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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always thought travel was a safe topic. I love to travel. I love to hear my friend’s travel stories. I don’t enjoy hearing about boring beach trips to bald island but I love hearing about Asia or Europe. I’m always looking for new places to go with my family.[/quote]

Talking about cool sites you saw in Asia is fine. "Humble" bragging about your $1k+/night hotel or dropping a reference to (or worse posting a picture of) your lay flat seats is not. [/quote]

Pp here. I know what you mean when people are trying to show off. We actually do stay at the 1-2k hotels but I don’t talk about the hotel. There are some people who who can appreciate a nice spa or afternoon tea though. Maybe that is what OP is referring to. 95% of the time I would not talk about this but there are those 5% where [b]I actually really enjoy the details of a very nice hotel, especially if the hotel is the destination. We recently went to marina bay sands in Singapore. My kids loved the hotel and the adjacent attractions.[/b][/quote]

Any comment remotely like this is exactly what OP is talking about.[/quote]

+1. But I do like that PP distilled how superficial global travel has become: 20+ hour flight each way to be pampered at a luxury hotel. The same experience is available at any nearby Ritz or Four Seasons, but that wouldn’t be “exotic” enough or brag worthy at the next social gathering.

Similar to “low key” braggarts who travel to third world dumps half way around the world so they can boast about hiking there. You can do all the world class hiking you want in West Virginia, but Appalachia isn’t exotic for them, of course.[/quote]

This nails it. I get so bored of hearing about people's luxury hotel experiences in far flung places.

Now someone who stayed in budget chain hotel but then found a loophole that enabled them to use the pool at the 5 star resort down the street? That sounds like a fun story! Also happy to hear about weird and offbeat AirBnBs or the funky bed and breakfast you stayed in that was great except the hosts ate breakfast with you and you had to make small talk with your high school French to comical effect.

If your travel stories are all "we had lie flat beds on the plane and our suite had it's own lap pool and we ate at these three michelin starred restaurants," you are boring and I don't to talk to you. You may also be rich (or just very deeply in debt or have wealthy parents) but that doesn't make you interesting.[/quote]

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