{"id":367428,"date":"2025-08-23T14:28:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367428\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T14:28:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:28:34","slug":"brits-ditching-family-holidays-for-breaks-with-mates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367428\/","title":{"rendered":"Brits ditching family holidays for breaks with mates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over a third of Brits prefer breaks with pals than partners\"WithWith a hot bank holiday weekend forecast for parts of the UK, beach activities could be on the cards(Image: Dock & Bay)<\/p>\n

More and more Brits are ditching the traditional family holiday or romantic getaway to go on breaks with friends, according to new research.<\/p>\n

Overall, 36% of people said they preferred to travel with pals than partners or relatives – but that number soared to 60% for Londoners.<\/p>\n

The study, commissioned by mobile provider giffgaff<\/a>, found that four is the perfect number of travelling buddies with birthday blowouts (57%) topping the list of reasons Brits want a \u2018hunnymoon\u2019.<\/p>\n

Wanting some fun (51%), escaping the kids (25%), a chance to focus on health and wellness (19%) and celebrating friendship anniversaries (17%) were also on the list.<\/p>\n

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But though we may opt to travel with friends rather than family, Brits are still keen to keep in touch. Around 39% said contacting loved ones at home was the top reason to use mobile data on holiday.<\/p>\n

Ash Schofield, CEO at giffgaff, said: \u201cIt\u2019s clear that as a nation we love to stay connected while abroad and share news and pictures of our holidays with friends and family back home.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut our research shows that people are rationing or denying themselves data usage while away, which must be quite limiting and frustrating at times.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why giffgaff makes sure that members stay connected with up to 5GB of inclusive roaming in 40+ EU and selected destinations at no extra cost. \u201d<\/p>\n

To celebrate the UK\u2019s love of a group getaway and the launch of its new travel data add-ons available in 40+ EU countries and selected destinations, giffgaff is opening a pop-up travel lounge this weekend (August 23 and 24) by the Gatwick Express platform at London Victoria Station.<\/p>\n

The survey found that access to a departure lounge was on the holiday wish list for 43% of us, so the Holidata Lounge has been created to get \u2018hun-in-the-sun\u2019 fun started early.<\/p>\n

Perks feature those identified as setting travellers up for the ultimate holiday, including complimentary drinks (56%), free travel treats such as sun cream (50%) and assistance with roaming or mobile data before take-off (23%).<\/p>\n

Holidaymakers can also relax in the lounge\u2019s Ball Pool Bar or limber up for their flight with Air-obics sessions Giffgaff customers have priority access to the lounge via an exclusive queue jump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over a third of Brits prefer breaks with pals than partnersWith a hot bank holiday weekend forecast for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,90288,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-367428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-tendendo","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115078555542998664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}