A journey grows gentler when everyone gets to choose something without defending it.

Group travel turns preferences into proposals that have to win a vote. Wanting an hour in a bookshop becomes a case you must argue against the museum and the beach, and after two days of that most people simply stop asking. What gets lost is not the bookshop; it is the sense that your own liking counts without a justification attached.

Give each person one unquestioned choice per day or per trip, and let it be theirs without debate. Nobody has to explain why, and nobody has to enjoy it equally. You will spend the occasional dull hour and get back a group that is easier to travel with.