What's the most creative ways in which your vacation has gone wrong?

[KristyHall]

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that is horrible

 

[Fierlin1182]

Wow, guys! Sorry about all your terrible experiences! :O
(Well, some of them were pretty funny, like the golden kitty one

I had to chuckle)

Airport horrors I have seen no shortage of. Yikes.

my holidays isn't turning out so bad after all! The weather cleared up today, and we went down to Port Kembla to get a tour of the steelworks. Most epic thing of my life!

Should've seen the molten stuff flying down the rolling belt... Bluescope sure had no qualms about showing off the endangered frog species on campus

 

[Cpprpnny19]

My husband wanted to go to Disney with our 3 yr old son and vacation
with his parents.
They stay in FL for the winter and had rented a place for 3 months.
We had a decent flight-that's was the only thing good about the whole trip!
The next morning we head off to Epcot. Now my husband and I are not ones
to drag our feet so we hustled to get from one ride/activity to the next. The next thing
I know my FIL is taking a nitro pill (angina), my son is asleep on his dad's shoulder with
a temp, and my MIL and husband are glassy eyed. (all 3 had caught colds) It was about
11 am.

<sigh>
So-I said "let's go". We pile in the rental and head out to find a place to stay. (yes, we
needed a place to stay for 2 nights until the place the Inlaws were staying at for the
winter was available.
First Holiday Inn hotel was full. I hear a "psst" from a young woman behind a booth and she asked
what we needed. A place to stay for 2 nights I said. We ended up in a really nice timeshare
resort that had a full kitchen but we couldn't get in until 4. By the time we got there it was
3 and I went in to see if I could get in early. Luckily they said yes and we unloaded the car
and got the ac on and off I ran to the store to get cold medications and food. (soup!)
I get back, dose my son and put him to bed, get my husband and MIL to take some stuff and
send them to bed after they had soup, and sent the FIL to bed too.
2 days later we get to the condo the Inlaws had rented, and it was a dump. The ac unit was
so loud you couldn't hear each other or the tv. It was dreary, old 70's decor and nothing in
the way of modern appliances. My MIL left all the food prep to me-even though it was her place.

After 1 day in the dump I turned to my husband and said "I want to go home".
He says "I knew you were going to say that".
Then it started to rain-


Lynne

 

[m.kitchengirl]

I traveled one summer with a band I was in from New York to California in an old beat up school bus. There were 6 in the band, plus girlfriends, and between everyone there were 12 people and 13 dogs! (I know, that is bad enough, right?)

Well, as we got into Nevada our bus lost its brakes (scary times) and we spent 2 days on the side of the road getting the brakes fixed and commuting from the bus to gigs in a rental car.
Then, 3 days later, on the way out of Vegas we blew a head gasket. We were stranded on the side of the highway for 3 days (hot, pre-cell phones) and were very low on dog food, money, patience. Our gigs were often a cut of the door, this was pre-internet so we had no way to get our music out there and suffered for it on our trip.
On the third day (as I was sitting on the highway embankment wanting to hitch hike as far away from my band mates, their dogs and girlfriends as I could, this guy in an orange reflector jacket and a state trooper come pulling up. (The troopers knew that we were there, they had called & located a guy to rebuild our engine, brought us coffee in the mornings. I think they were about as amused as troopers can get with our motley crew.) They say, "hey you kids want to make $10 an hour cash & all the dog food you can carry?" and we - of course - said sure. A Purina truck had gotten in an accident and bags of feed were everywhere, the trailer was on its side. We cleaned up the dog food bags and made more money that day than we did at any of our gigs from the Chattanooga to San Fransisco. Leaving San Fransisco a wheel flew off our bus & bounced from one side of the median to the other 4 times without hitting any oncoming traffic. I quit the band after our last gig in Portland, Oregon and flew home. We were cursed.

 

[MamaRoo]

Didn't have the right visa to cross the boarder while traveling in Eastern Europe. Spent several hours in a military compound surrounded by young boys with machine guns while waiting to get my passport back.

 

[StupidBird]

MamaRoo! That sounds like some of my military sisters' stories. Way, way too many details missing.

All your stories sound bloodcurdling.

Here's mine.
For our 25th wedding anniversary, DH booked a week condo in Myrtle Beach from x - someone he knows. Walk into a dank clammy water-dripping from everything nasty little place. Main desk unresponsive, said it was the owners responsibility. Owner said vice versa. No real complaints could be made because it was a handshake deal with "someone he knows" that he couldn't complain to. Great. My asthma was crippling bad, and couldn't go anywhere because DH came down with a terrible stomach bug. Everything was closed around there, too hot to go far, and the key to the gas tank wouldn't work.
When I finally found a bar that was open on a walk (couldn't take many, he was that sick) I asked for a certain brand of beer. It came in a can. I never knew that came in a can. I asked for a glass. I got a styrofoam cup. It tasted like metal and plastic and I cried.

DH felt better the day before we were to go home and we went to a few things. He says on the bright side, he DID lose 17 pounds that week.

 

[jettgirl24]

My parents took us to Hawaii when I was 10 years old. We landed in Maui, set our bags down and immediately headed to the beach for a walk. Within 5 minutes I had been stung by a Man O'War and had stings all over my feet, legs, hands and forearms. Later in that trip I dropped my mom's camera in the ocean. It's a wonder they ever took me on vacation again

 

[MamaRoo]

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Traveling while in the Peace Corps.

 

[fuzziebutt]

m.kitchengirl :

I traveled one summer with a band I was in from New York to California in an old beat up school bus. There were 6 in the band, plus girlfriends, and between everyone there were 12 people and 13 dogs! (I know, that is bad enough, right?)
.

The Partridge Family?​

 

[Yetti]

back in `72 we got a tour of Atlanta backwards. my dad hit a large something in the road and ripped out the fuel tank in the LTD. we got off the freeway in time to get in a gas station where they said we needed to get towed to the dealer for a tank. they hauled the LTD from the rear with all of us in it. quite the ride I do remember.