--- title: "Sharing a connection in a travel group | Gigapass" description: "One plan for everyone or one each, and who pays what. How to split it depending on the group and what to agree before leaving." url: https://getgigapass.com/en/blog/sharing-a-connection-in-a-group markdown: https://getgigapass.com/en/blog/sharing-a-connection-in-a-group.md lang: en site: Gigapass generated: 2026-10-24 languages: es: https://getgigapass.com/blog/compartir-conexion-en-un-grupo-de-viaje de: https://getgigapass.com/de/blog/verbindung-in-der-reisegruppe-teilen it: https://getgigapass.com/it/blog/condividere-connessione-in-gruppo fr: https://getgigapass.com/fr/blog/partager-la-connexion-en-groupe pt: https://getgigapass.com/pt/blog/partilhar-ligacao-em-grupo-de-viagem nl: https://getgigapass.com/nl/blog/verbinding-delen-in-een-reisgroep ja: https://getgigapass.com/ja/blog/dantai-ryoko-kaisen ko: https://getgigapass.com/ko/blog/danche-yeohaeng-data zh-hans: https://getgigapass.com/zh-hans/blog/jiti-lvxing-gongxiang-wangluo pl: https://getgigapass.com/pl/blog/dzielenie-lacznosci-w-grupie sv: https://getgigapass.com/sv/blogg/dela-uppkoppling-i-grupp no: https://getgigapass.com/no/blogg/dele-forbindelse-i-gruppe da: https://getgigapass.com/da/blog/dele-forbindelse-i-gruppe tr: https://getgigapass.com/tr/blog/grupta-baglanti-paylasimi ru: https://getgigapass.com/ru/blog/internet-dlya-gruppy zh-hant: https://getgigapass.com/zh-hant/blog/tuanti-lvxing-gongyong-wanglu ar: https://getgigapass.com/ar/mudawana/musharakat-alinternet-fi-majmua he: https://getgigapass.com/he/blog/shituf-internet-bekvutsa index: https://getgigapass.com/llms/en.txt --- # Travelling as a group: sharing the connection without complaints > One plan for everyone or one each, and who pays what. How to split it depending on the group and what to agree before leaving. [Home](https://getgigapass.com/en) › [Blog](https://getgigapass.com/en/blog) › Travelling as a group: sharing the connection without complaints On the road One plan for everyone or one each, and who pays what. How to split it depending on the group and what to agree before leaving. **Claudia Ferrán** 10 Aug 2026 5 min Photo by Amani Nation on Unsplash In this article › Three ways to split it › What to agree before leaving › What sharing really costs › And the family case On a group trip the connection turns out to be one of those things nobody discusses beforehand and everybody comments on afterwards. Half an hour of decisions before you go settles it. ## Three ways to split it | Split | When it works | Risk | | --- | --- | --- | | One person shares with everyone | A group that sticks together | Their battery and their plan carry the lot | | One each | A group that splits up every day | Nobody depends on anybody | | Mixed: one big and two small | Families | You have to agree who shares | ## What to agree before leaving 1. Who has the big plan, if there is one. 2. What happens when the group splits up for half a day. 3. How the cost is divided, since that goes down worst when it is improvised. 4. And one simple rule: video and downloads over wi-fi. The fourth avoids 90% of the problems, since a group's usage always spikes for the same reason. ## What sharing really costs Sharing uses whatever the connected device uses, so a group of four on one plan uses like four people, not like one. And the battery of whoever is sharing disappears in an afternoon. The figures are in [sharing internet from an eSIM](https://getgigapass.com/en/blog/tethering-with-an-esim). ## And the family case With children it is the tablet that sets the usage, not the adults. There it usually works better to have one plan per device for the older ones and downloaded material for the youngest. The full calculation is in [travelling with children and mobile data](https://getgigapass.com/en/blog/travelling-with-children-mobile-data). If you are going to split up even for an afternoon, give everyone their own data. That is the difference between changing plans and spending an hour looking for each other in a square. Know where you're going? Pick your destination, days and data. Install it before you leave and pay once. [See destinations](https://getgigapass.com/en#destinos) Claudia FerránLong trips and remote work She has worked from wherever she happened to be for six years. She works out the data for a trip the way you'd work out the petrol, and she rarely gets it wrong. ## Frequently asked questions **Is it better to have one plan for the group or one each?** One each as soon as the group ever splits up. A shared plan works if you are always together. **How much does sharing with several people use?** As much as all the devices use together: a group of four on one plan uses like four people. **What should we agree before leaving?** Who has the plan, what happens if the group splits up, how the cost is divided and that video and downloads happen over wi-fi. **And on a trip with children?** The tablet sets the usage. It usually works better to give them downloaded material and the adults their own plan. ## Keep reading - [On the road](https://getgigapass.com/en/blog/travel-photos-on-your-phone) | Travel photos on your phone: four things that change the result | 5 min - [On the road](https://getgigapass.com/en/blog/phone-security-while-travelling) | Phone security while travelling: the settings you do once | 5 min - [On the road](https://getgigapass.com/en/blog/internet-on-a-cruise) | Internet on a cruise: why your data plan is no use on the open sea | 6 min