To ask what the worst school trip was that you ever went on?

[MrsKiplin]

Mine was a trip to Belgium. I had a sickness bug the whole time and missed everything!

A skiing trip to Scotland. There was no snow and 11 out of 40 pupils got drunk and their parents had to drive for hours to come and get them.

Went on a theatre trip in the 6th form, approx 20 miles away. Teacher left a couple of pupils behind and didn’t even notice. Come to mention it no one noticed.

Went on DDs school trip as a parent travelling on public transport to a central London museum.

The bus was normally very frequent (think every 5 mins) but due to a road accident it was delayed by an hour - so an hour standing on the pavement with group of over excited kids, got stuck in traffic so arrived so late at the museum we missed the organised activity. No time to look round the museum - just ate packed lunch and came home. It was a nightmare for all concerned.

Didn't have a bad one.

Went to France and snogged the boy who won our table tennis competition

A trip to a castle. All I can remember is 2 kids getting travel sick as I had a phobia about it.

A history trip to Belgium. None of my friends were on the trip so I was really lonely plus I knew my mum was leaving my dad the weekend I was away.

A trip to wildlife place in primary school. A few nights. They placed me in to sleep with one of the teachers. I had childhood nocturnal epilepsy so I can see why they did it. But they didn't tell me the reason, or tell my parents. All I knew was I was being seperated from my best friend, she was put with another girl she wasn't keen on, no one would tell me the reason, and while I could hear everyone else doing the fun 'stay up late with your friends and run through the corridor' it was lights off early and deathly silence for me. I hated every second of that trip.

Russia, when I was 13. Got beat up by a gang of (adult) skinheads in public whilst police stood there and watched before eventually intervening

Geography field trip in uni.

Burst tyre on way so very late arriving.
Next day we were dropped in a village for a locality investigation and the.titor popped off to get a new tyre.
They took forever and we think they forgot where we were as they finally.came back 8 hours later. No shops open. No public loos.
Then another day we went across a salt marsh and I broke my ankle 5 miles from the mini bus and had to walk back on my broken ankle.

One of those awful outdoor pursuits trips in the freezing cold in Scotland. We had to do rock pooling, the sea was rough, my foot got stuck in rocks and the tide was coming in fast. Then my canoe flipped over and I couldn't get it back up, thought I was going to drown and we had to get changed out of our wet clothes on the school bus in front of the boys. Other than that it was great .

Stoke Bruerne.
My mum had packed my lunch, she'd made paste-and-tomato sandwiches. The sliced tomato made the sandwiches really soggy. Bleurght.

(I didn't go on any trips further than 80 miles away....))

Oh and a trip to France, for different reasons. We were on a ferry in really choppy waters and people were being sick everywhere.

Actually, on the way back from Russia we had terrible turbulence and loads of people were being sick on that occasion too.

The South Downs

Pouring rain and sub zero temperatures

Having to scratch different types of rock on soaked work sheets

Then walking for two hours back to school

Trip to the local sewage works. nuff said!

And my shoe got sucked off in deep mud and I stood there watching more mud and water pour into it

We went on a trip to a sewage treatment works on a hot summer day!!!
(with human biology class)

The Thames Flood barrier. The actual trip itself was pretty bog standard, but I’d assumed we would be gone all day so I didn’t bother to do my maths homework which was due in that day. We got back to the school in time for the last couple of lessons of the day, one of which was maths.

There was also my primary school trip where we walked into town to go to Radio Rentals to see the amazing new things TVs could do, which turned out to be teletext, then next door to Tesco to see their new bar code scanners. To be fair at the time it didn’t feel like a rubbish trip, we were seeing the world of the future!

DD was so excited to be going on her first ever school trip. She brought the letter home and was so disappointed. It was a day on our best friend's farm, one she'd spent her whole life visiting and staying over. What made it worse was that their DD, would not even be there to play with.

Paris in sixth form with the local boys school ( we were all girls ) so everyone was excited! Turned out to be a disaster.
The road was closed to the ferry and we had to stay in a travel lodge type place overnight so our 3 days in Paris was actually two.

Stayed at a hotel in a rough arse area and somebody was murdered outside it so we were stuck inside all day.
It was shit

@CwtchesAreTheBest you win.

As a teacher - worst was a standard trip to a local museum and park but we had a parent helping who went completely off script. She told the dcs to feed their pack lunches to the animals in the mini zoo, shouted 'RUN!' as we were lining up to cross a busy main road and completely disappeared with her group for half an hour as she decided to take them somewhere more interesting.

Best was a trip to a landfill site. Massively interesting and we all wore hard hats and got a ride in a digger scoop.

Chatham Dockyard. We went on an Ocelot submarine. I was claustrophobic and terrified. The man showing us around joked that the torpedos were still active and, who knows, maybe if we’re really unlucky they’ll explode. I was old enough to know what a torpedo was but not old enough to understand it was a joke. I’ve hardly ever been so scared.

Compulsory trip to Stratford on Avon to see Gilbert & Sullican Iolanthe. At boarding school due to living abroad so no choice and at around 11-12 it was boring and never-ending.

School camp to Edale.
It started raining the moment we got there and it didn't stop.
The tent my group was allocated to was falling down and full of holes.
My period started on the first morning and was very heavy. The "slight cold" I had developed into a fever.
I wasn't allowed to back out of any of the physical activities and my supposed best friend went off me and tried to abandon me in the middle of Sheffield.
This culminated in me passing out in our tent the following day and it was a while before anyone noticed. I was still not sent home.
Every evening the teachers and the A level students who were supposed to be "helping" would go to the pub and get drunk.
The food was awful, one girl found a large fly in her pudding.
It was hellish.

This was in the early 90's. Funnily enough as mobile phones became more common, the school decided to scrap the camp and go to a purpose built centre that sounded quite nice.

Our school took our year group to Blackpool. Me and my friends parents couldn't afford it but we pretended we were scared of rides and decided we wouldn't go. There was about 5 other kids who didn't go.

When everyone got took to Blackpool, we got took to the sewege works in the next town for a day out.

Yeah, that was shit - scuze the pun.