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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[Clairecricket1]

While holidaying down in Cornwall our sat nav decide to take us all down and through back roads it was more like off road! the children seem to love it, we even ended up having to get a mini crossing across a river on a boat!!

[barbsbarbs]

majorca- four children under 9, forgot the essential bag with sun cream, calpol etc, only realised when we got to the hotel. By this time three year old had managed to get down to the pool, with me watching for the balcony, ran hysterically to the pool, he was laughing! he alos had managed to get an icecream during this time and was covered init. meanwhile other three children were going crazy in the room, husband was off exploring alone. yes it kind of set the scene for the holiday, however we survived it, but decied to stick to uk hols from then on

[Havingkittens04]

DS not really understanding the concept of watching the live shows - he wanted to be PART of the entertainment and broke free to scramble up the steps to the stage at every opportunity. He was 16 months old and was quite put-out that we were stopping him joining in. I think a career in the stage awaits. He was very entertaining : ) x

[socat]

I went on Holiday to Eire (Tipperary) and stayed in a little village that had a small Fish and Chip shop and the owner was from Buckinghamshire!! What a small world as I lived on the same street, close to his former take-away.
We stopped at a pub for some soup and rustic bread and then asked for directions to Mahon Falls, they said this way and dat way AND lo & behold we ended-up back at the pub!! (they had us!!!)

[Ganne1]

Our daughter was very young (seven?) when we visited a restaurant in France. It was hardly cordon bleu (the waiters were dressed as cowboys!), but, being French, the food was good. Our children ordered a non-alcoholic cocktail, which was duly served with stirrers in the shape of North American headdresses. Our daughter preferred her brother's yellow one to her black one, and so called over a waiter (I can't do that), and asked in French to have a yellow one! We were speechless, as we didn't think she'd been learning that much!

[renas]

We camped on a hill side in our caravan and awing the wind was so strong in the middle of the night that my husband had to stand outside in his underpants and hold on to the awning to stop it ripping off. The following evening my two DS’s stripped to their underpants and said they were going to help Daddy hold the tent down.

[007hel]

Scary at the time ... we were holidaying in Australia at one of the beaches we had visited. My OH was taking some photos of the kids when he dropped the camera in the sea. It didn't appear to work so we took the memory card out and left the camera in the camper to dry out.

On driving through the outback in the pitch black desperatly trying to get to the next resting point feeling really tired. We suddenly had a heard of wild cows in our path, we had too swerve to avoid them the back door of the camper opened our cases falling out. Scary to have to go out and pick them up.
The next day we realised the camera that was drying out was gone.
We were so grateful to still have the memory card and all the memories we had of the start of Australia tour

[happysouls]

We got a little cheap boat from a newspaper advert and went camping up in the lake district with my son. We'd gone out on the boat for a while and when we got back to the beach on the campsite we found someone had thrown all our shoes in the water! How mean! Luckily we fished them all out and they dried okay. My son went playing in the water with some other kids while we got a BBQ going and when he came out he was blue with cold but totally happy! Mad, memorable, funny!

[janeyf1]

Taking the little one on holiday for the first time, car fully packed and a long drive ahead to the South of France, and we were about 10 miles from home before she asked if we are nearly there yet! Needless to say keeping her amused for lots of hours in the car was not easy. In the end we were naming all the petrol stations we passed - shows inspiration let me down!

[phillie1]

Finding a dead duck in villa grounds, for which we had to hold a funeral and burial

[bevmichelle47]

It all started with me tripping over the suitcase handle and fracturing my ankle & breaking 2 toes the day before we flew out to greece! Arrived in apartments to find the one bed collapsed in the middle, so it was sleeping on a downward slope! Hubby fell asleep on his side while on the sun loungers and ended up looking like a vice versa sweet! The children thought it was hilarious, looking back on it now makes us crack up laughing!

[MrRichTea]

Taking my nan with us on holiday, she decided to get on the Baileys, got bit tipsy, managed to lock herself in bathroom, kids asking what is going on, why is nanna stuck behind the door, had to get spanish waiter to assist, it was all rather amusing lol

[sallyhartley]

On holiday at a holiday park resort my son who was only about 6 was called on stage at the children s show to partake in the "chubby bunnies" competition. I knew he hated marshmallows, he was a very finicky eater anyway, but he stuffed them in his mouth . Whilst all the other kids participating chewed and swallowed theirs with delight my son stood there looking like a hamster with bloated cheeks and spat them out very slowly into the compares hand hahaha

[rutsan]

I was on a camping holiday with my partner, children, sister and her children. We were having a few drinks and it was about 2 am and pitch black and she went to the toilet block. Feeling slightly tipsy and mischievous i grabbed a few branches, stayed outside the toilet block and when she came out i jamp in front of her screaming BOO.....well you guessed it. It wasn't my sister but an elderly lady...who had a fantastic sense of humor and found the funny side. My sister who came out after was laughing so hard she narly fell

[lulumajor]

We decided to drive from Marbella to Seville for a weekend somewhere different. It was a couple of hours drive and then when we got there we couldn't stay in the hotel as we forgot our passports so couldn't check in. Another long drive straight back in the hot car!!

[frances93]

My dad is a stickler for wanting to walk on holiday rather than getting a taxi, even if it means walking miles and normally doesn't know where he's going!
So one day we decided to go to the waterpark, it was 35 degrees hot so my mam ushered us into a taxi. Except my dad, who insisted he would meet us there as it was only a short walk up a hill.
We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves for hours, however there was still no sign of my dad! So on our way back to the hotel we spotted a very red and sweaty looking man at the side of the road, it was my dad. It had taken him 3 hours to walk up the hill, safe to say from then he always joined us in the taxi!

[vixxx666]

We were staying at our caravan in North Devon and my mum asked my sister to sweep the floor with the dustpan and brush. She put her head through the pull-down leg of the table and lent forward to sweep the floor. The leg of the table was wider at the top and went narrower at the bottom. She didn't realise this so as she's gone to pull her head out after leaning forward she thought it was stuck and she was screaming and crying but the rest of us were cruel and got the giggles. My dad eventually went over and lifted her head up so she could get out. She was so embarassed and hated us for the rest of the day. Worth it.

[shellywkd]

We took my daughter to Butlins when she was younger but she was petrified of the Red Coats and we spent every evening stuck in the chalet watching tv

[starfishmummy]

When I was a young teen. My older brother had been camping with his mates and still had the borrowed tent so Dad decided we'd go camping as a family. Brother was the only one with a sleeping bag so the car was stuffed with blankets and eiderdowns.

Part way there we got a flat tyre. Dad started unloading to get the spare and his large container of water had leaked over the bedding.
Every campsite was full. Eventually found one and started to put the tent up. No tent pegs. Not one. The camp office had a few that people had left behind and other kind campers lent us some too.

Spent a cold and miserable night as the bedding was still wet. Nearest beach had an unmarked patch of quicksand that I got stuck in and had to be hauled out. Sobbed that I wanted to go home, Mum agreed so back we went and never went camping again!!

[SSCRASE123]

Going all the way to Thailand with my wife and children and 1st day at the pool meeting some old friends that we hadn't seen for years completely randomly.

[iamsaranna]

Me and the kids were falling about laughing when a camel spat at hubby causing him to jump back and land in a pile of fresh dung whilst holidaying in Tenerife.

[hiddenmichelle]

My aged 3 (then) child flushing his pyjama bottoms down the toilet whilst I was unpacking....!

[maryandbuzz1]

On holiday in the Isle of Man we stayed in a b&b which didn’t have an en suite. In the night I went out to the toilet (which was just opposite our room) in my birthday suit. On trying to get back into our room I found the door locked. Banging on the door I shouted “Let me, in” only for my husband to sleepily reply “You’ve got the wrong room”.... “it’s not your room”. He had been completely unaware that I had got out of bed.
Eventually after more banging he did let me in!

[andywedge]

My son used to sneak off on the beach and walk up to ice cream vans and ask for ice creams and walk off without paying

[nettymay]

We took our 2 boys aged 7 & 8 to a 'Snake' lecture as they love nature.
The lecturer said "who will come and hold this large snake for me?" Before I could grab them our two boys rushed to the front and said "we will" - I am terrified of snakes so I stayed in my seat. They held this enormous snake around their shoulders and their photo appeared later.
We moved house to different areas with hubbies job and this photo gave them the 'Street Cred' they wanted!