I once traveled with a friend who complained nonstop—the food was weird, the walking was too much, the hotel towels weren’t fluffy enough. By day three, I was mentally planning my escape. I tried suggesting we split up for part of the day, but they insisted on sticking together, which made it even worse. Now, I set expectations before a trip—how we’ll balance plans, downtime, and spending. Have you ever been stuck with a bad travel buddy? Did you find a way to salvage the trip, or did it completely ruin the experience?

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This is why I mostly travel solo. I’m glad you’re setting expectations in advance, that’s the way to go. When I do travel with friends, I like to start with a shorter domestic trip and if that goes well graduating to bigger ones.

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I should have just parted ways during the trip. I ended up ending the friendship completely afterwards. Sounds like your friend was a bad travel partner but Mine was actually awful to me.

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When I was traveling through Bali, I took a side trip with an acquaintance I met at an event and this person went from salt of the earth mellow yoga girl to full on reckless drunk bi-polar tramp and spent the entire time trying to hook up with anyone willing - to the point where it felt dangerous. I faked an emergency and got out of there as fast as I could!

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This happened to me in Italy with a fellow solo traveler from the US that I met on a street food tasting event, I also had to come up with a plan to ditch her!

u supposed to travel solo lol

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