Worst Holiday Experience

RaohNS · 30 Jul 2016 at 15:36

After reading into the alcohol thing on planes it got me thinking about what people find acceptable. I certainly wouldn't entertain an overly loud bunch of idiots on a plane.

My worst was in 2007. First time abroad since a teenager to Cuba. On the flight there was a lad drunk, loud, obnoxious, staff had tell him keep it down as receiving complaints. Thankfully he passed out.

Upon arriving at the airport (Cuba) the coach I was on was the first to be full bar 4 spaces. (10 coaches or so in all). After watching other coaches fill up and be on their way, an hour goes by before a woman comes up and says that one of their party is having a few problems getting through security. A few people make noises but driver said he cant go. 30+ stuck in a banger old bus with no aircon now.

Another 30mins passes and the woman comes back, even more disgruntlement. Will be a bit longer. More moans and a few passengers get off (because of heat). Another 30mins pass and then word gets around the lad has got caught coming through with drugs. Description provided was the loud mouthed idiot on the plane. At this point passengers all start kicking up a fuss. Woman and her husband come back can you wait a bit longer. A few people on the bus challenge her now shouting at her. She says something like "its our holiday as well!" :rolleyes:

And after being literally shouted off the bus by everyone over two hours later we are on our way.

Am aware mine will be quite tame compared to some.

What's your worst holiday experience? Or a bad one you have heard from family/friends?

datalol-jack · 30 Jul 2016 at 15:39

Inb4 Rhyl.

RaohNS · 30 Jul 2016 at 15:41

datalol-jack said:
Inb4 Rhyl.

I should have included a clause:

Any comments about Rhyl will mean the member is accepting and instant 10 day ban

Destination · 30 Jul 2016 at 15:45

You're a mod now are you?
Impersonation of mod carries a compulsory death sentence.
Goodbye.

Nate75 · 30 Jul 2016 at 15:47

RaohNS said:
After reading into the alcohol thing on planes it got me thinking about what people find acceptable. I certainly wouldn't entertain an overly loud bunch of idiots on a plane.

A horrible situation really, save it for when you arrive right?

But what exactly would you do, how would you not entertain them? Harsh words or do you know karate?

RaohNS · 30 Jul 2016 at 15:51

Nate75 said:
A horrible situation really, save it for when you arrive right?

But what exactly would you do, how would you not entertain them? Harsh words or do you know karate?

Well I did once threaten kick a drunk Scots head through a window on a train. Not sure id risk that on a plane due to terrorism charges being made.

Sleep may be an alternative.

Now do you have a terrible experience to share?

datalol-jack · 30 Jul 2016 at 15:52

Can't recall a mega-terribad holiday, but one weekend London adventure ended up in utter disaster: our group didn't meet up with the people we were going to; people wanted to do different things and ended up going different ways; our lodgings had Spanish-speaking alarm clocks (the other tongues were borked); mixed up bookings and a small airfield somewhere nearby, apparently (could neither confirm nor deny that one).

It all ended with a few couples falling out, people owing people money and the rump of the party heading out to grab some drinks and play cards till it was time to abandon the capital. Some poor sod even got locked out of his room for being too much of a prat. Said sod proceeded to break the door down to retrieve his glasses... internet withdrawal, ya see.

Never again.

Freakbro · 30 Jul 2016 at 16:10

First night out in Gran Canaria, my friend and I starting chatting and drinking with a couple of Scottish girls. A few drinks in and one of them starts to go down hill rapidly, far too rapidly for just alcohol, and she excuses herself and heads to the toilets.

A little time passed, she had not returned and her friend was getting worried. I went off to check and found her virtually unconscious in the toilets with one of the barmen...shall we say, helping himself.

I jumped in an intervened, getting her out of there, to which the barman took exception to and starting laying into me. Scuffle ensues and after taking a few hits I end up pinning him to the floor. The problem being all the rest of the staff just saw someone fighting one of their own and proceeded to kick the **** out of me while I was on top of him

Being drunk and having the same special abilities as kick ass, in that I can take a good beating, it took a while of booting me in the ribs to end the scuffle. Someone kindly handed my back my wallet that had fallen out of my pocket, less all the cash in it... :rolleyes:

and we all left.

So I ended up spending the rest of the week with a black eye and black and blue head to toe, which curtails your pulling power

but I look back on it and know I did the right thing as it was obvious she had been spiked and I stopped her being raped.

The next day I limped back to the place to have a word with the owner and see that barman, but he was in hospital from being glassed the same night and the owner didn't give a ****, surprise surprise

RaohNS · 30 Jul 2016 at 16:22

Freakbro said:
First night out in Gran Canaria, my friend and I starting chatting and drinking with a couple of Scottish girls. A few drinks in and one of them starts to go down hill rapidly, far too rapidly for just alcohol, and she excuses herself and heads to the toilets.

A little time passed, she had not returned and her friend was getting worried. I went off to check and found her virtually unconscious in the toilets with one of the barmen...shall we say, helping himself.

I jumped in an intervened, getting her out of there, to which the barman took exception to and starting laying into me. Scuffle ensues and after taking a few hits I end up pinning him to the floor. The problem being all the rest of the staff just saw someone fighting one of their own and proceeded to kick the **** out of me while I was on top of him

Being drunk and having the same special abilities as kick ass, in that I can take a good beating, it took a while of booting me in the ribs to end the scuffle. Someone kindly handed my back my wallet that had fallen out of my pocket, less all the cash in it... and we all left.

So I ended up spending the rest of the week with a black eye and black and blue head to toe, which curtails your pulling power but I look back on it and know I did the right thing as it was obvious she had been spiked and I stopped her being raped.

The next day I limped back to the place to have a word with the owner and see that barman, but he was in hospital from being glassed the same night and the owner didn't give a ****, surprise surprise

Rock... Solid. Clear you are not just a keyboard warrior.

Nice one and noble of you

datalol-jack · 30 Jul 2016 at 16:24

RaohNS said:
Rock... Solid. Clear you are not just a keyboard warrior.

Nice one and noble of you

Nah. He'd left his KB at the table -- the ribs are far less valuable.

Hiijinx · 30 Jul 2016 at 16:36

Coming back from the USA to UK back in 2003 the plane kept having power failures while it was delayed sitting on the runway before being taxied. You can imagine how nervous people were getting by the constant blackouts and televisions failing despite the captain's reassurance wasn't the same power source for the engines.

So a plane full of tired, frustrated and nervous passengers just became even worse when a man (sorry to say an Arab) stood up shouting in his native language demanding to get off the plane. After much arguing with the cabin crew he was escorted off and we had to wait another hour for them to find and unload his luggage (hoping they found it all!)

The following year we left during a night time lightning storm.That was a very tense takeoff...

Pawnless Endgame · 30 Jul 2016 at 16:48

Not a holiday but rather a birthday. I was living in Bristol and was going to meet parents in Birmingham for pub lunch and presents. Bristol Parkway. There was a platform alternation, which was inaudible to me because I have already boarded the (previously) correct train. 2 hours later, I was in Reading! I told the conductor, who said I should have heard it ok even if inside the train. I protested that I'm hard of hearing/seeing, but he wouldn't have any of it and insisted that I get off at Reading and get a new ticket for Birmingham or a new return ticket back to Bristol. Luckily I didn't get fined, but it was the principle of it. I ended up going back to Bristol.

I did later file a complaint and got a £10 "good will" voucher. Less than what my tickets were and my birthday was essentially lost.

It was 3 days before 9/11 as well lol

Buffman · 30 Jul 2016 at 16:52

My worst holiday experience (on an otherwise very good holiday) was probably the hoardes of (generally) Asian/Chinese tourist standing aimlessly (rudely) infront of all the tourist attractions taking 100s of poor photos so that no one else can take a photo (of the scenery, gaudi sculptures, etc).

How many photos does one person need of themself beside a sculpture??

(yes this is a rant!)

Deleted member 651465 · 30 Jul 2016 at 16:58

Cyprus with the ex. Apart from the fact she was rubbish company, it rained for the entire week. We basically sat in the apartment staring at the rain tutting

datalol-jack · 30 Jul 2016 at 17:07

The Craig said:
My worst holiday experience (on an otherwise very good holiday) was probably the hoardes of (generally) Asian/Chinese tourist standing aimlessly (rudely) infront of all the tourist attractions taking 100s of poor photos so that no one else can take a photo (of the scenery, gaudi sculptures, etc).

How many photos does one person need of themself beside a sculpture??

(yes this is a rant!)

If you're terrible at taking pictures and can't get the shot stable enough, you shotgun hoping there's at least one good un in the scatter, tis just the way of the tourist world.

EVH said:
Cyprus with the ex. Apart from the fact she was rubbish company, it rained for the entire week. We basically sat in the apartment staring at the rain tutting

Not each other? I can see how the ex bit developed from there.

Scam · 30 Jul 2016 at 18:29

The girlfriend and I booked a nice summer holiday to Lake Garda, followed by three days in Verona. Garda was beautiful, hotel lovely. All good so far. Then we got the train to Garda, managed to walk to our hotel from the station, only to be told we didn't have a room. Turns out Last Minute (who we booked through) had emailed me and tried to call to tell me it was overbooked

They had put us in another hotel which was not quite within walking distance to the amphitheatre, the shops, restaurants and delights of Verona. Not quite because it was a 35min drive out next to the airport :rolleyes:

Que spending our first afternoon in the first hotel's lobby, on the phone to LM demanding they move us to a better hotel. I must have been on about 6-7 phone calls to different people/escalations, was there for about 3-4hrs but they just couldn't find anywhere. The city was jam packed because it was Opera season (we were booked in for the Opera our second night), so in the end we had to take the hotel at the airport. Grim. Girlfriend was in tears, the works. LM originally weren't even going to reimburse us for taxi rides to and from town, the scumbags. I eventually managed to get that out of them, though. Jeez, that was stressful and not a good end to our holiday!

Fairly minor in the grand scheme of things though.

scorza · 30 Jul 2016 at 18:40

Spain.

When I was younger and holidaying with my parents and two sisters, we always pre-booked camp sites in France and had a carefully plotted route to follow each day. One year my Dad decided that this was "too British" and we should be more like the French and just turn up in a random town late afternoon and find a camp site. This actually worked very well in France - stumbled across some great camp sites and lovely little towns. We ended up somewhere near Andorra so decided to try the same thing in Spain, well we rocked up on the Costa Brava and everything was fully booked. Found a tourist information who said there were no camp sites but there was a holiday park we could stay at for a similar cost. This was literally the worst place I've ever been to. The rooms were filthy, noisy, smelly and stinking hot, the worst dregs of European society were also staying at the park, the swimming pool was standing room only. The fact we only stayed there one night is the only saving grace for that place. On the way back to France we made our Dad stump up for a Hotel as penance, this was OK but my poor old Mum ordered the "local specialty" in the restaurant - which was tripe!

SexyGreyFox · 30 Jul 2016 at 18:49

The most scariest was being stuck in Hurghada Egypt and having to make our own way to Luxor Airport where we were the only passengers because of the Icelandic Volcano. We then had to find a hotel in Luxor where we had to stay an extra week. There was a lot of good pints and bad points about that extra week - mostly good though.

In 2008 got delayed 24 hours going to Egypt on a 6 day holiday

Got delayed 24 hours coming back from Menorca and had to miss Stoke City at Wembley

In 1975 I had to spend 3 nights in Heathrow because Nigerian Airways kept selling my seat and there was only one plane a day. British Airways eventually got their security to escort me onto the plane before everybody else.

albert · 30 Jul 2016 at 18:57

Flew into Lanzarote last week and jumped onto the transfer bus at the airport. 45 minutes later the driver shouts "Brisa Marina" and we jumped off. Looking around we were outside a hotel and I said to the driver this is not the Brisa Marina - we had booked a villa . He laughed and said it was and drove off leaving us. We went into the hotel and asked the receptionist where the Brisa Marina was and she did not know so we phoned a taxi. Loaded all the cases into the taxi and away we went. He literally just got into 2nd gear and we were there. It was practically next door.
I'm blaming tiredness and the dark.

RaohNS · 30 Jul 2016 at 19:23

SexyGreyFox [Deceased];29847876 said:
Got delayed 24 hours coming back from Menorca and had to miss Stoke City at Wembley
.

That's what I call a lucky escape!

Worst Holiday Experience

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