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Do you stay in touch with people you meet on holiday?

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girlfriend44 · 07/03/2023 23:21

Do you stay in touch with people you meet on holiday?
Do you find it always fizzles out as you get home and get on with you own lives?
Do you not even bother to exchange contact details/Facebook etc?

OP posts:
dottypotter · 08/03/2023 00:02

Might exchange but generally it fizzles out as you don't see them again.

Fizzadora · 08/03/2023 00:05

But, but that would mean having to interact with other people on holiday!
Noooooooooooh

watcherintherye · 08/03/2023 00:07

We never ‘meet people’ on holiday!

Original poster
girlfriend44 · 08/03/2023 00:08

Fizzadora · 08/03/2023 00:05

But, but that would mean having to interact with other people on holiday!
Noooooooooooh

What's wrong with that?

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zebrapig · 08/03/2023 00:15

We're good friends with one couple we met on honeymoon 14 years ago. Meet up 3/4 times a year. Also in contact with 2 other women from the same holiday.

That's the only time we've ever 'Madame friends' on holiday though, mostly we keep to ourselves!

JackiePlace · 08/03/2023 00:19

OP if you're asking about holiday romances (in a roundabout way)... my best friend met her husband on a city break in Barcelona. And my sister in law and her husband met when they were both on holiday in Italy. Coincidentally they both lived in the same town in England.

Original poster
girlfriend44 · 08/03/2023 00:21

No, friends.

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CantStopWontStop0 · 08/03/2023 00:23

Nope

DoesItHaveKosovo · 08/03/2023 00:25

Can’t imagine going any deeper than exchanging pleasantries on holiday, so nope

cattygorically · 08/03/2023 00:25

We have friends we met back in 2006 on holiday that we see every year for dinner and a catch up. They have become good family friends, we just live far apart! Many happy memories of several holidays afterwards with their family too. Children all grown and flown the nest but still they keep in touch on social media

JunkinDonuts · 08/03/2023 00:26

Not a chance. If they ask for my details, I tell them I'm not on SM and give them a false phone number.

Maxwelll · 08/03/2023 00:27

We don't interact in that way with people on holiday. We just go and do our own thing.

Thethingswedoforlove · 08/03/2023 00:28

My parents are still v good friends with a coupe they met in Cyprus in 1974. They go on holiday with them annually and we grew up staying at their place or them at ours several times a year. It’s lovely. I on the other hand would almost never speak to people other than exchanging pleasantries on holiday so horses for courses…

saltinesandcoffeecups · 08/03/2023 01:12

By self admission most mumsnetters won’t answer their front door if it’s their granny who hasn’t sent a formal request to call, received a formal invitation, and followed up with skywriting. (All without using a telephone because that’s intrusive)

So I’m not sure you’ll get a balanced answer here.

Homesweethome3 · 08/03/2023 01:18

We made great friends with a lovely family we met on holiday a few years back. We did keep in touch and also met up. We still have each other on SM but it kind of fizzled out due to distance they live about 6 hours from us. We send happy birthdays congratulations etc

evemillbank · 08/03/2023 01:19

No

MrsTerryPratchett · 08/03/2023 01:24

I still have mates I made travelling around the world as a young thing.

Now, maybe an email or two. I always meet people because I'm nosy.

Dudum · 08/03/2023 02:06

Yes, we've met up with friends from holidays and I've a load of them on social media. We always make holiday friends wherever we go.

mathanxiety · 08/03/2023 02:20

Never, but my mother does. She has hosted people in her home whom she met on transatlantic flights, sends and receives Christmas cards, got an invitation to the wedding of someone's only daughter ...

Original poster
girlfriend44 · 08/03/2023 10:57

MrsTerryPratchett · 08/03/2023 01:24

I still have mates I made travelling around the world as a young thing.

Now, maybe an email or two. I always meet people because I'm nosy.

Or friendly and Sociable.

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funinthesun19 · 08/03/2023 11:01

I’m in touch with a friend I met on holiday when I was 8 years old. I’m 33 now.

schnubbins · 08/03/2023 11:02

We are good friends with a couple that we met on holidays in Turkey in 2009 My husband more so than me. He has been on holidays again with his holiday friend and gone to stay with him in his part of the world .We have also by coincidence got a mutual friend from my hometown and also meet up there from time to time.

cocksstrideintheevening · 08/03/2023 11:04

My kids have kept in touch with kids they met on holiday when we had a mobile home in France as they saw them every year for a few years, so I'm vaguely in touch with the parents.

Otherwise I do my best to avoid interacting with anyone on holiday!

KimberleyClark · 08/03/2023 11:04

Not really. We did exchange email addresses with a couple we met on holiday three years ago but it’s fizzled out. We are not very sociable on holiday anyway.

TeenLifeMum · 08/03/2023 11:05

Dd is 11 and started chatting about her friend Alice she was messaging on WhatsApp. I asked if she was in her class as I’d not heard the name from her before (she’s in secondary so often new names crop up). Dd laughed and said you know Alice… from the beach on holiday last April! We literally met then the last day but the dc clicked and had a great time. They live an hour and a half away. I on the other hand am quite insular on holiday 😆