WOW! looked at the reviews and pics! Terrible!
Worst Holiday Experience
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WOW! looked at the reviews and pics! Terrible!
I had the same when I was a toddler in Greece. As I was blonde haired, blue eyed I was apparently a perfect target for this woman to snatch. My dad's mate caught the woman going into a house.
Just think... I could be chilling on a Greece beach selling lilos now!
When I was about 11 years old, family went to Spain for a week. Resort had a swimming pool that I spent most of my time in. It was hot that year. I discovered a 1000 peseata note at the bottom of the pool trapped in the extract grille. I swam down and recovered it and enjoyed spending it in Fuengirola market.
I don't know if it was that dive that did it, but 24 hours later I got a pain in my ear. Turned into a severe ear infection. Spent a day in the hospital and was told I cannot fly, cannot swim, cannot even go in the sun and for the most part I was in pain and had lost sense of balance.
The holiday time came to an end and my Father had to fly home with my Brother and his then missus. Me and my mum had to stay because of the flight restriction due to the infection. Trouble was we were all on a family passport which my Dad had to use to get him and my brother home.
My Mum and I were left in the south of Spain with no accommodation, no Passport, very little money and a sick me who could barely walk. We slept on the beach for a few nights before the resort took pity and put us up in the tiniest room in the resort for 4 nights. I remember it was infested with mosquitoes. I happen to be allergic to mosquito bites. That went well...
I remember spending a lot of time waiting seemingly aimlessly in the consulate (they were not as efficient as they are today back then) at the hospital and cowering in any shade we could find during the day.
It took 2 weeks for me to recover and eventually we were put up by a private doctor in his own house. At this stage I was still unable to go outside during the day. I remember the fridge was not well kept and used to horrify mum
It was nearly 3 weeks before we finally got temporary passports for me and my mum and were able to fly home.
The whole experience was pretty awful for me and Mum, but when we got home my Dad was a nervous wreck, having spend so much time remotely contacting the consulate trying to get things moving, arguing with insurance companies and the resort trying to get records of pool cleansing and organising solicitors and all that jazz... and the money it cost in the end - I dread to think...
I don't know if it was that dive that did it, but 24 hours later I got a pain in my ear. Turned into a severe ear infection. Spent a day in the hospital and was told I cannot fly, cannot swim, cannot even go in the sun and for the most part I was in pain and had lost sense of balance.
The holiday time came to an end and my Father had to fly home with my Brother and his then missus. Me and my mum had to stay because of the flight restriction due to the infection. Trouble was we were all on a family passport which my Dad had to use to get him and my brother home.
My Mum and I were left in the south of Spain with no accommodation, no Passport, very little money and a sick me who could barely walk. We slept on the beach for a few nights before the resort took pity and put us up in the tiniest room in the resort for 4 nights. I remember it was infested with mosquitoes. I happen to be allergic to mosquito bites. That went well...
I remember spending a lot of time waiting seemingly aimlessly in the consulate (they were not as efficient as they are today back then) at the hospital and cowering in any shade we could find during the day.
It took 2 weeks for me to recover and eventually we were put up by a private doctor in his own house. At this stage I was still unable to go outside during the day. I remember the fridge was not well kept and used to horrify mum
It was nearly 3 weeks before we finally got temporary passports for me and my mum and were able to fly home.
The whole experience was pretty awful for me and Mum, but when we got home my Dad was a nervous wreck, having spend so much time remotely contacting the consulate trying to get things moving, arguing with insurance companies and the resort trying to get records of pool cleansing and organising solicitors and all that jazz... and the money it cost in the end - I dread to think...
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Got too drunk in Nice last year, walked off from my friends to go back to the hostel and swiftly got pickpocketed by some friendly homeless men. Drunkenly pursued only to get completly lost at 3 in the morning with no phone, no money and my Francais is not great. This was 4 days into a 3 week Euro trip. The only saving grace I had was that I'd not been a complete plonker and had a backup cashcard waiting for me in my luggage. Eventually found a wondeful woman on a bike who knew where my hostel was, was going that way and that if I could keep up I was more than welcome to run alongside her - what an absolutly amazing lady she was.
Haha, reminds me of one of the guys on a stag do we went on a couple of years ago in Barcelona.
One of the guys got very drunk and ended up separating from the group and getting pick pocketed. He was too drunk to remember the way back to the Hostel so ended up spending the night sleeping outside the Apple store. When it opened he used one of their machines to work out where the hostel was, then went to the police, and finally returned back to the hostel just as everyone was getting up, wondering where the hell he had vanished to.
Aside from random illnesses/accidents that didn't affect the trip much (cut head open, bacterial infections and 24 hour food poisoning) I can't think of anything at the moment that would be classed as my own worst holiday experience.
I did once meet up with a "friend" in paris for a couple of days once. She had her mum in tow and we ended up falling out on the first day. Queue 1 and a half days of going round together hardly talking. Luckily we were staying in separate hotels, but still.
One of the guys got very drunk and ended up separating from the group and getting pick pocketed. He was too drunk to remember the way back to the Hostel so ended up spending the night sleeping outside the Apple store. When it opened he used one of their machines to work out where the hostel was, then went to the police, and finally returned back to the hostel just as everyone was getting up, wondering where the hell he had vanished to.
Aside from random illnesses/accidents that didn't affect the trip much (cut head open, bacterial infections and 24 hour food poisoning) I can't think of anything at the moment that would be classed as my own worst holiday experience.
I did once meet up with a "friend" in paris for a couple of days once. She had her mum in tow and we ended up falling out on the first day. Queue 1 and a half days of going round together hardly talking. Luckily we were staying in separate hotels, but still.
Well, there was that time back in the late 60's when we were staying at a farm in Cornwall where the Pigs had a bit of a revolt!
They figured out, not only how to get out of their pens, they also figured out how to get into the main house!
So there I was, 8 years old, surrounded by Pigs that were busy trashing the ground floor of this farmhouse.
Pigs are NOT Pinky and Perky! They are HUGE and if you fall over they will eat you!
I didn't fall over!
Meh.
Woken up in a field full of cows before. We were camping in what was very loosely defined as a campsite* and the only ones there. Half the field was cordoned off with an electric fence that broke in the middle of the night. Nothing a few "shoo's" couldn't fix though.Both of those are just part and parcel of going to Africa. Part of the experience.
That said Egypt is particularly bad for the leachers/pesterers because it is so touristy. Plenty of other places, like touristy parts of Gambia, that are just as bad however.
Ahh - you forget - I'd have been the one in the hotel/brothel while my girlfriend would have been the one in jail - life's full of missed opportunities
HIV or marriage for 6 years? Which is worse?
Should have done a dodgy signature on the lawyers fee receipt and then contested it when back in the UK. "My card was swiped"
EDIT: Just saw the other reply about the tour operator paying. Damn.
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Wasn't strictly while i was on holiday but a couple of years back I did a weeks kitesurfing in tarifa, great fun when the wind was up but the last couple of days the wind totally died
After two days of hanging around getting bored a group of people at the same school hired some cars and drove a couple of hours up the coast to a wakeboard cable park.
Must have swallowed a little bit too much water as i started feeling a bit off the next day, but luckily it was the last day of my holiday there. Slept most of the day up to the flight and made my way to the airport.
Half way through the easyjet flight i started getting really hot, dry throat and sweating etc. Bought some crazy expensive water and waited it out. Flight was late landing so rushed to get my train home from gatwick at about 10pm.
By this time I wasn't quite thinking straight, was really really thirsty and only had a bottle of export strength duty free vodka i seriously considered drinking some of....
Eventually got home around midnight, drank a pint of water and went to bed.
My wife then found me an hour later wandering around the house complaining that I couldn't pop all the bubbles, they just kept coming back. I was properly delirious so she took me into A&E where i was admitted for 4 days, put on a drip and pumped full of anti biotic.
When i finally got back to work i found out i was being made redundant
After two days of hanging around getting bored a group of people at the same school hired some cars and drove a couple of hours up the coast to a wakeboard cable park.
Must have swallowed a little bit too much water as i started feeling a bit off the next day, but luckily it was the last day of my holiday there. Slept most of the day up to the flight and made my way to the airport.
Half way through the easyjet flight i started getting really hot, dry throat and sweating etc. Bought some crazy expensive water and waited it out. Flight was late landing so rushed to get my train home from gatwick at about 10pm.
By this time I wasn't quite thinking straight, was really really thirsty and only had a bottle of export strength duty free vodka i seriously considered drinking some of....
Eventually got home around midnight, drank a pint of water and went to bed.
My wife then found me an hour later wandering around the house complaining that I couldn't pop all the bubbles, they just kept coming back. I was properly delirious so she took me into A&E where i was admitted for 4 days, put on a drip and pumped full of anti biotic.
When i finally got back to work i found out i was being made redundant
snip. Put me on anti biotic.
When i finally got back to work i found out i was being made redundant
.... You're missing half a story... What was it you had?
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Wasn't strictly while i was on holiday but a couple of years back I did a weeks kitesurfing in tarifa, great fun when the wind was up but the last couple of days the wind totally died
After two days of hanging around getting bored a group of people at the same school hired some cars and drove a couple of hours up the coast to a wakeboard cable park.
Must have swallowed a little bit too much water as i started feeling a bit off the next day, but luckily it was the last day of my holiday there. Slept most of the day up to the flight and made my way to the airport.
Half way through the easyjet flight i started getting really hot, dry throat and sweating etc. Bought some crazy expensive water and waited it out. Flight was late landing so rushed to get my train home from gatwick at about 10pm.
By this time I wasn't quite thinking straight, was really really thirsty and only had a bottle of export strength duty free vodka i seriously considered drinking some of....
Eventually got home around midnight, drank a pint of water and went to bed.
My wife then found me an hour later wandering around the house complaining that I couldn't pop all the bubbles, they just kept coming back. I was properly delirious so she took me into A&E where i was admitted for 4 days, put on a drip and pumped full of anti biotic.
When i finally got back to work i found out i was being made redundant
Is that how you got your sig?
Man of Honour
Leptospirosis I think, spent the four days dragging the drip to the bathroom and losing everything I ate and drank out of both ends
Is that how you got your sig?
heh, nope, unfortunately not my photo / actually the redundancy works out pretty well, better paid job after a month of searching.
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Soldato
If only we had better weather here, we could all holiday in Cornwall instead of risking it abroad...
I'm off to Turkey (Oludeniz) in a couple of weeks, wish me luck!
I'm off to Turkey (Oludeniz) in a couple of weeks, wish me luck!
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Caporegime
Without a doubt when I went to Pamporovo back in winter 2002.
Firstly, the weather was so bad flying into Sofia they had to divert us to Burgas. This was a problem because the airport just wasn't capable of handling the influx of passengers so not only did it add 6 hours onto the transfer to resort but we also had to sit around for 2 hours whilst they got the luggage off the plane.
The coach journey itself wasn't the best, freezing conditions and next to no heating. Driver was a lunatic as well, driving full speed over shocking roads and in terrible visibility. Genuinely feared for our safety.
Then, when we got to resort the hotel was half finished. Room was damp, freezing cold, they were continuing construction 24/7 to try and get it finished. So very hard to get any sleep at all. Food was atrocious, the roof fell through in the bathroom, leaky toilet oh and the entertainment was some guy trying to sing Chris Rea every night
Snow conditions were decent though ... about the only redeeming factor.
One of the two 5 star reviews is someone who managed to cancel, superb
Firstly, the weather was so bad flying into Sofia they had to divert us to Burgas. This was a problem because the airport just wasn't capable of handling the influx of passengers so not only did it add 6 hours onto the transfer to resort but we also had to sit around for 2 hours whilst they got the luggage off the plane.
The coach journey itself wasn't the best, freezing conditions and next to no heating. Driver was a lunatic as well, driving full speed over shocking roads and in terrible visibility. Genuinely feared for our safety.
Then, when we got to resort the hotel was half finished. Room was damp, freezing cold, they were continuing construction 24/7 to try and get it finished. So very hard to get any sleep at all. Food was atrocious, the roof fell through in the bathroom, leaky toilet oh and the entertainment was some guy trying to sing Chris Rea every night
Snow conditions were decent though ... about the only redeeming factor.
One of the two 5 star reviews is someone who managed to cancel, superb
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Soldato
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You crazy crazy person lol.
Soldato
nvm
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Wow. I wouldnt go there now after they invaded Syria last night. There is sure to loads of ISIS reprisal attacks in Turkey now.
If I was holidaying there right now Id come straight home.