How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Group Travel

Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler

Condé Nast Traveler

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Whether it’s a family road trip or a girls’ weekend to a new city, we’ve all experienced the highs (and lows) of traveling in a group. In an ideal world, everyone returns home with a collection of shared memories that make you friends for life, but in reality, things more often fall closer to "I never want to see this person again." Our golden rules for a successful group trip? Choose your travel partners wisely, and, when it comes to money, honesty is always the best policy.

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0:00.0	This is Women Who Travel, a new podcast from Connie Nass Traveler that digs deep into the realities of traveling as a woman today and celebrates why we'll never stay home.
0:12.2	I'm Meredith Carey and this is my co-host, Lolly Aaroclou.
0:15.1	Hello.
0:16.1	For our last episode of the season, our eighth episode, we're joined by Traveler's Features Editor Alex Postman, Senior Manager of Audience Development. What a title, Lara Kramer. Hello.
0:26.2	And our associate photo editor, Val, Val.
0:28.9	Hello.
0:31.2	We have two newbies, Laura and Val, who are joining us today. And what we're talking about today is kind of the opposite.
0:39.4	It's we're coming full circle from our first episode about solo travel in one way or another
0:43.4	just as a result of taking these trips, kind of all of these women are pros at the group trip,
0:49.3	which is kind of we're giving a loose, running fast and loose with that description.
0:53.6	It's anything more than one
0:54.9	person. I have been on many a two-person road trip, you know, giant trips, small trips. Lale
1:00.0	is leaving tomorrow. I guess by the time this goes, you will have successfully come back from a 14-person
1:08.0	girls trip to New Orleans. Yes. Actually, there's one guy on the trip.
1:12.6	Get him out.
1:13.6	It's a Bachelorette in New Orleans.
1:15.6	Wait, who is this one guy who goes in the Bachelorette party?
1:18.6	He's gay.
1:20.6	Okay.
1:22.6	He's one of the bride's best friends.
1:25.6	Yeah, we fly to New Orleans tomorrow.
1:28.4	We have an Airbnb in the garden district. No most people on the trip. Yeah, I'm excited because
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