Lesley Shoemaker

One person said, if there's an en suite, it's mine.

Another person declared that if there was a wardrobe in the room, they wanted that particular room to hang up their clothes.

I ended up giggling.

Now, they caught me earwigging, and we had a great giggle about it.

But

You know, those are the concerns that happen.

So you need to be open and honest about that type of thing from the get-go.

Otherwise, somebody's toes is going to get stepped on.

Somebody's going to be really hurt.

And for the people who really struggle with saying no, they're going to end up doing a holiday spending a lot of money and really resenting it.

Because they've gone along with the flow because they don't want to say no.

And I went away a few years ago to Madrid with a friend of mine I work with, and I really were very different, similar in some ways, but quite different in other ways.

And what I loved about her, she's like, look, I pack light.

I'm going to stay here, you know, somewhere cheap and cheerful.

I know you want to go to a hotel.

I'll stay.

We'll stay somewhere close to each other.

So we planned it.

And she said, I need my Greta Garbo moments.

And I laughed.