Friend has cancelled our trip with 4 hours notice

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We have booked and paid to go to London for a concert tomorrow night.
Leaving at 6.30 pm tonight
She rang a hour ago saying she was ill with sickness bug and can't go.
It's too late to find anyone else to go.
So I'm loosing out on £90 train
£150 hotel and £79 concert ticket :-(
Do I go alone?
I know I won't enjoy it alone tho
Tomorrow was meant to be shopping then concert ..coming home on Saturday
Gutted

How's it going OP? Are you having good time?

Are you nearly there yet?

What happened to our minute by minute updates, complete with pics?

I’d go alone and leave her to pay for her part . I’d love a day out on my own ‘

Definitely go alone! I’ve been to London twice on my own and been to a few concerts on my own. I wouldn’t lose out on money though and she should pay, even though she can’t help being ill! I would pay anyway! Have fun :) x

Hope you're out having fun op!

Hope you're having a fab time op.

Hope u went alone or she gave you her ticket for someone else to go with you. I am always doing these things alone and having fun, else I would miss concerts nobody else would want to see. Illness cannot be helped, I bet she was gutted to lose the money.

I'd go alone.

Updates plx OP!

Wicked is amazeballs!

So happy you went,.OP! If you feel anxious at all, pop on here and we will talk to you - you're not alone!

Have a wonderful time and do let us know how it all goes!!!

It is10 0% a normal thing to do in London, go to a show or cinema on your own. It's normal to do pretty much anything in London, no-one raises an eyebrow at anything legal and decent. And even if it isn't, half the time!

Also, Londoners are friendly to visitors, despite the rumours, and if you ask for directions, especially on the tube, will help.

Well done op you have confronted your fears be very proud of yourself you’ll have an amazing time x

Go alone! If it’s an artist you love you won’t notice!

Whoops cancel the cheque while you’re at it!
Hope you had fun OP.

I used to take the train to London to go shopping and sight seeing about once a month on my own. I started going with a friend but we were both so polite neither of us would say where they really wanted to go, so we didn’t get a lot done. On my own was great. I'd go to my favorite shops, eat where I wanted to eat and have a good look round.

I was a teenager btw.

Go alone and have room to yourself and enjoy . Don’t lose out because of her

Excellent! Well done.

Hopefully we will get some updates when you have time.

Have a blast! 🍹

Have just got on to this chat !
So happy for you xxx
I live in London and it’s great !
It will be buzzing on Saturday night !
And after the show it will still be buzzing all the way back to your hotel .
Bayswater (district line and circle line) and Queensway (central line) are on the same street !

You will have a wonderful time
Hop on the big bus company and get a feel for the place . We did it and I live here and it’s good fun .
Do let us know how it all went x

Hopefully by now you you took everyone's advice and gone on your own, which really was the right thing to do, I hope you have a lovely time and enjoy yourself.

So pleased you decided to go alone OP.
I have generalised anxiety and struggle with doing new things but I realised that I often was more anxious about things in the shorter term where the longer term was less of a problem.
So a taxi to our own town would be stressful but a taxi then train then plane for a holiday would be fine. I started projecting myself forward a bit more so that I would see the whole event rather than the individual stages. Helped me anyway .
Hope you have a great time -and the first of many !

I’m proud of you OP!!

I have general anxiety and pretty bad social anxiety, so I was rooting for you to go while reading through this, and also panicking at the thought of you panicking in London!
I really wanted to go to see Pride and Prejudice in a town not far from where I was living a few years ago, I couldn’t find anybody to go at short notice, but I wanted to see it so much I just went by myself. It was absolutely terrifying but also exciting. I really felt like I’d accomplished something by the time I’d sat in my seat and the play was fantastic.
I hope you’re having a fab time and your friend feels better

I do hope she went. It is such a freeing thing to realise that you can do and enjoy things yourself, on your own. If you are worried about what other people think, remember, you're a 30 second, if that, wonder.

Definitely go alone, I’d love it x

I hope you've had a bloody brilliant time OP