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On holiday and they’ve taken the key and won’t answer their phone

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User8182737484849 · 29/08/2025 12:50

On holiday with a family member. We don’t always see eye to eye, but I thought this trip might be a chance for a bit of a reset.

Today we decided to do different things.

Normally I’ve had the apartment key when we’ve gone out together, but I asked them to pop it in the key safe this time. For whatever reason, they didn’t — and with their phone switched off I can’t get hold of them.

I’m making the best of it with a quiet day to myself, but I can’t help feeling a bit upset. It’s left me feeling quite stuck, literally and figuratively. I can’t leave the apartment! I’d never want to make someone else feel like that.

Any advice on how to handle the rest of the trip without letting this sour everything?

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Topseyt123 · 29/08/2025 16:45

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You sound like a complete dunderhead.

I'm not surprised that the two of you don't get on. I AM surprised that either of you thought taking a very badly planned holiday together was a good idea and could ever work.

ohyesido · 29/08/2025 16:51

@Thefastandthecurious5 you left your sister in the apartment with the key in your pocket so she is basically trapped indoors on holiday? That’s a rotten trick to play, you should be ashamed

Londonmummy66 · 29/08/2025 16:56

Hola

Me is cleaner. Mr Owner tight and no pay for second key. He say I go round and give mine. I ignore message as he too tight to pay me last time I do this. I take bottle windowlene as pay. Now I stay home and admire my clean windows.

soupyspoon · 29/08/2025 17:03

Londonmummy66 · 29/08/2025 16:56

Hola

Me is cleaner. Mr Owner tight and no pay for second key. He say I go round and give mine. I ignore message as he too tight to pay me last time I do this. I take bottle windowlene as pay. Now I stay home and admire my clean windows.

😂

Lotsofsnacks · 29/08/2025 17:04

PiggingBastardPigs · 29/08/2025 14:07

😁

Ha ha. Honestly if this thread is real, the sisters are a pair of numpties, who are better off never going on holiday together, ever again!! Just talk to each other instead of communicating by posting on mumsnet!!

PiggingBastardPigs · 29/08/2025 17:08

Lotsofsnacks · 29/08/2025 17:04

Ha ha. Honestly if this thread is real, the sisters are a pair of numpties, who are better off never going on holiday together, ever again!! Just talk to each other instead of communicating by posting on mumsnet!!

I mean, if mediation is required, what better place than asking a load of faceless warriors!

It’s so real.

strawlight · 29/08/2025 17:11

PiggingBastardPigs · 29/08/2025 14:40

Yep, men-hating teachers!

Actually, the brother isn’t allowed to go on holidays with his sisters any more, after repeatedly knocking over their sandcastles in Torremolinos 1988.

Love, mum.

strawlight · 29/08/2025 17:11

Londonmummy66 · 29/08/2025 16:56

Hola

Me is cleaner. Mr Owner tight and no pay for second key. He say I go round and give mine. I ignore message as he too tight to pay me last time I do this. I take bottle windowlene as pay. Now I stay home and admire my clean windows.

🤣🤣🤣

PiggingBastardPigs · 29/08/2025 17:13

Londonmummy66 · 29/08/2025 16:56

Hola

Me is cleaner. Mr Owner tight and no pay for second key. He say I go round and give mine. I ignore message as he too tight to pay me last time I do this. I take bottle windowlene as pay. Now I stay home and admire my clean windows.

🤣🤣

JamieCannister · 29/08/2025 17:16

User8182737484849 · 29/08/2025 12:50

On holiday with a family member. We don’t always see eye to eye, but I thought this trip might be a chance for a bit of a reset.

Today we decided to do different things.

Normally I’ve had the apartment key when we’ve gone out together, but I asked them to pop it in the key safe this time. For whatever reason, they didn’t — and with their phone switched off I can’t get hold of them.

I’m making the best of it with a quiet day to myself, but I can’t help feeling a bit upset. It’s left me feeling quite stuck, literally and figuratively. I can’t leave the apartment! I’d never want to make someone else feel like that.

Any advice on how to handle the rest of the trip without letting this sour everything?

Why would you not want to sour everything?

Heronwatcher · 29/08/2025 17:18

User8182737484849 · 29/08/2025 13:15

They’ve said it was “safer” for them to take the keys so they would have the option to return to the apartment. Whereas as I obviously don’t have that option…

Is this a joke! I’d have gone absolutely mental and told them to bring it back immediately or I would be going home and leaving their stuff in the street. Seriously this is abuse and you’re worried about letting it “sour” the holiday?

PullTheBricksDown · 29/08/2025 17:20

I'm the key. I'd like to go home now. ☹️

Vic271 · 29/08/2025 17:27

OP learn your lesson and don't go on holiday again with someone you don't get on very well with. This person sounds like a complete arsehole.

Heronwatcher · 29/08/2025 17:34

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Are you a complete idiot? Just leave the key with her. If she’s popping out locally she can message you or leave the key in the safe herself? This can’t be real.

ChristmasFluff · 29/08/2025 17:50

I am the key safe, and nothing ever seems to fill the aching void inside of me.

PiggingBastardPigs · 29/08/2025 17:55

ChristmasFluff · 29/08/2025 17:50

I am the key safe, and nothing ever seems to fill the aching void inside of me.

😁 even the cleaner has shunned you.

WaitWhatWhatWait · 29/08/2025 17:55

Londonmummy66 · 29/08/2025 16:56

Hola

Me is cleaner. Mr Owner tight and no pay for second key. He say I go round and give mine. I ignore message as he too tight to pay me last time I do this. I take bottle windowlene as pay. Now I stay home and admire my clean windows.

😆

PiggingBastardPigs · 29/08/2025 18:00

WaitWhatWhatWait · 29/08/2025 17:55

😆

That post is hilarious.

Sweetpea1532 · 29/08/2025 18:48

Yoohoo @DwarfBeans You are desperately needed over here...it's another 'Holiday Gone Wrong' ..your specialty😂

BuildbyNumbere · 29/08/2025 21:01

You need to get a second key … only having one key between 2 adults is ridiculous!

EasySqueezy · 29/08/2025 21:21

Pluvia · 29/08/2025 15:00

This is passive-aggressive game-playing and would make the OP as bad as the person who has walked off with the key and switched off their phone. Go home or find a hotel or an alternative if you wish, OP, but behave like a responsible adult and leave a note saying that you've left and won't be back.

Or, as it seems the door is self-locking, just gather some stuff that you might need for a day out and go out for the day yourself.

Well aren’t you so bloody reasonable.

tinytemper66 · 29/08/2025 21:42

This can’t be real. Two sisters being right arseholes and answering each other on here. No. More like one person who has 2 accounts.

PyongyangKipperbang · 29/08/2025 21:54

Your mother or your sister?

Tomorrow I would do the same. But thats why I dont holiday with people I "dont always see eye to eye" with.

healthybychristmas · 29/08/2025 21:59

Honestly I would go home. Who is this person?

healthybychristmas · 29/08/2025 21:59

Honestly I would go home. Who is this person?