Should you travel together? Ask these questions before booking: 'It'll save you time, money and disappointment'
Source: CNBC ·
Consider budget, accommodations, personal habits, alone time and more, say Anna Goldfarb and Nell McShane Wulfhart, experts in friendship, travel and decision-making.
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Blow-up fights at the Colosseum, tears atop Mount Kilimanjaro and clashes over the window seat: Incompatible travel buddies can ruin a vacation. As experts in friendship, travel and decision-making, we know that the stresses and complications of travel, not to mention the near-infinite number of decisions you have to make, can put a lot of pressure on a relationship that was perfectly delightful within a 10-mile radius of your homes. There's a reason that people tell you to travel with someone before you marry them! Thirty-five percent of travelers found that they weren't compatible with a travel buddy, according to a Booking.com survey conducted in July of 1,253 U.S. adults who'd gone away overnight within the last 12 months. Twenty-one percent of respondents had even left a trip part-way through because of their travel partner, and a bad vacation made 28% think about ending the relationship or friendship with their ill-suited travel companion. The problem is that we can have…