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Single people don't go on holiday. Well that's what travel advertising would have us believe as they show happy families (smiling mums and dads each with 2.4 children), happy loved up couples gazing at the Eiffel Tower or surprisingly youthful senior citizens southgate tower suite hotel new york looking at Venice from the rail of a cruise ship. Once upon a time a cigarette company ran an ad featuring a solitary man having a fag on a beach with the tag line 'You're never alone with a Strand'. Strand cigarettes bombed overnight as it seemed to be the cigarette choice of Billy No Mates. Ever since it's been accepted that single people should never appear in ads – it's too depressing. This is a bit daft because the latest statistics this week show that single people probably represent southgate tower suite hotel new york the only significant growing market for travel companies. In 1971 slightly less than a fifth of households in England were one-person households. By 1991 this had risen to just over a quarter; and by 2016, the Government predicts, this will have risen to just over a third. Single people have the time and more importantly the money to keep travelling during the downturn. Yet still most travel companies seem reluctant to rethink their marketing strategy. Single travellers continue to be confronted with single person surcharges. Single hotel rooms – if they exist – occupy the equivalent of a box room behind the lift shaft. The fact is that millions of British people happily choose to live alone and opt not to have children (and as a result bear a disproportionate share of tax). Travel companies – like everybody else – ought to putting out the red carpet for them.
The worst are cruise ships which often charge the same for a couple as a single. A single is probably occupying a double cabin but doesn t eat for two. I wonder whether research has shown that singles spend a lot less than couples southgate tower suite hotel new york on things like expensive wine and other extras so are viewed southgate tower suite hotel new york as less desirable?
Frankly, my fun times consisted mainly out not having a problem with a male showing interest in me (not all men are that much fun). When that wasn t the case, there was nobody to share with, nobody to exchange thoughts with, nobody to make memories with. I think that s the idea of travelling: broadening southgate tower suite hotel new york the mind and heart.
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I totally agree. It drives me mad trying to find a break with a small enough single supplement to make it anything like affordable. I have just booked a holiday which is advertising a special offer of no supplement for three months, but it was only for a few spaces which have gone and I have still had to pay the extra! (Still advertising the offer though).
The specialist singles companies just charge as much as the normal companies but include the extra within the cost so it is hidden - and who wants to go where there are just singles anyway? I like to mix with couples as well as singles when I am away, and locals too. My holidays are for seeing the world and relaxing, not an attempt to seek a partner.
As a SWOFTY (single woman over 50) I am supposed to be in the fastest growing demographic, yet I am left feeling like an inconvenient nuisance by the travel industry. They should be glad of the singles business as we are generally free (and more than willing) to go during school term times when surely business is lean?
I have been using a company which cater for singles for over 10 years, but have to say that even they are pricing themselves out of the market. When I first started southgate tower suite hotel new york going there were always trips included. Now they are all optional excursions southgate tower suite hotel new york . I have also noticed that there is less choice for the older traveller, southgate tower suite hotel new york and more emphasis placed on the younger age i.e. better southgate tower suite hotel new york choice of dates, and more of them.
I am not stupid and know a single supplement is hidden in there somewhere, but until now have been prepared to pay as their holidays are good expecially long haul. Not sure if I am allowed to say, but usually I use Solo s.
I gave up a nice window seat to a loving couple on a coach tour of Bergen and received instead a poor seat, middle southgate tower suite hotel new york of the end coach, seat right at the back. Guess what - they didn t even say thanks! Last time I do that!!
I completely southgate tower suite hotel new york agree with Frank. Single southgate tower suite hotel new york travellers are poorly catered for. Just because we ve made choices like not having children and living singly doesn t mean we have two heads and are to be feared. I have done a great deal of travelling on my own and love it. There s always the choice to join other people if I want to share my thoughts, but when seeing something for the first time I prefer not to have someone bending my ear and connecting me back to home. For me, the experience is heightened. So yes please, let s see more travel agents thinking about us. It s not only holidays where this applies, southgate tower suite hotel new york but to business travel too.
Coming from downunder I came to the UK to travel (with some work involved as well!). I have been using a couple of specialised singles tour companies but their prices have sky-rocketed and will eventually price themselves southgate tower suite hotel new york off the market. I recently did a trip to Venice on my own but would have been much more enjoyable southgate tower suite hotel new york to have some sort of company, someone to have a laugh with and a meal. In fact, it is at meal times that you feel the most lonely on your own - do you sit there and look like a wallflower or stick your head in a book and pretend to be reading it knowing people are looking and wondering why you are there on your own?
Don t tell me that these hotels that the travel companies use don t have single rooms. I have actually checked this and more often than not the hotels DO have single rooms, it is the travel companies that are draining all the money out of the singles and giving us a double or twin room.
Is it our fault that us singles either prefer southgate tower suite hotel new york to travel alone, have a partner that would rather not travel or is unable to, or have lost our partners either by death or a breakdown in the relationship?
Travel companies - stop milking us for all our hard-earned cash. Singles are the ones that travel the most as we are able to please ourselves where and when we go. If there were more companies southgate tower suite hotel new york out there offering no single supplements and not hiding it in their prices, we would be travelling more often.
I got told once that if you are a woman on your own, the wives of couples think you are out to pinch their husbands!!!! If they talk to you at all - I once did a trip, such an unfriendly bunch, might as well have booked the trip independently - at least with singles, everyone is the same - ON THEIR OWN and usually willing to converse and enjoy some company.
southgate tower suite hotel new york I am a single traveller but like to go on holiday with another single person, usually my cousin. We would like to book an apartment or something southgate tower suite hotel new york like that but if we want 2 bedrooms we have to pay the price charged for 4. Apartments advertised for 2 are for couples sharing a bed or at least a bedroom. neither of us want to do that. So it works out very expensive,
I recall that when the Labour party first got elected they had included something in their manifesto to sort out the single southgate tower suite hotel new york supplement charge for solo tourists. This quietly died along with other so called promises. It is not just in the holiday market single people are penalised. I have often complained to providers such as TFL on the buy one get one free/half price, etc. There are no comparable offers for single people. Also supermarkets are still targeting family shoppers with the large portion southgate tower suite hotel new york sizes of bagged fruit, etc. Single households are the largest growing sector of the UK market yet we are still ignored by all providers. It is not always southgate tower suite hotel new york through choice that we have remained single and childless - there are other factors that come into it - such as family commitments, health and not having found the right person.