You’re probably ready to hit the road now after you’ve read travel brochures and guides, visited travel sites, booked your airline ticket, and even contacted your travel insurance company. Your journey’s plan seems flawless and everything will be just fine, or will it?
Have you actually thought about the essential part of your trip? Your travel companion can play a critical role in rating your travel experience, from the best to the worst.
#1 – The Self-Centered
If your partner is a self-obsessed, spoiled brat, then you should simply travel without them. Such individuals carry a constant sense that the universe owes them a lot and will definitely turn your wonderfully planned journey into a horrible nightmare.
Here’s what’s going to happen if you ever decided to travel with a self-centered person: you’ll keep hearing complaints about the weather, the food, the expensive and cheap hotels, the transportation, etc because nothing really pleases your friend’s majesty.
Your beautiful days are going to be loaded with shopping in fancy malls and lounging for hours by the pool. However, there’s one little bright side about this person, once they’re not their sober selves anymore, their superego may shrink significantly, giving you more attention at the club.
#2 – The Control Freak
This one makes sure that every piece of clothing, hygiene product, and towel is strictly organized by color and may even pre-schedule their bathroom trips.
If your friend cannot step out of their severe daily routine, there’s no way they will survive an entire trip without pointing out to each tiny detail, starting from which panties to wear every day to when to fart.
You shouldn’t dare interrupt or judge their perfect timetable or you will deeply regret it for the rest of your days simply because your travel partner breaks down when they lack plans. Not to mention how awkward and embarrassing things might get when you share a hotel room for two.
#3 – The Nervous Wreck
This type of people often panic in stressful situations and whenever they are under pressure, but that’s not all, they’ll also make sure to add loads of worry and pessimism to every moment of your long-awaited journey. This person’s sense of ever-approaching doom will bring all of your senses down on a daily basis.
Nervous people get, well, nervous about every tiny detail, from night mosquitoes to the amount of chlorine in the swimming pool. No matter what you do, just don’t fall sick when you’re traveling with them.
#4 – The Rude
If you’re friends with a boor, you’ll soon notice that they have no such thing as manners, sophistication, or tact. Some people may be quick to judge that this person is racist but actually they just don’t really think about what they’re going to say next.
So far, the boor is harmless, but a big open mouth can bring immense troubles when others are offended, meaning that you’ll spend plenty of time repeating “sorry” in more than one language to avoid getting your bottom kicked like a stupid jerk.
#5 – The Couple
This one is tricky because you don’t necessarily need to travel with both of them at the same time to feel the boredom of traveling with a deep-in-love couple. Of course, your trip will totally suck if you’re number 3, but even if the couple is separated by time zones and thousands of miles, you may still feel like a third wheel.
Your travel companion won’t stop trying to find an internet connection to text and call their better half. Even worse, they’ll be talking about their SO at every given chance and won’t hesitate to share their worries and heartaches. Not a fun trip at all.
#6 – The Pennypincher
At first, you might think that this one is being successfully resourceful as they always manage to find the best flight deals, collect coupons, and earn money off deals and online offers. But as soon as you spend the shortest amount of time traveling with them, you’ll just feel how irritating it can be.
They will practically embarrass you everywhere with everyone, starting from cab drivers to ladies who sell affordable home-made goodies. This person has a limitless frugality and will not stop trying to get the best bargain wherever they are.
The worst part is when you’re dead tired and all you need is any bed to have some rest, your friend will brutally drag you around as many hotels as possible in order to find the best and cheapest hotel in town.
The perfect place for this type of people is a backpacker’s hostel with free WIFI so they can enjoy comparing hotel and flight prices all day long.
#7 – The Web Addict
This time, your travel partner is engaged to their precious electronic devices and valuable apps. They’ll be taking an endless number of selfies, asking you to take and re-take pictures of them, and won’t feel satisfied until they uploaded every photo and video to their social networks and travel websites.
The internet will be the one to decide where you’re going to stay, also, be prepared for a panic attack in case there’s a power cut at your accommodation.
#8 – The S*x Addict
This person’s main everyday goal is pretty clear, so just forget about exploring the rich culture and meeting locals (in a cultural context.) If you travel with such individual, your major destinations will be wherever there are half or almost naked human bodies, notably nightclubs, bars, pools, and beaches.
Beach days are magnificent but just not when the purpose is far away from enjoying the natural beauty of the sea and sunshine. You may think otherwise but your friend will be more able to drag you to such places and then leave you alone while they’re jerking around.
#9 – The Vegetarian
Vegetarians are rarely bad travel partners but when your destination is, for example, India, conversion might be a better idea. Imagine backpacking with your vegetarian friend around Latin America to locate some food that would fit your mate’s diet.
Locals will certainly strike you with deep looks of pity and mischief, they may even give you long lectures on why you should eat meat and why meat is important. This is not the greatest way to enjoy a trip.
#10 – The Travel Guru
Exploring the world with a travel guru is doubtlessly boring because they’ve done that, been there, purchased the organic, and worn the now-awesome t-shirt before it was this fashionable. You’ll be face to face with endless tales of the complicated history behind Goa rave parties, native Americans, and capitalism.
Nothing you’ve ever done can compare to the guru’s travel experiences. Besides, who needs internet to find cheap hotels and last minute deals when traveling with a guru.