I’ve never understood the concept of meeting people while traveling and then deciding to band together and travel together.

No thanks!

But that’s just me…

Apparently, this person thought it would be a good idea…but it’s not going well.

Is she to blame for what’s going on here?

Read on and see what you think.

AITA for telling my travel friends they can leave the group but I’ll be staying?

“I (28F) have been backpacking through South East Asia for a few months now, and specifically Thailand for the last month or so.

At the beginning of the Thailand part of my trip, I met two other solo travellers in my hostel who seemed like good vibes, and we all ended up sticking together as a trio for the next few weeks.

This wasn’t working out.

However, as time went on, it turns out they have a bit of a different travel style to me, and are both quite ‘type A’ people, where I’m much more go with the flow. I didn’t think it was a problem — I’d just let them make the plans because they cared more than I did, and I just vibed along for the ride.

I do also have a tendency to be a bit disorganized and late to things, but never more than 5-10 mins. Also, in all honesty, who really cares if we leave the hostel 5 minutes later than agreed for dinner or going to the beach? We’re chilling in a fun place with fun people either way.

They had a meeting about all of this…

Anyway, I thought we were all getting along well, and over the last couple weeks we’ve added 4 more people to our little team! That was until yesterday, when the original two sat me down and told me they don’t want to travel with me any more because it’s irritating that I never contribute to plans and am often late.

I told them that I would’ve been happy to compromise if I knew they were upset, and that I genuinely thought me not contributing to plans was making everything go smoother because I really don’t care much what we do, so this way the team only has to balance two people’s sometimes-conflicting wants.

Regardless, if that’s how they felt, I told them that it’s sad but it’s cool and I won’t take it personally if they go do their own thing.

Yikes…

This is where the conflict comes in. They told me that they really like the group dynamic with the other 4 people we found, so they’d prefer if I was the one to leave, and that it was more fair that way because there are two of them and one of me.

I told them I like traveling with the others too, and they’re the ones with an issue, not me, so I won’t be doing that.”

AITA?”

Reddit users spoke up.

This reader said she’s NTA.

Another individual said they all suck.

This Reddit user said she’s an *******.

Another person weighed in.

And this individual also said she’s an *******.

Traveling with people you just met doesn’t sound like a very good idea…

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