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!

Crich Tramway Museum, it's definitely something you should only have to experience once in your lifetime. It's so bloody boring, bearable for about 45 minutes as that's how long it takes to see everything on offer but a full day is worse than spending the day at the Dentist.
The following year we went to York Railway Museum and that's grim when you have no interest in trains as well.
Fate then went and bit me on the arse as ds2 was train mad and we visited the railway museum two or three times a year for three or four years.

A trip to Dungeness B nuclear power station

Kayaking trip aged about 13. Major communications breakdown where the instructor thought we were all experienced kayakers but actually none of us had done it before. So day 1 began with him taking us down various sets of rapids, whereupon we all capsized, panicked, flailed around, dropped oars, etc. He then shouted at us for having forgotten our skills and didn’t believe us when we said we hadn’t ever done it. The next day the teacher in charge of us had confirmed that we were indeed all beginners, but most of us were pretty traumatised after that and the instructor (who clearly felt defensive about what had happened) was a dick to us for the rest of the trip. Writing this it seems so implausible that I wouldn’t be surprised if none of you believe this actually could have happened, but I guess health and safety and risk assessment wasn’t taken as seriously in the early 90s!

Salmonella on a residential school trip when I was about 10. All I wanted to do was go home and sleep in my own bed and poo and throw up in my own loo. Instead I was quarantined. It was truly miserable

Hinkley Point power station .

My class went to Drogheda in Ireland, where the highlight was the HEAD of a saint called Oliver Plunkett. It was all shrivelled up and black. Google it!

We were 8 or 9, so the trip resulted in 30 traumatised children who couldn't sleep for weeks.

My daughter went on a geography trip to Grasmere.

It was raining so hard that they stayed on the bus with the idea that when it stopped they’d get out and study the area.

Never stopped raining so they stayed on the bus, it got to be going back time and so they came back never having got off the bus.

As a PhD student, driving a minibus full of MSc students and undergrads. Freezing cold day in Northumberland. Minibus let snapped in the ignition. I had to stay with the minibus whilst everyone got the train home. At least we were in Hexham, which has a train station, not Kielder where we’d been earlier, which is much more remote, and pretty devoid of public transport.

When I was in junior school we went down to the local canal for that years 'school trip'

See Craicgalore, I had another primary trip where we could hold a mummified head. I was first up and thought it was great! Admittedly older primary, I was probably closer to 11.

And it didn't have teeth to be fair, that's a bit creepy (I googled Oliver)

A trip to Pleasure Wood Hills "American adventure" theme Park, organised for "disadvantaged children".
It rained. A lot.
I was put in a group with much smaller kids and I was too big for the rides they wanted to go on.
I don't remember going on anything myself. The group leader repeatedly called me "Stephanie". My name is not Stephanie.
It was crushing because it was my only chance to go to a theme park and I'd been looking forward to it soo much.
I was aware that I was supposed to feel grateful so I pretended to everyone I'd had fun.
My kids go to theme parks a lot

Went to Boston on a coach (I grew up in Canada) with 29 other 15-17 year-olds. A nasty stomach bug went around and got over three quarters of us starting on day 1 of 4. Teacher hospitalized from the virus, vomit everywhere from students and faculty. I was lucky and didn't catch the bug, but got massively seasick on the whale watching portion of the trip and missed a whale swim right beside the boat... I was looking at the inside of a toilet bowl instead.

Boston is beautiful though, and Salem is really cool. I'd like to go back under different circumstances.

I'm a teacher and on one trip one of my pooir pupils had a very explosive case of diarhea! I'd used all my wipes on the bus with a child who had travel sickness and had no phone reception to ring my fellow teacher... horrific..

I also nominate this thread for classics. Its the gift that keeps on giving.

Outward bounds with no risk assessment and watersports with no wetsuits seem to show up a lot. Who in anyone's right mind expects children to get wet and muddy but without any means to get warm and dry?

I always got travel sick. On the one trip I didn't get travel sick my best friend did and she threw up in someone's bag, then refused to tell anyone. I spent the whole journey smelling her sicky breath, worried they would think it was me when they found the sick.

School trips were never a strong point for me!
Geography trip in year 7 around the local town - I tripped up the steps outside the school on the way out and landed on my face ... quick trip to the GP and returned just in time to go back to school with a lovely black eye.

Another trip was when I was in brownies and It was a weekend away near Reading. I cried so much about being homesick that my dad came all the way back to pick me up. Funnily enough he wouldn’t drop me back off again the next day to go on the day trip to the zoo 🙄.

@Elementtree I too went to Hartlepool Power Station when I was about 9 and it was the most boring day out ever, I just remember spending the next couple of years being a bit about living so close to it if anything ever went wrong!

Lots of period disasters here!
School camp - going on a ten mile walk with horrendous period pain and bleeding into my trousers. Having jumper round my waist all day....

School trip to the dump. Someone put their hand in a shitty nappy by mistake.

School trip bike riding. We got left behind. Scared and alone, in the day before mobile phones. Instead of being apologetic when they eventually found us, our teachers were angry.

Another school trip and my friend got left behind as his greasy pizza at the service station took too long to cook and the coach drove off. We drove back and found him with a sad face holding his pizza crust he was saving for later in case he was there overnight. We got blamed for that as well.

School trip to Wales. Someone stole vodka and was found in a random welsh boys house drinking it.
Another time on a residential trip the teachers were cheating with one another and instead of looking after us they were shagging so we spend two days bored in a hotel eating the all you can breakfast and staring out the window wistfully.

My children now go to the same school I did and they don’t do school trips anymore. .

A stupid, horrible day spent walking in the rain at an Outdoor Activity centre when I was 10. I have no idea to this day what the point was, as nobody spoke to anyone else. I have always loved walking, but I didn't love this trip.

It was the only school trip we ever had, as trips were regarded as not sufficiently academic.

Our school arranged ski trips in the 1980s. The teacher in charge decided that students were allowed to drink alcohol if we brought with us signed permission from our parents. This wasn't a sixth form trip, oh no, our school was 11-16 year olds. I think he envisioned a sip of wine at meal times, nit 14 year olds passed out for 24 hours ... (What was he thinking!!!)

Not not nit