She’s Upset With Her Cousin For Inviting Two People She Hardly Knows On Their Upcoming Vacation, And For Also Telling These People She’ll Pay For Where They’re Staying
Have you ever worked hard to plan a trip and then found out that someone you don’t like or hardly know will be tagging along?
One woman is very upset with her cousin who, at the last minute, invited two people she hardly knows on their upcoming international trip.
She’s 27 and is close with her 33-year-old cousin. They live abroad and decided to plan a trip to America last year.
She did all of the organizing, including putting a 50% deposit down on the Airbnb they’ll be staying in, which is non-refundable.
The plane tickets have been purchased, and they have everything they’ll need. However, she was recently given a shocking trip update from her cousin.
She was woken up in the middle of the night by her aunt, who said that her cousin had been calling and really needed to speak with her. So, she called her cousin back, and her cousin dropped a bomb on her.
“She tells me she has two mutual friends who heard through the grapevine that we were going to America, and they had asked her if they could come with us and stay at the Airbnb we had booked, which my cousin told them I would pay for,” she explained.
Her cousin had given these two ‘friends’ permission to fly to America with them, tag along on all of the activities they had planned, and stay in their Airbnb for no charge.
When she asked her cousin why she would let this happen without consulting her first, she said she figured it wouldn’t be a problem because their Airbnb has two spare rooms.
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To make matters worse, these people aren’t even close friends of her cousin. They’re mutual friends who she’s met only a few times at clubs over the years.
“I told her I didn’t feel comfortable with the idea of them staying with us because I don’t know them and what they are like,” she recalled.
“She tells me that I don’t have to worry about her friends and that I shouldn’t judge them because I’ve never met them. My response was that if I don’t end up liking them, then I’m stuck in the same house with them overseas for the next two weeks.”
She told her cousin one last time that the situation made her uncomfortable, and her cousin said it was too late; these friends had already booked their flights.
Her cousin told her that if she didn’t want to stay with them, she could find her own place. However, that wouldn’t be fair since she already paid half the price of their accommodations.
“I want to tell her I’m not going if they are coming, and they would have to find a way to pay the rest of the [Airbnb] without me, but I can’t get a refund,” she added.
“I don’t know what to do.”
How should she approach this situation so she can still enjoy her trip?
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