Ever been on holiday where you couldn't wait to come home

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OK I'm in the sun and it's February...but I'm stuck on an where nothing to do except snorkel and its too windy.

The hotel needs serious updating, there are cocks crowing all night, the breakfast was minimal. The advertised beach is lovely but literally a beach. My alternative plan of lying on the beach reading are scuppered by no umbrella or lounger.

The hire car is a worryingly battered piece of shit.

I'm being churlish but there's a long 5 days stretching out in front of me.

Honestly some stories of shit holidays would help!

Winter sun with severely depressed ex/DP - could've been anywhere TBH, it was his depression that made it so awful

We got covid on our honeymoon 2 years ago. Baby started first, then us, thankfully we where only a 2 hour drive from home so we came home

I once went on holiday and caught norovirus on the plane (I assume). Was violently ill for the first 3 days and just poorly the rest of the week. The nail in the coffin was projectile vomiting on the plane home.

I was in stitches when she was telling me about it which she wasn't all that impressed with 😬
She was very prim and had lead quite a sheltered life so I don't think she could quite believe that kind of stuff went on. She eventually came around to see the funny side of it.

I think the holiday reps knew that the two ladies weren't going to be repeat customers, weren't going to give recommendations to friends, and that any complaints wouldn't really matter so they just didn't care at all. It's awful - TBH I'd have thought the reps would've wanted the ladies out of the complex so they wouldn't have to deal with things if they became ill or had a fall (you know, old people things!!).

@NellysCheekPlaster fuuuuuck

Poor op, so sorry to hear it's not going well. I've had a few less than ideal holidays but my strategy is normally to get out of the place I'm staying and find better beaches/ towns/ reports etc. can you do that?

Egypt in 2010 - all had amoebic dysentry starting on day 2 and still all unwell on day 8 when we came home- 1 bathroom, 3 of us, still I lost half a stone! Poor son who was11 at the time lost 10lbs

Yes Rhodes. Didn't help that boyfriend I went with said on arrival "I don't want to stay here". It was near Anthony Quinn Bay which only had a view, it was about 2 miles from Faliraki. The self catering apartment was sparse, the shop was expensive and shit and the food in the restaurant was ok. It was boiling hot and the noise from the chirping crickets was incessant. Nothing to do and nowhere to go. There was a free bus by the owner every evening into Faliraki at 9.30pm. No air conditioning available and the entertainment was 2 sleezy guys who tried to get the young Norwegian girls near them at any opportunity. I'd never go back.

Yeah. When we went to Bluestone last year. It was the same shit but in an ill-equipped lodge rather than our house.

Any holiday with my children when they small ..
one would always become poorly and in the UK it always seemed to rain. 'Making memories ' I'd rather forgot most of the time

I’ve posted this before. It’s a long one!

Dom Rep, January 2010. Several hours delay for reasons that are a whole other thread, but finally arrived at our hotel exhausted and went straight to bed. Got up next morning to torrential rain. We were all inclusive though, so off to the bar we went. Along with everyone else in the hotel. Spent the day getting pissed. The “entertainment team” just downed tools, made no effort to arrange anything at all, just played loud music, with the lyrics “if your scared mother fucker go to church” The increasingly drunk audience sang the chorus with gusto, leading the entertainment team to play it frequently. Following day, still raining, off to the bar again for another group mother fucker karaoke session. Third day same. Fourth day…. You get the idea. By now even the kids were singing along.

Day five dawns, which happened to be my birthday. We had planned a trip, but all trips were cancelled due to the weather, so off to the bar we went until around teatime, when we headed back to the room, singing the mother fucker song which we were now word perfect at. Gets into our lovely ground floor beachfront room and switch on the telly. There’s been an earthquake in Haiti and the Dom Rep was on a tsunami warning! We went back to the bar and told a few people then quite a crowd of us went to reception to ask what we should do. Blank looks and shrugs all round. So a contingency of us decided to head for higher ground (remember we’d all been drinking for five days solid) and headed over the road and squelched ankle deep in mud up the hill. Then, after an uneventful and tsunami less hour, squelched back down again.

The following day we wake up and hear just how awful the earthquake was. Hundreds of thousands killed. Most of the staff at the hotel had family in Haiti and were understandably frantic, many went home. And the ones that stayed did thier best but were obviously worried sick about what had happened. The sun came out, but we felt awful enjoying ourself with the terrible things that were going on just a few hundred miles away.

When it was finally time to go home (thank god), there was a baby on the plane that was screaming blue murder. Clearly ill. As we were taxiing to the runway some bloke said something to the effect of “shut that brat up” which the babies father took exception to and all hell let loose. We had to turn back and wait for the police to sort it all out.

Almost put me off holidays for life.

Yep. Grab Canaria, hated it, hated the hotel and was very much not keen on many of my fellow hotel guests. Was very much looking forward to the flight home.

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.. omg! Sounds awful

Cancan

Hotel was right beside downtown.
First night taxi driver drove of without giving back the change, was over 30 dollars.
Beach was full of seaweed and petrol from the jet skis.
They were rebuilding the hotel due to hurricane Kathrina so had to deal with builders gawping and whistling at every opportunity.
No restaurant due to Hurricane Kathrina, makeshift shed set up and food was covered in flies.
Drug dealers in our hotel.
Had to change rooms due to drug dealers.
Next room was infested with ants.
Had to get the bus to get food everyday, bus stop was right beside the laguna and the crocs would regularly perch on the side.

Cancan that should say.

Oh my God, Cancun

I always look forward to coming home. I get bored after a week on holiday no matter what I'm doing.

I didn't like Gran Caneria much
We got caught up by a ' time share ' scammer and they took us to the new apartments to try and get to buy one! Luckily Dh talked his way out of it and they took us back down to the beach in a free taxi , but we were scared they were going to keep us there forever !
It was bizarre

Tenerife. Dogs barking constantly. Rubbish truck at 1 to 3 am. Boiling hot and no air con but couldn't open windows as due the the above and want to be race car drivers it was about 100 decibels

The last two have been pretty poor weather wise and last year the apartment was so poor that we complained and got some money back. It was supposed to be 5 star, but it was anything but and was withdrawn from the listings shortly after.

Interesting all the Tenerife ones.

I lived there for 7 years.

Can absolutely connect to the 18-30's hotel but other than that it wasn't a terrible place.

I've been back 18 years. Maybe it's changed 🤷‍♀️

Went to jersey and spent the 3 days there ill with migraine.

For night time noise I defy anyone to beat Barcelona. The bin lorries come round at about 4am and the guys get extra money if they bang and shout loud enough to be heard five streets away. That is the only possible explanation.

I lived in mainland Spain for two years and the bin men came round at 3 am every single morning
You do get used to it or buy some ear plugs !

Omg that's hilarious 😂

Not the earthquake obvs 🥴