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

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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?

Well, I married one. And 3 of my really good friends I met on trips. Depends who, where etc.

I went on a few solo traveller holidays after my divorce. I made some lovely friends on them and we exchanged emails or became FB friends to share photos. I've never seen any of them since, and that's how I like it!

Nope. We tried being "friendly and sociable" on holiday a few years ago and couldn't get rid of 1 particular family. They insisted we swap phone numbers and keep in touch the 1st chance we got we binned theirs and they had my old defunct mobile number so couldn't call us, thankfully). We keep ourselves to ourselves now.

Yes we have. Met a lovely couple and see them every couple of years, catch up on fb messenger/phone calls too.

No. Why do you want to know?

No, one no interest in making friends or even socialising with strangers when on holiday

What's the reason behind this AIBU? Are you pissed off some people haven't stayed in touch? Are you being stalked by some people you met?

I have 4 really good friends I met on holiday (2 separate couples) and we see each other from time to time. I live abroad now and they've visited me and I've stayed with them when back in the UK.
Also met a really nice couple when trekking in the wilderness and we message all the time about hiking. Might possibly see them in the summer as they are doing the same trail at me at around the same time.

I've met people travelling and kept in touch for quite some time. More the backpacking, sharing experiences kind of trip. Your bog standard package holiday, not so much. You get into conversations with people at the bar or whatever but it's a fleeting social interaction.

On some group trips they tend to send round a sheet of paper for you to write your e-mail address on which then gets copied for others. It's interesting who doesn't want to play ball with that idea. Usually there's a few messages and photos shared then it dies a death.

No, we try to avoid getting too friendly with others on holiday.

We've spent a couple of holidays actively trying to escape people who were trying to befriend us!

Maybe we need introvert T-shirts/lanyards.

I have a friend who has gone on holiday to the same hotel for the same two weeks every year. There are lots of others who do the same. I think the DC are all fairly close in age. They all even book the same rooms every year (eg friend always has room 5). She describes them as her "[hotel name] friends" and I think they see some of them from time to time between t he annual trip. I do wonder about new families going to the hotel for the first time and realising everyone else knows each other! But it may be a large enough hotel that they are not that big a proportion!
Friend's DC are now older teenagers so will be interesting to see if she keeps going once her DC drop out.

Having recently been to the theatre to watch ‘The Unfriend’ I don’t think that I will ever make friends with anyone on holiday again in future 😁

I'd NEVER meet someone on holiday! No thanks - leave me alone.

The only words I want to say to other people on holiday are "could I have a menu" and "the bill please".

Over the years we've met some really nice, interesting people on holiday, but most of the contacts have just fizzled out after the occasional Christmas card. That was before the days of social media, though. A friend has her group of 'cruise friends' who live all over the country, but all decide together which cruises to go on and meet up on board every year. I am amazed at the number of PPs saying they definitely don't want to meet people, but I suppose they have good reasons.

I don't speak to other people on holiday, it actually annoys me when people try to invite themselves along with you. I'm not on holiday to spend time with strangers

My son met his wife on holiday. They discovered they only lived a mile apart, but they'd gone to different schools. They both used to go to the same clubs in town.

God I loathe meeting other people on holiday. I have absolutely no intention of being friendly with anyone. I’m usually very chatty and sociable generally, but when I’m relaxing with my guard down I just want to be anonymous.

Not anything more than an exchange of emails when we've taken photos of kids as the place we go to has no signal to do it from the beach.

I'm bemused by people who make really close friends on holiday! I've never once swapped details with anyone I've met!!

We made friends with a couple when we were on a coach holiday in Italy in the mid 90s - have kept in touch ever since - although it's now been a while since we met up.

It would be unusual for us to make friends on holiday now though as we mostly holiday in self contained accommodation.

If i would go away on holiday (like a week etc) the last thing id do is mix with people and try make friends.

i get away from folk, which means i don’t want to see many!

Not a chance. Absolutely avoid ‘holiday friends’ at all costs.

When I was young and single, yes, but not now. The only circumstance in which I would exchange details would be if they lived near us back home. Realistically, I am not going to see them if they live 200 miles away.