Would you go on a European city break alone?

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Would you go on a European city break alone? If so, where would you go?

Would you go to a bar etc in the evening on your own?

I feel like I would love to do this but I'm worried about being bored or feeling lonely etc and would be out my comfort zone!

Also loved Krakow, apart from the Brits on stag trips who got steaming drunk and then started fights with each other, locals didn't seem too impressed by them either... Polish people were very friendly, Poland inexpensive, public transport good and English widely spoken, although like anywhere an attempt, to speak a few words of the language is often appreciated, even if only the basics like hello/good day/ evening, please, thank you, good bye etc.

Yes, in fact at the moment I can't think of anything I'd like more. I've never been to Paris so I'd go there.

I have been to several other cities and can't think of anywhere I felt unsafe and that was Bansko in Bulgaria and i was with a group.

Why is there no bloody edit button.

Apart from Bansko...

I've done this many times. If I'd waited for friends to get organized to agree to go somewhere I would have missed out on so much. I have had a couple of city breaks with others and it was nice - but being on my own was just as nice.
You can spend as much time as you like in museums and galleries without holding someone else up. You can choose where you want to eat and there's none of this endless discussion where shall we eat.
If you're tired you can go back to the hotel for a rest.
It's great.
As to where to go - depends on what you're into. I've been to Florence, Rome, Venice, Vienna, Salzburg, Munich, Amsterdam, Leipzig, Dresden, Piran (Slovenia), Oslo and Bergen on my own. Also been to Budapest several times with an ex. I love Budapest and there are great concerts/ballet/opera if you are into that kind of thing. I'd definitely go and next time on my own.
Salzburg is lovely - can highly recommend that.
The world's your oyster!

Yes, I would and actually go on City Breaks on my own

So far have done:

Munich
Salzburg
Rome
Berlin

and other holidays

Non-European
New York

Love it, I can do what I want, when I want to do it and I can sight see at my own (rather fast) pace, can have breaks when I want, eat when I'm hungry and not when someone else decides it's such and such time, it must be lunch/dinner etc.

Fuck yes! I've done Palermo, Naples, Rome, Venice, Berlin, Munich, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville.

I love wandering off on my own. Eating alone, don't care. Popping out to a bar for a drink at the bar or on a terrace, fabulous.

I take an unruled notebook and write a diary of sorts, little details of the day (sleepy cats on balconys, small child fishing something out of a canal, snippets of conversations overheard), plus some sketches of boats, churches, wildlife etc. I love re reading these books.

Now I'm mid-40s with a child and DP, so these notebooks have morphed into scrapbooks, full of child's drawings and rambled nonsense (daddy's 'farty flipflops' when he tried climbing out of the river but kept slipping in, driving though Sausage Valley where for about ten minutes the car was filled with bbq-ing sausage smells, finding a broken safe in the woods and calling French police in terrible broken French ). Etc.

Going it alone is fantastically liberating and confidence-boosting.

Forgot Amsterdam and Bruges, both great cities as well

Oh, ffs, and Prague, that one was tacked on to a business trip, just loved it, could've done without the two loud and very drunk British Hen-Do groups I encountered, though.

Yes, but then I did a university year abroad in Lyon and Barcelona not knowing anyone.

No to bars. I was followed a few times during the day in Lyon when alone, and cornered once in a group of women at night. I'd happily eat out alone then go back to my room.

I'd research where you want to go and bits to avoid (the following incidents were in Guillotiere, but I had to go there to the uni library). I always felt safe in Barcelona despite the muggings but accidentally wandered into a rough part of Madrid and left sharpish.

I've done it loads of times. I've stayed in hostels and done things with the other people there (as well as things on my own), although I appreciate hostels don't appeal to some people. Would like to go to Valencia for my birthday. Budapest, Krakow, Sevilla, Madrid, San Sebastian, Wroclaw, Tallinn... so many great places.

Of course. I've had to fly all over the world for my job - solo. Any big city will be absolutely fine - as long as you don't end up in some dodgy part of wherever you go. You just have to have your wits about you - but surely that applies to wherever you go - even in the UK?

Would highly recommend any of these as a solo traveller =

Budapest
Paris
Barcelona
Valencia
Amsterdam
Bruges
Prague
Hamburg
Munich
Dublin
Copenhagen

Any of these you could do alone amongst hundreds of others

Definitely. I've done Rome and Madrid on my own and they were great. Definitely yes to a bar too.

Yes yes yes! How about Copenhagen?

Yessssss! I did one this year and loved it

I really enjoyed Lisbon alone. Very chic with amazing views everywhere.

Budapest would be amazing alone - take yourself to all of the thermal spas where many people are there on their own!

Of course! And I have, many times. So enjoyable and relaxing to do things on your own schedule, no one else's. Quite looking forward to doing more when DC are grown and gone actually ...

Yes! I fucked off to Amsterdam on my own a while ago as everyone was posing me off. It was great. Went on boat trips, people watched, ate lots of frites. Loved it. Happy to recommend a very singleton-friendly hotel in the museum quarter.

God yes. It would be bliss

I went to Budapest on my own.
Absolutely loved it.
Booked a hotel right in the centre of town with easy access to places of interest.
I even went on a boat ride on the River Danube.
In the evenings, I had dinner in one of the many eateries.

Yes! I love it! Airbnb so you can hit the supermarket and chill, go out to dinner and coffees and take a book, enjoy museums at your own pace!

Definitely. I'd go to all those places alone, and take a book.

Yep, I love holidaying on my own. Have been on my own to Australia, Spain, Portugal, Malta and Italy.

Currently planning a solo jaunt to Krakow.

Going to Bruges on Sunday for 4 days on my own. Can't wait. I usually tend to have my main meals at lunch when I'm holidaying alone, and head back to the hotel room early in the evening for lovely uninterrupted reading time. Though I do also have my kindle with me throughout the day just in case, and I do sometimes eat out in the evening too if I feel like it.

I can't think of any reason why not to go alone, tbh. You can do exactly what you want, when you want, spend as long as you like in the places you're interested in and not have to bother with the stuff you aren't. Bliss.

Also I recommend looking at Eurostar deals. Mine is £270 for three nights B&B and includes the return train fares from London to Bruges, with free train travel anywhere in Belgium for the first and last 24 hours of the trip.

Yes:

Amsterdam
Athens
Barcelona
Berlin
Bordeaux
Brussels
Madrid
Hong Kong
Paris
Prague
Seville
Sydney
Tokyo
You could wait your whole life for other people to be free to go where you want to go, when you want to go there - so go there!

Yes, I did last year - went to Amsterdam on my own while DH stayed home with DD. I hired a bike, mooched round galleries, and had long dinners by myself. I’m okay with my own company and don’t get bored on my own. It was awesome!