She Wants To Book A New Hotel Room After Her Friend Insisted On Bringing Her New Boyfriend On A Vacation They Had Planned For Months
Have you ever felt forced to go on a trip or spend time with someone you barely know because they were brought along by one of your friends?
One woman recently had to book a new hotel after her friend insisted on bringing her new boyfriend on a trip they had planned for months.
Several months ago, she booked a trip abroad with her friend, her friend’s boyfriend, and another mutual friend. They wanted a chill sightseeing trip and would all share a hotel room together.
This was a comfortable plan, as she knew her friend’s boyfriend, and someone else would be there, so she wouldn’t have to be a third wheel. But then, things changed.
“My friend broke up with her boyfriend and started immediately seeing someone else who none of us had met,” she said.
“She was instantly very pushy about us accepting this guy on the trip. I was not okay with it. I did not want to go on an international trip I’d waited months for with some guy I didn’t know at all. [On] a trip of that type, I want people I can trust and want to be in close quarters with.”
Unfortunately, once she expressed her discomfort, her friend became aggressive. Her friend is the one who booked their hotel room on her credit card, so she gave everyone a tough ultimatum. She said if her new boyfriend couldn’t join them on their trip, she’d cancel everything, and there would be no trip.
“I confronted her about her attitude, and she said she’s highly stressed from work, so [she’s] a bit snappy, but maintained that this guy is coming or the trip is off,” she explained.
“After talking to the guy on the phone briefly, I felt even worse about him coming. He did not rub me the right way at all and seemed to want to drink and party a ton on the trip when we had all agreed this was going to be a sightseeing trip, not some party marathon.”
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After the failed call with her friend’s new boyfriend, she and the mutual friend joining them abroad decided to find a new hotel to stay in that’s just for the two of them. They found a room, and the price came close to what they would’ve had to pay at the previous hotel, so it worked out.
However, she hasn’t booked it yet because she knows her other friend will be furious over the situation.
“I want to book it and tell my friend and her new partner they’re on their own to pay for the room,” she added.
“The only reason I feel bad about doing this is because I don’t think she can get a full refund on all of the booking now that [the] window has finally passed after all her threatening, and I doubt she’ll be able to find a similar room in time as we struggled for hours to find our replacement room.”
No matter how angry her friend will be, she still thinks booking a new room is her best option. She and her other travel buddy don’t want to be held back from doing what they want, while her other friend and her boyfriend do different things.
She’s tired of her friend using the hotel room as a way to get what she wants, so she feels she has no other choice but to break out of that situation.
Yet, she will feel bad if her switching hotel rooms makes it so that her friend can hardly afford to go on the trip.
Should she go ahead and switch her hotel room or see if her friend would be willing to compromise?
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