What if the holiday you sign up for isn’t what you expected?
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What sparked the conversation about disappointing group holidays?
The Clare Byrne Show on Newstalk. With Aviva Insurance.
There was an opinion piece in the Daily Mail recently and it said, there's nothing I hate more than going on a cheap holiday to appease my poorer friends. The author talks about having to eat food from a street shack because her friends couldn't afford a decent restaurant. So this prompted us to ask the question, what do you do if the holiday that you sign up for isn't what you expected? And I'm joined by travel journalist Nicola Brady. Good morning, Nicola. Good morning. Thanks for having me. You're very welcome. This poor individual writing in the Daily Mail had a terrible time because her friends couldn't afford the expensive cocktails that she wanted to have. Does this happen?
It does happen. And I was reading it. One, she described as being sort of forced to eat fried chicken from a shack. And I thought, well, that sounds incredible to me. But it's something that happens. But I think it's so easily avoided that it kind of shocks me when it does still happen. I think the most important thing, if you're planning a group trip, like I just went away with seven friends. And right at the first conversation we had, was exactly about what we want to spend what our budget is and what we want to do on a holiday and if you disagree you can do something else you uh you have the freedom to to go and do whatever you like so I mean it sounded like a miserable experience but I'm not sure it was the uh the practicalities of budget that made it so miserable rather than the sort of the dour faces of
I'm on the trip and look if you're going on holidays with somebody you're going to have a conversation around the important stuff like where are we going to stay so you should know before you leave whether that suits you or not
Yeah, I mean, she booked the trip. They were all on a sort of a group package to Costa Rica, which also to me doesn't sound like a sort of budget holiday anyway. But I think sort of maybe the places that they were staying weren't up to her standards, but it also wasn't a surprise. She'd have known right from the get-go what she was getting into. And I think it is really important as well to sort of respect everyone's budget and wishes. Like one of the women on the trip was a nurse. And it's like, well, if you can't maybe pick up a round in the bar and buy that poor nurse a drink when she can't afford it, then there's a bigger issue at play as well.
You've got to be willing to pick up the tab if you're in that situation from time to time.
Who is Nicola Brady and why is she on the show?
So she described what I mean. not you're not going to be buying everyone's dinners but they were in a situation they were in a bar and the dress the drinks were costing around a five or each uh she wants to have another round they couldn't afford it um so she says that they stomped off but i think surely the solution would have just been to nip off to the bar get everyone around and come back and say hey great news we're staying for another hour so what what advice do you have for people if you are on a holiday where the budget is tight where do you pull back and where do you spend the money that you have I think that's a really personal decision, but it's also one that's really important to make before you sort of even book the trip.
Some people want to stay somewhere that's a little bit more at the budget end and spend their money on great food or activities. That's probably... closer to where I would lean. I'm happy to stay somewhere that's a little bit cheaper if I'm off exploring. Whereas if you're going for a resort-based holiday, you want to put in the money to make sure you're staying somewhere good. But I think that's such a personal decision. And it's something that if you're going on a group trip, everyone has to align on and make that decision right at the early stages.
And also you can go and have your nice dinner by yourself if you're not happy with the chicken jack, right?
Yeah.
This is the crazy thing that I don't think a lot of people understand.
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