If I was married, I couldnt imagine leaving my wife at home in the cold. I dont believe I would be able to enjoy my trip.
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If I was married, I couldnt imagine leaving my wife at home in the cold. I dont believe I would be able to enjoy my trip.
Mavmaiden enjoy my lady...I'm 1 month behind you can't wait to hear your trip report..haha!
Love traveling SOLO to Negril! Can't imagine enjoying it any other way. Last December, I decided to join my sister and two of her friends in Negril...let's just say I'm HAPPY to be going SOLO next month.
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I am going solo in January. Excited & nervous because I have always traveled with others, but I have friends there so I won't really be alone.
My one solo trip to Negril was mad banana's fun! Kinda like being a kid again with no one to report too,lol...Unless you've done the couples or group thing as your usual vacation, you just don't know,lol...Kinda like if you never touch smooth, how can ya really understand the concept of rough etc...
Amen!!
Lol!
I've been there more times without my husband than with. In the beginning he was afraid to fly, so I went with friends. The he finally got his butt on that plane and has travelled with me a few times. He just doesn't feel the pull to go back like I do soooooo I go without him. I always stay at the same place & he knows I am safe.
When I am there, I sleep when I'm tired, eat when I'm hungry and socialize when I fell like it. I am thankful that I know so many people there and always have someone to hang out with. It is very liberating to travel so far alone - I love it.
The majority of my trips over the past thirty years have been solo. Not a bad one in the bunch. Always meet new people and see many old aquaintences. Solo, my favorite way to travel.
I've only been to Negril once. I went without my wife. Having sent her to Italy, Spain, and Orlando a couple of times I figured I was due. She said, "Get out of here, you need and deserve it, go have fun." So, I booked.Quote:
I'm just curious......of those of you who are traveling solo.......are any of you married?
After that she was apprehensive of my being alone. So, I asked one of my buddies to go, you know, to accompany the body if anything happened.
We had a blast, but honestly, I'd have been fine alone. You have to compromise so much with a friend, so you lose some free runnings.
I met so many cool people and I was suprised at the number that were travelling solo.
But, my friend left a couple of days ahead of me, and the solo part was very nice and relaxing.
When I got home and showed my wife all the Xtabi pics with cliffs, caves, and bats, she of the tribe that doesn't like swimming with the fishies, said "....glad you went."
She'd go with me to a beach resort in Negril, but the jury is still out if she'll come in April.
Love my wife. Married 36 years. Travel well together or separately.
Hubby and I started going to Negril together the year he proposed to me (11 years ago!) and it became our "place," and we went every year until 2011. Then I changed jobs and went from 6 weeks of vacation to 3 per year. He still has over 6 weeks and Negril is his happy place. I encouraged him to take advantage of our comfort level there and just go solo. It didn't seem right/fair that he not get to go just because I changed jobs! It didn't take too much to convince him, especially when we decided that he would just have to go twice a year - once solo and once with me!
I know he misses me, but I know it's also SO GOOD for him to get away and just be. He wakes up, works out on the beach, makes a good breakfast, reads in the sun, takes long walks to visit friends along the beach, practices his mandolin and just enjoys being with himself. He's been known to scout out a NHL or NFL game or two. The beauty of being comfortable in a place is that he can be alone and not lonely, or he can be as social as he wants. And I love that he is able to do that with and without me.
And while I miss him, it makes me very happy that we are blessed enough - both in our lifestyle and our relationship - that he can do this for himself. I don't feel left out or jealous - except when he makes that 11:30 am call to me at work and says "hear that? It's the sound of the first Red Stripe of the day!"
Just a point of view from the non-solo traveling spouse!
Could you please copy and paste to every wife in America?Quote:
Originally Posted by iowagirl
Although I get in my fair share of solo trips, it gets kinda cold around here after the flights booked, and the week before I leave!
One of those things you have to try to really make a honest opinion me thinks. Inquiring minds want to know so I'm giving it a whirl in 17 days. Staying at Samsara and have started my list of activities to do ......or not to do. To do no matter what is to meet more boardies!
There I got over my first hurdle of feeling like a dork because I have to go alone!
I love traveling alone...no stress but I do get questioned at Immigrations and Customs a lot. I don't mind though, I love Jamaica too much to let that bother me!
"kinda cold"...LMAO! That is probably the understatement of the week!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by poolguywindsor
I don't mind traveling to JA alone.....doing it again in two weeks. The ability to just do what you want, when you want, is priceless. A good travel companion is an excellent addition to a vacation, but the lack of one should never be an impediment to travel!
I went solo last time.....worked out well for me
HA! Yeah you were solo for about 15 seconds ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by TizzyATX
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Originally Posted by TizzyATX
You still owe me a beer............
nah you forgot about that remember? lol
jk you gotta come to ATX to get it SUCKA!!!
Lol!
Thanks for that laugh! I wasn't even there & I heard the stories.... from the kitchen staff! :))))))) (big grin)Quote:
Originally Posted by marley9808
Exactly Yvonne!! Done trips with boyfriend, a friend and her daughter....and much better off on my own. No schedule to follow, nap when I want, walk when I want.....no one telling me I need to be ready for this or that....
Anyone who has traveled solo, what did you do about transportation from airport? Did you arrange a private driver or has anyone done a regular transfer with other people traveling the same time as you? Is Clive's the only one who has that option?
I've done ever option known to man. The best ones are CLives and then the (more affordable) Juta bus, which often requires waiting for others to fill the bus and/or several stops at other hotels (RIU is always first).
It can be hassle coming back when they stop at hotels pick ups, because for some reason folks are less in a rush to leave than they are to arrive!
So, if u use Juta, do u make a reservation beforehand, or just go to the desk once u get thru customs?
Hi everyone, my wife and I honeymooned in 1990 and have been back 4 times together, once after a great trip together in Ocho I took my 16 year old son, it was a great trip but I was kinda lost without her, I guess I'll have to try since she cant go this time because of work, is there a hotel that has more of a solo vibe?
Many solo's at Xtabi.