Solo travel advice & recommendations

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Thinking of booking a solo sun holiday for 4/5 nights max, maybe Costa Del Sol as short flight and reasonable price.
I've done few solo trips but they mainly were active holidays (walking, races etc).
I adore sun / relaxing holidays but just afraid I'll be bored / lonely. I'm introverted and adore my own company. Any tips?
TIA
 
Appcha said:
Thinking of booking a solo sun holiday for 4/5 nights max, maybe Costa Del Sol as short flight and reasonable price.
I've done few solo trips but they mainly were active holidays (walking, races etc).
I adore sun / relaxing holidays but just afraid I'll be bored / lonely. I'm introverted and adore my own company. Any tips?
TIA
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I did this a few years ago, all inclusive, just chilled at the pool in the day and watched netflix in my room at night 😅. One day I got the bus to the local town but that was all I did. I enjoyed it, it was relaxing and didn't have to worry about anyone else and I went for 9 nights.
 
Appcha said:
Thinking of booking a solo sun holiday for 4/5 nights max, maybe Costa Del Sol as short flight and reasonable price.
I've done few solo trips but they mainly were active holidays (walking, races etc).
I adore sun / relaxing holidays but just afraid I'll be bored / lonely. I'm introverted and adore my own company. Any tips?
TIA
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The best thing about going solo is that you can do what you want when you want!
 
Appcha said:
Thinking of booking a solo sun holiday for 4/5 nights max, maybe Costa Del Sol as short flight and reasonable price.
I've done few solo trips but they mainly were active holidays (walking, races etc).
I adore sun / relaxing holidays but just afraid I'll be bored / lonely. I'm introverted and adore my own company. Any tips?
TIA
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If you adore your own company i think youll be fine. Maybe look into a couple of tours, for example, im headed away this week for 7 nights. My plan is to mainly chill, however i have a full day boat trip booked, and also i will book a half day bus trip to a historical area. I do have plans to venture to a nearby town for dinner 1 to nights too. Im now like "will the week be too shot?" 😅
 
I booked Venice as I needed to use my BA points. Any food recommendations? I’m just going to wander around and eat 🐽
Also it’s only 2 full days would you bother going to the other islands?
 
Appcha said:
Thinking of booking a solo sun holiday for 4/5 nights max, maybe Costa Del Sol as short flight and reasonable price.
I've done few solo trips but they mainly were active holidays (walking, races etc).
I adore sun / relaxing holidays but just afraid I'll be bored / lonely. I'm introverted and adore my own company. Any tips?
TIA
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I went to the Costa del sol alone and it was great. I stayed in an all inclusive but got a deal so I didn't feel like I was wasting it going out during the day. There are some great easy walks on the coast, Malaga is a fab city and I felt fine the whole time.
 
OnlyHereForTheLolz said:
I booked Venice as I needed to use my BA points. Any food recommendations? I’m just going to wander around and eat 🐽
Also it’s only 2 full days would you bother going to the other islands?
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I loved Venice. I went as part of a group tour that included Rome & Florence too and to be honest was more interested in seeing the other two but Venice exceeded my expectations!

No food recs in particular but if you want to wander and eat have a search for some good cicchetti places. It’s basically Venetian tapas or bar food so you can have a couple of things in each place you wander to.

In terms of visiting other islands you can definitely fit it in even in a couple of days. Venice itself is pretty small and you can easily fit all the big sites into one day and then use the other to go a bit further out. I went to Murano specifically because I wanted to get some glass as a souvenir. We spent a morning there looking round the shops and stopped for lunch too but could have done it all in less time. If you fancy Burano I think it’s about 50-60 mins away on the water buses so you could easily do it in the time you have. Also go to San Giorgio (again on the water bus) which is just across the water from St Marks Square. You can go up the top of the church tower there and get some fantastic shots back across Venice.
 
SaintLeo said:
I loved Venice. I went as part of a group tour that included Rome & Florence too and to be honest was more interested in seeing the other two but Venice exceeded my expectations!

No food recs in particular but if you want to wander and eat have a search for some good cicchetti places. It’s basically Venetian tapas or bar food so you can have a couple of things in each place you wander to.

In terms of visiting other islands you can definitely fit it in even in a couple of days. Venice itself is pretty small and you can easily fit all the big sites into one day and then use the other to go a bit further out. I went to Murano specifically because I wanted to get some glass as a souvenir. We spent a morning there looking round the shops and stopped for lunch too but could have done it all in less time. If you fancy Burano I think it’s about 50-60 mins away on the water buses so you could easily do it in the time you have. Also go to San Giorgio (again on the water bus) which is just across the water from St Marks Square. You can go up the top of the church tower there and get some fantastic shots back across Venice.
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Thank you this is exactly the recs I was after. Was the glass worth buying or “overpriced”. I feel like because it’s Venice everything is super expensive
 
OnlyHereForTheLolz said:
Thank you this is exactly the recs I was after. Was the glass worth buying or “overpriced”. I feel like because it’s Venice everything is super expensive
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There was a whole range of stuff from cheap touristy stuff to really expensive high end. I guess most of it is overpriced if you compared the prices you’d pay for similar items elsewhere but we found some reasonable bits. I got a small-ish vase which was about €30, probably a bit much for what it is but it’s that classic kind of multicoloured style and it’s marked as Murano glass. It’s worth going just to see some of the high end stuff though, some of it’s amazing!
 
SaintLeo said:
There was a whole range of stuff from cheap touristy stuff to really expensive high end. I guess most of it is overpriced if you compared the prices you’d pay for similar items elsewhere but we found some reasonable bits. I got a small-ish vase which was about €30, probably a bit much for what it is but it’s that classic kind of multicoloured style and it’s marked as Murano glass. It’s worth going just to see some of the high end stuff though, some of it’s amazing!
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I love tips like this from past travellers....
 
Has anyone done interrailing and what did you think of it? I posted on holidays thread about wanting to do some special holiday for a big birthday. It's not for a while but I'll need to save so I'd like to decide what I want to do so I have a savings target. I was thinking originally about South America/Asia but I'm not set on this and can't decide where I want to go. I was researching Ecuador tours but then I started watching videos and they were saying it's not that safe there.

I did say on that thread I didn't want to go to Europe but now I'm not ruling it out. Especially as when I go it'll be summer in Europe. Porto is on my list of where I want to go so I was thinking about interrailing through Portugal
 
Former_Antelopee said:
Has anyone done interrailing and what did you think of it? I posted on holidays thread about wanting to do some special holiday for a big birthday. It's not for a while but I'll need to save so I'd like to decide what I want to do so I have a savings target. I was thinking originally about South America/Asia but I'm not set on this and can't decide where I want to go. I was researching Ecuador tours but then I started watching videos and they were saying it's not that safe there.

I did say on that thread I didn't want to go to Europe but now I'm not ruling it out. Especially as when I go it'll be summer in Europe. Porto is on my list of where I want to go so I was thinking about interrailing through Portugal
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This is something I'm also really interested in. I'd like to know how expensive this would be, not so much hotels but the trains themselves
 
I used Interrail Eurrail in Italy this summer. The price of it depends on how many journeys you do (you have to know this is advance). I think I only did four journeys and I was just on the cusp of getting the young persons discount so it was about £175. Obviously you have to weigh up roughly whether it would be cheaper to buy the tickets individually or not but it also saves some time cos you can see which train times are available and plan your journey on the app and you don't have to fath around with ticket machines.
I think there're also different companies that do it with slightly different names so maybe worth comparing prices but can confirm that eurrail is legit!
Interrailing through Portugal definitely sounds like something I want to add to my to-do list now!
 
OnlyHereForTheLolz said:
This is something I'm also really interested in. I'd like to know how expensive this would be, not so much hotels but the trains themselves
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I was watching tiktoks on doing it in Portugal and someone commented saying it's cheaper to buy the tickets separately rather than the interrail pass so I'll have to look into it
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Sprezza said:
I used Interrail Eurrail in Italy this summer. The price of it depends on how many journeys you do (you have to know this is advance). I think I only did four journeys and I was just on the cusp of getting the young persons discount so it was about £175. Obviously you have to weigh up roughly whether it would be cheaper to buy the tickets individually or not but it also saves some time cos you can see which train times are available and plan your journey on the app and you don't have to fath around with ticket machines.
I think there're also different companies that do it with slightly different names so maybe worth comparing prices but can confirm that eurrail is legit!
Interrailing through Portugal definitely sounds like something I want to add to my to-do list now!
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Thank you I'll have to look into it. I saw you still have to book the specific trains, how far in advance did you do that? I was hoping that if I liked a specific place I could maybe stay longer but not if I'd have to book the onward train. I would also not go to too many places, I'd have 17 full days. I was planning as I said to go somewhere further but that would take 3 days of as rest/travel. As I work nights if I went long haul I'd probably go the day after my shift ends but if Europe I'll probably get an afternoon flight the day my shift ends. I could also then leave the day before I have to go back to work rather than 2 days before
 
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Former_Antelopee said:
I was watching tiktoks on doing it in Portugal and someone commented saying it's cheaper to buy the tickets separately rather than the interrail pass so I'll have to look into it
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Thank you I'll have to look into it. I saw you still have to book the specific trains, how far in advance did you do that? I was hoping that if I liked a specific place I could maybe stay longer but not if I'd have to book the onward train. I would also not go to too many places, I'd have 17 full days. I was planning as I said to go somewhere further but that would take 3 days of as rest/travel. As I work nights if I went long haul I'd probably go the day after my shift ends but if Europe I'll probably get an afternoon flight the day my shift ends. I could also then leave the day before I have to go back to work rather than 2 days before
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Yeah I booked them the day before. I think you can do it pretty last minute
 
So originally I had ruled out Indonesia but looking more into it I think maybe it's the place I'll go. Just wondering where people recommend more Sumatra or Komodo/Flores.
I think I'd prefer Komodo/Flores but the dates for Sumatra work out better.
 
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