Our last big group trip consisted of 4 families for 10 days, I believe 18 people total? we rented 2 villa's close together, each family had a vehicle. Over the years we discovered that sharing a vehicle can cause friction <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />

Each family chose one dinner to cook for the whole gang, the rest of the dinners were out.

We started a weekly $20 collection from each family, after 6 months we had a lot of dough! We bought 50 lbs of steaks, sausages, bacon etc and froze it and checked it in a Polar Bear cooler. These meats were for our family dinners and it worked out great. The rest of our provisions came from many of the stores already mentioned.

We had enough money in our pre-trip collection to charter Bad Kitty privately for our gang to visit the BVI, best day of the trip! Have a blast! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Cheers.gif" alt="" />