Reply to: Single Travel

[ForkBoy]

Single travel is great. Get visa(s), book flight and go. Being alone puts a little pressure on you to socialise. You will meet people, you will find things to do. You won't have to do anything you don't want to do. Budget hostels are good places to meet groups of people.
Just do it. If you don't like it, don't bother doing it again.

[pmeswani]

Morning All,

Have done a fair bit of travel and am looking to do more. Partner is very low on holiday (permie). I was wondering if any of you have experience of some of these companies offering solo group travel and any experiences they wish to share.

I don't know what tickles your fancies... but Cruises do cater for solo travellers. But it does depend very much on your budget. I'm going on a cruise in a few weeks time with a group of people, but plan to do a lot of things on my own.

[sweetandsour]

There are some places I would like to go that Mrs TLG wouldn't and there are things I like to do that she doesnt and vice versa. Why waste time and money and probably ruining each others holidays.

Fair enough.

I genuinely cannot imagine wanting to go on holiday without my partner but maybe we are just freaks.

[weemster]

My better half is a teacher and most summers she'll take her mum away for a week somewhere.

Her job, while giving her loads of time off does make it more difficult for us to take hols together.

Absolutely ! Its about getting a balance - if I was in relationship where I wasn't allowed to take a holiday alone (if circumstances dictated) - I would get out of it quick sharpish !

[jmo21]

My better half is a teacher and most summers she'll take her mum away for a week somewhere.

Her job, while giving her loads of time off does make it more difficult for us to take hols together.

[vetran]

Do something you alone will enjoy. Preferably something the missus will hate.

Not the Louvre but maybe the Egyptology exhibition, not those fine cafes or restaurants but the cheese sandwich halfway up the mountain.

Plenty of volunteering stuff such as building dry stone walls, clearing canals etc where you can have manly fun and beer mates that she would hate. Unless you married action woman.

Then come back and tell her how much you missed her, you might get the early night.

[The Lone Gunman]

I would be mightily pissed off if my partner went on extra holidays that I couldn't go on for reasons of holiday allowances.

I would expect holidays to be taken together and if they had extra time they could use that to do odd-jobs, retail therapy, seeing friends or even spending the day drinking wine in front of the TV I wouldn't mind, but going on holiday would be unacceptable.

There are some places I would like to go that Mrs TLG wouldn't and there are things I like to do that she doesnt and vice versa. Why waste time and money and probably ruining each others holidays.

[norrahe]

Yes it is very difficult to juggle things likes holiday if one of you is a permy - C'est la vie !

WHS

[weemster]

I would be mightily pissed off if my partner went on extra holidays that I couldn't go on for reasons of holiday allowances.

I would expect holidays to be taken together and if they had extra time they could use that to do odd-jobs, retail therapy, seeing friends or even spending the day drinking wine in front of the TV I wouldn't mind, but going on holiday would be unacceptable.

Yes it is very difficult to juggle things likes holiday if one of you is a permy - C'est la vie !

[sweetandsour]

Morning All,

Have done a fair bit of travel and am looking to do more. Partner is very low on holiday (permie). I was wondering if any of you have experience of some of these companies offering solo group travel and any experiences they wish to share.

I would be mightily pissed off if my partner went on extra holidays that I couldn't go on for reasons of holiday allowances.

I would expect holidays to be taken together and if they had extra time they could use that to do odd-jobs, retail therapy, seeing friends or even spending the day drinking wine in front of the TV I wouldn't mind, but going on holiday would be unacceptable.

[weemster]

Have you been invited to Prawn acres ??

Missus is allergic to prawns

[Pogle]

Shes only got a couple of days holiday left till middle of next year. I fancy something more than a day trip to Swindon

Have you been invited to Prawn acres ??

[bogeyman]

Shes only got a couple of days holiday left till middle of next year. I fancy something more than a day trip to Swindon

It's good value though. A day in Swindon is like a week anywhere else.

[weemster]

Me too

Agreed I would love to but shes only got a couple of days holiday left till middle of next year. I fancy something more than a day trip to Swindon

[bogeyman]

Me too

Did a lot of traveling as a young, single man but oddly, can't remember that much about it. I look through the photos I took and feel almost nothing.

It stuck me later in life that going to places only becomes significant when there's someone else to share the experience and when you can remember it together.