All-Women Group Trips Bring Out the Best Parts of Travel

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4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired in February 2019.

We didn't always feel so gung-ho about traveling the world with a group of strangers or about giving up control over the itinerary on a group trip. In fact, just like with almost everything in travel, it was the mental hurdle—the thought that we might not like group trips—that kept us from doing it. But, we all got over it. (Strip naked in front of a group of gals at a Japanese onsen and you'll get over those reservations really fast.) To commiserate and compare stories, we brought community editor and trip lead Megan Spurrell and El Camino founder Katalina Mayorga on to talk about the pros, cons, and what it took to change our minds.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Connie Nass Traveler.
0:03.7	I'm Meredith Carey, and this week we are throwing it back to an episode we recorded last February
0:08.1	focusing on all things group travel, specifically organized group trips.
0:12.9	Women Who Travel launched its very own group trips back in 2017, and we are absolutely thrilled to be traveling with you to Colombia, Mexico, and Cuba this year.
0:20.7	While Mexico and
0:21.7	Cuba, unfortunately, just sold out, there are still spots on our nine-day trips to Colombia
0:25.6	in September and November. I'll leave a link to learn more about those in the show notes. In the
0:30.2	meantime, listen in to get tips on how to make the most of traveling the world with a very large
0:34.5	group of strangers.
0:44.2	Hey, everyone, and welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Connie Nass Traveler.
0:45.5	My name is Meredith Carey.
0:48.5	And with me, as always, is my co-host, Laleigh Eric Koglu.
0:49.0	Hello.
0:56.1	And today, we are joined by two of our women who travel group slash just everything champions,
0:58.4	our community editor, Megan Sparell.
0:58.9	Hi.
1:04.5	And we're joined over Skype by Catalina Majorga, the founder of El Camino Travel, a company that Connie Nass Traveler has partnered with to launch our very own women who travel trips
1:09.0	for self-identifying women. But we wanted to talk
1:13.0	just in our circles, we've been talking so much about the benefits of group trips and organized
1:18.1	group trips, specifically all women group trips. And so in this episode, we just wanted to kind of
1:24.2	kick off by asking Megan, and I'll ask you Lale too, and because I know you've been on one before, and Catalina, just generally, what are the pros that you see to going on a organized group trip, all female or otherwise?
1:41.0	Megan, do you want to start?
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