What’s your worst holiday experience, destination?

Camber Sands in a mobile years ago with the kids.
A dump.
Even worse Haven Prestatyn. Did the first night, in the morning packed up and came home.
 
Konakali in Turkey. I booked a fully inclusive 2 weeks holiday for my girlfriend and myself through a Kazakh travel agent, I was working in Kazakhstan at the time. The hotel was full of Russians and Eastern Europeans, I was the only Western European there. The drinks were names I have never heard of and tasted horrible. When we arrived we were allocated a pool side room, which was nothing more than a converted garage. After a lot of argument we were moved into the main hotel.
The food was terrible and the behavior of the guest was worse, you would think they had never seen food before, they queued up for the opening of the restaurant doors and made a beeline for the best stuff and piled their plates so high it was impossible for them to eat half of it never mind all. If you were 10 minutes late all the good stuff was gone and only scabby fish was left. In the afternoon they brought cake out to the pool bar, again the queue started early and the first ones there piled their plates so high it was impossible to eat all of it, after 5 mins only crumbs were left.
There was also a game of banging the room doors and shouting "Russia" at the top of their voices, very strange.
The sun loungers round the pool were taken very early so we ended up going to the beach most days and paying for loungers there.
Needless to say we ate out every evening, so paying for a fully inclusive and being hungry and thirsty all day we I ended up paying for evening meals as well.
I will never go to a hotel that is 100% Russian guests again!!
 
Off topic - but your post triggered forgotten memories - I was in Sumatra at the time in 1998 whilst traveling around the world and remember the chaos with the army coming out on the streets as the Indonesians were rioting against Chinese shops and properties and only just managed to get back to Penang In Malaysia - it was bloody tense out there at the time.

If I recall correctly a bit later the Indonesian Rupiah collapsed and we stayed in a lovely villa in Bali for 3 quid a night for a month not far from Kuta beach - absolute bliss

Small world but I was in Perth at the time and jumped over to Bali and Lombok. The Rupiah did collapse, when I was there it was 20,000 to 1 english pound. Similarly I stayed in Bali for about a month, paying in the region of about £2 for hotel with swimming pool. Swapping money I used to take a black bin liner type bag with me.

Sumatra was a great place. Loved my time there also. I guess you went to Bukit Lawang to see the Orangutun. There was one which was quite aggressive called Mena, apparently she is still around frightening tourists.
 
I will never go to a hotel that is 100% Russian guests again!!
Seems to be a common theme. The Russian's on holiday are like the English were in the 80's and 90's but with a big chunk of arrogance thrown in. The sun seems to have the same effect on them of requiring excessive amounts of alcohol to be drunk and trying their best to offend the locals.
Had a delightful experience with them in Budva in Montenegro a few years back.
 
Seems to be a common theme. The Russian's on holiday are like the English were in the 80's and 90's but with a big chunk of arrogance thrown in. The sun seems to have the same effect on them of requiring excessive amounts of alcohol to be drunk and trying their best to offend the locals.
Had a delightful experience with them in Budva in Montenegro a few years back.
Russians always voted number 1 worst tourists
 
Russians always voted number 1 worst tourists
I remember going to Sharm el sheikh in 2004 and the place was just full of russians and couldnt stand the cunts. Started at the airport when we were queueing for passport control and suddenly hundreds of them just came storming in and shoved straight in and barged families, children out of the way. That theme continued right through the holiday. Total arrogant arseholes.
 

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top
  AdBlock Detected
Bluemoon relies on advertising to pay our hosting fees. Please support the site by disabling your ad blocking software to help keep the forum sustainable. Thanks.