Anonymous wrote:When I was a junior in HS, I took a trip with my high school to Mexico. It was about 12 of us from my Spanish class along with our teacher and HS librarian as chaperones.

Trip was great for the most part, but I got super sick in Acapulco. High fever, horrible GI issues, the worst. Didn't help that I got super sunburned as well. So, I was holed up in our room sick while all my classmates were out having fun and having fun around me balled up on the bed. On top of that, there was a club nearby and the music and PA system was just blasting into our room pretty much all night long.

I was so bad that my Spanish teacher got the hotel doctor to look at me and I got some sort of mystery shot. I was barely well enough to get on the plane back and pretty much shook the entire time from the fever chills.

Parents ended up submitting the doctor's bill to our insurance and they surprisingly paid. Rumors were rampant at my HS that I nearly died in Mexico since I didn't go back to school when we first returned. LOL. Fun memories from over 35 years ago!

Anonymous wrote:Mine isn’t horrible but… spirit airlines lost our luggage in our trip to Aruba. I wisely packed a cooler as my purse, with two yetis, two pairs of shoes for DH and underwear for me.
They told us to buy clothes there. So we did, in the hotel boutique. DH gets the loudest pair of trunks he still has on rotation. I have a bikini not fit for public wearing.
We have no snorkel gear but didn’t think they’d spring for replacing that.
We go back to the airport to return home 7 days later and there’s our suitcase. Spirit never thought to bring it to us.

Anonymous wrote:Every time we think we can take a quick driving trip during the winter and it will still be fun and worthwhile, we end up wondering why we did it. This Christmas season we decided to drive to Hershey PA to visit the decorated Hersheypark, drink hot chocolate and perhaps go on a few rides, weather permitting. The Hotel Hershey was booked so we got a room at an upscale chain nearby instead. Well, it was too cold to enjoy literally anything about the trip and there's really not much else going on in Hershey (or nearby Harrisburg) PA in the dead of winter. What's more, the Central PA versions of even fairly upscale hotel chains are not the jewels in the crown.

Lesson learned: if you want to travel by car during the winter, DRIVE SOUTH ONLY, and preferably for 8+ hours.

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Anonymous wrote:Misery loves company, right? Just got home from a trip to a bucket list destination for me (Japan). Traveled with someone we've never traveled with before (my sister's new husband), and the whining and complaining and pouting from him nearly ruined this trip for me.

ugh.

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!!!

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.

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Anonymous wrote:I got stranded in Central African Republic.

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.