Vacation Budget Planner with Daily Spend Tracker

Stop guessing whether your vacation spending is on track. This Vacation Budget Planner adds something no competitor does: DAILY pacing. Log each day’s spending and instantly see whether you’re OVER PACE or under pace — plus a projected total at your current speed, so you can course-correct mid-trip instead of getting the shock at home.

What it does for you:

• Daily Spend Tracker — 200 expense rows: date, auto-calculated day number (from your trip start date), vacation-shaped categories, description, amount, who paid. Type only in the yellow cells.
• Daily Pace tab — your budget divided into a per-day budget, actual spend per day, cumulative spend vs on-pace target, and an OVER PACE / UNDER PACE / ON PACE flag per day. Over-pace days turn red, under-pace days turn green. Includes a daily budget-vs-spent bar chart.
• Trip Budget — 9 vacation categories (Flights, Lodging, Food & Drink, Activities & Tours, Local Transport, Souvenirs & Shopping, Travel Insurance, Pre-trip Costs, Miscellaneous); planned vs actual roll up AUTOMATICALLY from your spending log, with remaining, over/under, and % of total spent.
• Savings Plan — enter deposits each month before the trip; it computes months until departure, your required monthly savings to hit the full budget, and an ON TRACK / BEHIND flag per month.
• Summary — total spent, remaining, % of budget used, cost per traveler, cost per day, biggest spending category, days until trip, and the headline pace check: projected total at your current pace with an OVER PACE — SLOW DOWN or ON PACE OR BETTER verdict.
• A realistic 7-day Maui family trip ($4,500, 4 travelers) pre-filled so you can see every formula working, plus a plain-English Start Here guide.

What’s inside (.xlsx, works in Excel AND Google Sheets): Start Here · Trip Budget · Daily Spend Tracker · Daily Pace · Savings Plan · Summary.

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