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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Sitting with my family in a bar in turkey and the local indian restaurant next door comes in with a platter of onion bhajis as samplers. Our table was under a flight of floating stairs to the mezzanine level. Man with the platter trips up going up the stairs and a shower of onion bhajis rain down upon my brother.

I think it would be when my brother started dancing each night at the disco on the cruise ship. He'd dance for house (sometimes the only one on the dance floor). Everyone started to ask if he worked for the cruise line and began tipping him! There were people who would go upstairs just to watch him after dinner. They all knew him by name and would greet him when we were wandering around in ports. Was slightly surreal but very funny!

On arrived back in the UK walking towards passport control my 7 year old DS stated at little too loudly that we did not have many bottles of alcohol in our bags.

Not sure if it's hilarious, although I found it funny myself (probably shouldn't have). We were on holiday in Fuerteventura during December and despite several protestations that the sun couldn't be that strong at that time of year, my OH managed to burn herself quite badly and had to spend 3 whole days in the apartment with no sunlight whatsoever.

When we were younger and in spain my dad made an X on the beach and told us there was buried treasure in order to occupy me and my sister for a while! She dug and dug for ages and eventually found a giant rock which she insisted on coming home with us!!

When I took my kids on to a lovely beach and one of the shouted I can see that mans will I realised I had somehow taken them into the nudist part. Another time I took a short cut back to where we were staying got lost and somehow ended up in the middle of very exclusive golf course with kids in toe.

went for a week to Spain with husband and two children. Mis communication but forgot to pack anything for him! Ithought he had done his own packing, and all he had was what he was standing up in

half way along the M6 Dad suddenly remembered he left a bottle of scotch in the caravan..

Went of a safari up in the mountains where they drive really close to the edge, needless to say we were nearly all in tears but had a good laugh about it later on.

My funniest man moment was as a child I was with my extended family down in Cornwall.
My dad and uncle were flying a kite but wouldn't let any of the children play.
Eventually my dad let me have a go after a telling off from my mum, he kept repeating do not let go over and over.
The four year old in me decided to let go go straight away and laughed and laughed as my dad and uncle ran off down the beach after the kite. They were gone for such a long time , everyone else thought it was hilarious !

We have had some fun times at Butlins and other holiday parks. My children always had fun in the fancy dress parades.

I whipped my daughter's swim nappy off not realising it was full. We both got covered!

Took the kids to Disneyland Paris in freezing February. Had my 3 year old lad on my shoulder, after it was over, about 30 minutes, I lifted him down, he fell over, picked him up and he fell over again, picked him up again and he started to fall again. Turned out his legs had fallen asleep. It was the look on other people's faces, thinking I was such a bad person.

once we got to spain and was looking for fish and chips shop on a friday but forgot we were on holiday!

Nothing as hilarious as previous posters to share I'm afraid, I'm not good with maps so we did get lost around Butlins on our first day. Couldn't work out how to get back to our apartment and tried our key in another family's door!

We went on a beach holiday in Spain and after getting bored sunbathing we decided to have a walk down the beach. Unbeknown to us the beach became a nude one at some point and I didn't even notice until my DD started pointing and asking why eveyone had their boobs and willies out.

30 years ago I took part in a campsite holiday game where you had to run on an inflatable on a bungee chord and collect items from as far as you can, I didn't win but for some reason when the chord was removed, i tried again and ended up falling off the end of the 'runway' and making a total fool of myself :(
Luckily my kids thought it was hilarious and there weren't mobile phones like now so hopefully there's no video evidence of my 'senior moment'

While camping, mosquitoes galore = bites galore. My mum (not wearing her glasses) goes to the first aid kit and finds bite relief cream. As she's smearing it on my legs, my dad wanders in, goes to the first aid kit, rummages through it, then asks where the glue is to fix a broken lantern for the tent. Turns out it's not bite relief cream all over my legs, it's glue......cue argument between parents over who's fault it is I'm covered in glue : my mums for not having her glasses on to read the label on the tube, or my dad's, for keeping said tube of glue in the first aid kit!

*no children were harmed in the making of this story....it was a water soluble glue and washed off in the shower....with a bit of a scrub.

It would have to be when myself and my family decided on a trip to Devon. Whilst waiting for the train my dear old mum had her earphones on and sunglasses on relaxing whilst we waited for our train. As I noticed we was at the wrong platform and our train was just about to leave on the other side we all bolted, me grabbing my 4 year old and my husband grabbing our bags. Great we made it! All apart from my mum that I could see through the window on the other platform still with her sunglasses on and headphones in with no clue in the world we were gone! We had to get off at the next station and get her a taxi too us. Great start to outperform family holiday

On a family holiday in France with my parents when my brother and I were young teens, we went to find a new beach, which was a good 30 minute walk through the dunes. When we arrived we realised it was a nudist beach. We were horrified but my parents insisted we’d waked too far to go back. We cringed through the whole day, especially as my Dad decided he was going to ‘enter in the spirit’. Those images of ‘mature’ gentlemen playing beach ball and swimming past us doing back stroke took a long time to erase from my mind...it was horrendous!! Funny looking back, though!

My sister made garlic chocolate cake! We took garlic butter with us and she thought it was normal butter :O safe to say we didn't eat it and the smell was out of this world disgusting

So last October the family and I decided to go to the Black Forest in Germany, just outside of Freiberg. The area is stunning and so we decided to go for a walk one day before lunch. It was about 11am and we parked up, packed our rucksack with a few nibbles (we planned to do an hours walk) and some water. It was a nice enough day, so off we went.

We walked alongside a gorge (Wutachschlutz for those interested!) and realised that after about 45 minutes, we were at one end of the gorge and it was only noon or so. So we thought we'd walk along the other side of the gorge, find the bridge we'd seen earlier and get back to the car that way.

As we walked, the terrain got a bit tougher but we like walking and exercise so no bother. DD (10) and DS (5) were fine and so off we went. The weather started to turn and as it began raining, we decided to speed up to get back to that bridge to get back to the car, so we carried on in the same direction. We walked and walked and walked, in the now pissing rain (sustaining ourselves on Haribo, biscuits and a bit of water), cold and degrading terrain (the sides of the gorge were coming away with the heavy rain). We were lifting DS over massive fallen trees and gaps in the path, all the while getting wetter and more tired.

DS was getting tired and so he and I stayed in one spot by the river whilst DH and DD ran on ahead to find that naffing bridge. We waited for about 30 minutes and I had visions of us having to spend the night in this sodding forest. DH and DD came back saying that they couldn't see the car park that way or the bridge, so we needed to turn back. By this point, we'd been walking for four hours and the sun was starting to set. DH put DS (not insubstantial in build) on his back and we walked as quickly as we could. Back over the fallen trees, carefully negotiating the disintegrating path (walking one at a time at some points as it was getting so narrow). We ended up walking at fast pace for 2 hours (soaked and starving) and finally found our way out of the forest and back to the car.

We worked out that we ended up walking for over 6 hours and 18km!! Poor DS was yawning as he was walking. The next morning, we could barely bend our legs (the terrain had been quite tough) and the kids refused to go for walks for some time after that! And that was our Black Forest adventure!

Where we were younger me and my two sisters were on a ferry to France with our parents and we wanted to watch a film, parens bought our tickets and the lady told us which cinema room to go into....but she told us the wrong room....we were only young and ended up sat watching Waterboy 😂🙈

Decided to try out the flume at the swimming pool of our Spanish campsite. For some reason, halfway down, the surface became really dry and I stopped sliding. Tried everything I could to get moving but was totally stuck. Until an enormous, hairy French man came thundering down behind me. He tried desparately to stop but couldn't. I ended up propelled off the end of the slide at full force with his hairy, speedoed thighs wrapped around my neck. Very embarassing but a source of great amusement to my three teenage dcs!

Went to Cyprus with husband and our 3 kids. 2 lads aged 14 and 15 and out daughter aged 4. So obviousiy the teens had their own room but it was on another floor. All inclusive holiday.

During week 1 of a 3 week stay we kept seeing various girls of all nationalities chatting and socialising with our lads. We were gratified and flattered ourselves that our lads were not only handsome but great company.

By the end of week 1 the manager called us over and said ‘your boys when you go to bed they dont’

Slightly surprised by this he then proceeded to tell us that after we had gone to bed they had gone down to the quite posh ‘piano bar’ where they proceeded to conduct lavish parties with many girls and brought all the drinks!!! These drinks were NOT part of the all inclusive deal and he handed us a bill for £350....for one week!! He felt it was his duty to inform us as we had booked for 3 weeks. Drinks included champagne, wine, all the spirits etc.

As my husband tore up the stairs to their room. You can imagine the rest.

Both grown up now but a family legend