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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[Nsmum14]

We were on holiday in Spain, in the autumn at the time of a fiesta mayor. There was a fire running procession and I decided to stay and see what it was like as there were other kids around. My toddler had the shock of her life when it began - noisy, fire-in-your-face madness! The other kids must have been exposed to it from babyhood as they were enjoying it - not so much my child!

[avamiah]

I took my 8 year old to a great hotel in Sandbanks England where they had a kids club on every day from the morning to evening .She was having a great time but on the 3rd day she says “mum can you come and take part as it’s family day”.
My little darling then gave me a timetable of events ,and the last one was a family disco with dance competition .😃.
So I said I would come along to that and sign up and she thought that was a great idea.
Roll on a couple of hours and after dinner we head off to the ballroom were the family disco/dance competition was taking place

[avamiah]

Continued
Everything was going great until the kids event organiser asked all the mums/dads /family to come onto the floor .
We were then taught a little dance routine which a winner would be picked .
So guess who won ?
Yes me and do you know what my little darling stormed off in embarrassment when I went on stage to collect my award and wouldn’t speak to me for at least 10 minutes till I let her order chocolate ice cream at 11pm.

[voyager50]

We were playing crazy golf when my mum hit the ball into the water surrounding the course - to try and rescue it my sister and I had to lay down on the wooden walkway, lean over and try to fish it out with the golf clubs and our hands - my nephew just stood laughing and my other sister filmed it - we looked ridiculous, especially when my mum nearly hit my sister in the face with the club!

[DracLordOfDarkness]

@Scotgirl80 Monstrously funny

[mydogmymate]

One from when I was about 7. It was so bad it still ranks as the worst I've ever had!

We went to the Lake District for the Easter weekend: mum & dad and my two sisters and the dog. We went to a campsite and pitched a tent then it started raining. And didn't stop! We got wetter and wetter and couldn't dry out. To make things worse, the dog would go out and get wet, then run around the inside of the tent to get dry. We put up with this for two days and begged my dad to take us home, which he did eventually. I've never been so pleased to go in the bath!

Worst holiday ever! And I've never been back to the Lake District

[Treaclespongeandcustard]

On the way home from one day I was selected for an intense security search, they emptied all case and checked my clothes (whilst I was wearing them - luckily). Of course they found nothing and let me progress to check in, but by then check in had closed and I missed my flight!! It was my birthday and I had to wait 12 hours and pay for the next one.

[Playdohnut]

We found a beautiful lake in Austria, but we weren't allowed to go in it as we didn't have any swimming gear or towels. I warned DB to be careful not to fall in as we walked down the jetty to peer over at the fish... and then promptly slipped on some moss/weed and feel in face-first. Everyone else thought it was hilarious... but did mean at least we got to swim as I was soaking anyway...

[Sammyislost]

Hmm maybe when my boobs popped out of my swimsuit when I came off a flume? Wish it didn't take me so long to realise.

[Highfever]

We booked a newspaper token holiday and do it online. I got the dates and place we wanted and we looked at the holiday park, fab swimming pool , facilities etc.

We got there and they had no booking even when I showed them the booking confirmation. After half an hour of them searching they realised I was actually booked in at a similar named complex several miles away. This complex was nothing like the first place when I got there. The pool was awful, the place was full of older people tutting young excited ( but well mannered) children. We made the best of it and for the next year I booked to go to the original complex! This was ok but we had sort of had the shine taking off the whole holiday!

[defineme]

Toddler ds1 was kept beautifully quiet on the homeward bound flight with a family size bag of cheetos. However, he started poohing whilst we collected the car and swiftly filled the 2 nappies I had left. In the end he was 'free poohing' on a travel rug next to our car, laughing his head off whilst horrified holidaymakers drove past.

[Goingovertosusanshouse]

The usual silly drawings with suncream! Not funny now but very funny at the time!

[goose1964]

We took our son to a posh restaurant for his birthday but he fell asleep at the table. The staff covered him in rose petals, the photos are hilarious

[duck22]

We decided to take our 10month and 3yr old on a 4hr cat journey hol8days to prove we could do it by ourselves.
Day 1 - oldest vomits all over the car
Day 2 - whilst nappy free temporarily (it was hot) 5 he baby decides to do an epic poo and the tryst to pick it up
Day 3 - Both kids vomit
Day 4 - rest :-)
Day 5 - Baby projectile vomiting
Day 6 - projectile vomiting
Turns out there was a vomiting virus at nursery which both cought

[Lightsong]

Holiday Horror 1

First abroad holiday as a family, DD then aged 5 we went to Madeira. The very first day we took the cable car to the Ornamental Gardens . Beautiful flowers, stunning views, sculptures and water features. DD made straight for an ornamental pond that was covered in some sort of bright green pond moss, except DD thought it was grass and marched straight in. I had no idea how deep it was so was near hysterical, DP fished her straight while the other tourists looked on in disbelief. All DD could say for herself was "But I stayed on the grass!"

Holiday Horror 2

DD then aged 8, me 12 weeks pregnant, Croatia in Aug so sweltering. We had been to the rock pools earlier and DD had brought a few little crabs in a bucket of water back to the villa, DP went for a walk to the Old Town while DD played and I dozed, arranged to catch a bus and meet him there for dinner that evening. When I woke up DD was still happily playing with her crabs, went to check my phone and it was completely dead, wouldn't charge or anything. Couldn't contact DP as the only mobile number I had memorized was my dad's in the UK so ended up having to catch a bus into Dubrovnik with DD, locate a pay phone, call my Dad, ask him to call DP to meet us, DP had no signal in the Old Town. Gave up after a few hours of aimless wandering around, got bus back to villa with DD in the dark to find DP waiting for us. After we got back home I had a look in online storage at the photos I had taken before my phone's mysterious death in Croatia, the last ones on there were increasingly closer close ups of a few little crabs in a bucket of water........

[DracLordOfDarkness]

Bleh Bleh Bleh

[BrieAndChilli]

Has anyone seen the episode of Not Going Out where they are late for the ferry??
Well our trip to the Isle of Wight several years ago was exactly like that!!

• there were various roadworks and accidents in Bristol which meant it took us about 10 ones as long to get through,
  
• the M5 was jammed so we went bath way, except a road was closed so we ended up going through a field which had a pop up toll booth in it to save going on a 15 mile detour.
  
• one of the kids was sick
  
• the roof box started coming off
  
• the traffic coming up to the ferry port was rammed and moving at about 0.00000001 mile an hour.
  

We got to the port to be told boarding was closed so had to plead to be let on, my sister and family had just boarded

When I watched the above mentioned episode I was half laughing and half crying at the memory!!

[oliveoiledolivia]

Recently went on holiday, dh said that restaurants looks rather nice let’s go there. It was a fabulous 5** star beautiful hotel. I absolutely did not want to go in because we only had our shoddy beach gear with us after driving down from our equally shoddy hotel.

Whilst eating on the outside terrace, flies seemed to keep coming from nowhere on our food. I was getting really annoyed as my €30 sandwich was impossible to eat with all the arm flapping occurring from me trying to get rid of the flies. Dh Googled what to do and apparently lemons deter flies. He asked the waitress for a bowl of lemons, which she kindly gave him whilst staring at his fish dish imaging it was for they. The look on her face when he proceeded to squirt them everywhere. Over his arms, his legs the whole blimmin table.
I was mortified. And no, the lemon juice deterred no flies.

[kateandme]

ok here we go.total friends moment to come.remember the episode with monica and the jelly fish sting.yep yep.i don't need to say anymore.

[QueenOfPharts]

Our latest family holiday to Portugal had some moments we will look back on and laugh...but werent that funny at the time! Like dh very selflessly offering to do all the driving as knew Id be a nervous wreck. Yes dear reader he forgot his drivers licence.I did all the driving and amazingly we all lived to tell the tale

[SillyMoomin]

"don't touch the red chilli plant DC" I said whilst staying in a villa in sri lanka

They heard "mumble mumble ooooh red pretty plant with red funny shaped object growing from it.. mumble mumble.."

10 minutes later a huffing and puffing dc run into the kitchen gasping for water having experienced their first ever bite of a full grown chilli

[UpOnDown]

We left the passports on the car roof...

[Enigma222]

Recently visited a beach in the UK to make the most of this heat wave only to find that that tide never came in and we never even got to soak our feet in the water. Kids said don’t ever bring us here again!

[mave]

My brother couldn't wait to get into the pool on our first ever family holiday when we were 5 and 8 to Spain. He legged it from the hotel reception when he spotted it and ran through a patio door, smashed the glass!! Fortunately he came out of it unscathed !

[Elizasmum02]

we went camping in the isle of wight. there was a huge storm and our tent didnt stand up the the rain, my dad locked himself in the car, we couldnt join him because the door wouldnt unlock. we had to wait til the next day for a mechanic to come let him out!