Adding a weekend to a work trip is the cheapest luxury in travel. It also creates the messiest expense report of the quarter if the booking is handled as one undifferentiated lump. The fix is structural, and it takes about ten minutes at booking.

Your company pays to get you there. The weekend is the part nobody thinks to ask about. Where the line sits between what the company covers and what you cover, how to ask for it cleanly, and why South Florida is worth the extra two nights.