Birthday trips: what groups actually ask for

Sizing a birthday party is usually a 15-passenger conversation, and half of them land between 10 and 20.

Headcount quartiles across birthday quote requests. The biggest single band is 15–20 passengers.

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Plan a birthday party and you are probably calling 26 days out — that is our median — while the middle half stretches from 12 to 51 days.

Days of notice on birthday requests, at the middle value and the quartiles. 27.7% of them reach us inside two weeks of the date.

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Look at when birthday trips actually happen and 85.9% are weekend dates, with Saturday taking 67.1%.

Day of week of the requested event date on birthday trips.

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Demand for birthday trips bunches into November and February — together 19% of the year's dates.

Share of birthday event dates falling in the two busiest months for that occasion.

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78.2% of birthday trips are written for the four-hour block, and 10.6% run six hours or longer.

Duration split across birthday quotes that name a number of hours.

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Vehicle of choice for a birthday party is clear enough: party buses on 71.3% of quotes, limo-style Sprinters on 14.3%.

Share of birthday quotes by vehicle category.

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Birthday quotes we have written cluster around $1,550, with the middle half from $1,280 to $1,880.

Quartiles of the total quoted on birthday trips, pooled across markets and durations. History only, and your date sets the real number.

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