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What is the worst holiday experience?
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By *ascaIMan 42 weeks ago
Cheshire Liverpool Manchester |
Probably Egypt when I was 10. Mainly due to the hotel being a shithole, food was awful and the staff were useless.
Enjoyed the trips/days out quad biking etc but doubt I’ll ever go back. |
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By (user no longer on site) 42 weeks ago
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"Mine was 3 years ago. Visited Paris. Proper hated it. Metro stank of urine. People weren't friendly. Even if you did speak French and not English, still rude. Never again will visit. "
I'm quite often disappointed in visiting capital cities...I think it's good to venture out of them to get a more laid back / totally different feel of a country. |
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Went on a bus tour with my family where the tour guide knew jack shit about jack shit, got lost several times, had to rely on my German as a teenager to get us out of a few hiccups.
The 30+ hours of being stranded in airports another time wasn't great either. |
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The worst experience we had was in Majorca when there were terrible storms and flooding resulting in some people losing their lives. We were lucky and have no complaints but it was awful for the locals hence describing it as our worst experience.
Second worst was an all night flight delay with a 10 and 8 year old, trying to sleep on a Greek airport floor. |
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By (user no longer on site) 42 weeks ago
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"You just need to speak louder and slower OP. The French love that.
Must be a capital city thing because the rest of France was nice and decent. For some reason it was just Paris "
Washington DC, the outskirts, is probably the roughest place I've ever been to in my life. (Interesting though) |
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By (user no longer on site) 42 weeks ago
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My worst was a brief visit to newton stewart, a really run down town that gets battered by the irish sea.
I read that brit ekland called newton stewart the worst place she'd ever been.. 'always raining and full of d*unks' ..or words to that effect. (They shot some of 'the wicker man' there).
I think she was being kind.
-Though I like scotland a lot on the whole. |
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"Mine was 3 years ago. Visited Paris. Proper hated it. Metro stank of urine. People weren't friendly. Even if you did speak French and not English, still rude. Never again will visit.
I'm quite often disappointed in visiting capital cities...I think it's good to venture out of them to get a more laid back / totally different feel of a country."
I have to agree with that. Not the first capital city I felt disappointed with |
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By (user no longer on site) 42 weeks ago
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"Mine was 3 years ago. Visited Paris. Proper hated it. Metro stank of urine. People weren't friendly. Even if you did speak French and not English, still rude. Never again will visit.
I'm quite often disappointed in visiting capital cities...I think it's good to venture out of them to get a more laid back / totally different feel of a country.
I have to agree with that. Not the first capital city I felt disappointed with "
Wellington I quite liked, but I agree, for me it's a short list. |
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By *ornycougaWoman 42 weeks ago
Wherever I lay my hat |
I tend to see the good in everything - so even when it's shit I see the funny side of it.
Possibly the worst are all camping trips: there was one time when me an 3 other campers who came to my aid tried to pitch my tent in the south of France in an absolute hoolie. We gave up before the fly ripped and me and the kids slept in the car. Or the times when tents have flooded and my mate had to dig a trench and I was bailing out water with a saucepan.
Hasn't put me off camping and my kids remember those times but have forgotten about all the gorgeous places I have taken them to on 'great' holidays! |
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By (user no longer on site) 42 weeks ago
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1) Havana, Cuba - Seeing the police gang up & beat someone up
2) Tunisia -the serious food poisoning/ gastro bug I picked up & the lewd men publicly wanking & openly harassing all the female tourists (I was 15). |
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By *ik MMan 42 weeks ago
Lancashire |
A week in Tunisia with a woman who turned out to be a vile racist. Left her in the very average hotel after 3 nights and moved into a rotten hotel for the rest of the week… Gave her a lift home from the airport and never saw her again |
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I've travelled all over the place many times over, I find that any bad experiences just seem to fade away from memory.
If I had to pick one bad experience it would have been on a train in Russia.
I ate something I shouldn't of had and for the next 36hrs I was shitting and spewing non stop.
I couldn't even stand up and had to crawl on hands and knees to the toilet whilst all the other passengers were watching on.
I reckon I lost a good couple of kilos, that's for sure
Oh well, it helps you appreciate the good times more I guess |
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We've not had any true nightmares. Everyone catching norovirus on our last Tenerife Christmas trip was a bit of a bummer, but it was only a couple of days of shittiness.
Being delayed over 8hrs and being switched from Leeds to Manchester airport, AFTER going through security, on the previous Tenerife Christmas was also annoying but the holiday was wonderful. We missed the transfer we'd paid for, took ages to get a refund and it cost us 2.5x what we'd originally paid to find a wheelchair accessible transfer in the middle of the night. We made it, though! |
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Somewhere in Turkey. Never again. The only plus was meeting a couple, whose husband was a retired ground engineer. Who'd worked on Concorde at Heathrow. Seriously interesting bloke and certainly knew his onions. |
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By *929Man 41 weeks ago
bedlington |
My mother would get these cheap holidays through her work it was some sort of benefit for employees of the factory she worked at we only ever went on 2 first one was to kos it was it this block of 6 small apartments in the middle of nowhere we had to walk about an hour and a half to get to the town/beach there was an old lady lived in a makeshift tent in a field just outside the apartment with her 3 goats but otherwise was desolate luckily company went bust halfway through holiday and we were moved to an apartment in town, other was a bus trip to France which agsin went bust while there bus driver drove us home for free to save us being stuck there |
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