Just for fun - share your vacation horror stories

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Anonymous wrote:Wow some of these are….something. Our worst experience was blowing out a tire on the way to the airport (BWI) east of DC early morning. We couldn’t get a larger Uber to accommodate our stuff plus two kids at that hour, so had to get two Ubers. We had to throw our giant car seats into the Uber (we weren’t going to take car seats on the plane, and didn’t feel safe going that far in an Uber without car seats) and then had to lug them onto the plane. They were those big Britax convertibles and each weighed like 25# plus. We waited as long as we could for roadside assistance and eventually gave up and drove our limping car to the nearest Chrysler dealership and called them to replace our tire while we were gone. They were really nice about the whole situation. (And before you ask, we have an electric hybrid van that doesn’t have a spare tire, and the damage to the tire was too bad to be repaired with the can of sealant included in the repair kit…we tried). I don’t know how we made our flight on time. It seemed time was standing still.

What a long boring story. I hope you don’t tell this at parties.

I have several vomiting and diarrhea stories from Central America and Mexico,, too, but those felt pretty well covered already.

Lol

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Domestic: bedbugs in a VRBO beach condo. Overseas: DH getting us into a car accident in HI, sucked up a day and a half of vacation dealing with insurance, rental car agency, local cops, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow some of these are….something. Our worst experience was blowing out a tire on the way to the airport (BWI) east of DC early morning. We couldn’t get a larger Uber to accommodate our stuff plus two kids at that hour, so had to get two Ubers. We had to throw our giant car seats into the Uber (we weren’t going to take car seats on the plane, and didn’t feel safe going that far in an Uber without car seats) and then had to lug them onto the plane. They were those big Britax convertibles and each weighed like 25# plus. We waited as long as we could for roadside assistance and eventually gave up and drove our limping car to the nearest Chrysler dealership and called them to replace our tire while we were gone. They were really nice about the whole situation. (And before you ask, we have an electric hybrid van that doesn’t have a spare tire, and the damage to the tire was too bad to be repaired with the can of sealant included in the repair kit…we tried). I don’t know how we made our flight on time. It seemed time was standing still.

What a long boring story. I hope you don’t tell this at parties.

I have several vomiting and diarrhea stories from Central America and Mexico,, too, but those felt pretty well covered already.

Lol

I am kinda enjoying them because I thought I had a few bad stories but these made me feel much better!

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DH and I went to Playa del Carmen many years ago in the early days of our marriage. We were really horny and ready to get down to action. We entered the hotel room and stumbled onto a couple already having passionate relations on the bed. The hotel staff had mixed up the room numbers. 😳

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I went to Playa del Carmen many years ago in the early days of our marriage. We were really horny and ready to get down to action. We entered the hotel room and stumbled onto a couple already having passionate relations on the bed. The hotel staff had mixed up the room numbers. 😳

This is why I always use the latch lock whenever I’m in a hotel room. Colleague of mine, was checking into his room late at night, and walked into an occupied room. He didn’t get the show you got, but he gave the family in the room a good scare.

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Stayed at a London hostel with my boyfriend in college 20 years ago. Woke up to pee and the bed was crawling with bugs, pillows and everything. Had to pack up at 2am and find another hotel, get a cab. It was awful! And the hostel keeper refused a refund, only offered a credit for another stay. Umm hell no!

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We visited Destin a few years ago during a school break. We stayed at the Hilton and had oysters at Acme for dinner. The oysters were tiny and sucked. But the worst is that my poor kid woke up puking in the bed in the middle of the night. The sweet hotel maid completely changed the bed, then he puked again, messing it all up again. It was rough. Shoutout to that Hilton maid bc after the second bed change she brought my babe some ginger ale and crackers to calm his tummy and it worked. That lady saved my sanity that night.

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Anonymous wrote:My worst was in Puerto Rico at the El Con resort with our then-four-year-old.
DH and I ate seafood at a resort restaurant; four-year-old ate off the kids menu (not seafood).
At 2 a.m. I awoke to piercing stomach pains and the worst diarrhea I'd ever experienced. Then DH got sick but we only had one bathroom in the hotel room. He began projectile vomiting around 4am. I finally got so sick I just let it run out of me while lying on the floor. To say it was miserable would be an understatement, and our son needed us! We tried to drag ourselves to the pool and he begged DH to take him down the slides....obviously we did NOT want to go into a pool. It was just truly horrid.

we are checking in there tomorrow. Avoiding the fish.

My worst experience was a sinus infection on a cross country flight. It felt like ice picks were being jammed into my head. I truly thought I’d burst my ears.

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Was planning to go to an Aruba resort with three other friends. Two of the friends cancelled at the last minute - one had a death in the family and another found out she was pregnant and didn't feel comfortable going because she'd been dealing with miscarriage issues, etc. This is just all to say it was beyond their control and I wasn't upset or anything, but so it was just me and one other friend.

The friend is a bit of an anxious traveler. On the first night she got sick from a pasta dish and began throwing up but then was terrified to eat anything else the rest of the trip and would only eat granola bars or food from a convenience store pre-wrapped, so when we went to dinner at the resort restaurants, I'd sit there eating/drinking while she ate her granola bar. It also poured three out of the four days so we spent our time inside watching movies in the hotel room. We tried to do some kind of snorkeling tour, and someone fainted on it, and it ended early to get him medical care which freaked my friend out even more.

The whole trip was bizarre and ended up with my luggage being lost en route home (and weirdly found again like a month later and mailed to me).

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As a kid we jackknifed our travel trailer near Winchester VA. We were all fine without a single scratch but I’ve never not worn a seatbelt in the car since.

Another trip a tire fell off the trailer while driving on the highway.

As an adult I was driving on a highway and noticed cars ahead of me swerving so I also swerved and avoided hitting a person laying across the lane. Guy had fallen out the back window of a minivan and the driver didn’t notice.

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I got food poisoning on the 6 hour packed train ride from Tangier to Marrakesh. That was fun.

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Anonymous wrote:I got a UTI en route home from Barcelona. I felt "off" that morning but thought I was just dehydrated but by the time we boarded I was a mess. I was running to the tiny airport stall every 5 min, nothing coming out, began to feel faint and feverish - finally just began wetting my pants in tiny dribbles (luckily DH and I were the only ones in our row). Guess that isn't a vacation story but an airline story - I got off the plane and went right to urgent care for ABX. I practically kissed the ground when we landed.

I actually bring a UTI antibiotic on every vacation for this exact reason. They come on quickly and painfully

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Flying with a sinus infection. I was young and had no idea you weren’t supposed to. The pain was excruciating and I temporarily lost hearing in both ears. Had to go on steroids when I got home. Luckily my hearing returned but one of my ears has never been the same.

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Anonymous wrote:Flying with a sinus infection. I was young and had no idea you weren’t supposed to. The pain was excruciating and I temporarily lost hearing in both ears. Had to go on steroids when I got home. Luckily my hearing returned but one of my ears has never been the same.

I had no idea either. I had to go through customs in Ecuador alone and couldn’t hear any of the questions. I honestly thought they weren’t going to let me in after it two three times to get me to tell them my birthday.

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So many, but as digestive dramas are fully covered, I'll go with being in the Oxford Circus Panic, 2017 I think. I was in the middle of a stampeding crowd with my four children, 12 and under.