How to holiday with friends without falling out
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If you're planning a group holiday or a weekend getaway, PR consultant and avid traveller, Lisa Regan is here with some advice for you. Lisa, you're very welcome. Thank you. Good morning. How are you? Not too bad at all. Before we get into the politics of travelling in groups, and it can get very, very political when you're doing that, you've just come back from Amsterdam where you went to see the one and only Harry Styles. What was the gig like?
Oh, it was so good. And what a great, I can highly recommend anyone to go to a gig in Amsterdam. So well organised, so efficient in terms of public transport, getting there and getting home. Unbelievable.
What are the benefits of traveling to concerts in different cities?
And he was sublime, supported by Robin. I am in the older cohort of a Harry Styles fan, so there wasn't too many who knew who Robin was there. But I tell you, we did. And she was exceptional.
And that actually isn't at least it's something that people are doing whether just for something novel or if they can't get tickets or if they if the find is too expensive actually going away to another city for a concert is another really interesting thing to do.
Yeah it's lovely because it gives you a point of going somewhere as well so you know you have a focus and I went on Thursday evening and I came back on Saturday evening so I had a lovely time in Amsterdam the concert was on Friday night so I had a lovely two days really and one long evening in Amsterdam so it was the perfect amount of time and the flight time over was only like an hour and 30 minutes.
Yeah and I have not been in years but it's a great city to soak up. What is it like for like kind of one of those little mini breaks?
Oh, it's so good. And, you know, the old adage reputation of Amsterdam is long and buried. You know, you avoid the centre, you don't engage in anything of that old reputation that it has. Kind of seedy, whatever. Yeah, it's gone. Yeah, honestly, the food and the coffee scene, everyone is cycling. Their park infrastructure there is phenomenal. I love Amsterdam. I love West Amsterdam. Their rule there is bike first. And as an avid cycler, I just adore watching people cycling. Just moving through the city with ease on bikes and everyone is out and about now. Perfect time of year where there was gorgeous. It was 25 degrees, but it's a really lovely city now, exceptionally safe. And they just have a lovely way of life.
They're very family friendly as well, too, with all the parks. So loads to do there.
Yeah, and their public transport, they really make it easy for both residents and people who are coming to visit. So let's get into the politics. Who do you like to travel with? Do you like to travel in groups or on your own or a bit of a mix?
A bit of a mix. Like you get very different things from doing boats. Like I like to go off on my own as well. But I also do love travelling in groups because it's great fun and you'll always have a different experience when you're travelling in a larger group, both good and bad, you know. But it does teach you to have patience and also that everybody has what they'd like to do. And if everybody just speaks up a little bit, your trip will go a little bit better than rather that if people don't say what they'd like to do, you know.
Isn't this the thing you sort of have to negotiate? Because people like to do things differently on holidays. Some are really kind of early risers. Some like want to go out shopping and others. And you can get quite peeved very, very quickly if you feel that what you want to do isn't being accommodated.
Yeah, definitely. I think the best thing to do, though, is to speak up. I actually do think the most annoying person on the trip is that I don't mind. Oh, sure, I don't mind. Oh, I don't mind. I don't mind because it's like you're on the fence and you're neither going or you're not going. And then also there's no decision from that person in terms of where they'd like to eat, what they'd like to do. So they're just kind of traipsing behind. And you know, well, then when they come home, they're like, well, I didn't really enjoy it that much.
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