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August 4, 2024 14 mins

Ever had a girls’ trip go horribly wrong? Picture this: friends disappearing, financial tensions brewing, and plans falling apart. Tune in to Brunch with Brittany as I unravel my own travel nightmares and transform them into valuable lessons for your next getaway. This episode is packed with candid anecdotes and essential tips on creating a trip everyone will love. From selecting a destination that caters to all tastes to avoiding the common trap of overscheduling, I cover it all. You’ll hear firsthand how proper planning and mutual understanding can make or break your trip.

In this episode, I dive into the nitty-gritty of communicating your trip's vibe, energy, and budget. Booking in advance and ensuring everyone is on the same page is key, and I share practical advice to make that happen. Listeners also chime in with their own experiences and tips, fostering a community of shared wisdom. If you’re aiming for a stress-free and enjoyable girls' trip, this episode is your go-to guide. Join the conversation every Sunday on all platforms and let’s turn those travel troubles into triumphs!

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Brittany Gonzalez (00:13):
what's up?
It is brunch with britny.
Welcome to my podcast.
I am so happy to be back.
Welcome back.
I hope you uh have something todrink.
Okay, I'm doing some rosé todayand I was thinking, like you
know what we need to talk about.
Let's talk about girls trips.
Okay, because I don't know ifyou have had the problem that

(00:37):
I've had, but I think out of allof my girls trips, they've all
gone terribly.
So I I'm like maybe we need toreally visit this topic and
figure it out.
Okay, because I don'tunderstand what I'm doing wrong.
Maybe you can help me, but I'vebeen through so many different
friend groups with girls tripsand so I looked up some like

(00:58):
good tips on how to ensure youhave a better girls trip where
you remain friends after thetrip, because that's the other
thing.
For some reason, after everygirls trip, you lose either one
friend, you lose the whole crew,like nobody likes each other.
At the end of it, in the middleof it, so many things can go
wrong and, like I said, I thinkI've been through every

(01:22):
situation that could go wrong,so let's get into it All right.
So it says that some tips forplanning a good girls trip is to
pick a place with lots ofactivities that your group
enjoys.
Okay, like it says, hiking,water sports that is not for me.
Okay, if the girl group wantsto go somewhere like that, I'm

(01:42):
not going.
It's not for me.
I know I'm going to sit thatone out Like go, have fun, I
support it, but I will notpartake in it.
Shopping, you know, make sureeverybody's on the same page,
that they're going to be able togo shopping or they're going to
enjoy window shopping.
Okay, because some of the girlscome with no funds, which to me

(02:03):
boggles my mind.
But everyone has, like that,one girl in the group that can't
afford.
Now, I want to say can't afford.
She didn't plan properly tobring the funds that were needed
to really enjoy the trip.
You know where she's trying tostay at the hotel and not spend
any money.
You don't want to go with thatgirl.
You don't want to be that girleither.
You drag the group down.

(02:24):
It is horrible, it's like soannoying and everybody hates you
on that trip.
Just know, if you are the brokeone in the group going, still
showing up like you paid for theticket, you pitched in for the
room, but other than that youdon't got it.
You shouldn't have went, sis,you're ruining everybody's time.
Trust me, don't do it, you'lllose a friend.

(02:44):
Like that, nobody wants to bearound that all right.
They say, be flexible withsplitting up into smaller groups
doing different things.
This one I always felt like ifwe're doing a girl strip, we're
doing everything together likeduh.
Why else did we choose to gotogether for with the girls you
know, so that one I wouldn'tlike.
But if you're with a girl whodoesn't like that, who's like

(03:07):
totally okay with goingsomewhere on her own or
splitting off from the group,right, like she sees a cute guy
and she's like the wild one, soshe goes missing, you know, and
you're in a different city, andit's not like you're back home,
somewhere local, where you'relike she'll be fine.
No, we're in a different city,like you cannot just be running
off with other people, but maybethere's a friend group that

(03:30):
loves that.
That's like, hey, girl, we'redoing whatever, wherever the
wind takes us, like that's whatI'm doing.
So do your thing, I'll text you, you know.
And and I think that's the otherthing is that the girls don't
do that.
They're not texting, they're'tdo that, they're not texting,
they're not communicating thatpart.
They're not communicating,they're disappearing.
And then you're like where didStacey go?
Like, answer your phone?

(03:51):
Her phone's dead, you know, andthat's the time she chooses to
disappear.
It's so annoying, so unsafe.
I don't like that.
I wouldn't feel comfortabledoing that to someone.
So that's not for me, not forme, all right.
So they say don't overschedule,allow time for downtime and
individual activities.
Again, that's not for me.

(04:11):
We're not doing individualstuff like, we're doing this
stuff together, otherwise whyare we here?
So that wouldn't work for me.
Plan meals, decide how you'regoing to eat out and if everyone
has to help out with cooking.
I guess that's kind of like ifyou do a hotel versus an airbnb,
because when you do the airbnb,like I remember one girls trip

(04:32):
I went on and we did an airbnb.
It was somewhere in like fortlauderdale area, super chill
side of town, was beautiful, hada pool and everything was
relaxing.
There were like eight of usgirls, maybe six somewhere
around there, and we all gotgroceries.
And we had one girl that waslike she liked to cook.

(04:54):
So we're like you're in charge,we'll help, we'll pitch in,
we'll buy the groceries, but youare in charge.
So she did.
She was a Latina, so she cookedlike a Spanish meal.
I don't remember what it was,but it was Spanish, so it
requires some deep frying.
So tell me why.
This is the other thing.
Okay, so she cooks, right, andwe all eat.

(05:15):
It was good.
Well, it was late night, so atthe end of the night she goes by
herself outside and she poursthe hot grease out into the
grass and she's trying todispose of the grease.
Like if you've ever deep friedsomething, you know there's a
lot.
You can't leave it behind atthe Airbnb.
So she does that, right, andnone of us know.
Again, she did this late atnight, decided to do this on her

(05:36):
own, so she was not the girlthat the credit cards the
Airbnb's credit card wasattached to.
All right, it, it was attachedto one girl, because you know
how that works and theneverybody gives the money, which
is another whole.
It can be a whole notherepisode but so she did that.
Tell me why.
The Airbnb, the owner, sends anemail when we get back from the

(05:59):
trip with a charge.
Okay, it was like a $300 chargefor pouring out the oil into
some fake.
It was fake grass.
We didn't know it was fakegrass outside, but it was
completely fake grass and shethrew it out.
So obviously, like, where's itgonna go?
It's fake, it's burnt, like youcould see it.

(06:19):
And then the funniest thing wasit was all on video.
You know Airbnb, like they,they got their cameras out,
security cameras.
So, yeah, they sent the videowith it too.
Oh, it was so legit we couldn'teven argue it Right, like there
was no, we have to pay this.
So it goes on my girl's creditcard and she is livid because
she's like why would you do that?

(06:40):
What were you thinking?
I get both sides Okay, ithappens, but the girl did end up
paying her.
However, it could have went theother way, where the girl was
like I'm not paying for that.
Cheers.
What's up everybody?
It's Brittany Gonzalez here andmy Brunch with Brittany podcast
is back.
Look out new episodes comingyour way.
It is a girl's girl podcast and, fellas, you'll learn something

(07:02):
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Get ready, there's more coming,all right.
So it says set a budget.
I think that's number one.
Number one you should alreadyset a budget.
Like what is this going to cost.
A lot of the girls want to go ontrips and they're not really

(07:23):
taking into account, like for me, I like to go eat, I like to
eat good food.
I don't want to just eat aslice of pizza that's you know,
uh, $6.99 somewhere.
And like I went on a girl'strip with a girl like that she
didn't care where we ate, I didso.
It was like she was alwaystrying to pick those kind of
spots and I'm like we're outtraveling.

(07:44):
That's not my thing, I'm notgoing to have a good time doing
that, you know.
But in her mind she's like well, I'm on a budget, well, I
didn't know that ahead of time,so I'm not going to budge for
her budget.
So it was some discourse thereDidn't end our friendship, but

(08:05):
definitely made me rethink whywe should have had that
conversation to begin with.
You know you got to go withpeople that, with the girls that
match your energy, that matchyour vibe Right.
Like I like, again, I like toeat, I like to, I don't care
about that.
So if it's important to you,then you need to make sure that
you both think it's important,because otherwise pick a
different friend.
Oh, my goodness.
All right, consider creativeactivities.

(08:26):
Make sure that you both thinkit's important, because
otherwise pick a differentfriend.
Oh my goodness.
All right, consider creativeactivities.
I like this one.
Like, try thrifting.
I have a girlfriend who Ididn't know she thrifts, she can
thrift.
When you have thoseconversations you can figure
that out.
Like, oh, are we going to thiscity?
Okay, what do they haveavailable there?
Now, that being said, there'sactivities that you can do.
Some of the girls may notmention that like oh, I'm not
really into that.
They might go along with it.

(08:47):
Then you get there and they'relike wishy-washy, don't want to
book it.
You better book in advance.
Okay, if the girl does not bookwith you in advance, do not
wait until you get there to thelocation to book that trip,
because I promise you she'sgoing to oversleep it, she's not
going to show up, she's not,she's going to be like ah,
whatever, I don't want to do it.
Meanwhile, the whole timeyou're like we said we were

(09:08):
going to do this.
Don't disappoint yourself.
Like that, it will happen waymore than you would like it.
To um, invite the right people.
Like I said, you got to havethose conversations in the
beginning, girl, because even ifyou get along right, like
you're like I always have funwith this girl or this group,
it's different when you go intoa different city with that group

(09:28):
.
You know again, everythingchanges the budget, the location
, the safety of it, all you know, and some girls just don't care
.
So you need to make sure thatyou're like no, this is
important to me, that we sticktogether.
We came together, we leavetogether, things like that.
Uh, the group chat, okay.
So you definitely I think everygirl girl trip does this Like

(09:49):
we start a group chat and wetalk about like this is what
we're going to do, or you knowwe're, we're just all excited
about it.
But with the group chat, youalso need to be active in that
group chat, because I've had youknow where you, where there's
someone who kind of takescontrol of it and it says, hey
guys, I was thinking about thisand they'll send the links right

(10:11):
.
They'll say like we're going togo kayaking at night with you
know, go in the dark kayaks.
And some of the group is likeexcited about, or nobody
responds at all.
And then that person is feelinglike I'm over here, planning,
thinking, trying to interactwith you girls, and is dry in
the group chat.
No, you are that red flag.
You definitely don't want to gowith those girls.

(10:33):
You don't want to go with thosegirls.
It is a sign that they aregoing to be disappointing you
every step of the way.
Okay, like they're notcommittal.
They're not committing, so youdon't want to deal with that.
That's a red flag.
Don't even go on that trip, Ipromise you.
I had to learn that one thehard way and I hated that.
Okay, um, have a general dresscode.

(10:55):
Oh, this is a good one.
Okay, so I remember I went on agirl's trip and I like to wear
outfits, go take pictures, getdressed up.
That's my thing, I love thatand I have.
Maybe I shouldn't say it's likeme, right?
I should be saying like, oh,this other girl that you know, I
know, did this.
But I had a girlfriend love her,love how she dresses.

(11:17):
You know she dresses up whenshe goes out.
But for some reason on thistrip she she's decided, oh, I'm
just going to wear jeans and abun, jeans and a bun, and I was
so not expecting that.
Okay, I'm dressed to the nines,in heels too, walking around
the city and she's like insneakers, messy bun, hair's not
done, you know, jacket I justdidn't, was not expecting that.

(11:42):
I was like, no wait, but youdress up.
This is what I'm saying.
You don't know until you'rethere in the moment you're
assuming like, but she dressesnice, so why would she do that
on a trip?
I don't know you, you can't,you can't assume for people.
So plan those outfits together.
An idea like girl day one we'reto go more comfy but cute.

(12:04):
Okay, hair done, buns we're notdoing that.
You know, don't Match my energy, or don't you know?
And some girls are fine with it.
Some girls will be like I'll bedressed up and I don't care
what you look like.
That's cool too.
Just know what you're gettingyourself into when it comes to
that, because you, if you, ifthat's important to you, it's
going to be a problem.
And it was for me, because I waslike girl in my videos, if I

(12:29):
was panning, I was panning theplace and like she'd be there,
I'd be like I can't use thatcontent now Cause she's not
going to feel good about it.
So now I can't use that.
So that was one of my manyexperiences of learning that,
the hard way of those things,and I just want us to have
better girls trips and if youare really good at them, like,

(12:51):
what am I doing wrong other thannot communicating well enough?
Because clearly it's, it's justbeen a disaster for me bad
experiences.
I think I've met one girl thatwas like I always have the best
time on girls trips and I'm likeno, I'm ready to like, fight at
the end of it or leave thatfriendship.
So I got a lot of work to dobut I need help and I don't want

(13:15):
other people to go through it.
If you are planning a girls trip, start that group chat.
Be very clear about the vibe,the energy, the budget, what you
want to do and anything.
Like I said, when you want tobook, book ahead, do not wait
until you get to that city totry and book.
It's not gonna happen.
Okay, it's just not.
It's probably not.
Nine times out of ten it's notgonna happen.
So those are my tips, my advicefor girls trips.

(13:40):
But, um, you can always feelfree leave in the comments stuff
that went right, stuff thatwent wrong, something I didn't
cover, let me know, this is thebrunch with britney podcast.
It's a girl's girl podcast andI just want us to, you know, be
better.
So that is it.
You can catch this on iheartradio on our app.
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(14:00):
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