Tell me about your worst trip or a trip gone wrong
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Anonymous
Same here - I was going to ask if the “we” in the post is the PP and the scorpion! |
Anonymous
What were his whines and complaints? I only ask because my mom *thinks* this is a bucket list trip, and I fear I would be in your shoes if I actually do it with her!!! |
Anonymous
| I’m also planning a bucket list multigenerational trip to Japan and would love to hear more about what went wrong (or right) |
Anonymous
| OP, are you the one who posted previously about a sibling and their partner wanting to invite themselves to tag along on your trip to Japan? Either way, I think you should get a redo trip! |
Anonymous
Oh yeah, I remember that thread! |
Anonymous
| I went to New Orleans for a one night work trip. Had a massive allergic reaction to something in my hotel room, went to the ER in the middle of the night, then upon my release from the hospital had to march through the hotel lobby the next morning in urine-soaked clothes and a bathrobe, while dozens of well-heeled hotel guests dressed for Sunday brunch looked on. |
Anonymous
Being stranded at some location anywhere is a nightmare of mine and absolutely a driving reason we buy trip insurance for any international destination. And please let me continue to fantasize that if I’m stuck in an African jungle or atop Machu Picchu amid political unrest or a Volcano that’s getting too steamy, that I’ll be able to pull out my phone, call my trip insurance 800 #, and I’ll soon be hearing the helicopter coming for my evacuation. |
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Wife and I took two sons to Cancun. Boys were 11 and 9. We were there for 6 nights. The ocean was FULL of that seaweed. Couldn't go in the ocean. I broke my big toe playing soccer on the beach. 11 year old got horrible ear infection. 103 fever. Worried we couldn't fly home, the hotel offered to take him and wife to doctor. Hotel took them in the van, we got a $1000 bill for an emergency ambulance ride. We were offered to sit in a time share sales pitch for free tickets to something. They took us to a half built hotel in the middle of nowhere and noone was allowed to leave. People said they were there for hours just standing in the heat. I said I needed to take my heart medication back at the hotel. it worked! They gave a ride home after about an hour. Wife ate something that literally made her tongue sting/tingle for about 48 hours. It was a crazy trip but it was actually ALOT of fun. So memorable. I'd do that ANY Day over a trip to Disney.
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We were driving on a Saturday from LI, NY to Virginia Beach, VA. 7-8 hour drive. I was around 19 or 20, with my parents. One hour into the drive, my mother announces she left all her medicine at home. My father immediately turns the car around. We get to Virginia Beach and our mini-condo within a hotel is somehow not ready. We wait around for an hour, still not ready, so we go to dinner and come back. Basically just go to sleep. Get up Sunday, go to breakfast, then buy almost $200 worth of groceries and bring them back to the condo. Where we get a call from my college-age brother that my grandfather has died. My father tells him to book flights for the four of us for Monday. We promptly check out less than 24 hours after getting there and drive back to NY.
We arrive in NY Sunday night where my brother announces the only flight he could get us all on leaves early the next morning, so we have to leave the house at 4am Monday. So Saturday, Sunday and Monday, I was in constant motion. I get motion sickness. It was a very unpleasant few days for more reasons than one. I spent about five daylight hours in Virginia Beach and saw nothing that made me ever want to go back. |
Anonymous
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Drove 6 hours to our destination. About 45 min before we get there, DD (age 1.5) starts having diarrhea in her diaper. It leaks out. The entire car seat is full of it.
Check into our hotel and she can't stop having diarrhea. We keep changing her and cleaning it up. Very quickly the entire room reeks. We have the car seat in the shower because we're trying to hose it down and scrub it. We made a huge bag of stuff to take to a laundromat. Rinse and repeat, this was our vacation. Everything smelled so bad we had the balcony doors open the entire time. Dh went to the laundromat over and over. Finally when she was a little better (after 3 days!) and the car seat was cleaned and dry, we packed up and went home. She vomited half way home all over the car. I think it was an entire year before we took another "vacation". |
Anonymous
OP here. His complaints were about all the walking. He's a bit overweight, not in shape and was told about all the walking (20,000 steps a day) but i don't think it registered. He brought the wrong shoes - he wore brand new sketchers (because some youtuber said they were the best shoes for Japan) and he wore cowboy boots (wtf) because he thought it would be cool to show the Japanese locals that he was from Texas  . He got blisters day 1 of the trip and was whining and complaining. By day 2, he wanted to hire a private driver to shuttle us around Japan and we said no - but he could do it for the two of them if he wanted to. Every train station we went in was met with whining because OMG stairs! He's in his early 50s and was acting like a child.
He was asked multiple times for his input on the itinerary but didn't say one word about what he wanted to do. He did watch youtube videos and tik toks about traveling Japan so he was aware of the walking involved and what this entailed. And he wanted to wander off to play Pokemon Go to hit up 'poke stops' and 'fight' other players in gyms, so he was complaining that we didn't care about this game or chasing down pokemons. Told him multiple times that he could go off and do his own thing but absolutely refused. Also told him that he could rest and didn't have to do everything we did but again, refused. He insisted on coming with my sister and I when we wanted to go shopping - something he was not interested in, but he refused and insisted on coming with. He didn't even go into the stores with us; he just stood outside the entrance and waited - so weird. But complained that he was tired of standing, that his feet hurt, blah blah blah, but wouldn't take any suggestions. never traveling with him again!! IDK what age your mom is but I wouldn't bring a senior to Japan. It's just too hard. |
Anonymous
| The "poke stops" and "fighting other players in gyms" made me laugh so hard. I needed that. Sorry your trip sucked but THANK YOU for the laugh. |
Anonymous
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Thanks for this input, OP. He sounds impossible!
I’m minimizing cities and maximizing countryside inns for the seniors and children in our group. Do you think that would help? |
Anonymous
| Work trip to florida + planned tour of the everglades afterwards in March. Got stuck in DIA as the then-brand new "blizzard-proof" airport shut down - in a blizzard. They were passing out cots and blankets when we headed out in the snow- in linen and sandals and big straw hat -to rent the very last car to drive to the very last hotel in the middle of nowhere- in a food desert (well, there was a combo gas station mini mart nearby). Stranded 3 days til we could fly home. Sad face emoji. |
Anonymous
| Food poisoning. 'Nuff said. |