What’s your worst holiday experience, destination?

[Bill Walker]

You've sold it to me..

Forgot to add If New York is ‘The City that Never Sleeps’, Skegness is ‘The City that Barely Stays Awake’.

:)

 

[stonerblue]

Sanford, Florida.
Another freebie where the wife took me to be her and her mates chauffer. Apart from waterworld everywhere i went was awful. Draining muggy heat interspersed with freezing cold air-con. Religious nut jobs everywhere.

 

[splinter]

Forgot to add If New York is ‘The City that Never Sleeps’, Skegness is ‘The City that Barely Stays Awake’.

:)

It's on the bucket list :)

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Lanzarote, April/May, years back. Got to Costa Teguise and the lady on the transfer coach tells us, "Don't forget it's known as breezy Teguise". Not half. Spent the first few days looking for jumpers in the shops. Constant grey skies. The hotel overlooked a building site on both sides and the in-house entertainment was a John Wayne impersonator (?) and various parrot shows, oh and they repeated the schedule for week 2. The pool was ice cold, the local restaurant had no running water in the toilets which was bad enough until I saw the chef come out of one of the traps after doing a number 2 and walk straight out. The hire car had bald tyres and got broken into where my mobile phone got nicked (back in the day when they were too big to carry around) and the trip to the submarine was spoiled by the Germans running it who clearly thought the war was still on.

Oh and City got relegated (v Ipswich? I've chosen to forget).

On the way out we were delayed 4 hours, on the way back we were delayed 13 hours.

 

[oakiecokie]

Is he the smelly bloke following you around demanding money ?

Looky Looky ;)

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Sanford, Florida.
Another freebie where the wife took me to be her and her mates chauffer. Apart from waterworld everywhere i went was awful. Draining muggy heat interspersed with freezing cold air-con. Religious nut jobs everywhere.

Sanford Florida.... Landed there to start a 3 week road trip with ex from college. Trouble was she was at Sanford "International" and I was miles away whilst sharing an arrivals hall with a plane load of black and white striped, pissed up Geordies

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Lanzarote, April/May, years back. Got to Costa Teguise and the lady on the transfer coach tells us, "Don't forget it's known as breezy Teguise". Not half. Spent the first few days looking for jumpers in the shops. Constant grey skies. The hotel overlooked a building site on both sides and the in-house entertainment was a John Wayne impersonator (?) and various parrot shows, oh and they repeated the schedule for week 2. The pool was ice cold, the local restaurant had no running water in the toilets which was bad enough until I saw the chef come out of one of the traps after doing a number 2 and walk straight out. The hire car had bald tyres and got broken into where my mobile phone got nicked (back in the day when they were too big to carry around) and the trip to the submarine was spoiled by the Germans running it who clearly thought the war was still on.

Oh and City got relegated (v Ipswich? I've chosen to forget).

On the way out we were delayed 4 hours, on the way back we were delayed 13 hours.

Your post reminded me that I got stuck in Lanzarote Airport for far longer than I would have liked, and all I remember is the pizza being extortionately expensive. The holiday in itself wasn't bad though, I was 20 and away with my then girlfriend in an all inclusive hotel. The pool was swamped with kids but the beach was very close by so we just went there most days. My only complaint was that it was boring. I could be dumped blindfolded on any of the Spanish islands and wouldn't know which was which when the blindfold came off, the islands all look the same to me. We can ignore the volcanic landscape but you get what I mean.

 

[JASR]

I remember a holiday on the Greek island of Aegina in the 90s. The beach nearest to our hotel was full of litter and when i walked along it i sunk to my knees in thick oil under the sand! I trudged back to the hotel to wash it off shower and the hotel owner said i couldn't have a shower saying I should walk a mile along a track to a petrol station so I could wipe it off with petrol. I told him i wasn't prepared to walk a mile in the blazing sun caked in oil. He relented because a few other hotel guests said he should let me shower, so he begrudgingly let me. Agina is the nearest island to Athens and the port of Piraeus where cruise ships tip their rubbish and old engine oil. Apart from that it wasn't too bad a holiday.

I also had another bad experience in mid 90s when I went to kusadasi in Turkey. I got food poisoning from eating a cooked chicken on a rotisserie that had juices from uncooked chickens dripping on it. I was really ill for 3 days on the toilet and being sick and could only stomach bread and water. The only good thing was i wasn't spending much so i treated myself to a leather jacket.

I went to Aegina about the same time, the town beach was horrible, we managed to find a hidden cove a walk away (luckily apartment was on edge of town with great view)… no one there.. except one day the holiday rep! She clearly escaped to it as well.

Aegina was very disappointing, as the year before, had been to Spetses with the same company and it was a gorgeous place (3 cars - all taxi’s in entire island)

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

I went to Aegina about the same time, the town beach was horrible, we managed to find a hidden cove a walk away (luckily apartment was on edge of town with great view)… no one there.. except one day the holiday rep! She clearly escaped to it as well.

Aegina was very disappointing, as the year before, had been to Spetses with the same company and it was a gorgeous place (3 cars - all taxi’s in entire island)

I hope the oil and litter has been cleaned up nowadays because it ruined what was otherwise a pretty island.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Your post reminded me that I got stuck in Lanzarote Airport for far longer than I would have liked, and all I remember is the pizza being extortionately expensive. The holiday in itself wasn't bad though, I was 20 and away with my then girlfriend in an all inclusive hotel. The pool was swamped with kids but the beach was very close by so we just went there most days. My only complaint was that it was boring. I could be dumped blindfolded on any of the Spanish islands and wouldn't know which was which when the blindfold came off, the islands all look the same to me. We can ignore the volcanic landscape but you get what I mean.

The only other Canary I've been to is Tenerife and we stayed in a decent hotel near Costa Adeje and that was quite nice and upmarket. Not sure I'd go again though as I only wanted to go up Mount Teide. Menorca is the best Spanish Island I've been to and the weather's better.