Friend bringing friend on 80th birthday hol and making us pay

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I’m absolutely fuming this morning. My friend and I are going to Las Vegas in December for our joint 80th celebrations, mine in November and hers in January. She has told me she’s bringing her other friend with us who I don’t like very much because she witters on about herself all the time.

It was supposed to just be me, DH, her and her DH but now she’s asked if her and I can split the bill and pay for this friend to come with us because she’s lonely and hasn’t got much money. She’s expecting us to pay for not only the flights and hotel but for a day trip and helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon which isn’t exactly cheap anyway without having to fork out for someone else.

I’m annoyed at the both of them. Her friend for expecting it and my friend for asking me to split it with someone I don’t like very much. The problem is that you can’t say anything to her because she victim blames and flies of the handle if you disagree with her. We can’t really have any fall outs because we need to get it booked quickly.
What would you do?

Id just go with my husband.

Not a chance i’d be funding it. Just say you were looking forward to it being the 4 of you and not prepared to pay for her friend who you don’t really get along with well to come along too.

I think by the time I get to 80 years old I would be confident enough to tell my friend what I think without having to ask social media platforms who are only going to tell you the obvious which is exactly that.

I see the OP hasn't been back since her original post.

I hate plop and run posters. 🙄

I too would be impressed, but given this is probably not a genuine thread , I'm not that impressed as it stands.

Taking it as a 'friend tagging along on an important holiday ' hypothetical scenario, there's such an easy out here.

It's not been booked

OP has an alternative arrangement they can make

A straight ' no, I don't want to do that, you can go separately with friend if you really think she deserves a free trip, and I'll go with DH '.

You'd think at 80 people would have learned to cut these entitled idiots off at the first opportunity.

Not when the friend has made a preposterous and very insensitive demand. Saying no doesn’t have to be rude at all.

Anyway, this thread is clearly a load of nonsense, yet another one and run.

In the real world people dont invite random on holidays and suggest sharing that cost.

Morning, everyone. We had some concerns about this poster so wanted to let you all know that they won't be returning to the thread. We're going to leave it to stand as there are actually some useful suggestions here about how to deal with this sort of situation, but we're going to close the thread to new posts to save any confusion, and since the OP won't be back to answer any more questions.