What's the worst vacation you've ever been on?

[vercetti2021]

I got so many shitty ones up my sleeve. But this is easily my number one.

Roswell, NM. 2018. It was during their UFO festival that year. My best friend at the time and I planned this for 6 weeks, I paid for not only our hotel, but our gas as well. She rented the car, but that was because I paid for her car to get towed to a service center. Anyways. We had places planned to go, outer Roswell to see the crash site area, see their parade, do their scavenger hunt, see some laser shows. You know really good stuff, including visiting a lot of the local shops and places.

I had no idea what I was getting in to. First night, we go to dinner. I pay for it all. She decides right there she doesn't want to go to the laser shows. Which I was very interested in, but she rented the car and I couldn't drive it. So we stayed at the hotel and just sat in a hot tub most of the time. We goofed around, just quoting a lot of Supernatural references just for the fun of it. But she legit is acting odd most of the time.

Day two, actually was going swell, took photos with some Star Wars cosplayers, shopped a little, but during the scavenger hunt. Which you had to get stamps for at stores on their map, she decided after 19 or 20 stores in, she wanted to quit and not do it. I'm confused because if you finished, you got a bag of awesome stuff. She instead wanted to get a tattoo, which I had no issues with. But the guy that owned it was extremely rude to me and closed up shop. I got pissed and chunked my scavenger hunt list into the garbage and went back to the car fuming from that. She said I was acting like a child, but I tried to get the guy some business and he was rude.

Anyways, we shopped a little here and there. I noticed like how her and I were buying for everyone we knew, except for ourselves. So I commented, we needed to get ourselves stuff as well. We spent a lot of money on other people and forgot ourselves. Remember this for the ending. Anyway we skipped a lot of places, their museum, space walk, even the UFO McDonald's. Just a lot of stuff we had planned. Anyway back to the hotel, I sat alone and just played on my computer all night.

Day three, I woke up to get breakfast, my friend is lying on her bed and looking upset. Mind you, this is a mistake I made and shouldn't have never done without consent. I walked over and leaned down to hug her since I thought something was wrong. She flipped out and told me no. I shot back up and left the room immediately. Of course I thought I didn't do wrong, I come from a very loving and hugging family. But I knew later I did mess up there. I get breakfast, but forgot hers since I was kinda avoiding her now. Tempers were getting bad and I went to check us out. We spent a lot of the time driving back in silence. We got home, she dropped me off and I just kinda shrugged.

Couple of days later, I got a long long text wall about how I was planning this whole time to get into bed with her due to the hug, control her on how she spent her money since we didn't even get ourselves anything, how I was a big ass child when the tattoo shop guy was rude to me, how I ruined her first vacation in years because of how I acted. Needless to say. I accept I was at fault for what I did.

But her and I stopped the best friend status for four or five months. I hung out with my other best friend and she eventually came around once her and her boyfriend broke up.

Needless to say, I refused to go anywhere with her again. In 2019, she wanted to go to LA Pride, but kicked me out of the trip since I didn't know if I could get off work and she insisted I was so in love with her. Which was never true. I just quit the friend game for a long time after that. She ended up alienating most of the people who she invited on that trip as well.

I guess my point is, never go with toxic friends or family anywhere. I'm heading back to Roswell this year to try again, but this time. I'm going with my mom. I figured this time it will be fun. We can actually do what I didn't get to do this time.

So what's your worst trip experience? What made it bad?

[True Blue American]

1. In San Antonio

When one of our small group had a heart attack, clinically died 5 times.

But thank God for the Hospital. We spent our time there. The guy lived 20 more years, though.

[vercetti2021]

8. Wow 5 times?

How did he manage to survive it?

[True Blue American]

24. Paramedics

Once at the Hotel. They had a Paramedic. 4 times in the Rescue Squad.

On another note my Husband was a Volunteer Paramedic. The whole family was involved.worst part? We were on a Paratroopers Convention. Always fun. The first day was,Riverwalk, Alamo, shock, it was in town.,)

[underpants]

2. Staycation

Never. Ever again. Go somewhere. Anywhere.

[vercetti2021]

7. I've been doing there for the past year

I need to get out of this shithole conservative city I live in

[argyl]

3. Too bad about your lousy time in Roswell.

It can be a nice place. It's about 80 miles east of Ruidoso, a beautiful little town with skiing, hiking, horse racing, and a casino run by the Mescalero Apaches on their reservation.

About 80 miles north of Roswell you've got Fort Sumner, where Billy the Kid became a legend and the Lincoln County War raged.

So, Roswell's close to some very beautiful, fun and historic places.
It could have been worse. You could have wound up in Hobbs or Clovis. Then you'd have as soon been in the worst of West Texas.

Of course the location didn't make too much difference in the awful time you had. Your friend flipping out on you was the cause for your miserable time. That could have made a trip to the Koh Phi Phi islands in Thailand a real bummer.

[vercetti2021]

5. I love Ruidoso

Family vacation there in August this year possibly. I went there in 2017. That was like the last best vacation I ever had. Been to Ft Sumner, got so many photos of that museum. That was one thing I left out of that bad trip, we took a detour and went there. Still silent most of the time.

But her and I agreed we'd never take a vacation together again because we butt heads too much. She loves control over everything and did her best to control the whole trip despite getting it free of charge essentially.

[argyl]

33. I do too. It's a real jewel.

[vercetti2021]

34. Loved walking their main street

That was fun shopping!

[Sedona]

4. No such thing

As a bad vacation



Although....my parents dragged me around DC in 100 degree weather while I was feverish with tonsillitis when I was about 12 years old. That kinda sucked. Not DC's fault. My idiot parents weren't going to ruin their time because I was sick.

[vercetti2021]

6. Sounds like my dad

They had local firefighter Olympics with the surrounding Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma FD's. I had the chickenpox and he dragged me out there in the middle of summer in the sunlight. What an awful time!

[Haggard Celine]

9. I think it was in 1988.

My dad, mom, brother, and I drove down to Disney World with my uncle and 3 girl cousins.

I didn't want to go on this trip in the first place. I was in college at that time and this was over the Thanksgiving holiday. Orlando is about a 12 hour drive from here, and I hate being cooped up in a car for that long without any breaks, which is how my family rolls.

Anyway, this trip, according to my mom, was to help my uncle's family to get their minds off my aunt's death, about 6 months before. My youngest cousin was having a bad time with it, and she was a pain in the ass. What made it worse is her sisters and her dad catered to her the whole time instead of making her mind. Everyone let her control the whole trip, and it was infuriating. Besides, I had already been to Disney World several times and I wasn't into it, anyway.

After that trip, I said that I would never go to Disney World again. The place was crowded, it was hot (even in late November), and my cousin's whining had ruined me on that place. I've been on some road trips since, but I pull over at little attractions along the way or stop at restaurants. Road trips can be nice if you enjoy the trip as well as the destination. And if whiners annoy you, certainly don't travel with them.

[vercetti2021]

12. Oh God fuck that

12 hours in a car without a break? You might as well just strap yourself to the hood and just goddamn go on a Joyride. Yeah it's never good to let a child dictate what everybody does like in our family we will let everyone have at least one activity they want to do. My family's pretty sizable so that's the only reason we get to choose one thing we want.

Disney World I've never been and that's mainly because I don't like amusement parks and I never would go ever to be honest. I mean if you were in college at the time I'm surprised that you were like strong-armed to go because you had to be at least adult by then

[Haggard Celine]

20. My parents wanted me to spend the holiday with them,

so I went on ahead. I didn't come home from college very often, so they wanted me with them. Looking back on it now, I should have just got in my car and gone back to school. I hardly went home at all after that. I went to summer school so I had an excuse to stay at school.

[Sherman A1]

10. Door County, Wisconsin

Rained the whole week and a two week trip to Gettysburg, Atlantic City, Cape May was a wash out as well.

[vercetti2021]

15. A little rain doesn't sound too bad

When we go to the mountains it always rains we just kind of wait it out

[Sherman A1]

18. It rained all week long

there was no waiting it out on either of the aforementioned trips.

[vercetti2021]

19. Well that sucks

Nothing worse than continuous rainfall

[Duncanpup]

11. U.S.army 84-87

[vercetti2021]

13. That's not a vacation though

That's just being in the service

[Duncanpup]

22. Sarcasm

[PJMcK]

17. Being in the Army was a vacation for you?!

You're one tough fellow, Duncanpup!

[Duncanpup]

21. Sarcasm

[PJMcK]

23. No kidding

(wink)

Still, I bet bet you're a tough one.

[Duncanpup]

25. Not really it was like animal house the movie

We had weapons 😂 I was just a regular joe.

[Aussie105]

14. To the OP:

She saw you as nothing more than a fashion accessory.
What you wanted, where you wanted to go, what you wanted to do was just so inconvenient to her.

I guess she didn't trust you either.

Worst trip ever?

Wife bid on a trip to Singapore at a auction. Being drunk at the time, she bid well over the actual value.
Went there, Hotel included in the package was below par, locals gave us the evil eye.
Went to Sentosa Island on the second day, wife stepped backwards into an open rain water drain - narrow but deep.
Tore some ligaments in her ankle, went to hospital, paid the bill for the pain killers, spent the rest of the two weeks watching inhouse movies (still hate 'Steel Magnolias' to this day) with her spaced out on pain killers and the odd short trip out pushing her in a wheelchair.

Glad to get on the plane and go home.

[vercetti2021]

16. I don't think she did either

She had a boyfriend at the we went who she shit talked behind his back to me and would spend a lot of the evening on the phone with him. I think that's why we never got to go to the laser shows because she spent the whole evening talking to him on the phone. After we agreed that we wouldn't call or be on the phone with anybody for more than like 10 minutes she was on the phone for hours. And then she had the nerve to say well I called my folks and stuff and why did I get to do that and she couldn't talk to her boyfriend. And I said well because number one my fucking dog was sick at the time and came very close to being put to sleep when I wasn't there so yeah it was an emergency.

She's just what I like to call a B word.

Yikes that sounds like a nightmare. Torn ligaments and a really crappy on repeat. And a very high wife. Sounds like a dream come true

[PJMcK]

26. Carnival Cruise ship

For our parents' 50th wedding anniversary, my siblings and I took them and our respective families on a one week cruise to Nova Scotia. The ship's accommodations were fine and when we set out from New York, it was with high hopes for the week.

Alas, the problems began before we even got under the Varrazzano Bridge.

My brother and his wife's cabin had a plumbing problem and there was a strong sewage odor coming from the drain in their shower. It didn't go away and the onboard crew couldn't resolve it all week! When my brother complained, Carnival's response was to offer him a 10% discount on his next Carnival cruise! As if.

My parents had a luxurious cabin at the stern of the ship with a large wrap around balcony where we would meet every afternoon for cocktails. Except that on the second day, a piece of the safety railing broke off and fell into the sea. The ship's engineer declared the balcony unsafe so that was it for that amenity. For the rest of the voyage, we met on an upper deck.

My sister and her husband are big-time cruisers and were the organizers for this cruise. They fancy themselves gourmands and wine experts and all week they complained about the quality of the food and drinks. They weren't really that bad but since I do know fine cuisine, I couldn't really disagree with them. However, after a couple of cocktails, I didn't really care!

Our cabin was reasonably comfortable with a small balcony. A few days into the journey, we decided to turn in early only to discover that our cabin was directly above one of the nightclubs. According to the ship's brochure, this club was to close at 11:00 pm but it was still rocking at midnight. I complained and they closed it about 15 minutes later. The next morning, I got a letter from the company offering me a 20% discount on my next Carnival cruise! Once again, as if.

In the final days of the cruise, my wife and a number of other passengers all came down with some food poisoning that was caused by bad shrimp.

Although we had been on other cruises previously, we decided that was our last. There are other vacations that won't put us at the mercy of a ship and her crew.

[vercetti2021]

41. Nightmare!

Food poisoning? And people thought they had to worry about Covid. Well thanks for letting me know to never take a Carnival cruise! That sounds just so hellish.

[PJMcK]

46. Norwegian and Royal Caribbean were great

They were professional, high quality cruises.

But I've had enough. Our next cruises will be aboard a 27-foot cruising sailboat.

[jpak]

27. 1959 Siberia

Cross country skiing with 9 friends

The Snowman lives


:

[vercetti2021]

40. Oh?

You found a yeti?

[doc03]

28. Went on a senior bus trip to St. Augustine/Jacksonville

a few years ago. It was a two day bus ride so I took a couple books to read. The tour director puts on one movie after another and has the volume cranked up to 100. It was impossible to concentrate on reading and the movies sucked.
We get to St. Augustine the second day. Our hotel was in some future golf resort with nothing within a mile but a gas station. In the meantime a hurricane is approaching Florida. The first morning we go to old town St. Augustine,
we tour the fort that was Ok. But most of the shops were closed in town and they were boarding them up for the hurricane. The second day we were going on a cruise on the St.John River. The cruise was canceled so we go on to Amelia Island, everything was boarded up nothing open. That afternoon we were going to tour Jacksonville,
canceled. That evening when we get back to the hotel the Governor of Florida orders everyone on the east coast to evacuate. In the morning we were supposed to head north on I 95 and stop in Savanna GA. Change of plans we had to go up I 77 I think because I 95 was gridlocked. The next morning heading north we stopped in Macon GA that was a waste, then on north. That night the hotels were packed with Florida evacuees. That night about 11pm the mother and daughter in the next room got into a screaming match. The hotel manager had to come settle them down the daughter went to spend the night in the lobby. About 2am I am awakened by a dog fight in the next room. The mother lets her little dog out of its cage. The daughters big dog that was also loose attacks her dog. The mother attempts to break it up and is screaming her head off help help. I look outside the door there is the mother in the hall bleeding from dog bites. After that the cops escorted them out of the hotel. (Florida white trash)
The last day north was pretty much uneventful except for the damn movie volume on 100. I did get about 1/2 my money back from trip.

[mnhtnbb]

29. I suspect my oldest son and his partner would say the trip to Bonaire

a year ago when they never got on the plane.

I had arrived on Bonaire March 2nd, 2020 to spend two weeks celebrating my birthday. My oldest son and his partner were going to join me on March 7th--for a week--all expenses paid for them by me. At 4 am on March 7th I got a text from my son saying they were at the airport and weren't coming. My son's partner has a fear of flying and combined with the news about COVID he couldn't bring himself to get on the plane.

I was out the airfare--business class--for both of them AND the prepaid week's rent for their condo. I ended up coming home a week early on March 9th because I was concerned the airport would be closed and I'd get stuck on Bonaire. If I hadn't had an elderly dog at home, I wouldn't have cared, but I couldn't risk not getting home to her for months or longer, as it turned out.

The resort was really nice to refund me my second prepaid week. I hope to get back there for my birthday next year. But if my son and his partner want to come, they are paying their own way!

[Phentex]

30. Two bad ones but it hurts to think about one of them the most...

one was a road trip with a then boyfriend. Car broke down, terrible family, weird twin sister, odd older man, dry county on New Year's Eve! and so much more. I decided I hated that guy and nearly everything about him on that trip. Even now, I am bothered thinking about all the crap that went on and how I could not escape.

Much later in life, the vacation from hell was with my sisters in law. We usually have great trips together but this one was godawful. The Villages of Florida and all that entails is your first clue. A SIL who snored so loudly, I got zero sleep (even attempted to sleep in a bathtub) so I was exhausted after the first day. And I forgot they eat no vegetables. (I have since learned to bring ear plugs and some food.)

[vercetti2021]

43. Wow

Sleeping in a tub? That's extreme!

[Quemado]

31. Not a vacation, but I had the business trip from hell.

I had to go from Austin, TX to Syracuse, NY (via Washington, D.C.) on a business trip. The flight leaving Austin was delayed 45 minutes because the sink in the bathroom of the rear of the plane overflowed, and they had to call in maintenance people to fix the sink and mop up the water.

I arrived in D.C. too late to catch my 5:30pm connecting flight to Syracuse, so the airline booked me on the next flight, which was to leave at 9:30pm. That flight got weather delayed to 1:30am.

The flight from D.C. to Syracuse departs at 1:30am and arrives in Syracuse, no problem. But, at that time of the morning, there are very few baggage handlers, so, I didn’t get my bag until 3:00am. And, also due to the time, there were very few taxis on the road, so, I didn’t get to my hotel until 3:45am. And, I reported for work at 8:00am, with about three hours of sleep. I felt bad all day long.

[vercetti2021]

38. I hate that

Plane lay overs, delays. Reason I'd never fly anywhere. I'll drive my ass lol

[Ocelot II]

32. Winter camping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (northern MN).

It wasn't really a vacation, just a long weekend - but damn, it was cold. Being a big fan of indoor plumbing, I don't even like summer camping, but I got talked into this trip against my better judgment. It was fine as long as we were out skiing, but I really, really didn't enjoy having to get out of a sleeping bag in order to pee when it was -15F.

With respect in general to vacations of more than a few days, don't take them with friends if you want to stay friends.

[vercetti2021]

37. That sounds chilly

So cold and having to pee in minus 15 degrees. I don't know how it didn't freeze when it hit the air

[OriginalGeek]

35. My stepfather was such an asshole

he ruined camping, fishing, boating and just about any other outdoor activity for me during my teen years.

We went all the time and it was fucking miserable. Anything 3 young boys might find fun was immediately stomped on so we didn't scare his fish off or mess up his boat or make noise or breathe too loudly or, apparently, look like we were having fun. Our job was to sit there in the sun and shut the fuck up, clean up camp, let him know if one of the fishing poles we weren't allowed to touch moved but get the shit beat out of us if it moved and we didn't catch it in time. If we had time to goof off we had time to polish the camper wheels or scrub the boat hull.

And then shower on sunday mornings at some gross-as-hell campground shower so we could go sit in some hot stupid fucking hillbilly church.

Before him, I loved camping and fishing. Went on many camping trips with my scout troop.

Haven't been in almost 50 years.

[vercetti2021]

36. I'm so sorry

Sounds like my bio dad. He was pretty much the same way

[Midnight Writer]

39. Got stopped by Police in New Mexico. They held me for 36 hours, for no apparent reason.

They kept sending guys into my little holding area telling me they had witnesses that I had committed various crimes. Got really intense at points, and I honestly had no idea what they were talking about. I was just passing through.

They finally cut me lose, but told me they would be issuing a warrant for my arrest and I could expect to be arrested soon.

That was over 40 years ago, and I never heard another word about it.

[vercetti2021]

42. Sounds like scum police

Trying to admit you to crimes you didn't commit or pin it on you.

[Midnight Writer]

44. They kept telling me they saw what I did and they had witnesses, but everything was very vague.

[vercetti2021]

45. I wouldn't have said anything either

If I didn't do shit, you're not gonna get me to admit to someone else's crime because you're too lazy to do your job.

[tavernier]

47. Yup, trip with toxic friend.

We took a tour to Ireland together. Half way through she had a lot to drink one night and told me how she disliked my family. Really mean, ugly stuff. They have never been anything but kind and generous to her. Since we were rooming together for the trip, I had to hold my tongue for next five days.
Think I’d learn? Three more trips with her, that included other friends who also had a taste of her bizarre behavior.
Finally this year I walked away from this toxic relationship. I pride myself on my loyalty to my friendships, but some things are best to let go.

[csziggy]

48. Mixed tip - business for my Dad, "vacation" for the family

First we went to visit my evangelical uncle and his family in Arkansas. Not only did we have to attend his church (where he pointed us out as NOT **GASP** Baptists) but we had to go for an entire day out on some local lake where he showed off a boat and his inexpert steering. I later figured out that the boat probably belonged to one of his church followers who lent it to him. During that trip my preacher uncle told the most racists joke I have ever heard. That began my rejection of religion after many years of trying to find one whose followers actually lived the way their holy men and texts taught. I'm now an agnostic as a result.

Then, the improvement over that - we went to Yazoo City, Mississippi, for Dad's business meeting. And I had my first period. On a Sunday morning in a small town where there were no stores open. Mom was upset that the only sanitary product she and my older sisters had were tampons. She felt it was inappropriate for my first time. Frankly, it just made me intolerant of pads.

Oh, and Dad was the kind that stuffed all six members of the family in a car, start before dawn, and drive all the way through in one go. We all got home from vacations exhausted and needing a few days rest before we went back to our normal routine.