Considering a holiday with a group half my age, where most are strangers.

It’s the fact you say you aren’t friends with any of the group aside from one of them that would
put me off going.

Have you heard anything since @Whathappend ? Presumably they were planning for it to be imminently?

I'm not part of their friendship group!

So why would you want to join them on holiday, even if you were the same age as them @Whathappend ?

Is the trip to Ibiza town rather than San Antonio? Ibiza town is more upmarket and older. I might go for 4 nights, stay somewhere different than the youngs and only go clubbing twice.

It’s a gorgeous island

It is a self perpetuating thing. The more you say yes, the more people ask 🤣

Bah. Some people are determined to be close minded and unhappy. Enjoy yourself, OP, with or without the company of young people. Have fun trying new things. A number of my friends are 15 years or more older than me. Others are 15 years or more younger. We have a great time. Don’t let anyone discourage you.

Have you mentioned to your kids about this possibility?

I imagine your budget will be very different to theirs! When were they thinking of going?

She explained a lot earlier on in the thread that her other friends don’t like clubbing or that kind of music.

Some people on here have really weird views about friendships...

Look OP talk to your friend. If she thinks it's a good idea she'll tell you if she thinks it's not she will tell you too.
We are talking about a group of grown women, if they don't want you on their trip they will tell you.
And women of that age aren't embarrassed because someone "might seem like their mom" 🙄 We are not talking about teenagers

Wow, it's really clear that many of the people here are waxing lyrically and judgmentally on a subject they know fuck all about!
I went to Ibiza in April with two other Late 40s school mums. And I am going back next April for my 50th.

Well it would appear you @NadjaofAntipaxos also “know fuck all” about going to Ibiza with a group of friends (of which you are a friend of only one) all in their twenties when you are double their age

It was “the group” that invited the Op.

It was a friend of a friend

Go! Stay in a different hotel if you want to. Meet on the nights you fancy going out on and then you can do your own thing at other times.

Wow, it's really clear that many of the people here are waxing lyrically and judgmentally on a subject they know fuck all about!
I went to Ibiza in April with two other Late 40s school mums. And I am going back next April for my 50th.
It was incredible. I didn't feel too old at all and there was a huge variety of ages, nobody gave a stuff. We are all very experienced travellers and have lived overseas. One of my friends is an alternative travel agent and lived in Ibiza for a while. She goes 5 or 6 times a year so knew the best places to go. I don't know about the mega clubs but Pikes and Las Dahlias/Akasha were brilliant. She much prefers the start and end of season and lots of people seemed to be locals or regulars or were competing in the Ibiza half marathon which was the same weekend. I chatted to loads of interesting people.
Not sure I would fancy going with 25 year olds to the super clubs but my 49 year old hairdresser did with the girls from her salon and loved it.
Honestly, I think one of the over 40s groups for single travellers would be great as a starting point, someone mentioned Red. You could go off and dance and socialise by yourself anyway and nobody would bat an eyelid.
I worried a bit about what to wear beforehand and it was wasted brain effort. Anything goes.

Clubbing really isn't for young people. In fact the young don't go much, it's why all the old clubs are closing. Most nightclubs will be a really mixed age group now.

I see your reasoning, but I don't see the point in asking them because they're different people than the group OP is considering going away with. They won't necessarily have a view on this that's the same as the group has.

I’m curious why not a single one your friends fancy a trip to Ibiza?

By the kind of holiday you are describing, I think it sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. I don’t think it’s just necessarily the age difference but also the location and type of trip it is.

Because if same age which very reasonably could be - maybe ask them?

Mixed groups are great.
Being the only older person in a group of 25yos is odd esp on a 18-30 type holiday

What difference does it make whether OP has kids?

I’ve already said I’m a teacher and have a range of friends from late 20s into their 60s. I do different activities with different groups. I’m mid-50s, I wouldn’t dream of going clubbing with any of them. Clubbing is for young people, everything about clubbing is aimed at an under 35 demographic (and that’s being generous). If over 50s are hellbent on clubbing, they should at least go to nights that are marketed at that age group or travel abroad with a group of roughly their own age.

Wow. If your friends are all the same age as you, you'll find you are very lonely in old age, once they start dying.

What does it even matter if it's "cringe"? Stop worrying about what other people think and live your own life.

But if over 50s really want to do it, I think they should do it in a group of their own age, not tagging along with youngsters, that’s the bit I find cringe

Thats my thoughts exactly

I read all the posts a few days ago and I thought sounds like fun! I really was hoping when I saw the thread at the top of the list that the OP was coming back to say it was all booked! The whole thing about music is that it brings people together of all ages. I really hope you do get to go and have a fabulous time and come back and tell us about it! Life is so short, we should all do the things that we want to do when the opportunity presents itself.

You say that not one single one of your contemporaries friends want to go with you @Whathappend … have they given a reason?