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How often do.you offer travel advice to friends and family? Ever had someone mad?
Posted on 7/9/19 at 8:37 pm
Posted on 7/9/19 at 8:37 pm
My friends and family tend to ask me about places and what I like since they know I like to travel. I try to help out but I refuse to offer recommendations after a buddy hates everything I recommended and criticized it. Now I tell them what I liked and leave it at that.
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Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:46 pm to tduecen
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I try to help out but I refuse to offer recommendations after a buddy hates everything I recommended and criticized it. Now I tell them what I liked and leave it at that.
How is that different than a recommendation?
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:52 pm to tigercross
The phrasing of it
There is a difference between, "I recommend" vs "well I liked, so and so but you may not"
There is a difference between, "I recommend" vs "well I liked, so and so but you may not"
Posted on 7/9/19 at 10:02 pm to tduecen
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There is a difference between, "I recommend" vs "well I liked, so and so but you may not"
Do you not know your friends and family well enough to generally know what they would and wouldn't like?
Either way, weird melt
Posted on 7/9/19 at 10:04 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Wait, that's a melt to you? Odd reaction to a thread to say the least.
Posted on 7/10/19 at 5:42 am to tduecen
I get asked for reccs pretty often. I give them my opinions, which are just that. I’ve also referred numerous people to this board for info.
Posted on 7/10/19 at 6:39 am to dirtsandwich
Yea, sometimes I get asked a lot of recs. Sometimes I loved a place so much that I recommend it to people and they don't have the same experience I kinda feel bummed for them.
Posted on 7/10/19 at 6:48 am to tduecen
Yeah, I’m pretty religious about always weasel-wording when I’m talking to someone irl about travel experiences too. “We liked the Devil’s Causeway but to some folks it’s a pile of rocks at the beach” kind of thing.
I don’t tell anyone irl about hotels ever.
I point them to the Internet.
I don’t tell anyone irl about hotels ever.
I point them to the Internet.
Posted on 7/10/19 at 8:53 am to tduecen
I'll give suggestions/opinions, but usually they're on universally praised things so it's not like I'm out on an island.
When the hotel I like is #1 or #2 in a city for Tripadvisor, if you don't like it, well, your problem.
When the hotel I like is #1 or #2 in a city for Tripadvisor, if you don't like it, well, your problem.
Posted on 7/10/19 at 9:08 am to tduecen
I get both positive and negative feedback. I enjoy the positive because it means they had a great time. I don't give a shite about their negative feedback because not everyone is going to enjoy everything I enjoy. Regardless, those same people continue to ask.
Posted on 7/10/19 at 1:05 pm to tduecen
I once made recommendations on some places in Thailand. Ends up none of those things exist (4 years had passed) and I sent friends to dead ends and shady people who occupied the spaces. Now I tell people to double check online
Posted on 7/10/19 at 5:22 pm to tduecen
Friends yes, family no.
The losers in my family don’t like to travel.
Most of my advice to friends was because they were going to the Middle East / Colombia and they were freaked out by the security situation or local customs / norms etc. Also wanted recommendations for neighborhoods, districts, clubs, restaurants etc that were “pro-American” lmao
No one has ever been mad, I’ve been and they haven’t, people just say they read something contradictory blah blah blah
The losers in my family don’t like to travel.
Most of my advice to friends was because they were going to the Middle East / Colombia and they were freaked out by the security situation or local customs / norms etc. Also wanted recommendations for neighborhoods, districts, clubs, restaurants etc that were “pro-American” lmao
No one has ever been mad, I’ve been and they haven’t, people just say they read something contradictory blah blah blah
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