Aibu to ask about holiday hell experiences with other families and how you handled iy

[scattermummy]

Just for fun,please share dreadful happenings with other folk on holidays and other peoples rules clashing with your own especially regarding parenting styles .

Just marking for tomorrow :)

Well haven't been on holiday with my children yet but I remember mum and meaning to Tunisia for 2 weeks when I was about 6?

We got food poisoning so managed to get a flight home a week early and I remember someone on the flight back telling my mum she was cruel for ruining my holiday by cutting it short even though we had both been really quite ill.

I didn't care about the holiday, I just wanted to go home and crawl into my own bed.

But I remember mum taking me to Tunisia! Even.

We had a dreadful camping holiday in France 15 years ago when I was pg with DC4 and the other DCs were 4, 3, and just 1. I was exhausted before we went, and we were strapped for cash too.

The other two families we went with were better off, had fewer children, and liked to cook. We took it in turns to cook each eveing, which could have been lovely perhaps but quickly develoed into competitive dinner partying. In a tent, in a field, with babies, and pg.. I had a hysterical meltdown (hormones, exhaustion, frustration blah blah) and we went home early.

Now that I am older and wiser :o, I would advise my younger self to have opted out of the cooking game.

We are still friends, though!

We have heard so many horror stories about holidaying with other people that we have a policy of never going on holiday with anyone else.

We have taken MIL with us a couiple of times, but she is lovely and just fits in.

Awful awful camping trip last year with friends.

Their child was sent to bed at 7 every night and cried and cried whilst ours ran around outside playing. The mum moaned about everything, how far it was to the toilet, the smoke from the campfire, the wasps, she was uncomfortable, she was bored.

They used the woods as a toilet the whole time we were there and left a huge pile of toilet paper behind [vomit]

They didn't want to cook on the fire so went to McDonalds every night.

Needless to say we broke the trip up 3 days early.

How awful, iPhone. What sort of control freaks impose early bedtimes on kids especially when their friends are still up playing. Poor little thing!

Saying that, I went to Eurodisney with a friend and her child who insisted on spending the first (beautifully sunny) afternoon holed up in the (darkened) bedroom insisting that her child get it's nap.

Some people have routines and like to stick to them

Oh and went to Spain on a coach with another friend pre-kids. We piled off the coach after a gruelling 24 hour journey straight into the bars. Friend who was married got amazingly pissed, snogged a random Spanish bloke, had hysterics and started telling me what a vile person I was. I touk umbrage, slapped her and we didn't talk for 2 days.

We made up and are stiill friends (amazingly)