Plan a trip around a concert or festival with friends.
The show is the one fixed point. Hoku builds the rest of the weekend around it: who's coming, when everyone lands, where you're sleeping and who paid for what.
Everything else bends around one date.
A normal trip has flexible dates and a loose plan. A concert trip is the opposite. Tickets are bought months out, the show starts at a fixed time in a specific building, and five people are arriving from three cities with one goal: be in the right seats when the lights go down. The planning problem is not "what should we do" but "how do we get everyone to the same place at 6:30 on Saturday, and what do we do with the rest of the weekend".
That is why a group chat falls apart here. Flight times get buried, the person holding the tickets becomes a single point of failure, and the hotel gets booked twice. Hoku treats the show as the anchor of the trip and lays flights, the stay, food and the recovery day around it so the whole group can see the shape of the weekend at a glance.
From "tickets go on sale Friday" to the encore.
Put the show on its day
Create the trip with the city and dates, then add the show as an activity on the right day with the venue and start time. Tickets already bought? Put the section and the meeting spot in the notes so nobody has to scroll a chat for them. Hoku does not find or sell tickets; buy them wherever you normally do.
Give the show its own day, then build around it
The event sits on its day like a fixed pin. Add the pre-show dinner two hours before, the bar for after, and the late brunch on Sunday. Members react and comment on each activity, so picking the tacos over the steakhouse takes ten seconds instead of a forty-message argument.
Get everyone's arrival in one place
Each person adds their own flight, train or drive to the trip, or on Premium connects Gmail so Hoku picks up the confirmation. The trip shows every arrival time together, and the trip chat keeps the "where are you" texts next to the plan instead of in a separate thread.
Split the hotel and settle up
Whoever books the hotel or the house logs it once and chooses who it covers. Same for the rideshares, the merch run and the group dinner. Hoku keeps one balance per person and shows the fewest payments to clear it all, so nobody is still chasing $40 a month later.
What a good concert itinerary looks like in Hoku.
Arrive
Flights and trains on the plan, the hotel confirmation pulled in from Gmail on Premium, a low-key dinner near the venue neighbourhood so nobody is stuck in traffic tomorrow.
Warm up
Merch line, a walk from Discover's sights list, late lunch. React on each activity so the early risers and the late sleepers can each see who is doing what.
The show
The fixed point. Doors time, section, and the meeting spot are all on the activity card, with comments underneath for last-minute changes.
Recover and settle
Brunch, a slow checkout, and one tap to see who owes whom. Flight times sit on the plan, so the 9:20 crowd knows how long they can linger over coffee.
Multi-day festivals and following a tour.
A three-day festival is just a trip with three anchored days. Give each day its own line-up notes, let people say in or maybe on the trip RSVP and react on the days they hold wristbands for, and put the camping or hotel, the drive in and the drive out around them. Costs split among the people each one was for, so the friend who only comes for Saturday is not paying a third of Friday's cabin.
Following a tour to two or three cities works the same way. Make it one trip with a city per stretch of days, add each show on its day in its city, and put the flights between them on the plan. A public share link lets the friends who could not get tickets follow along, and on Premium a PDF export gives you a copy that works with no signal in the car park.
Before you buy the tickets.
Can I buy concert tickets inside Hoku?
No. Hoku does not find or sell tickets. Buy them wherever you normally do, then add the show to its day in the trip with the start time and venue, so everyone plans around it.
How do I plan a multi-day festival trip with friends?
Create one trip covering the whole run and add each day's sets as activities on that day. People say in, maybe or can't go with the trip RSVP, and reactions and comments on each day's plans show who is going to which sets. Add camping or hotel, the drive or flights, and the recovery brunch around it. Costs split only among the people each one was for.
What if some of the group are flying from different cities?
Each person adds their own flight to the trip, by hand or on Premium by connecting Gmail so Hoku picks up the confirmation. Everyone sees arrival times in one place, which makes coordinating airport pickups and the pre-show meetup far easier.
Is Hoku free for a concert weekend?
Yes. The free plan covers 2 active trips with up to 10 members, including Discover, the itinerary, RSVPs, chat and expense splitting. Premium is $4.99 a month or $70 a year for up to 20 active trips, up to 100 members, Gmail booking import, AI planning with Trip Genie and PDF export.
Does Hoku work for sports and theatre trips too?
Yes. Any event with a fixed time and place works the same way: add it to its day with the venue and start time, then plan flights, stay, food and the running tab around it.
Tickets first. Then the trip.
Make the trip, put the show on its day, and send the link to everyone who said "I'd go".