If there’s one TikTok trend I couldn’t escape over the past year, it’s the one where a group of people on vacation all introduce themselves, with the one Type A friend listing out everything they did to make it all happen. I’ve been sent various iterations of the trend from multiple friends, because hi, I’m Courteney, and I planned the entire girls trip .
But earlier this year, I decided to coordinate a trip unlike the spreadsheet-fueled, overpacked itineraries I used to put together when my friends and I went on multi-city excursions across Europe or on long-weekend road trips to Maine . In fact, after coordinating flights and the hotel, I stopped planning altogether.
In May, three of my friends and I met up in Mexico and stayed at the all-inclusive Breathless Riviera Cancún f