It was not easy to get close to him. Months, no, years passed before the supposedly right partner was finally found. And then he simply takes off overnight with all the savings. Off on the vacation you had actually pictured together with him in the most beautiful colors.

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Travel Companion Wanted - Taking Time Out

The little getaway in the mountains, the long-awaited beach vacation, the city trip, the wellness weekend, all suddenly burst like a soap bubble. The packed suitcases go back into the closet at home instead of into the car. The vacation money goes toward cancellation fees instead of souvenirs. Unless the great unknown shows up after all and turns out to be the perfect travel companion.

But impossible. Until yesterday you were turning up your nose at the people who feel the need to look for a (stranger as a) travel companion for their vacation. How pathetic, you thought, shaking your head.

Travel Companion Wanted - Good Reasons

And now you suddenly wish for one yourself. After all, a travel companion can be not only a practical short-term solution but can also open up new paths in the personal realm. Because maybe this very person meets the requirements for your dream vacation that your own social circle fails to meet:
  • The travel companion has gotten time off from their employer during the chosen period
  • They are in perfect health and do not need round-the-clock care on vacation for a particular illness
  • They have the same ideas about vacation as you: with them you can lie on the beach and laze around nonstop. With them you can walk your feet sore on a backpacking tour through the wilderness, or marvel at the northern lights and whirl down raging mountain streams in a canoe.
  • In their circle of relatives and acquaintances, no death or terrible accident is casting a shadow over the anticipation of the vacation
Heart pounding when you take on a travel companion

In the back of your mind, there is even already the idea of combining the pleasant with the useful. Choosing a partner and choosing a travel partner do not necessarily have to be two different things. Being alone on vacation is something you can get past. Withering away lonely in your own four walls for good, though, is not an option.

But this very form of searching for a travel partner is also what makes it so difficult. Sharing a hotel room and hoping for the start of a sexual vacation fling or a longer-term relationship tends to put women off from getting involved with a man as a vacation partner. Skillfully steering the conversation toward shared vacation interests is, after all, a popular trick for disguising the true intentions of the trip.

Of course, a woman does not have to be completely opposed when she looks at her financial situation. The man with the fat wallet can finally give her a wonderful vacation again after years by inviting her along. Quite a few women advertise that they let others pay for their vacation. And it is not automatically professional escorts who take on this kind of travel companionship.

Travel Companion Wanted and Found

So what can you do to find trustworthy and sincere travel partners? Where should you even look? The World Wide Web is full of sites that specialize in the topic. And almost all of them offer two options:

Post an ad yourself for free (with or without a photo) Reply to existing ads by giving your email address

If you know where you want to go and do not want to post an ad yourself, it is best to pick a site where you can search specifically for ads for the regions you are interested in. That already narrows the field of potential travel partners enormously. Placing your own ad under the motto "Travel companion wanted" is without doubt the better option, though, for stating your ideas clearly.

Some advertisers make no secret in the ad itself of what they are really after (sexual motivation, an invitation to a vacation). For the vast majority, it is therefore only the email exchange later on that will show whether you suit each other as travel partners.

What "travel companion wanted" really means usually only becomes clear once someone has bitten. That is why you should take the following tips to heart:

Where possible, choose travel partners who live near you. Meeting beforehand to get to know each other makes the whole process easier. A neutral public place should be chosen for this meeting.

Agree clearly on the booking arrangements. Ideally, the costs are split fairly. Never rush to wire money to the stranger or get it to them in any other way. Place your ad early, or allow plenty of lead time for finding a travel partner. That raises your chances of finding the right one.

A certain residual risk naturally exists when searching for a travel partner. You are thrown in at the deep end, so to speak, to spend the best time of the year with the great unknown. But whoever has once looked for a travel companion may have found one for life.