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travelling with friends?
since i just returned from my first, well second, trip travelling with friends.. i wonder how you all feel about it. does it work out for you? do you come back loving them just as much as you did before? do you argue?
do you recommend it?
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Re: travelling with friends?
Yup and yup. We travel with friends quite often and it has been a ton of fun.
... There was one time it didn't work out though. With that friend the traveling really uncovered issues that would have come to the surface eventually any way. Basically it was with one of H's best friends and his GF. It was GF we had issues with. We just have very different personalities and vacation styles. We survived the trip and didn't feel like it was ruined. We were just very annoyed with her and she with us. H is still good friends with the guy, but we both still have issues with GF (due to other things too, not just the trip).
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i still love my friends just as much as i did before but i will probably never just travel with just the friends again. i went with 2 girls. and one of the girls has a bf that lives in the city. i knew the friend from college and i remember why we aren't besties. anyway, us 3 planned the trip and had an idea of what we wanted... and then this girl had her own agenda. we hung out with her every second and it was dreadful. we had a few moments and i learned a lot.
1st thing: i don't really like site seeing trips. i want to see stuff but honestly, i'd rather go and lay on a beach somewhere.
2nd thing: don't go on vacation where one of the people you're travelling with has a friend where you're going without asking if you're hanging out with them every second... and then decide if thats ok.
i'm travelling with one of them in march and her family and husband and my husband. i think that vacation will be fabulous.
I prefer traveling with couples. That way everyone can hang out, but each couple usually has their own things they want to do.
I'm not particularly looking forward to our Vegas trip next month. It's a hodgepodge of couples. We're only close with one set..and we're going for her birthday, so it should be interesting.
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i agree that travelling with couples is different.. because you can totally be alone with H and it would be fine.
i guess we'll find out.
Ah, you mean just friends without H. I agree with PP where it depends on the friend(s). My best friend I know I wouldn't have a problem with, but then again, we were also roommates for 3 years and we took a trip (granted with her parents) to Cancun shortly after we moved in together.
I've also done a trip where I visited my friend from CA and as you mentioned, issues that kind of lurk beneath the surface definitely come out. I think being up front and clear about an agenda helps - I know when I visited the friend in CA, even though she lived in the Bay area, I never went into SF.
She likes trips that are out in rural areas so we went out to Mendicino, Monterey Bay, etc, which was nice and all, but I REALLY wanted to do some sightseeing in SF!
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It really depends. I'm ok traveling with couples that we know well enough to know there won't be any problems.
Just me, traveling with friends - My BFF and I have done countless trips together and travel together really well. I have a small handful of girlfriends that I know really well and I would travel with any or all of them, provided our expectations of how time is to be spent were well communicated ahead of time. Any friends who would bring in even the slightest risk of a cat fight... no way.
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i went with 2 of my bff. and we talked ENDLESSLY about things. the extra friend wasn't EVER brought up.. so i think that was the problem. me and the other friend just assumed it'd be us 3. the 3rd friend thought we knew that her friend would be with us the whole time. lol. lesson learned.
Travelling with non-couple friends in my experience is best done in a group of two (if you like time alone or really won't get tired of each other) or three (gives everyone the option of time with others, but doesn't require it... but i do more adventure-type travelling (i.e., backpacking). Other sorts of travel (vegas, beaches, etc.) could work better with a slightly larger group, especially for a shorter trip. We've only gone on one trip with another couple and it worked pretty well. There were a few hiccups, but nothing that wasn't easy to resolve. We'd do it again.
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h and i travel with friends all the time, i actually don't think we've *ever* traveled without friends/family on the same trip. even on our honeymoon, we started out alone, but we are such social people, that we made friends on our trip and we saw them everyday after that. our last 3 days or so of the trip when we were alone-alone, we were *almost* "bored".
it definitely puts a strain on the friendship if you're living in close quarters and spending every minute together....it's never ended friendships though.
my ideal is with 2+ other friends..with set times/locales for meals...and the in between stuff you can figure out either as a group or on your own.
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