Holiday by myself..

[CraigRevelHorwoodsPetCat]

So just thinking of booking a wee week away somewhere by myself. Thinking Spain or Cyprus. I'm going on a girl's holiday in August - which will be the usual; drinking too much and barely seeing sunlight.

I am overworked. I am exhausted. I need to disappear for a week with books and some lovely weather.

However, will I look really odd by myself? I don't mind the travelling on the plane and to destination aspect. I'm just wondering about eating out at night by myself. I'll probably end up back in my room at 8pm every night 

Would you do it?

(I might add, I have spent a LOT of time over the past 5 years travelling alone on business so am very used to eating alone - usually after full days of meetings when I just can't wait until I don't have to talk to anyone any more - so I'm well practised in it. I do understand it can be a bit intimidating, but people are on the whole either friendly or totally uninterested - rarely if ever judgey)

I work in a restaurant which is next to a hotel (UK), we have so many people dining alone it's not something I even think about anymore. We just know there are all different reasons for this and I would do this without thinking twice. Have a fab time OP.

Craigrevelhorwoodspetcat, I am currently searching the net for the same thing!

After four years of study, a bad break up and too many mind games and single parenthood - I'm shattered. Im looking at the caribbean area. All I want to a sun bed and books too. I did question the dinning though as well. I thought i'd look like a case of billy no mates, however, I have decided I don't care and I'm going anyway!

I took myself off to Milan. Was fabulous, drank a bottle of prosecco every night in a restaurant. No one thought I was weird or made any comment. At least not to my face! Had an amazing time.

This sounds like the most perfect holiday I wonder if I could get away with disappearing alone I'm sure my husband and teenagers would love to have me gone for a week

Justontheright
I have a Dh and teenagers.I resumed my solo travelling when the eldest was about 8 and the youngest was 5. I usually go twice a year by myself.

I've not done it ever by myself but have been seriously considering a cheapy 4 day trip somewhere and it hadn't even cross my mind about how it would look or feel to be alone.

If you will enjoy it then do it it

Dining alone, touring alone, etc means that you are a lot more open and approachable for others. You will NOT be lonely! In fact you'll probably end up having a lot more great conversations with randoms than you ever did on your coupled-up or girls' holidays.

I travel alone all the time and love it.

A cruise isn't a bad idea - you can choose what size table you sit at for dinner, and if you want there are organised excursions so you'd be doing things with like minded people

Lissa the replies to my original post have been most inspiring I am so excited. Night two of research with a glass of wine or two and the iPad.

A week is a long time to be alone. But I'm hoping to return tanned and refreshed, ready to tackle the rest of the year head on

I stay with friends abroad most years OP. I get a bit of company at night but I fly on my own and they work so I get all day every day to lie on the beach with my Kindle. It's sheer bliss. Go for it!

I didn't even think of doing a lone cruise!
I am off to start googling....

I would love to do this but I just don't have the guts. I've never really been anywhere or done anything but right now I feel like I'm wasting my life not being willing to just do it!

Can I come with you OP? What a dream! A child-less husband-less holiday

I gave this recommendation on another thread recently - have been to a fantastic spa hotel in southern Spain (fly to Faro in Portugal) called AMA Huelva. Booked as a package through WellbeingEscapes.com, went with a friend but there were some singles there. Really comfortable huge rooms, friendly staff, fantastic food and brilliant spa and fitness facilities, with classes and/or personal training sessions, or just lounging around the indoor or outdoor pools. I would definitely go back and would be just as happy to be there alone as with a friend.

Enjoy your research

Has anyone been on a cruise alone

Hello there

I cruise alone and its very doable. Please feel free to ask any questions you like and i'll do my best to answer them.

And to the poster who's off to Disney for a fortnight - just don't dance with Goofy, and if you do he's rather lovely when it comes to giving you an ear to dry your happy tears. Or should that be - jesus I dont know whats wrong with me tears!

My happiest two weeks ever were spent at disney after my marriage of a lifetime broke up

Ps - I cruise twice a year and my last one was to Alaska.

I've been on a couple of holidays where the friend i was with was at work all day so i was mostly on my own, it was bliss. In fact id quite like to be somewhere on my own right now, instead of on a hospital ward with an uber grumpy ds :-/

YABU

You need a kindle so you can take millions of books and read in the sun.

HTH

I'm sooooooooooooo jealous!

I went to Paris for a week 7 years ago by myself because I was feeling the same as you and thought my head was going to explode if I didn't get away.

I fielded calls all week saying "are you ok?" and my best friend's Dad wanted to fly her out................ lovely and thoughtful, but I VANT TO BE ALOOOONE.

Have a bloody ball/loads of craic (also a NI-er)

Loving all the ideas for holidays here. I've travelled alone, and don't give it a second thought. I travel for work frequently anyway.
The first time I went on a break alone, I was single, and a friend had let me down at the last minute. I thought, right, I can stay home and feel sorry for myself, or I can go alone. And I've done it loads of times since.

To anyone thinking about what others might think of them, don't give it a second thought. People are caught up in their own lives, and really nobody cares about you relaxing and enjoying your own holiday .

I already said OP, go for it, and anyone else, likewise.

........ also, re dining alone?

Honestly, as PPs have said it feels weird to start with but I've done so much of it with work - looking at you, Holiday Inn Express Luton Airport - in totally soul destroying places, think of the sea and the sun set and wine and your kindle book.......... wowwwsers.

It'll be absolutely fantastic and you'll be a new woman coming back.

My Dad hates travelling with a passion. My Mum wanted to fly to hot places. Result was that, in her 50's, she started bogging off on holiday without him! (He spent a quiet week buried in a book to his hearts content.)
She got so good at travelling on her own to various places that she ended up with workmates at least 20 years her junior tagging along because they didn't want to take the plunge themselves! She saw what she wanted, did what she wanted and occasionally went on package holidays went on the organised pub crawls where she usually found a friendly barman willing to make exciting cocktails for her while the rest of the party got drunk as fast as possible! She had a whale of a time. Go for it!

Go for it, I would love to hear how you get on. I too have been considering a much needed single holiday after a traumatic year, I was also considering Cyprus, Greece or even Malta just a quiet time, some sun, nice food and books by the truckload but it's finding the right spot, right? please let me know if you find a suitable destination and your thoughts

Ashley one of the Greek islands you could totally do. Like thassos for example. Quiet and secluded but with the right level of 'things to do' or santorini. I have always fancied Malta though due to the history.... I couldn't just sit for a week.

Sounds wonderful!! Definitely take plenty of reading materiall. You will feel very relaxed on your return.