[Misc] Worst holiday you’ve ever been on

[Robinjakarta]

I blame any Turkish incidents experienced,on those who foolishly book holidays to Turkey, the vast majority of folk you come across are solely intent on fleecing you of all your money, legally or illegally.....

Having spent several years of my life in Turkey and been there many times, unless you're coming across the wrong kind of 'folk, ' that's just not true of Turkish people. Sure, there are scams in Turkey as there are anywhere, and many occur where there are foreigners on holiday in Turkey and many other countries.

.. choose, like I do, a place where you know you will get a safe and relaxing holiday.

I already have. I'm off to Turkey on Friday

 

[BigBod]

Portugal all inclusive for Christmas. Was our honeymoon. We were originally booked to go to Turkey but advised not to travel there at that particular time, had to make a quick second choice and chose Portugal.

I was bored stupid, not my thing at all. We are used to motorbike holidays all over Europe and not being stuck in one place all the time. Not beach and pool people particularly.

Christmas day was crap, nothing laid on and dinner not till the evening. Hired a car in the end and drove out for something to do, nearly everything was closed.

It's been bike holidays ever since and we have been to some fantastic places on the bike...

 

[heathgate]

Having spent several years of my life in Turkey and been there many times, unless you're coming across the wrong kind of 'folk, ' that's just not true of Turkish people. Sure, there are scams in Turkey as there are anywhere, and many occur where there are foreigners on holiday in Turkey and many other countries.

I already have. I'm off to Turkey on Friday

Good luck

 

[Commander]

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.

My Algerian friend confidently tells me that Tunisians are 'filthy pigs' every time he hears the name of that country.

 

[Easy 10]

There are some great places to go in Turkey. Marmaris is not one of them.

Agreed. We went to Kusadasi and had a nice time there.

 

[One Love]

Dubai however was everything wrong. Again went on a work trip and lots of horrible things happened to work colleagues there so not on my own holiday list

Pl;ease share

 

[The Clamp]

Dubai is one of the worst places I’ve ever been.

The place is just not my thing.

Went with an ex.

Probably the most boring woman I’ve ever met.

She slept until 2pm every day. Waking up at the hottest part of the day to go and sit in a hammock and smoke roll ups til dinner time.

Barely said a word to me the whole time.

It was like taking a house plant on holiday .

 

[Springal]

Personally I don’t mind Dubai, didn’t think I’d like it but been twice in the last year.

Flights not to long, good weather, 5* hotels with very high quality food , good for kids.

 

[The Clamp]

Personally I don’t mind Dubai, didn’t think I’d like it but been twice in the last year.

Flights not to long, good weather, 5* hotels with very high quality food , good for kids.

Horses for courses.

I went back in the late 90’s.

It was pretty garish and tasteless back then. Can’t imagine what it’s like now.

 

[ROSM]

Pl;ease share

One got molested at the gold souk and we ended up bundling her into a cab via the back door of a shop (the shopkeeper locked us in the back room to protect her) with men banging the door. Then locals accused a bloke in our group of having unlawful contact with a woman who wasn't his wife as he had put his arms round her to shield her from all this.

Another had a man from the hotel bar let himself into her room after he bribed the hotel staff for their pass key and after the police were called and the man had slipped past them she had hotel security outside her room all night.

Add to that the way migrant staff in hotels were treated (passports taken off them and not allowed to seek to work for anybody else)

 

[The Clamp]

One got molested at the gold souk and we ended up bundling her into a cab via the back door of a shop (the shopkeeper locked us in the back room to protect her) with men banging the door. Then locals accused a bloke in our group of having unlawful contact with a woman who wasn't his wife as he had put his arms round her to shield her from all this.

Another had a man from the hotel bar let himself into her room after he bribed the hotel staff for their pass key and after the police were called and the man had slipped past them she had hotel security outside her room all night.

Add to that the way migrant staff in hotels were treated (passports taken off them and not allowed to seek to work for anybody else)

Grim.

 

[Insel affe]

Went with an ex.

Probably the most boring woman I’ve ever met.

She slept until 2pm every day. Waking up at the hottest part of the day to go and sit in a hammock and smoke roll ups til dinner time.

Barely said a word to me the whole time.

It was like taking a house plant on holiday .

Sounds like a keeper alright

 

[ROSM]

Sounds like a keeper alright

Smoking woman, laying around awake at night. What's not to like?

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

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

Likewise - thought Tunisia was pretty awful.

I've been to 27 different Greek Islands and Kos is the worst I've been too (closely followed by Santorini and Mykonos - avoid where cruise ships stop!)

 

[Insel affe]

Smoking woman, laying around awake at night. What's not to like?

quite a bit actually....

 

[The Wookiee]

I once took a girl to India -
Goa ?
You bet she was

 

[Insel affe]

I once took a girl to India -
Goa ?
You bet she was

was her surname Norrhea

 

[The Wookiee]

I once went to a casino in the Himalayas -
Tibet ??
Of course why else would I go to a casino!

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Portugal all inclusive for Christmas. Was our honeymoon. We were originally booked to go to Turkey but advised not to travel there at that particular time, had to make a quick second choice and chose Portugal.

I was bored stupid, not my thing at all. We are used to motorbike holidays all over Europe and not being stuck in one place all the time. Not beach and pool people particularly.

Christmas day was crap, nothing laid on and dinner not till the evening. Hired a car in the end and drove out for something to do, nearly everything was closed.

It's been bike holidays ever since and we have been to some fantastic places on the bike...

Didn't you have "more interesting" things to do on your honeymoon?

 

[Whitechapel]

My parents split up when I was about 15/16. They didn’t end things on great terms, but somehow my dad convinced my mum to give him one last chance to prove he could change in the form of a family holiday.

My dad drove us down to a static caravan park a couple of hours south of Paris. It would have been lovely, however as far as I can tell where we went was also hosting some kind of Mosquito convention at the same time because we were almost instantly bitten to absolute shreds.

My dad made no effort to try and prove getting back together was a good idea. He’s a very serious man and fun was at a premium. My youngest brother is autistic and was going through a phase where he had a tote bag full of toiletries he had to take everywhere which meant checking all of it was there before we could go anywhere which didn’t really help things. I; admittedly, was also a horrible person to be around at the time. Think I spent half the time sulking and half the time necking those little stubby bottles of beer. I think I got diagnosed with depression a few weeks after we got back.

However, the real issues started halfway through the trip. During a particularly bad tempered game of mini golf my dad accused me of spitting on him. Whilst I was a prick; I wasn’t that much of a prick. However even when my mum and my other sibling took my side my dad was adamant I had spat on him. In the end he told my mum that either I was sent home on the next flight or he was going.

My mum called his bluff, and true to his word my dad drove off leaving the 4 of us with no car & no way home in the middle of France. We later found out he’d actually booked a hotel the next town over and waited for my mum to crumble and call him for help.

Instead we actually had quite a nice last few days with a much more chilled out atmosphere and managed to wrangle a flight home from an airport which had a solitary runway.

Safe to say they didn’t get back together