A Girlfriend’s Getaway Weekend is a short vacation in which husbands, boyfriends, children, and the like are not included. A Girlfriend’s Getaway Weekend is becoming a synonym with girl empowerment, and more and more women are now going on trips that test their physical and mental limits.
A Girlfriend’s Getaway Weekend is usually organized among women who know each other and have a history together. Many of them live in different parts of the country and don’t get to see each other often, so a Girlfriend’s Getaway Weekend is the perfect opportunity to reconnect, share experiences and ideas, and create new memories. Sometimes bringing “guests” to the trip is encouraged, in an effort to enlarge the circle. A Girlfriend’s Getaway Weekend is based on the idea that women need time to reconnect with themselves and escape the daily grind of work, family, and city stress. “
1. Get everyone involved in the planning then delegate. Write a list and make each person in the group responsible for an item on the list. This way, no one person gets stuck doing all the planning.
Silver & Grace suggests designating a Girlfriend Getaway Designer then that person delegates the tasks. That role fell on B., who had been to Ilocos twice before this trip and thus knew where to go and who to contact. I made the reservations for our resort in Pagudpud based on the recommendations of S., another girlfriend who went to Ilocos before. B. made reservations for our Laoag and Vigan hotels. I. booked and paid for our flights in advance. And we made sure to consult each other on the itinerary (well except for ANT, hehe).
2. Pool money for group expenses like meals and taxis. It saves groups from figuring out each person’s share at every stop. At the end of the trip, the group can split whatever remains.
The role of treasurer and disburser of the common funds rightly fell on ANT who prides herself on her financial abilities. This saved us time when paying for our food in restaurants and for transportation expenses. I highly recommend this tip.
3. Share the luggage load. If you’re sharing a suite or have adjoining rooms, you don’t need multiple hair dryers and millions of bottles of shampoo. With the strict weight limits on baggage, you’ll need the extra space in your suitcases for souvenirs.
We didn’t follow this one 🙂 ANT brought her humongous hair dryer and her toiletries which were still in their regular containers!
But then ANT ended up borrowing B.’s more modern dryer (and availed of her services too!) But we did share our cameras, sunscreen, and even clothes and pasalubong 🙂 And we didn’t pay for excess baggage 🙂
One more joy of girlfriend getaways: expert service! 🙂
“Whatever the case, I believe that it is a mistake for anyone to wait for a partner while limiting her life experience in any way. Because even if you later have that experience, it’s not the same experience when you do it married. And the more you experience by yourself, the more you will bring to a marriage and the fewer regrets you will have. Being single is no better or worse than the married version of life, but it should be savored and fully lived just as any other stage of life. After all, once you’re married, you will be married forever, if all goes well. And just as you can’t return to childhood or college, you can’t recapture your single days once you’ve passed them by.
So make your single memories count. Don’t save Paris. Don’t save your best pair of shoes. Don’t save anything. Travel, party, live, and laugh as if it were the very last chapter in your single life. It just might be.”
I have traveled with boyfriends several times. It has its own ups and downs so I can’t say that traveling romantically is better than traveling with girlfriends. A girlfriend getaway is simply different :). But one advantage is that there’s really that certain comfort and ease when one is traveling on this type of holiday—a comfort that comes from traveling not only with friends but also with fellow girls —because let’s face it, there are just some things that we can’t share with our boyfriends/lovers and there are just some things we want or need to do that boys can never relate to, much less appreciate 🙂 And that includes our primal need to iron our hair, wear eyeliner (yes, even to the beach!), and do outfit posts! :)And as inspired by Emily Giffin, I want this trip to always remind me of my freedom as a single girl, without the burdens of a husband and children weighing me down. Don’t get me wrong, I hope for those in my future too. But for now, while those responsibilities are not yet in my life, it’s certainly the best time to enjoy the freedom of getting away, just with my girlfriends 🙂
I leave you now with some of my favorite girlfriend getaway pictures from our Ilocandia holiday 🙂 (with some photos from I. and B.)
“Not all those wander are lost.”- J.R.R. Tolkien
Four girls. Four sunglasses. Four personalities. All-girl fun 🙂
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.“-Marcel Proust
I. and me attempting the jump shot at the beach 🙂
Chillaxing in Saud Beach, Pagudpud
“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”- Mae West
Classic girlfriend getaway shot 🙂
“A true friend is someone you can disagree with and still remain friends. For if not, they weren’t true friends in the first place.”
Loving the sunset
At Bantay Abot Cave, Pagudpud
Nostalgic in Vigan
Will a guy do this with us?!
Ending our holiday in Fort Ilocandia
“So let’s go babe, let’s go and be girls. Get drunk, eat our hearts out, cry ’til we laugh, laugh ’til we cry and take pictures. Then we know that we have solved the issue.”
{For Sunset Goddess Manila’s TRAVEL GUIDE TO ILOCOS, click here}
Wishing us all more travels (and girlfriend getaways of course)! Cheers! 🙂
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Ashley has one pose and one stance! Kahit silhouette lang alam na alam mo na siya, hehe.
I. and I were just talking about ANT’s 1 pose last night on FB 🙂 hahaha