Just For Fun....inspired By Ummmm...

[gness]

Ummmm said on an earlier thread she'd never had a bad holiday.....

I've had mostly good holidays......but a couple of disasters....so....

What's been your best and worst holidays?.....And why........x

[237SJ]

A package (I don't do packages) to Fuerteventura. What a bland and boring dump

[ummmm]

I got stranded on a secluded island in Thailand. There was just a small hut on the island which sold cold drinks to tourists. We went there snorkeling, the sea started to get choppy so I suggested we go back...our boat man said NO..there's a storm coming.

And wow, it was a proper storm..

We were stuck on an island with 3 Thai men and a rake of chickens...

One of the men came out with a machete, picked up a coconut and lopped the top off, shoved a straw into it and handed it to us.

I was just thinking...no one knows where we are...they could kill us and no one would know. Instead...they gave us blankets, pot noodles and cigarettes.

We left the island 6am the next morning

[NoMercy]

My best was St Lucia and the Grenadines in 1997.

Worst was a hole in the ground called Turkey.

[mallyh]

went to Fiji for three weeks it rained nearly everyday and the last week we had a bad hurricane ,following year went to Antigua great holiday until the hurricane ,everybody ask where we were going the following year x

[aelmpvw]

Best holiday venice ... worst, a caravan holiday in norfolk when it rained non stop for seven days. Thinking about it we were surrounded by water on both of them

[Cloverjo]

I've never had any complete disasters on holiday, but I did go to Malta once about 18 years ago. I know some people here love the island, but I'd never go there again. Terrible service, in our hotel my son was refused breakfast because we didn't have the equivalent of 20p on us, which was required for the continental option. Beds crammed into the room so there was no other space. We moved into a different place which was quite lovely, but still had to pay for the original hotel for the whole holiday.

[Kromovaracun]

Mauritius when I was a young kid. It was boring and horrible, and I had an "accident" in the pool which embarrassed me so much that it still makes me cringe.

Then there was a holiday to Devon I had with my cousin and his family when I was about 11 or 12. We stayed in some resort place, and it was horrible. It was a serious heatwave and there was no way of escaping it. There was nothing to do except use the pool, which was so filthy that you couldn't see the bottom (well... until my grandfather got involved. He complained at the poor guy in charge of the pool every day, and demanded that the water be clean enough to
easily see the dolphin mural at the bottom of the pool. By the time we left, that dolphin was clear as day.)

The food was also revolting and really greasy, and the restaurants were filthy. The adults were irritable because the holiday was going badly, and the children were irritable because there was nothing to do. We did play Cluedo multiple times though. That was fun.

[Kromovaracun]

Best holiday... a tour around the states my family did when I was 15. My parents were celebrating their joint-50th birthdays, as well as a bunch of other fortuitous things which happened to our family around that time. I forget the exact states as my US geography is terrible, but I think we went from Alabama, then to Arkansas, Texas, Arizona, and then Nevada. We saw a bunch of canyons and native American reserves, also went to Las Vegas (though there's not much for you there if you're 15). Dad won a decent amount on a slot machine and took us for a meal - my mother also managed to win something but put it back into the machine :).

Anyway, it's one of my happiest memories.

[donny48]

Best -- trekking in Himalayas before Ann's arthritis prevented that activity.
Worst---- an eco lodge in Uganda, for eco. read filthy unhygienic slum where cleanliness was suspended for eco. reasons.

[gness]

Thank you for your answers.....entertaining and interesting.....and smiles when I thought....mmm I've had a holiday a bit like that.....Gx

[emmie]

worse comes to mind was going on holiday with the family, including brother and his wife, the dog, the kids and mum for good measure. Off we set down to sunny or not Wiltshire somewhere i forgotten now. to spend a holiday in a caravan. On the way there the arguments started, bicker, bicker, bicker, i am not much good in arguments so tried to cock a deafen on the way.
by the halfway point it was pizzing down to such an extent we got completely lost. No satnavs back then.
just good old maps and supposed but long lost common sense. When we finally arrived at our destination we found our eight berth caravan was a broken down crock, sleeping no more than 4. including said dog.
so in keeping with the pleasant atmosphere, the brother says we have to make the best of a bad, nee terrible situation. Not to mention the caravan was parked with others on a farmers land, muddy and filthy all in one. Once settled in so far as we could, we went in search of food, which we hadn't seen fit to think about any day soon. We tried endless places only to find that being Sunday very little was open, including the pub. Not to say our large group got grumpier still and decided after one night to abandon the caravan and come home, out of pocket, out of time and out of our minds.

[emmie]

best was 4 glorious weeks travelling on a pop pop bike around Greece, with a mate, all 6ft 4inches of him and me on the back of the bike with two bags. I proceeded over 4 weeks to bash my big toe stumbling up a step, get grazed all down my thighs from the gorse bushes, getting sun stroke caused by sitting on a sea wall around 5pm with sun going down, who's to know you could get sunstroke, but all in all it was one of my favourite times.

[jambutty]

My best holiday - Wales when I took a beloved dog with me, she had such fun and was like a little child in her joy - God, I loved that dog. The worst - Tunisia in my 20's, the cruelty to local cats and dogs spoiled it for me, plus the men in our group were constantly harassed by Tunisian men - horrible!

[jambutty]

I vowed never to go again 10Clarion!

[gness]

Well lots of ideas about where to go and where not to go....thank you.....

10 Clarion......what happend with the gun incident?...x