Your worst holiday experience?

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Was on holiday in Fuerteventura and drove to a secluded beach, parked up and got out to walk down to the beach. Passing through some dunes and up ahead we saw something odd we couldnt make out as we were too far away, carried on walking and got to the point we realised what it was. It was a granny bent over, backside towards us stark naked. The wife and I were like wtf, took a diversion towards the beach and soon realised it was a nudist beach and it was populated with old people with their bits hanging out all over the place. We left pretty sharpish
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Many thought it a myth, but you actually found the fabled OCUK mods holiday retreat.
 
Nope, unless you are mistaking me for someone else! I binned off the ex like 3 years ago.
 
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I'll probably have reels or short stories but nothing major, photos and reel-style cinematics is what I will be aiming for like some travel vloggers have in the past :cool:

Will be in Tondela, Porto and Lisbon mainly across a week,
 
mrk said:
I'll probably have reels or short stories but nothing major, photos and reel-style cinematics is what I will be aiming for like some travel vloggers have in the past :cool:

Will be in Tondela, Porto and Lisbon mainly across a week, skinned alive buried in a shallow ditch.
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Fixed that for you :p
 
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Me, my partner & 9 month old daughter went to Centre Parcs & we all came down with vomiting and diarrhea. Seems like everyone that goes there gets this & I wouldn't go back if you paid me!
 
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So, about 20 years ago I went on a Nile cruise. I was young and pretty naive back then. It was one of those classic Nile cruise boats, and honestly, there were multiple incidents that made the trip... memorable (sometimes for the wrong reasons).

Here are a few that still stick with me:

We had a really good tour guide who traveled with us everywhere and explained all the sites. One day we stopped at the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut. This time, instead of getting off the bus with us like he usually did, he stayed on and just described the temple from there. At the end, he casually dropped: “There was a terrorist attack here… my wife was killed, so I don’t visit anymore. But you’re more than welcome to go!”We were absolutely terrified. We literally ran around the temple and were back on the bus in about 10 minutes.

Another day, we were inside a different temple in one of the rooms when an Egyptian guy approached us and said, “You need to see this other room, come with me.” We started following him, but then I noticed he had a mini submachine gun hidden under his shirt. Probably innocent, but it definitely freaked us out.

We’d also paid for a hot air balloon ride and were given boxed food to take with us. The moment we got off the boat to head to the launch site, a group of kids (around 12 years old) ran up and stole all our food boxes right out of our hands.Other things: we were constantly ill from the food, and there was always someone filming us during the tour. We decided to buy the video at the end, but on the last day a waiter came up with a “special deal.” When we got home and watched it… it wasn’t even us on the tape.

All in all, it was a very memorable holiday — though often for the wrong reasons!
 
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El Jimben said:
Me, my partner & 9 month old daughter went to Centre Parcs & we all came down with vomiting and diarrhea. Seems like everyone that goes there gets this & I wouldn't go back if you paid me!
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Doesn't match our experience at all, which campus?

We've gone to Longleat on average close to annually for ~20 years, outside of school hols and typically late March or early September, we've never caught anything.

Before your post, I don't ever remember reading anything along these lines, nevermind "everyone" getting something!
 
Regarding the NSFW spoilered image and being in an open office setting, I fail to understand why people would use a work computer to browse/post on OcUK. Every web page accessed on work computers are logged by IT on their systems. Even with incognito / sandboxed browsers, the sites are still logged. If a middle manager doesn't like you but otherwise your work performance is spotless, they can still get HR to find any pitiful reason to hand over your P45 due to what you posted on OcUK, or Reddit or Facebook/X.

When I'm in the office, I'll go on BBC News for my daily dose of propaganda but I would never dream of accessing web sites that is tied to a login such as here. When I'm working from home, I have a desktop PC sat next to my work's laptop with 2 inputs into my monitor and a multi-device keyboard/mouse so that my setup isn't a million miles away from using a KVM switch.
 
A couple of Butlin's holidays when I was in my teens, one where my girlfriend at the time's grandad passed away in the night in his chalet and we had to send her young sister through the window to get the door open, then the other in Wales during a lunch where someone was randomly sick right next to us on the floor and then the waiter went and slipped up in it. That was the holiday where someone asked where we'd been for the day and I said 'PORT MY DOG' without thinking of the correct pronunciation
 
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I did mean to ask.... why do you still have this photo and haven't deleted it? :eek: ;):D
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So I can tell stories like this obvs.
Also it's on my wife's Google Photo's.

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Guys just a reminder - if you'd be uncomfortable having that on your screen at work in an open office, then use a spoiler please. @RetiredGreyFox even though you're retired, that applies to you as well.
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You'll freak out if somebody puts a photo of Borat :)
 
My holidays have luckily been quite uneventful. But my cousin (who is close to having visited every country on Earth) has quite a few stories. Here 's two that stick in my head.

Him and his girlfriend were in Africa (unsure what country) They hailed a cab to take them to their hotel. It was a cheap place and the taxi driver gave them a concerned look. When they got there the driver told them to stay in the car, He got out, opened the boot and pulled out a big sword. He then stood at the side of the car brandishing it and told them to get out and run into the hotel. My cousin's girlfriend had a panic attack once inside the hotel apparently.

In Monaco he got invited to party. Eventually there was just him and this one bloke left, they were chatting. My cousin went into the kitchen for a drink and when he came back out the bloke was naked, with his old chap standing fully to attention. I believe my cousin made his excuses and swiftly left, at least that's what he said he did :)

Worst that has happened to me is getting cited for drinking on the street in NY. Had my passport taken for an hour, got fined and had to spend half a day sorting it out.
 
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