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Your worst holiday?

18 replies

Comedyshortsgamer · 13/12/2017 20:46

Mine would in Brighton , last day lost my purse so had to ring up all the credit card company's to cancel my cards

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dontcallmethatyoucunt · 14/12/2017 19:59

Majorca with a potty training nearly 3 year old and a 4 month old baby. Awful.

TheSconeOfStone · 17/12/2017 11:45

Backpacking round Ireland in 1995. Rained nearly every day (hotel ceiling leaked on our first night and had to move to another hotel), we got caught out with the high cost of food, accidently ended up at the wrong campsite in Galway (was very rough), people partying all night at campsite in Doolin (they did invite us to join them to be fair). Got the coach from London to save a few quid which was full of drunk people singing, ditto the ferry from Holyhead. This holiday is why I now obsessivly research before we go anywhere.

VanGoghsLeftEar · 17/12/2017 11:46

Malta. It was boring.

Ginmakesitallok · 17/12/2017 11:47

Sunny beach in Bulgaria.

CremeFresh · 17/12/2017 11:47

Spain - involved in a horrific coach crash

LoisSanger · 17/12/2017 11:48

One Christmas in a cottage with XHs family where having a D&V bug was the highlight of the holiday as at least it meant I could stay away from everyone else. XH and I were not having a good time (since split up) but no one else knew and it was horrible.

CupanTaeAnois · 17/12/2017 11:52

Tunisia about 15 years ago. Realised half board beach holidays not for us and are now far more adventurous and research every last detail now!
Manky buffet food, filthy rooms, evening entertainment,same faces every day, bus trips to carpet factories and waking up to Ronan Keating being played on loop every nothing by the pool. Fond memories not

hotwaterbottler · 17/12/2017 11:56

We had a family holiday when I was younger and we were involved in a minor car accident and had to spend a day in aa French police station as my dad gave a statement and sorted our the insurance and a garage to repair the damage

Shakey15000 · 17/12/2017 11:57

Camping in Cornwall. Had booked for 2weeks in the summer. It chucked it down for 3days solid. On the fourth day we threw in the towel and booked into a lovely, warm, DRY hotel.

That was 25 years ago and I've never set foot in a tent since

Insomnibrat · 17/12/2017 11:57

Kardamena in Kos. It was dirty, messy, run down, rough & full of eighteen to thirties type dickheads. We had to change hotels twice and in the end had a massive fall out and broke up when we got home.

TBH, if I could have caught a flight I'd have come home on day 2.

Whitney168 · 17/12/2017 11:58

Cuba - food poisoning so bad that I ate nothing for 3 days and then just bread and eventually a slice of cheese with it for the rest of the holiday.

YourHandInMyHand · 26/12/2017 18:32

Mine was in Majorca, another guest ruined it for us by terrifying my son who has special needs. Our Thomas cook rep stepped in and found us a new hotel which solved the problem of son being scared but meant repacking and moving mid holiday and son not knowing anything about the new destination. It was my least favourite holiday we've been on and I've travelled a lot with him. Majorca itself was lovely though.

LeMesmer · 27/12/2017 00:04

Lake Garda five years ago. Lake Garda is lovely, place we stayed very nice. A golf resort where DH could play golf a few times, I would take DS a few places and we would have a few days together. DH had had a very stressful time at work for the few months before so all really looking forward to it. We were driving there, with DH driving all the the way as he hates for anyone else to drive. All ready to go, days out planned, DH tees time for golf booked.

Then 10 days before he breaks his foot in two places. Debated whether to go, but didn't want to disappoint DS. All golf cancelled. I drove and endured the worst back seat driving imaginable, culminating in me telling him if he didn't like my driving he could get out and hop home or hop to Peschiera. When we arrived a first floor flat DH managed to get up to but was stuck there nearly all week. I made him of flask of tea and sandwiches every day and took DS out, he stayed in and watched Italian daytime TV (grim). DH did manage to come out once and watch DS and I swim in the indoor pool, he couldn't go in obviously.

On the way back he managed to keep quiet about the driving but had his wallet stolen at a service station in Bologne, taking DS to the toilet holding his hand with one hand and the other hand sing his crutch, so a pretty easy target.

We have been back a couple of times since, and are going again next year. DH's feet are wrapped in cotton wool for four weeks preceding the holiday.

anothernetter · 27/12/2017 00:13

On holiday with mil and her partner. We went to Wales and they hired a holiday cottage We spent most of our time in freezing conditions going on long muddy walks. In the evening if there was to be any wine with the meal MIL's partner would always insist on pouring it out. They never put the tv on so anytime spent in doors if we were not chatting we spent in silence while they read broadsheet news papers. I brought a book but I didn't want to read all the time. Then MIL's partner decided to leave his viagra pills in full view in the bathroom. Would it really have taken much effort to put them out of sight in a bag/ drawer?

ferrier · 27/12/2017 00:14

Butlins. Closely followed by camping.

anothernetter · 27/12/2017 00:15

Forgot to say re the wine he always poured himself a proper glass. Everyone else got a half measure which I thought was rude, particularly as we had contributed half towards the cost of the food shop.

JustAnotherManicUsername · 27/12/2017 09:49

Brittany with DS1 aged 1. Always a bad sleeper, he woke up every hour all night long for the first week. We spent all the daytime's sleeping in shifts. Second week he fell down the hard wooden stairs (only a babygate at the top). He was fine but we were traumatised. And we didn't like Brittany much. But the basic problem was that it was our first holiday with kids and we just weren't prepared for what a slog it would be.

LoniceraJaponica · 27/12/2017 10:03

CupanTaeAnois it was Tunisia for us as well - in 1985, except we had to deal with cockroaches as well. We decided that if we could only afford budget holidays in the same vein we would stay at home and save for something better. I don't go on holiday to be less comfortable than I am at home.

The following year we went to California for 3 weeks.

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