Thanks very much for getting in touch, I am pleased your had a nice time while away but am sorry to hear you were not fully satisfied with the Just You experience.

Just You is a single traveller company, and in the majority of cases our tours are made up of customers who have never met. We are aware that on occasion, some of our customers will book on the same tour as someone who they have met on a previous holiday, but who still want the single traveller experience. Feedback we have had is that these travellers still interact with the whole group as if they were travelling alone.

This is the first time I have come across an instance of a family travelling together on a Just You holiday and will pass your comments to our customer service team so they are aware of your experience.

If I can be of any further help, please don't hesitate to get in touch,

Kindest,

Ben

I would like to point out that I do in fact travel from time to time with other people I have met on previous JY holidays, as in a travel companion.

If you book a holiday it is obvious that you all have that type of holiday in common, and I have made some great friendships which is a fantastic by product of travelling with JY, so although I don't see these people In between times I do meet up with them on tours..IE new brochure comes out, an email gets sent and if my JY friends fancy meeting up on a tour then we travel this way, if they don't fancy any tours I like the look of or vice a versa then I will travel on my own..

I would say we DONOT stay in our own little intimate group we mix in with the group and socialise with all and everybody.

It is usually just me and 1 JY friend, or maximum me and 2 others....or me travelling on my own...

I do not wish to travel with say travelsphere I would rather stay with JY.

The people that travel together really should integrate with the group or else they are being very rude, as it takes a lot of guts to travel on your own and I will never forget how that feels.

Cindy

This does happen quite often, it doesnt fell very nice if you have to break into a small group of friends to have a conversation. I think you should ALWAYS make sure that it is pointed out on booking. The people on the phone always ask how many in my party, I reply the same each time "one of course its a singles holiday" to no avail

I've been asked the same question when booking too. I agree, I thought it was weird being asked the question.

If JY were to insist on only taking booking from "singles", then all people would do is book individually, thus it would be impossible to know what was happening. Also Page & Moy are not really likely to turn down business.

To be fair, although, I believe a fair few people travel with somone they know, if they are willing to mix then it doesn't matter. It's the small minority who won't mix, who cause the problem.

One thing I do disagree with, which came up in one of Ben's previous answers, is that JY will give you a discount if you travel with someone else AND share a room. This to me is against the principle of JY - I wonder what other people think ?

Stuart

I've never come across anyone on a JY hol sharing a room, if it did happen I'd say it was more or less a once off. Regarding friends travelling together, this has happened on a few holidays I've been on, usually two friends travelling as a pair and once four friends travelling together. This has never caused a problem on any of the tours I've been on and even those who've never met before and have travelled by themselves usually form pairs or small groups quickly and hang around together, so I don't really see the difference whether people have consciously gone together or hooked up on arrival. It doesn't bother me one bit, although I can see Haffy's point that if there were only a few single travellers on a tour it would change the dynamic - but this would be very much the exception rather than the rule. Haffy, don't let this put you off travelling with JY in the future, you didn't have a typical JY experience as you will see from all the other posts on the Forum!

All the best,

Bob

Don't get me wrong I've nothing against small groups of 1, 2 and 3 friends travelling together which does happen from time to time. From what I've seen most usually integrate with the rest of the group anyway. However 10 is a large percentage of the group and if this happend on one of my hols I would be very dissapointed with JY and they would certainly hear about it.

I would say to Haffy dont let it put you off, this is far from the norm and on all the trips i've done (7 so far with one coming up) the vast majority of travellers are totally solo.

Mick

I think this is a difficult problem, and I've also come across a group of people on a JY holiday, who knew each other previously, and to be honest, weren't one bit interested in mixing outside their group. They travelled with JY basically because they didn't wish to share rooms.

If JY were to insist on only taking booking from "singles", then all people would do is book individually, thus it would be impossible to know what was happening. Also Page & Moy are not really likely to turn down business.

To be fair, although, I believe a fair few people travel with somone they know, if they are willing to mix then it doesn't matter. It's the small minority who won't mix, who cause the problem.

One thing I do disagree with, which came up in one of Ben's previous answers, is that JY will give you a discount if you travel with someone else AND share a room. This to me is against the principle of JY - I wonder what other people think ?

Stuart

Stuart,

Agree with you completely about offering a discount for sharing a room, I'm totally against that if its the case, would just encourage friends/families, partners, etc to travel on these holidays. This would go away from what i see these holidays are about.

Mick

Cindy

Cheers,

Bob

Regards

Jaya

Just You is for people wanting to travel alone and not sharing a room so not sure why they would offer a discount if you shared a room. If they do this then Just You will lose its 'charm' for single travellers. I am surprised to find a group of 10 were able to travel on Just You holiday, but then if they each booked the holiday separately then how would Just You know? When I went to Costa de la Luz there were four people in the group who knew each other from previous holiday and who did not mix with the rest of us. But I see this as their loss not mine. Best to leave those who do not wish to mix alone and just enjoy the holiday. Hopefully Haffy your experience has not put you off and you will consider going with Just You again. I guess you were just unlucky.

Regards

Jaya

A good few years ago I went on a coach trip to Ireland with Travelsphere and took advantage of an offer they made for single people of the same sex to share a room to save the single room supplement. It was NOT an experience that I would want to repeat to be honest. I have to admit that one of the big draws for me in the first place to Just You was a room of my own with no room supplement.

I've only been on 2 trips with Just You so far. On my first holiday a few people knew each other from previous holidays, and sat together for meals, and with each other on trips, but were still friendly and welcoming to other guests. On my last one there were 2 friends who had travelled together but again they mixed in with everyone else. I would hate to think that Just You would become another company that advertises itself as a singles holiday company but encourages people to book as a group.

At the end of the day JY are between a rock and a hard place, they offer themselves as a tour for single travellers, and need to make the money...they can't not take say block bookings, like when I travel with a friend we are both single travellers...my concern would be if there were groups of couples ie male/female relationships as that would I feel change the dynamics of the group.

I know of one man who travelled with his lady friend but had separate rooms, but I didn't get the feel that they integrated into the group well. So I can't see something like that working well in a group of single travellers.

That's the other issue at times,what does single traveller mean, it means different things to different people, I am a single traveller but I am NOT single I have a hubby (30 years) touring is his idea of hell, he just wants to chill out after his busy working year, I on the other hand don't work as hard as he does so I want to see and do things. We still holiday together but we also holiday apart it works for us..

Cindy

Please keep JustYou for singles only.:cool:

One thing I do disagree with, which came up in one of Ben's previous answers, is that JY will give you a discount if you travel with someone else AND share a room. This to me is against the principle of JY - I wonder what other people think ?

Stuart

All of what I have seen written, Has been more or less true.

I have been on trips where people have previously met, And have been willing to mix with new travellers & make more new friends. And Interact with first time travellers.However I have also been on some trips, Where some folk form little cliques.and they tend to keep to this. Gladly to say this has not happened to often on my trips....

However I have never known a huge family being together.

Huge groups are not normally the norm, And generally it is perhaps no more than 4.

At least I am comfortable in my own company or in a Group.

But either way, You should not let this, be detrimental in booking another holiday

Regards Andy