{"id":20098,"date":"2023-09-05T14:30:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T21:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/?p=20098"},"modified":"2023-09-07T10:38:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:38:51","slug":"best-places-to-make-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/best-places-to-make-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Places to Make Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In elementary school, it seemed so easy. You\u2019d just walk up to someone and boldly declare, \u201cWanna be my friend?\u201d In adulthood, making a new pal tends to be a tad more difficult and awkward than that. That\u2019s where travel comes in\u2014an article in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/psychology-travel-vacation-identity-transformation\/2021\/10\/07\/19e2615c-2204-11ec-8200-5e3fd4c49f5e_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/em> on its transformative nature noted studies found travel can make people more creative, open-minded and trusting, which also bodes well for making friends. Taking that a step further, we sought out hotels that seem especially well set-up for it by design, be it the communal spaces they\u2019ve created or the roster of shared activities they\u2019ve curated. Future friend map, right this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hotels with communal spaces and share activities for mixing and mingling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"stoc_hidden_slugs":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1810,3266,3156,278,346,3267,1284,259,2362,296,161,488,3328,168,210,393,3273,285,169,1077,48,28,3118,166,2286,22],"class_list":["post-20098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kiwi-curated","tag-andaz-singapore","tag-angsana-corfu-resort-spa","tag-cape-kudu-hotel","tag-chile","tag-colorado","tag-corfu","tag-dolores","tag-dunton-hot-springs","tag-equinox-hotel-hudson-yards-new-york-city","tag-explora-patagonia","tag-greece","tag-ibiza","tag-koh-yao-noi","tag-mexico","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-paradero-todos-santos","tag-patagonia","tag-playa-del-carmen","tag-singapore","tag-spain","tag-thailand","tag-the-standard-ibiza","tag-thompson-playa-del-carmen","tag-todos-santos","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20098"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20124,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20098\/revisions\/20124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}