Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: –Single Supplement
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The San Jose Mercury News ran a story yesterday on some travel companies that cater to single seniors. If you’re a senior how about it? If you are related to, or friendly with, a senior (is there a better word than that to describe the experienced set?) let them know they can still travel safely,…
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"Boy, did you ever hit a sore spot with me." That was the comment from a woman named Martha Miller who was responding to my story on single supplements, published recently in the Dallas Morning News. (and also here, if that link's expired) Her anger is directed at the tour operators I wrote about. It's…
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Sometime during my early 20’s, my adventurous father treated me to a trip on a windjammer cruise off the coast of Long Island, in New York. In those days, I wasn’t traveling on my own. But I could see how easy it would have been to sail alone on a small boat like that and…
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The backhand I have today is a gift from the Amherst Tennis Camp. For two summers, I spent a week at the camp, practicing my strokes. For hours each day. The housing is in college dorms, which makes the week inexpensive. And, it enhances the opportunities to get to know fellow campers. You walk back…
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This solo travel concept seems alien to many people in the travel biz. That’s unfortunate. I recently sent out a query asking if anyone in the industry particularly catered to the solo traveler. I was thinking of such things as a break on the room charge, since only one person is paying the bill. Or…
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Imagine walking up to a hotel registration desk and being told that you will get a discount because you’re only one person in a double room. Ha! Yes, imagine it, because you won’t often experience it. But… In researching a travel story on single supplements for the Kansas City Star, I learned about places that…
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Besides "single supplement" the two most irritating words for solo travelers are: "companion fare." Translated: solo travelers, no deal for you. I got an email this morning from Amtrak offering "one free companion rail fare ticket with the purchase of one regular (full) adult rail fare ticket." (Somewhat amusing was the line, "the free companion…
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One of my biggest beefs is how the world views solo travelers. As if we’re some kind of oddity, or people to be pitied. This is the opening sentence of a story by the Reuters news agency: "No one to go on vacation with or escaping a broken heart? That’s no reason not to travel."…
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Ever study the faces of men lined up on Valentine’s Day to buy, last-minute of course, exorbitantly priced flowers or chocolate? Men suffer around Valentine’s Day. You KNOW they do. For the longest time, the marketing folks aimed their PR guns solely at couples. Buy roses. Buy chocolate. Buy fuzzy pink bears. Buy, buy, buy.…
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Boss out of town? The beach beckons? Got vacation days? Okay, then. Jump on a plane and get out of town. Or country. When it’s just you, you don’t have to coordinate with anyone. You don’t have to wonder if both of you can get the time off. I subscribe to a site catering to…
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