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!

@Dontfeellikeamillinial yes fucking boring wasent it (Helmshore textile museum)

Dh omce wemt on a trip to a. Old mill he missheard the yeachet and thought the whole class was goung apparently it was only the chosen few but the trachet asked if any one (of the chosen few) had a camera he brought in his dads fancy camera with lots of filters(early 80"s)amd looking back he says he realises the teacher wanted the camera bur not him and had to bump some otherchild offto include rhe camera and dh

Trip to Germany , aged 12. Stayed with a family. Son was friendly ( aged about 15/16) but he tried it on . I was miserable as I was the only girl placed with a boy, all my friends had girls who took them shopping etc.

Only bonus was randomly I found 100$ in an envelope at the airport! I went to hand it in but they told me to keep it. Which I did and bought myself a hamster when I got home

These are brilliant! I thought mine was bad but some of these involve muggings, murders and crazed fowl! So funny.

As a teacher, I only arrange trips that are comfortable and fun. The risk is in being ordered to help on a trip that someone else has organised.

@DSHathawaygivesmefannygallops I do sympathise, honestly. I love animals and birds but I have a raging phobia of moths and butterflies, and a friend once had a 13th birthday party at Tropical World in Leeds. I didn't realise quite how mothy it was going to be until I got there - basically a big room full of the horrible flappy little fuckers. In all the photos I am visibly traumatised.

I am sure the mining bloke, with his shredded wheat hair and his donkey jacket, would have been quite interesting to an older audience at a different time. But it was still the 80s, some of the kids had dads who were miners and it was all very baffling and scary to have the politics bit followed by the underground tragedy bit. I think I formed the impression somehow that Mrs Thatcher had made the pit props collapse.

Year 10, school GCSE trip to Sellafield nuclear power plant in Cumbria. Coach trip took forever, some people got really travel sick and threw up. Bus got stuck on a road that was narrow and winding and not meant for buses. My mum for some bizarre reason decided that cold chicken curry toasties would be a nice thing to put in my packup (WTF). Most boring tour/talks ever (I hate physics at the best of times) and repeat the coach trip in reverse. I opted out of all school trips after that until I went to 6th form college!

Can't remember where we went, but as soon as coach pulled into car park I was sick all over my friend

An orchestra trip to Porthcawl in South Wales in the 70's when I was about 14. We had these trips once a year as a thank you for being in the orchestra. This particular trip the weather was atrocious, one of the kids was sick on the coach and it stank making us all want to vomit. We couldn't do anything except go in the amusements arcades. I got ejected from the building for nudging the penny falls machine (the coins were soooo close to falling though), so went on my own to a hall of mirrors, banged my head on the glass and panicked cos I couldn't find my way out. For decades I told anyone who cared to listen what a complete dump Porthcawl is, but we stopped off there a few years ago on a beautiful sunny day and it was great.

Went to Butlins in Wales in. April, had to share with a girl who wet the bed every night. Caught a bad ear infection and was ill for 3 days and had to wear a blue and white hat the whole time to show which school I belonged to.
Still traumatised 40 years on.....

A Geography field trip to Scarborough. We stayed ( as 17 year olds) in a "hotel" that was actually a residential home for old people. instead of studying the sea front ( which might have been vaguely interesting) we studied pink council houses-still no idea why!

Looking back, as an adult I was horrified and thought that this was a worse school trip.
1980s Isle of Wight. We went fossil hunting, which was great. Only the beach was part of an old ww1 ww2 fortress/training ground. If we came across a bullet we hat to put it in a sand bucket for disposing later (live rounds). Bunch of 9 year olds buggering about with live ammo! The guide casually mentioned someone found a hand grenade a few weeks ago and everyone ran!
Then there was a wall with bullet holes in. Apparently it was a practice wall that soldiers shot at. We got the creeps at that! Lol!

Also we were staying in ex army ww2 tents with laces, male deputy head would peer into the girls tent randomly (normally when we were getting undressed) and half the teachers would get drunk every night

Outdoor education place. We went for a hike in the freezing, driving rain. We were supposed to get picked up by a minibus but they'd shut gates due to the weather so we were stuck, no tents, sleeping bags etc. We walked to a road and hitchhiked. A few locals picked us up in bunches and drove us to a bothy. The mind boggles now at the safeguarding aspect of that. The bothy was filthy and cold, we slept on wooden benches with no blankets.

We went to a coal mining museum where a very earnest Arthur Scargill lookalike stood up and gave us a talk about picket lines and scabs and how evil Thatcher was, before showing us a reconstruction of a pit disaster where the tunnel collapsed and killed all the miners. We were about 6.

This made me really laugh.

As a child it was the school trip to France. The trip was okay, but we had a lot of free time and I had no friends with me. I was very lonely and ended up crying on the coach.

As an adult the residential for severely disabled kids where they all got diarrhoea. Nearly all were doubly incontinent. I remember getting up in the night to change lots of teenagers nappies. Was eighties and we didn't even use gloves at the time.

Best thing about being an adult on trips then as you were allowed to drink alcohol once the kids went to bed. Worst thing was you had to sleep in the same dorm as the kids so often got not that much sleep.

This thread reminded me of this:

Great storytelling!

Also, when I was in primary school we went on a school trip to flamborough head and an inexperienced teacher took us into a cave right before the tide came in. We had to swim out in our clothes! One boy lost his shoe!

Rhyl Sun Centre (a water park.) I was about 14 or 15 and very body conscious and had to wear a horrible old swimming costume as we didn't have very much money at the time. I was just mortified at all the boys seeing me half dressed and spent the entire time hiding near the changing rooms. Oh and also I can't swim and it was absolutely miles away, a couple of hours on a coach!

Moss Side shopping centre in Manchester for a geography field trip. 12 very naive slightly posh school girls with a teacher that twittered around like a Joyce Grenfell character. We had to stand there doing a tally chart of people shopping there. This was the late 80s when Moss Side was a known mainly for drugs and shootings. It was a weird combination of feeling slightly terrified and utterly bored!

Went to Paris. Became (and was) sick in the coach to Dover. Remained sick through the whole two days. Did not leave my bed in grotty ‘hotel’. One teacher stayed with me. Not sure if that ruined her trip or actually it was a bit of peace and quiet for her. Came home late with teacher when recovered. Was all a complete non event.

Y7 Primary school trip to Wycombe Chair Museum, totally boring, a room full of chairs and chair making displays.

Y5 primary school trip where a handful of selected children got to go on a train ride to witness the unveiling of a huge train monument. There were TV crews and local reporters, to this day, I'm still not entirely sure of the significance of it all.

Y5. Residential to Scarborough.

Coldest ever weather on record. Only allowed to wear out school uniform (skirt and socks, thin jumper, duffel coat that wasn’t waterproof.

I’ve never been so cold and wet in my life.

Oh, and we were staying in some horrible guest house and the room my friend and I were in was riiiiiight at the top of about 6 different stair cases and only had a plug in electric bar heater which made the bed blankets smoulder as it was too close to the bed (tiny room).

@MissMarplesKnitting

I’m no fool, I picked ‘arid lands’ for my module with field trip!

Trip to the local sewage works. nuff said!

Clearly the school were just going through the motions.