These are the situations when I do use them: 

1. Traveling with a group (flights tab)
2. Taking a long trip (lodging tab)
3. Traveling by plane to many destinations (flights tab)
4. Renting rental cars in multiple locations (rental cars tab)

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​You can see examples of each tab below. These tabs are pretty self-explanatory so I won't explain them more here, but feel free to ask a question in the comments section below. With that, head to the Trip Planning 101 page to get a copy of the spreadsheet yourself! Let me know how it goes!

Example of the Flights tab

Example of the Lodging tab

Example of the Car Rental tab