My DD can't go on holiday

How about your dd looking for other arrangements so the trip can happen?

No advice just sending my sympathy I too am a single traveller, well I would be if I ever went anywhere, I divorced in 2006 and it felt like the end of my life. For me it was just the beginning chapter of a different life. A much happier and fulfilled life

As someone single by choice it has long been my grump that holiday companies profiteer massively off the backs of single travellers. Its not that hotels dont have single rooms - they do. But everything is geared to couples and families with their free and cut price offers on package deals.

I only took one Tui holiday (They were Thompsons back then) and it was to Egypt. It was the first package holiday after the Luxur massacre (1997) and I was able to bargain hard not to pay a single suppliment. I also got a cut price Nile tour - again with no suppliment to occupy a doube cabin.

It was this that caused me to travel independently, and often to destinations which are definitely NOT package tourist fodder. Now it is easy to book a flight and hotel separately. I used to book my hotel for one night only and then bargain for a better room once I arrived. Hotels with empty rooms do not want you going away and I invariably ended up with a much better room than the one I was allocated on arrival.

Could you help with the expense?

She may still be able to go, you can book flights through Tui, and she could try to book a single room at the same hotel independently. The only element of the holiday she would miss out on that way is the airport to hotel transfers.

Could she find somewhere nearby to stay?
Just to add you never know what is round the corner. Our 35 year old daughter also had a torrid year culminating with her jobless (due to ill health) and back in her childhood bedroom. But a year later she is much better, recently started a new (better) job and is looking to move out shortly.
Wishing your daughter all the best.

My daughter has been solo and used hostels in Europe she said they are really lovely and you can choose women only and not like the bunk bed youth hostels you imagine
Failing something like that can you help her out ?
Does it have to be Tui ? Are there no other airlines flying to wherever she’s going

I have booked a few days away in August , there are a few of us going , I am paying £100.0 single supplement , I’ve been to this hotel before , they sell double rooms with the supplement as it’s not economical to have single rooms

Just to echo what others have said...

Do any other tour operators use the same hotel? Jet2 maybe?

Does the hotel sell rooms to independent travellers on their own website?
Could your daughter buy a flight separately? (Or a seat on the same flight as her friends ideally).

Is there an independent travel agency your daughter could talk to, they may be able to arrange something for her?

Fingers crossed she can sort something out and go with her kind friends xx

Is there an Airbnb local to where they're going?

Never say never there is always a way just might have to think out of the box

Could her friends upgrade to a larger family suite/villa and your dd pay the difference?

It looks like there are many possibilities for your DD.
I hope she has her holiday. Can you do the booking for her if she's finding it too stressful?
Wishing her the best for the future.

BlueBelle

Never say never there is always a way just might have to think
out of the box.
So true. Tell her not to give up yet. Hope she gets her holiday.

Can you help her by booking her on the same flight as her friends and finding an airBnB or cheap hotel nearby?

My older brother was widowed a few years back, so we take him on holiday with us- and yes, there are very few places that will sell single rooms. Many will sell a double room at a slightly cheaper price for one.

So yes, I'd say- find a studio or cheaper place nearby and she can join them for most of the time- if you can get flights separately which sort of match with times with theirs.

Thank you all for your suggestions. Today we have been helping her to empty her home so she is very subdued and weepy. But I am determined that she will get to go on this holiday. I think my DH and I will pay the other half of a double room for her.

The best option Lizbethann55.

Otherwise she'll feel "second class" and not really "part of it".

The American system where you just pay for a room regardless of how many people who occupy it is fairer. At least as a single you know you are not subbing out others with 2 incomes. I would try to contact the hotel independently and see if I can guilt them into letting me have a single room.

When is this vacation taking place?

Beware of becoming her crutch and enabling her

Why beware of becoming her crutch Hithere?
Surely this is exactly what she needs right now.
A crutch to help her through the tough bit.
When she's strong again she will be able to help others.
I hope she has a lovely holiday lizbethann

Such a difficult time - divorce is so hard on everyone. Could you lend her the money for the holiday ? I feel so much for her and for you . I have been through a divorce and after that, my daughter went through one. It’s all so sad and unnecessary. She should go on this holiday. It will take her mind off things. If there’s anything positive, there are no children involved. Good luck !

Grammaretto

Why beware of becoming her crutch Hithere?
Surely this is exactly what she needs right now.
A crutch to help her through the tough bit.
When she's strong again she will be able to help others.
I hope she has a lovely holiday lizbethann

Agreed . "enabling"is when that persons unhelpful behaviour is reinforced by the "helper" - I can't see that here. However crazyH might have a way out if Dd doesn't want a gift and wants to v as independent as possible, a loan would relieve this.

As others have said, get the flight separately with her friends and contact the Hotel to book her single room or a Hotel nearby.