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By *orwegian Blue OP   Man
over a year ago

Iceland, but Aldi is closer..

What is the worst place, resort or hotel you have ever visited and why?

Spill those beans so none of us have to endure such hellish places.

For me it was Butlins at Bognor, it was awful; dirty bedclothes, split vinyl on the floor and shit around the toilet. It was so bad that my daughter, aged 3 at the time, turned to me and said "daddy, do we have to stay here?"..

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

You have missed out on Pontins

Makes butlins look like 5* luxury

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By *orwegian Blue OP   Man
over a year ago

Iceland, but Aldi is closer..


"You have missed out on Pontins

Makes butlins look like 5* luxury "

Are they still in existence?

I went to one around 40 odd years ago, all i remember about it was the swimming pool being a green swamp and the old couple that shared our dining table... they were nicknamed the vulture squadron...

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet

Worst but now funniest in retrospect was a coach trip to France. The coach driver got lost and we ended up on a really rough housing estate. Imagine the French version of Shameless.

Three local scallies jumped on the coach "to give directions", basically used the coach as a taxi to take them to where they wanted to be and then jumped off again .

We were still lost so the driver had to ring the police. They came and gave us a police escort back to the motorway but then the driver got lost again,drove over a traffic island thing and cracked his oil tank.

So we were stranded in the middle of nowhere until they got us a new coach.

Finally got to our destination shell shocked!

One old pensioner managed to spill hot coffee on his genitals, and the courier was a goth who didn't speak and started crying.

You couldn't make it up.

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By *elly39devonCouple
over a year ago

tavistock

that sounds absolutely dire, never had a holiday like that, we have had a few horrid overnight stops, dog shit everywhere in car park, d*unk guys on a stag night

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Some crappy "beach" "apartment" on the "popular" "strip" in Zante...

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By *ilthyStrumpetCouple
over a year ago

Trowbridge

I've never had a bad one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

France as a kid camping trip with the school! 2 weeks solid rain and **** food!! Nightmare

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By *orwegian Blue OP   Man
over a year ago

Iceland, but Aldi is closer..


"Worst but now funniest in retrospect was a coach trip to France. The coach driver got lost and we ended up on a really rough housing estate. Imagine the French version of Shameless.

Three local scallies jumped on the coach "to give directions", basically used the coach as a taxi to take them to where they wanted to be and then jumped off again .

We were still lost so the driver had to ring the police. They came and gave us a police escort back to the motorway but then the driver got lost again,drove over a traffic island thing and cracked his oil tank.

So we were stranded in the middle of nowhere until they got us a new coach.

Finally got to our destination shell shocked!

One old pensioner managed to spill hot coffee on his genitals, and the courier was a goth who didn't speak and started crying.

You couldn't make it up."

Coach holiday.... enough said!

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By *orwegian Blue OP   Man
over a year ago

Iceland, but Aldi is closer..


"I've never had a bad one "

Can I come on holiday with you then, I have had some awful trips away...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Barcelona 2005. I got really poorly spent the whole second part of the holiday vomiting, thought I had a gastro bug turned out it was a ectopic pregnancy and im lucky I didn't die on the flight home

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By *icplshropsCouple
over a year ago

Rock

Coach trip to the then Soviet Union 1991. Room looked like a prison cell. Turn taps on and smelly dirty water came out. Towels the size of tea towels and rough as sand paper. Sat in darkness, as lightbulb shortage and rotten apples on the table.

Flight from Cayman Islands to Cuba in 1995 with Cubanna Airlines: old propellered aircraft with luggage stacked on front empty rows, seats in front you could push over and condensation dripping from the ceiling.

All fun experiences!

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet


"Coach trip to the then Soviet Union 1991. Room looked like a prison cell. Turn taps on and smelly dirty water came out. Towels the size of tea towels and rough as sand paper. Sat in darkness, as lightbulb shortage and rotten apples on the table.

Flight from Cayman Islands to Cuba in 1995 with Cubanna Airlines: old propellered aircraft with luggage stacked on front empty rows, seats in front you could push over and condensation dripping from the ceiling.

All fun experiences! "

Oh yes I've flown from Mexico to Cuba back in the day with Aeot.Luggage in the aisles and tempramental seat belts, plus that condensation.

As we were taking off my then bf told me Aeot had the worst (best?) stats for crashing ...

So glad to get there in one piece!

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet


"[Removed by poster at 20/04/18 22:44:30]"

Won't let me write aero flot for some reason?!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You have missed out on Pontins

Makes butlins look like 5* luxury

Are they still in existence?

I went to one around 40 odd years ago, all i remember about it was the swimming pool being a green swamp and the old couple that shared our dining table... they were nicknamed the vulture squadron... "

Yeah I went to the one in Southport 2 years ago to use as a base cos I was going to a few theme parks down south

The accommodation was basic but the shower and fridge etc was brand new and although the wallpaper was antiquated it was clean enough. I can honestly say for a holiday park the entertainment at night was the best I've ever been to. My weans loved it and asked to go the following year. We went again in the Oct and the one in Wales the following year. For an extra wee break between your main holiday for 60 quid canny complain x

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet


"You have missed out on Pontins

Makes butlins look like 5* luxury

Are they still in existence?

I went to one around 40 odd years ago, all i remember about it was the swimming pool being a green swamp and the old couple that shared our dining table... they were nicknamed the vulture squadron...

Yeah I went to the one in Southport 2 years ago to use as a base cos I was going to a few theme parks down south

The accommodation was basic but the shower and fridge etc was brand new and although the wallpaper was antiquated it was clean enough. I can honestly say for a holiday park the entertainment at night was the best I've ever been to. My weans loved it and asked to go the following year. We went again in the Oct and the one in Wales the following year. For an extra wee break between your main holiday for 60 quid canny complain x"

The Southport one gets some horrendous reviews. You must have touched lucky with the room.They do do some bargain breaks

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


"[Removed by poster at 20/04/18 22:44:30]

Won't let me write aero flot for some reason?!"

I flew with them 1994. Half the seats had no backs. We were served a ball of beef fat and nothing else for the in-flight meal with a drink that tasted like dental mouth wash in plastic beakers with bite marks round the rim. The aisles were full of live sheep in crates. In our hotel bathroom there wasn't a sink, just a pipe and a pile of rubble.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You have missed out on Pontins

Makes butlins look like 5* luxury

Are they still in existence?

I went to one around 40 odd years ago, all i remember about it was the swimming pool being a green swamp and the old couple that shared our dining table... they were nicknamed the vulture squadron...

Yeah I went to the one in Southport 2 years ago to use as a base cos I was going to a few theme parks down south

The accommodation was basic but the shower and fridge etc was brand new and although the wallpaper was antiquated it was clean enough. I can honestly say for a holiday park the entertainment at night was the best I've ever been to. My weans loved it and asked to go the following year. We went again in the Oct and the one in Wales the following year. For an extra wee break between your main holiday for 60 quid canny complain x

The Southport one gets some horrendous reviews. You must have touched lucky with the room.They do do some bargain breaks"

Uch it's just a bed..wooden floor and a table. The sheets are brand new. Only sleep in it any way. Didn't notice the corners or the cheap curtains. Canny do 5* all the time lol x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Surprisingly mine (male) was Barbados. It was actually part of a Hawksbill Turtle conservation holiday so saw an uneven battle of man against nature.

The locals just seemed bored all the time too

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By *orwegian Blue OP   Man
over a year ago

Iceland, but Aldi is closer..


"Coach trip to the then Soviet Union 1991. Room looked like a prison cell. Turn taps on and smelly dirty water came out. Towels the size of tea towels and rough as sand paper. Sat in darkness, as lightbulb shortage and rotten apples on the table.

Flight from Cayman Islands to Cuba in 1995 with Cubanna Airlines: old propellered aircraft with luggage stacked on front empty rows, seats in front you could push over and condensation dripping from the ceiling.

All fun experiences! "

Coach trip again... why do people do that to themselves?

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By *orwegian Blue OP   Man
over a year ago

Iceland, but Aldi is closer..


"Coach trip to the then Soviet Union 1991. Room looked like a prison cell. Turn taps on and smelly dirty water came out. Towels the size of tea towels and rough as sand paper. Sat in darkness, as lightbulb shortage and rotten apples on the table.

Flight from Cayman Islands to Cuba in 1995 with Cubanna Airlines: old propellered aircraft with luggage stacked on front empty rows, seats in front you could push over and condensation dripping from the ceiling.

All fun experiences! "

Jeez, you were brave..

In 91, I was in the forces, Russia was seen as the biggest threat around...

I was waiting my call for my trip to Russia, as it was I managed to get quite a nice tan in the middle east that year...

Either way, I would not have gone on a damned coach! What is it with people and coach holidays?

I believe they are not allowed to transport animals to slaughter in the space they give you on a coach holiday.. WHY!!!

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By *evaquitCouple
over a year ago

Catthorpe

Apartment in Paphos. OMG, we slept under the bed sheets to keep the bugs off us, don't even ask about the shower and no clean linen at all. Naive youngsters was we.

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

Coach holidays tgese days are really luxurious.

Worst holiday for me was in Northern Cyprus 9 yrs ago. Overnight flight was brilliant arriving 6am but transfer from main airport wasn't there to greet me.

Car arrived 1 hr later and driver appeared hungover. He got me to hotel in 2 hrs, 1 hr longer than usual. Hotel not expecting me so early. Had 3 rooms in first 12 hrs as managers bickered over which room to put me in. Day2, had to move rooms as bed base failed and I fell thru to floor during night.

Day 3. Next room had springs from mattress poking thru bedding.

Days 4-6. Same as Day 3 meaning room moves each day.

Day 8. Burst pipe in room above flooded my room. Belongings ruined.

Day 11. Return home. Transfer car to airport arrived late leaving journey to airport thru Larnaca's 'rush hour' tight!

Arrived at airport to find boarding had closed. Airport Duty Mgr broke rules and got me checked in, then rushed me thru Passport Control etc and into waiting car which took me out to end of runway where set of steps was waiting to allow me to board! Aircraft then took off!

Never got offer of Compo till took them to court. Won all money back and Judge slammed company.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Can't afford to go on holly bobs but me and my kids go camping and stuff and we have a scream.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A holiday to Halkidiki in Greece with my first serious boyfriend. He received some devastating news a few days into the holiday from back home, and we were unable to get a flight back home in time.

The stress of it all lead me to get absolutely rat arsed one evening during our last week and i got left in the ladies toilets as they’d shut up for the night and i was too busy hugging the toilet bowl to notice it was pitch black. My fella came looking and had to escort me to our room.

I collapsed on the bed, said i felt sick, he wanted to go for a walk on the beach as he thought fresh air might help, he tried to pull me up from the bed but i pushed him away and then was violently ill on his side of the bed.

And what did he do? This is a sign of love ladies! He got me in the shower and cleaned me up, put me back into my clean side of the bed and then stripped and rinsed his bedding in the shower and generally cleaned up the mess. All the while telling me, softly and gently, that it was ok as i d*unkenly whimpered how sorry i was. He then lay down next to me stroking my hair and slept cuddled up next to me until the morning.

Our next holiday went much better!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never had a bad holiday...lots of 'incidents' though, on quite a few holidays. But always managed to turn things around

The joys of travelling independently sometimes test what you're made of

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By *icplshropsCouple
over a year ago

Rock


"Coach trip to the then Soviet Union 1991. Room looked like a prison cell. Turn taps on and smelly dirty water came out. Towels the size of tea towels and rough as sand paper. Sat in darkness, as lightbulb shortage and rotten apples on the table.

Flight from Cayman Islands to Cuba in 1995 with Cubanna Airlines: old propellered aircraft with luggage stacked on front empty rows, seats in front you could push over and condensation dripping from the ceiling.

All fun experiences!

Jeez, you were brave..

In 91, I was in the forces, Russia was seen as the biggest threat around...

I was waiting my call for my trip to Russia, as it was I managed to get quite a nice tan in the middle east that year...

Either way, I would not have gone on a damned coach! What is it with people and coach holidays?

I believe they are not allowed to transport animals to slaughter in the space they give you on a coach holiday.. WHY!!!"

I (female) was only 22 at the time, travelling from Australia (first time abroad on my own) and had a fascination with the ‘other side’. So to be safe, I took this 18 day tour that began in London, through Europe and eastern block and back through Scandinavia and Low Countries. I’m glad I did it, as at the time, not many Australians I knew had been to some of these places - so it was considered ‘exotic’. I had a good time and met my husband on board. Now that I’m much older, experienced and wiser, I’ll happy travel independently and have done so numerous of times!

I agree with you though with coach tours. Even though they can be a great way to briefly and quickly see a country(ies) and takes some of the worries of travelling and language barriers, but they can become quite a pain when waiting for people to keep up with the group and arrive back to the coach on time. Thus reducing time at the next destination. Furthermore, they also have a ‘business’ of sending people to particular ‘shops’, where the operator gets a backhander for sending their passengers there!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

pontons never again nothing like there brochure

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By *icplshropsCouple
over a year ago

Rock


"Coach trip to the then Soviet Union 1991. Room looked like a prison cell. Turn taps on and smelly dirty water came out. Towels the size of tea towels and rough as sand paper. Sat in darkness, as lightbulb shortage and rotten apples on the table.

Flight from Cayman Islands to Cuba in 1995 with Cubanna Airlines: old propellered aircraft with luggage stacked on front empty rows, seats in front you could push over and condensation dripping from the ceiling.

All fun experiences!

Oh yes I've flown from Mexico to Cuba back in the day with Aeot.Luggage in the aisles and tempramental seat belts, plus that condensation.

As we were taking off my then bf told me Aeot had the worst (best?) stats for crashing ...

So glad to get there in one piece!"

The flight was only an hour thank goodness and we stayed the weekend before flying back. The most memorable memory of landing at Havana airport was seeing the huge multiple murals of Che Guevara on the buildings. We found the Cubans very friendly, got attached to a street boy and glad we went when we did, before it became ‘the’ holiday destination.

BTW, Cubanna Airlines isn’t on the EU ‘ban list’. So that’s somewhat reassuring!

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet


"Never had a bad holiday...lots of 'incidents' though, on quite a few holidays. But always managed to turn things around

The joys of travelling independently sometimes test what you're made of "

Definitely agree with this. I've been lucky enough to do a whole load of travelling and it's the incidents and crazy stuff that help make the experience.

The coach holiday was around 20 years ago when I was poor(just before the budget airlines started doing their One Pound fares, remember them,wow I had fun with those). Me and my mate still laugh about it now, and even at the time some bits of it were comical.

"Jesus,I've burnt my Willy!"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"[Removed by poster at 20/04/18 22:44:30]

Won't let me write aero flot for some reason?!"

Because it has the letter r.o.f.l in it so it turns it into aeot

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By *azmar62Couple
over a year ago

Hinckley

This all sounds like a monty python sketch, well our was last year in Kavos Greece? Arrived airport, no transfer to hotel, taxi ride, hotel, misses tripped over spikes stick out of the drive, bad cut on leg, got to room? Needed a pee, big mistake, big was broken, went to complain, got back to room for a sleep, bed collapsed, went to complain, went back to room, balcony, stepped on it and it moved away from building, went to complain, back in room, mosquito version of the battle of the Somme, blood all over the walls and insect bits? Yes, you guessed it, went to complain? Got moved to another room? Eeeewwww??? went back to original room shared a single bed with Mrs ended up awesome? Woke to buzzing, not mosquitos but bloody wasps, thousands of them? Gave up, moved to another hotel?

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