Groups360 helps event planners book blocks of hotel rooms and meeting space. Pilot is a trip booking and planning app for your own trips: plan the whole thing, book your stay at private rates, and do it with your group. Here is how they compare side by side.
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| Overall comparison | ||
| Book hotels in the app | YesBook your stay in the app at private rates for any trip; Groups360 books hotels too, but for group room blocks, not individual leisure stays | Yes |
| Itinerary builder | YesPlan the whole trip in one place; Groups360 sources rooms and meeting space, it does not plan the trip | No |
| Customizable map pins and routes | YesSee your whole trip on a map; Groups360 is a booking platform for planners | No |
| Real-time collaborative editing | YesPlan the trip together with friends and family; Groups360 is a professional tool for meeting and event planners | No |
| Notes and checklists | YesKeep notes, lists, and links with the plan; Groups360 manages the room block | No |
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Groups360 is a professional tool for sourcing group room blocks and event space. Pilot is for your own personal or group trip: plan the whole trip, collaborate with friends and family, and book your stay at private rates.
| Feature | | |
|---|---|---|
| Booking a hotel | ||
| Book hotels in the app | YesBook your stay in the app at private rates for any trip; Groups360 books hotels too, but for group room blocks, not individual leisure stays | Yes |
| Member-only hotel rates | YesPrivate 'book early' rates straight from hotels for one stay; Groups360 sources group rates for blocks of 10 or more rooms | Yes |
| Bookable hotel inventory | YesMore than 3,000,000 stays you can book in Pilot; Groups360 lists 200,000+ properties for group blocks and event space | Yes |
| Planning your trip | ||
| Itinerary builder | YesPlan the whole trip in one place; Groups360 sources rooms and meeting space, it does not plan the trip | No |
| Customizable map pins and routes | YesSee your whole trip on a map; Groups360 is a booking platform for planners | No |
| Real-time collaborative editing | YesPlan the trip together with friends and family; Groups360 is a professional tool for meeting and event planners | No |
| Notes and checklists | YesKeep notes, lists, and links with the plan; Groups360 manages the room block | No |
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Plan, save, and book in one place. Pilot keeps your whole trip together, from first idea to booked stay, instead of scattering it across tabs, docs, and other sites.
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Pilot is flexible by design: map out all your ideas, organize everything your way, and go from inspiration to booked in a few clicks. Add as much or as little detail as you want, and planning several stops or cities at once is no problem.
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Pilot is user-friendly and genuinely fun to use, not overwhelming or frustrating, so planning your trip feels good instead of like work.
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Groups360 is a business-to-business booking platform, so it has no consumer rating to compare. Pilot is built for travelers and is rated 4.7 by 50,000+ travelers who plan and book the whole trip in one place.
Groups360 is a business-to-business platform, with a product called GroupSync, for booking group hotel room blocks and meeting or event space online, instantly or by RFP. It is free for planners and aimed at professional event organizers, not individual travelers.
Pilot is a trip booking and planning app: a flexible itinerary, a map of your stops, and notes, plus your hotel booked at private rates straight from hotels. Groups360 sources rooms and event space for professional planners; Pilot is for your own trip.
They serve different people: Groups360 is built for professional planners booking large blocks of rooms and event space, while Pilot is for individual and friends-and-family trips. Pilot lets you plan the whole trip, collaborate, and book your stay at private rates.
Groups360 is free for planners and earns from the hotel side. Pilot is also completely free, for anyone, and it plans the whole trip as well as booking your stay at private rates.
Pilot is built for planning trips together and booking individual stays at private rates, not for sourcing blocks of 10 or more rooms or event space. Groups360 is purpose-built for that group sourcing.
Use Groups360 if you are a planner sourcing a hotel room block or event space for a meeting. Use Pilot if you are planning your own personal or group trip, with your stay booked at private rates, all free.
Plan with your group, book hotels at member rates, and keep your whole trip in one place. Completely free.
