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

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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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Have had a few funny moments...one that sticks out is from my first with my friends many years ago. We'd spent ages trying to impress some of the boys who were staying in the same place. Things seemed to be going well.

Until one afternoon when we decided we needed to pop to the shop on site. It was raining and we didn't have umbrellas so we tied tea towels around our heads and ran down to the shop only to bump in to said boys.

We must have looked a sight! Plus we were all laughing hysterically about it so I'm pretty sure they thought we were mad.

Strangely things didn't progress any further with them.

Oh to be 17 again!

A trip to Ireland when my kids were aged 3 and 2 . We had been talking about the ferry and saying how great it would be for weeks before. They were bursting with excitement by the time we got on the ferry. It turned out to be the roughest crossing ever. So bad that sick bags had run out and crew were handing out carrier bags from the shop. We couldn't dock and instead of a 4 hour crossing it turned into a 12 hour nightmare from hell and I was convinced we would never get back on dry land. The poor kids were screaming "me no like boat me no like boat" and I thought they'd never trust me again after putting them through it! Luckily we had a very smooth sailing on the return journey.

My daughter was very into Finding Nemo when she was around 3. We went on our first family holiday and decided to eat in a very lovely fish restaurant. When the waiter came to take our order my daughter loudly stated with disgust that 'Fish and friends and not food' while cuddling her Nemo toy tightly.

The whole restaurant burst into hysterics and I almost spat my wine everywhere 😂

We did the overnight ferry from Plymouth to Roscoff. We had a cabin so all went off to sleep. DS woke up in the middle of the night and called out "mum, I feel like I'm on a boat in the middle of the sea." We still laugh about that.

DS, at a Croatian old man, yelling that's not Nanny at the top of his voice. Me: no, that's an old man dear. DS: that's old man, born loonngg time agooo (cackling). Luckily, the poor man trying to eat lunch smiled, or was perhaps bemused.

On a beach in Spain with DD who was 2 at the time and obsessed with belly buttons (??!!). In hindsight the beach probably wasn't the best place to take her as there were lots of belly buttons on show!! To which to each and every one DD had to make some comment:
"That's a hairy one"
"That's a funny one"
"That's a big one"
Pointing and laughing as she did so!
Much to my embarrassment!!!

@ButterflyOfFreedom That’s a zinger

When we were in Italy last year, we thought we try out a gelato - delicious, as we walked around the square, chatting and enjoying our iced treats, a pigeon flew over and added a very special topping to my husband's ice cream - my daughter and I laughed so hard we cried. My husband was not impressed with pigeon poop topping!

Staying in a holiday cottage in Devon - LO in a strop & stormed off into the garden having only been there a few days he hadn't yet familiarised himself with which way the gate opened &, in his temper, pushed the gate with all his might - only for it to bounce back & bop him on the forehead.
Before you say anything.. he was absolutely fine, just bruised pride! I did have a little giggle after racing out to check all was ok.. sometimes Karma does our job for us :)

Has to be when my DS was sat in the window seat in front of us, and I was sat with DS2 in the seats behind. DS1 decided to chat to us by pushing his head between the window and the seat - and got it firmly stuck - after much panicking from us and cabin crew - who said that the Captain has a kit to dismantle the seat - we gave one final shove and out came his head - we were able to take off (half an hour late). Luckily the passengers nearby were understanding.

Me, my boyfriend, our daughter (a toddler at the time) and our dog stayed in my partner's grandparent's caravan for a little holiday away. We get there and uncover that the rooms are full of clutter so we all slept in the living room together, with one big blanket. The fridge was broken so we lived on bread, butter and snacks all weekend. It rained all weekend. We only had 3 video tapes in the caravan- Babe, Ice Age and Annie. We watched Babe and Ice Age, like 5 times. We then moved onto Annie. We got into it and we're coming up to the big finale....annnddd...his grandparents had recorded over it with countryfile

We went to Florida and it was the 1st time we had been there. My husbands 1st time driving there. We ended going round and round these roads. Them coming back to the airport. We were laughing so much if not we would be crying. He had to try his best to work out the route aswell as driving on the other side of the road. The airport security guy came over to us and explained he has seen us leaving and then coming back again a few times. I didn’t know where to look. He drew a map and off we went.
We get to the hotel well what we thought was our hotel. We were all excited we made it. The manager said o no cigar your at the wrong hotel you want the one on the other side with the same name. Grrr.
We laughed it off and we eventually found the hotel. The hotel had a flood so we had to wait for a room.
We brought drinks and I was opening mine and it literally fizzed up all over me and the guy serving it to me. I could of cried.
After what seems like a few hours we were in the room, freshened up and ready to sleep. My husband decided he wants to try room service. He gave up as he couldn’t get the phone to connect properly. We both fall asleep and then all we hear is the door being banged really hard. I was feeling scared and started to laugh if not I Would of cried. He opens the door the manager and a sheriff is standing there asking to come in. The manager explains he had been calling the room to see if we were ok but there wasn’t any answer because someone had called 911 from the room.
They check the room and talk to me I explain we are tired and about the long journey etc. There must of been a mistake.
They leave. my husband and myself just end up laughing and crying we don’t know what had happened, we couldn’t sleep fom all the goings on. So we just sat there watching American news till the sun came up.

Whilst on holiday, my sibling thought it would be fun to hide snowballs in my bag. Obviously they are going to melt as they don't stay frozen forever. However they forgot to tell me about the joke and I ended up with a bag of very wet clothes.

We all laugh about the time our teenage DDs suffered major sense of humour failures at Yosemite. This was despite the fact that they were desperate to see the place, and had insisted we include it in our itinerary. When we arrived it was the middle of the day, and very hot, and they weren't impressed when we parked the car and attempted to take them for a walk.

DD1 said "you told me there were buses!" Ummm....yes there are, around the park....but on the trails you are expected to....you know.....walk.

DD2 said "why do I need to walk around? I can look at it on Google Earth". No answer to that, really.

They sulked for ages, and we tease them about it now, how they went to one of the most beautiful places on the planet and couldn't be bothered to walk around it.

Our cottage turned out to be down a very ruttted farm track and I had a new and little car so I made everyone get out and carry everything to lighten the load. Further down I decided I couldn't drive it and parked, so the last 5 minutes of the journey took us over an hour lugging everything. Got there and the cleaner bombed past us in her little car.

Haven caravan holiday in the lakes, it rained a lot. Children were about 4&5, got them all togged up for a wet welly walk which was great fun until I got my wellies stuck in deep mud, nearly fell over backwards, only way to get out was to leave the wellies behind and get even more muddy. Never again! Kids laughed though.

Many moons ago we convinced my brother that we were on a ferry to France when we are merely crossing a river. He got very upset and started crying because he hadn’t got his bunny with him and wouldn’t be able to sleep, he was 12. We still tease him to this day

Went on holiday to Portugal at the end of October. We thought it was quite warm but the locals obviously thought we were nuts. They were in fur coats on the bus while you could obviously see our bikini straps poking out from under our tshirts. Needless to say we got to the beach (accessed by ferry) and it was completely deserted. Hotels and bars all shut. The only business on the island it seemed was a hot chestnut seller at the dock!!

That moment when you think you know your children well but actually don't... we were in holiday and went to Paultons Park for a day out, DD was so confident and picked the biggest ride to go on (9) DS (3) wanted a go but wasn't sure.. fast forward to a green yet surprisingly pale DD who vowed never to go on a ride again and basically wanted it to end as soon as possible , and DS who was bright red from the excitement, loved every second, and wanted to go again! Needless to say my feet stayed firmly on the ground! No way was I gonna go on that! Poor DD but she finds it very funny now and still refers back to 'that time'

Went to France first holiday abroad since having dd, we seemed to pick a week where they had public holiday after public holiday and everything was shut! We found one restaurant open and an aquarium!

My dp has a false front tooth, following an accident as a teenager when his brother hit a golf ball into his face, knocking the original tooth out. His dental plate has always therefore been a source of humour.

A couple of years ago, when we were on holiday in Paris, my partner was cleaning his dental plate, and I heard a sound of shouting and swearing from the bathroom. I looked round the door only to find dp gazing into the plug hole. Unfortunately he had dropped the the plate down the plug hole and could see it lodged just underneath. There was no way that he could retrieve the plate - but using the sink risked it being washed away.

My dp was far too embarrassed to go down to reception with a front tooth missing and I was laughing too much. Eventually he called reception and explained. After they had stopped laughing, they arranged for us to use the bathroom in the room next door, a promise of a a plumber for the following day.

The next days, we noticed the reception staff laughing as they briefed the staff coming on to the morning shift. Luckily the plumber retrieved the plate later that day and my dp could go home smiling.

OOH is the third going to be less horrendously sexist and 1950sesque this time? One of the worst films I've watched with my children.

In Egypt my sister was adamant she wanted to take a pic of the fish in the sea. I told her it was a really bad idea to take her new iPhone into the sea. Approximately 3 seconds after I handed her the phone she tripes and falls into the water with the phone in her hand. Phone was completely buggered.

It wasn't funny at the time! But when our little one was 6 months old we went on holiday to Spain. On our return at the airport we went off to change the little one whilst we were waiting for our gate to open. We then heard the announcement for boarding so we following the '2' sign. Only to realise we following platfore rather than gate! We didn't understand the signs. We literally had to run from one end of the airport to the other with a baby, pram, carry on bags. First exercise I had done in a while!! When we got to the gate they were just about to take our cases off, but we got front row seats! I was so embarrased!!

Benidorm...

Yes, it's just like the TV show, if anyone ever thinks of going...

My Nana had taken me and my Mum there for the 'experience', a year previously. (She speaks pigeon Spanish, waving an item about saying 'Costa Mucha?' In all fairness there are more English there, than there are Spanish).

Now my Dad, has never stayed in anything less than a 5 Star. He's more of an Italian Riviera or Amalfi Coast kind of bloke.

Well, me and my Mum decided to treat him to the full Spanglish experience that is Benidorm (protesting bitterly, he finally agreed - hey, where else can you can a three course Chinese for €5, with a fan thrown in...!)

Into the stay, I ended up meeting some lads my age (I was about 17), at a family bar we were at, my parents were talking to theirs.

They'd asked if I wanted to go into a bar in the centre, after clearing it with my Dad, off we set.

Halfway on route, I turn around to see Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole following us about 20 paces back, seeing I've spotted them my Mum dashes behind a lamp post (who needs an invisibility cloak ey?!), and my Dad stops dead (it was like a scene out of 'What's the time Mr Wolf').

Yep, they said they would sit at a different table, but wanted to be there.

I go to the bar a notice this 'woman' looking me up and down.

Thinking nothing of it, we (me and the lads) grab our drinks and take a seat, my parents are already seated.

10 minutes later, they dim the lights and the stage lights up.

This feather boa clad 'woman' appears, begins to undress (I'm already mortified at this point).

She then goes onto provide a LIVE SEX SHOW.

I wanted the ground to swallow me up, I glance over and can see my Dad doesn't know where to look, and my Mum in hysterics at my mortified face

We haven't returned to Benidorm since!