Share your hilarious family holiday stories with Drac from Hotel Transylvania 3 - £300 voucher to be won

[DracLordOfDarkness]

Hello, it’s me, Drac, again! Thank you for all of your wonderful tips to help me survive my family vacation on the world’s first ever cruise for monsters. Yes, yes a cruise is just a hotel on water! I know we might as well have stayed at home at Hotel Transylvania, but my little ghoul Mavis insisted I need a vacation. I’ve heard that lots of people, especially humans, like to go on family holidays and I would love to hear about them and any funny stories you have.

My most hilarious moment on my monster cruise holiday was on the plane over. I know it’s ridiculous because vampires can fly but apparently I need to relax. We flew with the infamously dangerous Gremlin Air who have truly excellent customer service on board as you can see below . PM me if you’d like their details - they’re truly fangtastic.

So what hilarious family holiday stories do you have? Did someone get really bad moon-tan lines? Perhaps you tricked someone into eating a bucket of garlic? Did you go on a cruise and someone accidentally dropped their suitcase or phone overboard? Or the whole family take part in Karaoke? I love Karaoke and have some spooktacular moves to go with my singing!

Whatever your funny family holiday stories are, please share them with me and you will be entered into our Hotel Transylvania 3 prize draw to win a £300 voucher of your choice. Maybe you could use the vouchers for your own luxury monster cruise vacation?

Good luck!

Drac

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[iklboo]

ZOMBIE THREAD. COMPETITION HAS CLOSED

[HotChocolateLover]

*yelled in English I should say

[HotChocolateLover]

In France last year my son assured us that he had ‘got this’ when we needed tickets at the Metro. He said his French was pretty good and he could get us some tickets. He marched up to the desk and practically yelled ‘WE NEED 5 TICKETS’ The woman had no idea what he was on about so he said it again but louder and slower! DH and I were both pissing ourselves and cringing!

[kb1823]

my father got locked in a self cleaning portaloo once...

[BrieAndChilli]

Wow - amazing thanks!!!

[EmmaMumsnet]

Congratulations to @BrieAndChilli for winning the £300 voucher prize draw!

[Teaspoon74]

I'm reaching back to my own childhood here, but a cautionary tale for any parent travelling with youngsters is to learn from my dad's experience of going abroad to SPain for the first overseas family holiday with three kids aged 12, 11 and 6.

God knows why, but each of the boys (oldest and youngest - I'm middle) were bought a replica cap gun as a present whilst we were away. The youngest one got a pirate gun. And the eldest received a Magnum. At the end of the trip, both were told to pack all their toys into their cases.

On arrival at the airport all was going well until we got to security. As my dad was going through, lights started flashing and armed guards appeared from nowhere, pushed hi to the floor, pinned him down on the ground, and pointed their weapons at him.

We were shocked.

He was taken away and we spent the next 3 hours waiting to find out what had happened and to be reassured that he would be ok.

Turns out that my elder brother had not packed his gun away in time and had slipped it into my dad's rucksack just before we left the holiday camp. Security just saw a guy with a magnum (metal, very convincing) in his rucksack.

He was eventually reunited with us and we were able to get home unscathed, if a little later than planned.

How we laughed about it afterwards!! ;)

[Elliejojo]

We have had lots of small funny moments. Today we sat on the beach an dd2 went and sat in the middle of another family thinking it was us, the other family started to giggle and look at us, when dd realised her face was a picture!

[Pattygonia]

Our car broke down actually in eurotunnel. The staff were lovely - helped us push off and one of their engineers came and took a look and got us going again - at least to make it to the nearest garage

[colleenw]

When we went on our first abroad holiday - we stayed in a big big hotel in majorca and on the first night we stayed up late at the entertainment. When it got rather late for the little ones we decided to get back to our room and get into bed. Only we (more I) walked into the wrong room (The second key was actually the key for our next door neighbours) However i'd been so desperate for a wee and rushed in before the kids and my husband and straight into the bathroom for a wee. I'm not sure who was more embarrassed, me or our neighbours! My husband still can't breathe when telling that story to anyone!

[littlemonkeyz]

We went on holiday in Scotland. My mum decided we should go bilberry picking to make some pie for tea. We couldn't understand how my 3 year old brother could pick bilberries so quickly. When we got back to the cottage, my mum started to wash the bilberries only to find that my brother had in fact been picking rabbit poo instead (it looked very much like bilberries!). Needless to say, my dad decided to pass on bilberry pie that night!

[itsonlysubterfuge]

My MIL is hilarious without meaning to. One time she asked an innocent (male) member of the cabin crew how she could join the mile high club! She meant she wanted to join the Skymiles club, where you get miles for flying. How funny.

[Hopezibah]

erm I really really don't want to confess that it was me rather than the kids that provided the most memorable holiday experience for all the wrong reasons! Going through a security door (accidentally) at the airport and setting off ALL The alarms! Having to then be detained until they checked all our details. Then there was the time I tried paddleboarding and got swept out to sea and had to be rescued by the rescue boat. I don't seem to have much luck on holiday!

[Thatforagameof]

Losing my bikini top on the water slide just as i went into the landing pool where there were lots of people waiting. I cringed at the time but can laugh about it now.

[rhinosuze]

I remember my mum taking me to Spain as a child and getting lost in the middle of nowhere, because of their siestas we couldn't find a bus or taxi for hours to rescue us. All I did was cry

[slbhill42]

DS6 is learning French. We went to France. He was very excited about the opportunity to hear and speak it in real life. The first shop we went in he took some sweets to the cashdesk, the cashier spoke to him in French and he was so overwhelmed he dropped to the floor like he'd collapsed, leaving her peering over to see where he'd gone lol

[clarabella12]

we went a big family holiday to florida as it was my parents 40th wedding anniversary. as a gift my brother gave them mickey and minnie mouse wedding hats and made them wear them all day with personalisation of their wedding date and length of time married on it. the looks they got was hilarious plus lots of compliments some people thought they got married as babies..

[cathryn1]

mommy and ava went swimming in the pool learning to swim, daddy works hard at home so we let him sleep on the sunbed not knowing no suntan lotion, those shoulders were sore when he woke up, so sore he had to wear mommies Always pad on his shoulders to keep the tops off the burn

[Leanfun]

Once staying in the Peak District we decided to have a fish and chip picnic. All was going well until a sheep decided to follow our toddler. Toddler climbed into the back of our estate car and the sheep tried to follow after the chips. The sheep would not move away for me only did so when it heard husband’s voice.

[MaureenMLove]

Going to the airport, with a couple of friends dressed as pirates was a highlight. We'd gone straight from a party and we were slightly merry. The friends sat a bit away from us on the plane and when the cabin crew came down with drinks, they said, 'oh, that's funny, there's another couple dressed as pirates down there!'

It was funny at 5am getting on the plane. Not so funny when you land 4 hours later and your luggage has gone missing and you're explaining to the lost luggage guy that you can't spend two weeks dressed like this!

Oh how we laugh now....!

[ItsJustASimpleLine]

We were won a family holiday at Center parcs. Parents, Sis & BIL Niece, Bro & GF and our toddler DD. We were all day in the cafe area of the Swimming Pool having lunch. DD had quite an impressive poo face which give us warning of a imminent explosion however this time she simply rolled to the side and pooed, it came straight out the side of her swim nappy and onto the chair and through the little holes like a sprinkler. There was so much it was everywhere I just picked her up and ran to the changing room which thankfully had a sink we could clean her in and my poor DM had to clean up the mess on and under the chair. It was so embarrassing a couple other parents however offered their sympathies when we came back out and said it was quite the impressive poo for such a small child. I was horrified!

[blue25]

A trip to Clovelly where a very sweet donkey shat all over my foot

[greensmith68]

we went camping in devon got there on the saturday got a nice pitch at the top of a slope with beautiful sea views the next day it was scorching hot we went to the zoo and the heavens opened we ran across some grass to get under cover hubby shouted becareful coming down that hill i said what just has slipped over and skided down the hill i had red clay mud from top to toe and to make matters worse i had white top and shorts on and i'd broke my flip flop when i'd tripped needless to say the photo's were posted on facebook before i'd even made it to shelter thanks to my teenage son

[piggypoo]

We went to Cornwall years ago, and at the time I didn't know that my Mother-in-law was petrified of crabs. We hit the beach, and I heard a blood-curdling shriek. I turned round to see my MIL, had dropped her ice cream, she'd spotted a ginormous crab, and tried to run, but her tights had started to fall down, so there she was, desperately trying to pull up her baggy tights, and at the same time put as much distance from her and the crab as she could. I still maintain to this day I saw the crab laugh at her, as we all did! It was hilarious!

[jamielmdjs]

The wee man went down the water slide for the first time. We checked the depth, same as the shallow end at the hotel so fine for him. Current (from the slide) made it a wee bit trickier but still fine but he decided to play a prank. When he hit the water he went under, and flapped about for a joke. His quick reacting dad jumped in almost immediately, expensive camera around his neck. Camera ruined, the wee man 'saved' from his joke and the lifeguard still in his seat looking on bemused.