Holiday by myself..

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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?

Ha! Posting this from Madrid where I am holidaying alone. It's been bril mostly apart from one crap eatery who chucked me away on my own with the to blaring football.

However , obviously it's not a sitting around the pool break. I've walked my feet off seeing stuff. I wouldn't do a pool/hotel holiday anyway, not my thing.

Nothing more fab than many hours in an art gallery / museum at your own pace and I've been on 2 walking tours. Met some nice people etc.

Do it !

done it a few times, a mixture of all inclusive and self catering - eating out alone didnt bother me although i pretty much eat and go, i have my ipad filled with tv shows or movies to watch at night and kindle filled with books

re single supplement someone mentioned - i paid about 100 more when i done a package which i was ok about paying
some one mentioned about putting sun cream on as well above - get a back lotion applier - i use the once a day sun cream anyway so it works perfect - you can get them easily for using with fake tan

anyone that finds out ive been away on my own sees me as brave rather than sad, if they thought that then they have never said it to my face and if they did then fuck them - ive been away plenty times with friends and its different, you dont need to do what others want to do and you dont, no one else is faffing about getting ready when ur sitting waiting etc

God yes, I always fancied a week in the Caribbean by myself with a suitcase full of books. Won't be happening any time soon, as DD is only a few months old, but it's still an ambition! I know lots of people who've done holidays alone and loved it.

We stayed at an all inclusive that set up large round tables reserved for single travellers so they didn't have to dine alone ( although they could if they wanted)

I've done holidays on my own to the US and had a wonderful time. As a PP said take take a Kindle so so that you don't run out of books! I found that people didn't pester me but plenty said hello when I was by the pool or by the open air bar so I never felt starved of conversation.

If you're thinking of the Med, I can recommend Tavira in Portugal. Lots of lovely little apartments etc in the town centre. No need for a car as the beach is close by. Lots of little restaurants, shops and cafes and there is a lot of live music in the evenings, classic to pop. Beautiful place.

God, I'd bloody love this. Off to google...

Oh yes. I would say I'm dreaming of it wistfully, but having just received a passout to go to Amsterdam for 5 days in August (albeit to a kind of work conference, but a fun one), I'm happily planning it instead .

I find I prefer a solo holiday if there's the opportunity to have a minimum amount of social interaction- I did spend 7 days on my own in Lesbos once and hardly spoke to anyone, and that was a bit lonely. Mexico was good, as I stayed in hostels/ guesthouses where there were other travellers, so there was the opportunity to socialise when I felt like it (plus the locals in Mexico City were surprisingly friendly and chatty).

Have also had a good holiday on another Greek island (Angistri) in a guesthouse run by friendly hippies, and also in France, camping solo and filling the time between a period of work and meeting up with friends at a festival by spending days sitting at the same cafe table with a glass of wine at my elbow, reading.

you dont need to do what others want to do and you don't, no one else is faffing about getting ready when ur sitting waiting etc - totally agree with that comment, I find family holidays hugely stressful - trying to find something that DH, teenage DS and I all like doing is almost impossible - invariably there are endless 'compromises' and no one really enjoys it that much.

Being on your own, choosing what to do, where to go, where/what to eat, even just what time to get up is absolute bliss and a real break from routine life.

Last year I was on my own, woke early and just fancied a swim in the sea at 5am - it was lovely, as we usually share a room getting up that early would have been impossible and I would have lain awake in bed seething with annoyance that I was 'wasting' my day. I am not someone who enjoys a lie-in.