We always seem to meet new friends on holiday.I am still in touch with a couple we met in Jersey in the 70s.We have visited them and they have stayed with us.Last June we went on holiday with friends and didnt meet anyone apart from the lady who was sat next to me on the plane who just happened to be going to our hotel.Its the part of my holiday I enjoy most and last June I went off on my own to meet BarbH,an HT member in Icmeler!.

i think im the same as you shirley h,
we will make friends and have a chat every day or so when we come across eachother around the pool/bar area, but i wouldnt go to far into home adress ect.

CourtneeLouise.x

We are the same Shirley . Really enjoy chatting to people around the pool and sad I know but we normally have the same sunbed spot for the entire holiday and so would it seem do many . We do end up chatting to the same people who also seem to have their spot . We wouldnt take it as far as having dinner etc and start exchanging phone numbers but we do like that interaction during the day.

One exception was the first time we went to turkey and on our first day we met a couple who own a chip shop in Pontefract. We seemed to click , especially tho 2 hubbies and we spent days and evenings together and even did the scuba diving day with them . Hubby would never have got into the diving if it hadnt been for that day . They waved us off on the coach but neither of us exchanged phone numbers or addresses. Each of us more than likely probably thinking the other wouldnt want to.
We really regretted that and would of loved to have remained friends.

who knows they could be members of HT
lyn

yea were like that too lyn, we will start talking then who ever is down first the next morning will get our sunbed spot

CourtneeLouise x

My husband got chatting to a man in Turkey who was at our hotel.He turned out to be a long lost friend of my husbands from 40 years ago when they were both in the same regiment in Germany!Through meeting him we have traced other friends from those days who we had lost touch with.

Im the sociable one in the family, and love to meet people on holiday, have a chat around the pool, bar etc, but hubby is more reserved than me, he will talk to other folk, but would rather not socialize. He usually takes little un to bed early evening and I stay out with the other two and boogie/karoke :cheers, but im always back in time for a glass of vino on the balcony with him before retiring for the night.
On hols in zante 3 years ago, with mum and kids, we net a family whom we really clicked with, and we are still in contact now.
Personally I think half the fun of hols is making friends, not living in one anothers pockets for the duration, but great to have a laugh with, and if the kids make friends, their happy and therefore we,re happy

I like to speak and be sociable with others around the pool or in the dining room
and thats about it . When the children were younger it was different , they made friends so you became friends with the parents and perhaps went out in the evneings together for the sake of the children. Now its only me and the hubby we like to do our own thing . We dont normally spend alot of time around the hotel but always speak when we are .

Lynne

We end up making friends on nearly every holiday. I must admit, we've not always kept in touch once home (swapped email addresses etc) which is a shame but we met some great friends in Turkey a few years ago and will be meeting them in Icmeler for the 4th time in September. It's sort of a tradition now that we all meet up in September. I'm trying to pursued them to try somewhere else though. The same hotel in the same resort, although it's a lovely place, gets a little monotonous when there's a whole world to explore. It's nice travelling to far flung places but sometimes it's the people you meet that makes a good holiday in to a great one. In Puerto Vallarta (Mexico) the other year, there were only 5 english in the holtel so we tended to meet up at night and have a laugh. It was the same in Mauritius last September. We met a couple of newly-weds with similar interests and spent most nights with them (in the bar that is!). Ive found once you've got past the introductions, you sort of let your guard down and create social groups while on hols.

Darren

the pendlewitch and myself will talk to anybody,from anywhere [as long as we can understand each other] last week we were not only chatting to British on holiday but also 2 Greek girls who live in the Netherlands, some Germen and Austrian guest a swiss couple and of course the locals, we don't often keep in touch after the holidays but do have some friends we met in salou one year whom we had never met before and both parties were invited to the same wedding of a mutual Friends son [now thats spooky]

I love chatting with people on holiday and finding out why they have gone to the resort/hotel. Its amazing how many have been before, and also that some have been to the same place several years running, and also two or three times a year for several years running!! Now that's the sign of a good hotel! Chatting with other guests and staff is also a great way to find out about the area and places to visit.

My parents are still in touch with a family we met years and years ago (about 20) when we were little, and although I don't usually keep in touch with anyone, last year I met my boyfriend on holiday and also stayed in touch with a couple of people who were there at the same time (obviously!!). I'm going back in a couple of weeks to see my boyfriend, and my holiday will overlap with the friends I made last year, so I'll be able to spend time with them when my boyfriend is working. Can't wait! Louise

I don't mind having a spontaneous chat with anyone like-minded from anywhere when I'm on holiday, but I've got enough friends already that I haven't time to do the justice they deserve, so I'm certainly not out to make any new ones! My other half and I spend little enough quality time together in our normal lives, so I mainly prefer to spend our own time doing our own thing when I'm abroad. We're out and about a fair bit, so I wouldn't generally want to spend time with people I don't know as I want the freedom not to consider what anyone else wants to do/when they want to do it, etc. Sounds a bit selfish, but I'm away to take things at my own pace and do precisely what I want to do (by contrast with everyday life!).

Phoebe ........ spot on
I don't mind a chat, i'm a very sociable chap, but god forbid i want other people following me around for the rest of my holiday!!!!!

We learnt our lesson one year, made friends with a really great couple through the children , anyway one day they asked if we would keep an eye on the daughter while they done a little bit of shopping , so we said ok.
they went for the day came back in time for evening meal . Never made the same mistake again , so now just sociable around the hotel , but you go your way and i go mine .

Llindy, that's the sad example of what can happen, although we have no kids so we really tend not to meet people anyway (as you usually find it's people with kids who seem to meet up more!)

I'm not keen on spending my time with other people on holidays, but to spend time with people who might want me to watch their kids????? They can b****r off

Well I often go on singles holidays so the whole point is to make friends. I am in touch with a few who I met up with again the following year and had a weekend away with but now it's just Xmas cards and emails, but we may cross paths again sometime on holidays or otherwise. I have had holidays were people exchange addresses and then nobody ever contacts anyone again. Which is fine, it's a nice memory. On these types of hols there is often a willy nilly exchange of email addys on people's last days but I don't really expect contact.

I love to chat to anyone though, but if I'm away with someone else it's always a casual thing, I don't think I would ever desire to spend days or nights out with other couples but sharing notes on trips and shops, bars, restaurants is great.

Don't forget us brits on hols - we wouldn't discuss our toilet habits with anyone back at home but on holiday it used to be one of those things that were up for comparison with every tom, dick and harry in the hotel.

It's always useful to make pals anyway cos they might offer you use of their room on your last day for luggage storage and showering.

We like to be sociable and always end up chatting away to peoplpe who we might meet..however that is as far as it goes. We have been freindly before and then found ourselves getting stalked for the rest of the holiday.or sometimes they have even had the hump if we have dared spend time with other people!

We llike to socialise, but equally we like time on our own and our own space to do our own thing. We have also holidayed as part of a large group and have been able to socialise with the others as much or as little as we choose.

I do hope to meet up with Michelle (Derwent Rocker) to at least say hello and introduce myself as she will be in Egypt at the same hotel at the same time as us and our fellow Frog divers. Michelle has been very helpful in giving out info about the hotel we are staying at so I would at least like to thank her in person..oh and because we are both members here at HT and I have never actually knowingly met another HT member!

we always end up chatting with people on holiday but have only stayed in touch with 1 couple we met when ellie was a baby shes now 8 they live 4 hrs away so dont see much of them but we do stay in contact as they are a nice couple.
on holiday in tunisia this year we made friends with an older couple who had their 80 yr old mother with them and they really took the mick out of everyone they kept leaving this old dear with anyone that would sit with her and disappearing for hours, 1 day she was really ill and this poor woman had to clean up after her , thank god it wasnt me no way could i have coped with that, so you do need to be careful and not taken for a mug, i dont mind helping anyone but wont be used lol

Always, always join in everything and like to meet new people.
Go to the same resort, hotel twice a year and meet up with people we have made friends with over the past 5 years friends from Holland, Germany & Italy.

I am the more sociable one and don't mind chatting to people whilst on holidays, saying hello and smiling when you pass them in the hotel is just being polite to your fellow Brit on hol, I don't want to be your best mate I'm just acknowledging a familiar face from the coach/plane. My hubby hates it, he'd rather we be left alone.

It is nice to just to chill out with my family, but a bit of friendly chit chat doesn't harm anyone. I would hate to feel obliged to meet the same people to sit next to at breakfast or have sunbeds next to each other everyday thoughout the holiday, that would annoy me and I would feel uncomfortable.