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Holidaying with your friends

35 replies

CharliesAngles · 02/10/2023 13:45

Would you? Have you?

Tell me about your experiences please - the good, the bad and the ugly!

(I’m talking more about just a group of friends, no other halves, no kids, but please feel free to share your stories about those too!)

OP posts:

43ontherocksporfavor · 03/10/2023 06:58

Have done weekends in U.K. with one couple that we both really got in with but unfortunately they’ve now split.
I would find it awkward to say let’s go away together but we have all these times separate. Just go on a separate holiday!

bert3400 · 03/10/2023 07:03

@rookiemere

Went away recently with a group of friends and used Splitwise, absolutely brilliant app. Definitely made it fair for everyone

fatrascall · 03/10/2023 07:15

Some of the best times of my life have been holidays with a large group of friends.

Obviously you all have to have similar tastes and expectations of the holiday. It helps if everyone is relaxed and flexible too.

But if you can get that right, it's the best.

wildwestpioneer · 03/10/2023 07:22

I have a few sets of girlfriends I go out with. I've a group I met via a hobby about 20 yes ago, we used to do Butlins weekends, Ibiza type and now we're all older we have long weekend city breaks. I've also got a bunch of friends I met via my kids and went more country, glamming types. Some of most memorable.holidays have been with my friends Liz

Dogsitterwoes · 03/10/2023 07:23

I've done a few short breaks with friends and had a great time but pick your friends carefully. No drama queens or bossy/whingy people.

I have a dear friend who's asked if I'd like to join their main holiday a couple of times and I politely reject as they like AI poolside ones and I'd be bored shitless.

Chiaseedling · 03/10/2023 07:38

I’ve done
spa nights w one friend- great, just chilled out.
long holidays w another family w their kids and ours. Did this twice w same family. It either cos DCs really got on and we chilled w our friends, but I did get a bit irritated w friend at times but nothing major. Easy when it’s a fly and flop and then we had a few days out on our own and they did too.
Used to do weekends away w another family - I was probably the bossier one & they were more laid back!
Haven’t done a big friend group thing since my 20s, I don’t really have a big friend group but I did go away with 2 friends to one friend’s holiday home for a couple of days and again, laid back and chill won the day!
When it’s a big group is when there are issues and arguments about what to do etc.
I def would not want to do a travelling/sightseeing holiday w friends

RichardMarxisinnocent · 03/10/2023 07:50

I don't have a friendship group so have never been on holiday with a group, but do regularly go with two separate friends. I've known both for years, and used to flatshare with one, and know that I enjoy their company for extended lengths of time. They have different personalities and have slightly different holidaying styles - one likes to see all the sights, museums etc and really likes to see as much as possible of wherever we are, the other is more laid back and does like sightseeing etc but is less worried about doing everything. I am somewhere in between, but I like getting to have the 2 different paces of holiday.

We share rooms and always have, and I've happily been one or two week long holidays with each of them. I can understand though why going away with someone who you only usually spend an evening with could be difficult and end up not being what you expected.

TheBirdintheCave · 03/10/2023 07:53

I used to do it lots but as we got older and got married our interests and types of holidays that we wanted started to differ.

My friends were still interested in dancing and drinking with lie ins but I wanted to go exploring and get up early for a nice breakfast.

We spent one disastrous island hopping holiday in Greece getting peeved at each other and no more after that.

It also featured one of our friends getting so drunk she was hospitalised after she stopped breathing on the last night. I slept through the whole thing (as I hadn't gone drinking with them) so only found out in the morning when the others told me. It shook everyone up and no one spoke to her on the ferry back to the airport, or indeed ever again as far as I know.

DinnaeFashYersel · 03/10/2023 07:54

Yes in my twenties. Was great fun
Wouldn't do it now though.

PoseasRadicalActuallyMisogynistic · 03/10/2023 08:08

I love going away with my friends, I go away with different friendship groups and each one has a different vibe, sight seeing or beach . And generally we plan our itineraries in advance and then do them as a group. I can’t see the point of going on a girls weekend and then doing your own thing when you’re there.

You do have to adopt the attitude that sometimes you have to take responsibility for some aspect of the activity organisation and other times you have to go with the flow.
also it helps that everyone I know is honest and pays their way promptly.

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