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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[gd2011]

Despite wearing insect repellant, I was bitten on the face by a horse fly and ended up looking like the elephant man. Oh how the family laughed!

[holey]

One occasion when the kids were younger, we'd waited ages at the hotel reception for room keys, the kids were grouchy, my DH had got on the wrong side of the receptionist for complaining she was keeping us waiting etc etc. Once we'd finally got our keys and were shepherding three little ones and all our luggage into the lift, my husband dropped the key (one of those with an enormous key fob) down the tiny gap between the lift and the edge of the shaft. It was so narrow we could never work out how it had gone down, the key was so big! It was something you'd do a hundred times and it wouldn't go down. So my husband had to go back to reception, try to be nice to the receptionist who already hated him...

[chris8888]

We were going on the ferry from Liverpool to Dublin, the traffic had been really slow on the way so we were late.

We drove aboard the car ferry just before the gates closed and the ferry pulled off. Chilling out on deck we noticed the Dublin ferry was still in its berth! In massive letters on the side of our boat were the words BELFAST. We had a long drive to our hotel that night.

[lizd31]

I was on holiday in Italy with my parents when I was 17 &we went across on the boat to the Isle of Capri & went on the chair lift to Monte Solaro. It was just a one seat thing with your feet dangling down about 30 feet above the ground. On the way up I took a photo of my feet with the view below with both flip flops on. As I did the most enormous flying beetle headed straight towards me, I wriggled so much to try to avoid it without falling off the chair lift that I kicked one of my flip flops off into the mountain below. It was so hot at the top & I was hobbling around in my bare feet. On the way down the mountain on the chair lift again I took a photo of my one shoe to prove what had happened. Thankfully there was a store at the bottom of the chair lift which sold shoes so I could continue my tour of the island with two shoes instead of one.

[Dormouse1940]

My son at 18 months got very excited to see the seaside and kept shouting 'beach'. Except, he couldn't say beach it was distinctly 'b*itch!'. Really awkward pushing him down the prom in his buggy when he kept pointing and yelling that at random people....

[glenka]

our satnav took us over 100 miles from the place we should have been it was not funny at the time but we laughed about it later

[glennamy]

We were holidaying on a caravan site with lots of lakes and one evening we were walking the dog and my Mum held the lead, however she is a lot smaller than us and when our Dobermann we had back then spotted a duck he flew after it dragging our Mum along the floor behind him and down into the lake... It was so funny but she didn't think so at the time as she was covered in mud and soaking wet! :)

[KentUnicorn]

We went to Spain for a beach holiday and were having a chill on the beach. DH fell asleep lying on his front and DS was playing and left various toys scattered along DH's back. When he woke up he realised that his tan lined were slight strange and mostly shaped like cars and lego!

[compy99]

years ago in a remote part of Southern Spain we were badly needing a drink, we walked miles in a really rural and desolate part, we were all flagging, the heat was incredible and after what seemed like hours we spotted a bar, we went straight in and asked for 4 colas only to see terrified people backing away from us. It was only then that we looked around an realised that we had walked into someones private kitchen!

[ThemisA]

We were staying in Ireland and a very naughty Irish family friend (older enough to know better) taught my son to say in Gaelic 'Kiss my A**'). I of course, did not know what it meant and she had told us that it meant the equivalent of 'How Do You Do' . My son spent the entire holiday greeting people, clearly proud that he could speak a little Gaelic and we wondered why people didn't seem appropriately flattered until a very kind gentleman explained what he had been saying. This was years ago and I still blush.

[Catmadroo]

on holiday last year a family that was going home gave us a huge turtle inflatable which was very generous of them, realised why they gave it away when we tried to deflate it and get it in a suitcase, took me ages lying on it, rolling, squashing it trying to get air out and then folding it so it would go in the suitcase. When we left for our flight the corridor had lots of large inflatables and boogie boards outside the rooms and the maid said to us please take if want anything!!

[Minnibix]

My first holiday with my partner was done on a budget, I booked at coach holiday (we could not afford a flight). I booked a holiday on the Istrian Riviera, Croatia, me thinking Istria was probably something to do with Italy. When I got back home my partner checked on the map only to find that Croatia was part of Yugoslavia and part of it still looked like a war zone. The good thing was where we stayed was fantastic and the people were lovely, we even went back 2 years later

[DracLordOfDarkness]

@MrRichTea That’s so hilarious it made my fangs hurt

[AnimalAddict]

On our first night in Spain we decided to explore for a little while, we got lost and ended up in some village. What should have been a 30 minute walk took 2 hours!

[Vole3]

On holiday in Tunisia with XH. He was describing to the holiday rep where he and a few other guys had ended up for a night cap after the hotel bar had closed. They hadn’t ended up in a bar for their Fanta and vodka, but the local bordelo

[juju3]

Trying to bury some pooey underpants in the sand and hoping noone noticed

[tiddles12]

I went to the Blue Lagoon in Iceland with my son and heard that you were to rub the mud from the lagoon all over your body. We duly dug our toes into the base of the lagoon and rubbed the foul smelling grey paste (with pubic hairs in it!) all over our body and face.. only to walk to the side and see wooden baskets of pristine white mud that had been purified and which everyone else was putting on their bodies and face!

[twinklenic]

When we were young my Mum and Dad took myself and my 2 sisters to a caravan park holiday which had a lovely little outdoor pool with a slide. One day my Dad decided he was going to go down it and actually got stuck in the flume for about half an hour , with a line of children all shouting to him to 'hurry up mister, we want our go!'
to this Dad we all laugh about it , but thinking back he must have been embarrassed

[meepmoop79]

Turned up for our Saturday flight two hours early. As time wore only, we slowly got worried about the lack of flight information. After investigating, we had managed to turn up at the correct time on the wrong day. The flight had left the day before!
Next flight was not until the next day.
In the end we lost two days out of our holiday.

[freefan]

we had our first foreign family holiday a few years ago, and it was my first ever flight, with hubby and 5 kids ranging from 14 down to 2.
The kids knew I was nervous and at the airport when asked if I'd packed the bags myself started saying 'no you didn't dad helped and you put your drugs in there'
I had to open the case and show them my prescribed drugs that I'd got from the Dr, just so happened we'd been on a family shop when I picked them up from the Supermarket chemist and I'd said to hubby 'I'm good to go, got my medication now'
Then as if it could get any worse they sat the whole time reassuring me that we weren't going to crash.. never again ... caravan holidays ever since.

[lhlee62]

My daughter wanted a glitter tattoo on her arm, she chose a blue glittery train. The lady put it on her arm, she was in and out of the pool and had showers for several days. They must have used super glue as it just didn't want to come off. I finally managed to scrub it off.... it had been really sunny so she had a nice white mark in the shape of a train suntanned on to her arm!

[dadshere]

Dh is very short-sighted. After leaving the pool he made his way into the female locker rooms, and tried to find his locker. It was only when a woman told him that he might be in the wrong place that he realised that he was surrounded by women. Most of them were German and didn't actually seem to care that a man was in the changing room with them. Since his glasses were safely in his locker in the male room, he couldn't see anything anyway!

[tabbaz123]

We have had many funny moments, too many to recall one more funnier than the others but one that really got everyone laughing was whilst on holiday in Italy - we took a local bus and my son got the giggles and laughed so much he just couldn't stop! Well, all the Italians on the bus could not help but laugh too at his infectious giggles and by the time we got off the bus most of the Italian women were crying with laughter....to this day we do not know what started it!

[pandoraskids]

On a pedalo in Corfu, left my sister stranded on a rock. I thought it was hilarious even if she didn't!

[devito92]

We returned later in the year to the same hotel. My son walked in aged 4 and shouted at the top of his voice for all to hear. WERE BACK