[Misc] Worst holiday you’ve ever been on

[Hovegull]

Have been researching my next holiday, and some trip advisor reviews.
Apparently these conditions contribute to the “worst ever holiday”, for some Brits:

- No English TV channels in the hotel (abroad)

- Pool wasn’t lively enough (no music)

- There was no evening entertainment in the hotel

- no fried breakfast in the hotel

What has been your worst holiday experience?

 

[HeaviestTed]

Other reviews that have put me off going to hotels is along the lines of “people sit in the pool bar all day and don’t get out at all” aka they are sitting drinking and continually pissing

 

[dazzer6666]

Tunisia. First package holiday aged 19
Heatwave - 45 degrees at times, no aircon in hotel room
Food was truly awful
Got sick
Got stung by jellyfish

Not been back

 

[Titanic]

Have been researching my next holiday, and some trip advisor reviews.
Apparently these conditions contribute to the “worst ever holiday”, for some Brits:

- No English TV channels in the hotel (abroad)

- Pool wasn’t lively enough (no music)

- There was no evening entertainment in the hotel

- no fried breakfast in the hotel

What has been your worst holiday experience?

They sound like the perfect recipe for an absolutely shite holiday.

 

[dazzer6666]

They sound like the perfect recipe for an absolutely shite holiday.

.......................any Mexican all-inclusive during US 'spring break'

 

[Guinness Boy]

Other reviews that have put me off going to hotels is along the lines of “people sit in the pool bar all day and don’t get out at all” aka they are sitting drinking and continually pissing

You can bet those sort of people also wazz in the room kettle.

(cc @crodonilson )

 

[Coldwaltham Seagull]

Have been researching my next holiday, and some trip advisor reviews.
Apparently these conditions contribute to the “worst ever holiday”, for some Brits:

- No English TV channels in the hotel (abroad)

- Pool wasn’t lively enough (no music)

- There was no evening entertainment in the hotel

- no fried breakfast in the hotel

What has been your worst holiday experience?

Anywhere the majority of people are going on holiday looking for these things as a mark of a 'good time'

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Paris

- very smelly
- somehow has worse poverty than London
- expensive
- biggest visitor attraction is a painting of a woman with a wonky nose you have to queue up 2 hours to see
- next biggest visitor attraction is a giant staircase
- full of French people

 

[Guinness Boy]

They sound like the perfect recipe for an absolutely shite holiday.

Exactly what I was thinking

I think my holiday low was my toddler daughter producing a code brown in the pool at Butlins, Bognor.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

While none of the above would bother me :
Tunisa - It was of those last minute deals

Tunisia. First package holiday aged 19
Heatwave - 45 degrees at times, no aircon in hotel room
Food was truly awful
Got sick
Got stung by jellyfish

Not been back

Bar the age you're not my ex-wife are you ?

We booked one of those last minute things to Tunisia where accommodation was 'awarded on arrival' :

> No air con - we resorted to putting the top sheet into the bath in cold water just before bed and wringing it out
> Worst food I've ever had on holiday - best I could ever find was fried eggs on toast ..... every fvcking meal
> Hotel was swarming with Germans so no sunbeds available ( although it was too hot to sit out anyway )
> The beer made Fosters look attractive
> Went to the local bazaar and couldn't keep the men away from the ex-Mrs WS. Was offered 20 camels ( the animals not the cigarettes ) for her which in hindsight might have been worth it - although where would I put 20 camels in my luggage let alone house them once home might have been a bit of a challenge. Anyone good at camel folding ?

 

[Questions]

Tunisia. First package holiday aged 19
Heatwave - 45 degrees at times, no aircon in hotel room
Food was truly awful
Got sick
Got stung by jellyfish

Not been back

I truly disliked Tunisia on the rare occasions we ventured out from our hotel with our two young teenage girls. Horrible lot in the towns.

 

[Weststander]

August 95 … a lifelong friend who’s tight booked us a last night Oracle holiday to Benidorm for a week. Cost each, £175? It showed, the apartment was a dingy dump, with thick steel bars and a padlock to get to the rubbish balcony. I could live with that as a crash pad, but the worst thing was that the authorities had deliberately killed the nightlife, sick n tired of Brits/Irish youths trashing the town, it was the beginning of their new era of long stay British pensioners. A shit choice, no music, no females, fkn boring.

I bet San Antonio just 90 miles away was rocking .

A year later he repeated this, three of us went to a shit Benalmadena. Dead as a door nail.

The mad thing is that he loved dance music and the fairer sex.

Lesson learned … take control of booking.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

A weekend away in Paris. I flew to Belgium on Good Friday to meet my then girlfriend who was working out there. With two of her colleagues joining us, we drove down after work to Paris.

As we got to the outskirts of Paris, we asked one of her colleagues where the hotel was at which point he said "Oh, I didn't bother booking anything, I thought we'd find somewhere when we get there". This would be around 8pm on an Easter weekend and pre- internet days.

Needless to say, we spent several hours driving around Paris trying to find a hotel with no success. We went back out towards the airport to try the hotels there but again no luck. Back in the city, someone thought they saw a vacancies sign in a hotel across the road so our now tired driver did a u-turn, only to be t-boned on their company car by someone following who had (quite rightly) not expected us to do a u-turn without looking.

Having got through all of the insurance stuff, it turned out the hotel didn't have any vacancies and it was now around midnight and we had a car which had two doors and windows caved in.

In desperation, we headed back out to the airport and a friendly security guard at one of the hotels we had visited earlier took pity on us and let us park in their covered car park so we could get some sleep in the car.

The following morning involved two of us making a trip to the local hardware store to find gaffer tape and plastic sheeting to cover the car windows while the other two went to the Paris Tourist office to find a hotel to stay in.

The hotel we found was basic but fairly well located and close to another underground car park where we left the car for the next couple of days.

The journey back started with the realisation that the fuel cap release was under the drivers seat - the side which was caved in. This meant someone wrapping their arm in clothes to avoid the glass while reaching under the seat from behind to try and open up the fuel cap. Having eventually managed that, we then had a long slow drive home with the wind buffeting the side of the car. The noise was so bad, my ears were still ringing several days later.

I flew back early the following morning and ended up at the County Ground for a one day game (B&H?) which, inevitably, Sussex lost.

No happy ending to this story either. It was the last time I saw my girlfriend as a couple of weeks later we decided to split up.

 

[clapham_gull]

No prawn cocktail crisps and parsley that "doesn't taste like ours"

I don't do package holidays any more.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I truly disliked Tunisia on the rare occasions we ventured out from our hotel with our two young teenage girls. Horrible lot in the towns.

You were brave to take two teenage girls there. Only place I found that was vaguely nice was the local harbour with a few average restaurants and some civilised people. Can't for the life of me remember where it was in Tunisia but it was 30+ years ago.

 

[Swimboy64]

Have been researching my next holiday, and some trip advisor reviews.
Apparently these conditions contribute to the “worst ever holiday”, for some Brits:

- No English TV channels in the hotel (abroad)

- Pool wasn’t lively enough (no music)

- There was no evening entertainment in the hotel

- no fried breakfast in the hotel

What has been your worst holiday experience?

Sounds alright to me

 

[Happy Exile]

Everything in that list being present would make certain I wouldn't book. Holiday is escaping all that stuff for me. Last weekend a few of us met to do a small, quiet celebration for a birthday in North Laine. One of the group was late so we went and sat on the beach for 20 minutes to wait for them and it BLEW MY TINY MIND how many people think it's acceptable to bring a bluetooth speaker and inflict their music on everyone. There was a band - sea shanties and folk music - outside one of the bars, there was the music from another bar merging over the top in some kind of horrendous audio sewage, and the competing sounds of at least six groups on their phones with bluetooth speakers listening to reggae, some awful warbling diva, WATCHING A FILM ON SOMEONE'S PHONE PLAYING THROUGH THE SPEAKERS and generic dance and rap. I've never had a beach holiday, and if that's what the English are like abroad I don't imagine I'll be having one ever.

 

[jackanada]

Well I nearly had a terrible holiday on the millennium. I booked a package holiday to Goa at a price less than any flight leaving early Jan 1st. Having miraculously not missed my flight with an epic hangover/comedown and an hours sleep I was some way into the flight before I was able to pay attention.
The flight was full of middle aged generally fat couples who would in the future go on to vote Brexit and complain about Muslims despite living in semi rural developments that never see anyone of colour except delivery drivers. Conversations were generally about fear of dirty toilets and dirty Indians, whether you'd be able to find fosters, passing on recommendations of a place that did a decent pork chop.
Now I had already planned to escape the resort after the first couple of nights and return to it night before returning, but despite being a complete wreck I took decisive action and on exiting airport I walked away from the waiting coaches and reps, hopped in a tuk tuk, went 50 miles in the other direction and rented a small hut on the beach.
The best part was when I got to the airport for the return flight about 40 mins before departure because it's a tiny airport to see the burnt and generally miserable cohort who had been left at the airport 3 hours prior.
They were obviously complaining about the waiting when one of them piped up "it's not as bad as when we arrived and sat on the coach for over an hour waiting for some chap to get out the airport and it turned out he wasn't there".
Sorry to digress but the lesson is if you're on a shit holiday you may well only be a bit of initiative away from a good one.

 

[schmunk]

we went and sat on the beach for 20 minutes to wait for them and it BLEW MY TINY MIND how many people think it's acceptable to bring a bluetooth speaker and inflict their music on everyone.

I know, right...

 

[JBizzle]

Awful "weekend break" for New Year in Paris. Went with my girlfriend at the time and two of her friends.

The room booking fell through (they double booked us and gave the room to the people who arrived 2 hours before check in), one of her friends had a nasty break up the day before so spent the whole weekend crying/screaming, we managed to find a room for the second night but spent the first night sleeping huddled on a bench by the Seine, and then one of the girls lost their passport so had to spend a couple of hours at the embassy getting a temporary passport so we could get the train home.

Overall, exhausting, miserable and freakishly expensive.

Other than that, I've been very lucky holiday-wise. I find review SO misleading because some people have impossible standards. 1* - The scrambled eggs were too dry and although there were twelve swimming pools, the one I wanted to use wasn't heated.

My favourite one was a review for an all inclusive in Greece. It was something along the lines of: "2* - Hotel was nice, food was very good although difficult to book. Sadly though, too many Germans"