We are all familiar with single occupation supplements on holidays or cruises I assume and given that I am now on my own and do not want to share a room, I have no problem accepting this - even if I don’t like it as a single room is often very much the poor relation of a double.
But taking the bit between my teeth I booked to go on an Arts Society holiday in June as I would know most of the others and I was assured it was not all “couple-y”
I put my name down in good time but now it seems that the “configuration” of the numbers means there was not a single room left so I am apparently now top of the waiting list.
I feel knocked back, to be honest.
Either the organiser has cocked up, or the travel company responsible or the hotel are playing silly b*goers and trying to maximise occupancy.
Why must everything be geared to couples?
It is only when you are no longer part of one that you realise that you are a second class citizen . It rubs it in frankly that you are on your own now.
Don’t tell me about a solo holiday companies, I know they exist just as no doubt somebody will suggest taking an adult daughter or other single relative.
I enjoyed a train holiday to Germany before the pandemic, the year after DH died and it took a bit of courage like when you first go down to dinner, join a table and are asked “if Mr RosiesPaw is on his way down?”
I coped and met some lovely people who never made me feel a “spare” after that first awkward moment.
But the principle remains.
And I wonder if I want to bother.
The Boomers Have Had It Too Good?
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