Where Was Your Worst Holiday In Ireland?

johnc77

Mine was staying in bundoran for a week. I had a minor existential crisis after that.

fermanagh_man

Bundoran for a week is just to long

Bundoran for a weekend is however a great holiday

madmaggie

A wet week in Enniscrone.

Canis Lupus

johnc77 wrote: »

Mine was staying in bundoran for a week. I had a minor existential crisis after that.

So why are you looking to move there? HERE

How long until you're banned as a rereg I wonder....

galljga1

Canis Lupus wrote: »

So why are you looking to move there? HERE

How long until you're banned as a rereg I wonder....

Yeah, that is a bit bizarre.

diomed

madmaggie wrote: »

A wet week in Enniscrone.

I can beat that. Two wet weeks in Enniscrone.
It rained all day, every day. The parents had rented a house. I had started my accountancy articles, had no money, and two weeks annual leave.

MistyCheese

Stayed at a hotel in Donegal once. Ended up leaving after two nights even though we'd paid for a three night stay.

kneemos

MistyCheese wrote: »

Stayed at a hotel in Donegal once. Ended up leaving after two nights even though we'd paid for a three night stay.

Bundoran was it?

kfallon

Courtown when I was a nipper, seemed to rain all the time and it was just generally shít!

signostic

Camping in Rossnowlagh, Donegal, trying to hold down a tent that was blowing away at 4am while at the same time coping with having drank too many pints...

il gatto

Jesus. The north west is taking a kicking here.

Qualitymark

A canoeing holiday in Wexford in 1964. The two idiots running this had no clue what they were doing. It was dangerous and wet and they were unpleasant. Really horrible.

Junkyard Tom

A week in the Aquadome in Tralee - it was imposed as community service for trying to swim across a river drunk.










May not be true.

failinis

2 weeks in Moville.
Its a lovely place, I like going there on weekends and a summer day but 2 weeks is far too long.

cml387

Two weeks in a house on the beach near Gorey in the coldest June since records began. I think it might even have snowed at some point.

Buona Fortuna

Our honeymoon was a little bit disastrous.

We took the car down on a beach - OK I did - and then got it stuck with the tide rising - Had to pay some farmer £20 (lot of money back then) to tow us out. "Ya couldn't have been too fond a walkin" - £20 and rip the pi$$ while you're at it.

Then went down to Lisdoonvarna. The hotel was like something out of Psycho - thankfully for a bit of balance I didn't pick it. We left after 5 minutes and never went back .

KatW4

Cork. Family went there when I was 4 and we stayed in some awful hotel. The carpet on the stairs wasn't put down properly so I tripped and fell the whole way down.

I don't remember the rest of the holiday but I hate carpeted stairs ever since.

Menas

Mosney. That is all.

Canis Lupus

Qualitymark wrote: »

A canoeing holiday in Wexford in 1964. The two idiots running this had no clue what they were doing. It was dangerous and wet and they were unpleasant. Really horrible.

Now the rest of your complaints can be valid but complaining that a canoeing holiday was wet probably indicates a lack of foresight on your behalf....

razorblunt

I spent a fortnight in Bundoran one weekend.

BattleCorp

When we were kids we stayed in Curracloe back in the 70's.

The caravan was like the one that Ted and Dougal played hide and seek in.

And it had leaks.

And it p1ssed rain the whole time.

The beach was nice but we couldn't go because of the rain.

At least they had a video game arcade. Yay.

It was at the end of the season and the arcade had closed up a few days earlier. Awwwwww.

I couldn't wait for the holiday to be over. It was sh1te.

Banjoxed

failinis wrote: »

2 weeks in Moville.
Its a lovely place, I like going there on weekends and a summer day but 2 weeks is far too long.

Moville had a guaranteed Blue Rinse Brigade from Scotland for years "the Scotch Visitors", and when they died off the town hadn't a clue how to get more in.

Buona Fortuna

BattleCorp wrote: »

When we were kids we stayed in Curracloe back in the 70's.

The caravan was like the one that Ted and Dougal played hide and seek in.

And it had leaks.

And it p1ssed rain the whole time.

.....

I couldn't wait for the holiday to be over. It was sh1te.

I know the type and probably stayed in similar in the UK when we were kids.

Even with the weather though I still think caravan sites had a magic about them, the smell of the chipper, the lights of the arcade and being given the freedom to FO and explore.

Brings back a lot of memories - all good though so I'm OT

Uncle Ben

Menas wrote: »

Mosney. That is all.

Twinned with Trabolgon.

il gatto

Uncle Ben wrote: »

Twinned with Trabolgon.

I loved Trabolgon

Menas

Uncle Ben wrote: »

Twinned with Trabolgon.

The Ugly twins!

Qualitymark

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Now the rest of your complaints can be valid but complaining that a canoeing holiday was wet probably indicates a lack of foresight on your behalf....

Heh… they weren't great teachers, and we all ended up utterly sodden the first time we picked up a paddle.

Red Kev

5 days in a caravan in Strandhill when I was 11 around 1982. It was our first holiday in several years and out last family one as the recession kicked in big time. It lashed for most of the time.

The caravan beside us had some Irish family who were back from Australia on holidays, the son was my age but a complete psycho. because the rain was such a change for him he wanted to play outside all the time, which my mother insisted I do in the fcuking freezing cold and wet. The kid was just a total oddball, makes me nervous just thinking about him now.

There were a couple of arcades, we got enough money to have three goes on a machine (probably 10p each) every day. There was a Pacman game which some fat 18 year old cnut used to hog all day. If you got in before you, he'd nudge your elbow to make sure you lost the game so he'd get a shot on it. The pool table was permanently occupied by some shower of teenage pr!cks so that was a no go. Essentially you spent most of the time standing around looking at other people play games until he rain dropped off enough so you could dash back to the caravan.

The oul fella started to go a bit stir crazy being cooped up. One of the games in the arcade was a punch bag game, it looked like this. He used to stick 10p into it and hammer it so hard the whole machine would wobble. Just out of pure rage. I remember the guy who ran the arcade told him to take it easy...the oul fella had "words" with him.

Awful awful time. I always associate the song "Everyday is Like Sunday" with that holiday. Armageddon would have been a relief.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhgsjq1U5SQ

kfallon

^^^^^ great song tho!

il gatto

Stop. Stop. It's (the north west) already dead.

Tombo2001

johnc77 wrote: »

Mine was staying in bundoran for a week. I had a minor existential crisis after that.

Yep, Caravan in Bundoran as a kid.

It was only years later watching Father Ted that I realised I had been through a bone-fide traumatic Irish holiday experience.

Distinct memory, on one of the seven wet days that week, of a teenager in the video games room playing "I wish I was back home in Derry" on the tin whistle over and over and over.

Very Father Ted.

The Backwards Man

If I told yis once I've told yis a thousand times, Bundoran is the biggest sh1thole on the face of the Earth and is in no way representative of the rest of Donegal. Except maybe Moville, but they're finally getting their act together in fairness. Come and spend your euros here and we will entertain, relax and rejuvenate you like nowhere else. Just keep coming up the N15 before you stop for the first time, imagine it as demons at the gates of Shangri-La.

I must be the odd one out I have always had fantastic holidays in Ireland even in the rain the worst holiday I ever has was a last min deal thing when I ended up in Spain with the type of British people who have the union jack tattooed on their necks, but being me I make the most of it.

Tombo2001

mariaalice wrote: »

I must be the odd one out I have always had fantastic holidays in Ireland even in the rain the worst holiday I ever has was a last min deal thing when I ended up in Spain with the type of British people who have the union jack tattooed on their necks, but being me I make the most of it.

There are fantastic holidays to be had in Ireland; but you need money for it.

Cunning Stunt

Spent one week on Achill island when I was a teenager back in the 90s. The weather was sh**e. No activities whatsoever. The place was like a magnet for small flies. My father was bald as a coot but I remember he looked like he had sprouted hair anytime he went outside with all the feckers landing on him. The local pub was absolute crap aswell but it was the only thing there.

I think it may have picked up since then as I had a workmate recently who would take part in group trips on a regular basis and absolutely loved the place

-- but I'm not going back to find out!

Pumpkinseeds

A couple of nights in a massive tent in Fanore back in the 70's. It was freezing at night. Thankfully my parents bumped into some neighbours who were going home and they loaned us their mobile home for the rest of the week. I still fondly remember sitting in the rock pools watching the little fish swimming about, now if only I could shake off the memory of the dead porpoise rotting on the beach.

Tombo2001

Tombo2001 wrote: »

There are fantastic holidays to be had in Ireland; but you need money for it.

Well I have a an post brake voucher for 99 euro for 3 nights bb and 1 evening meal I am planning to use it in September and I have found a 4* hotel in Kerry and it gets good reviews on trip advisor, now I know its mid week but I think that is good value. High end hotels are expensive here but there not a patch on somewhere like London.

Banjoxed

mariaalice wrote: »

I must be the odd one out I have always had fantastic holidays in Ireland even in the rain the worst holiday I ever has was a last min deal thing when I ended up in Spain with the type of British people who have the union jack tattooed on their necks, but being me I make the most of it.

A wet week in Bundoran or drinking swill for a week in the Costas as a choice? Thank Christ other options are available with no tattoos in sight.

madmaggie

diomed wrote: »

I can beat that. Two wet weeks in Enniscrone.
It rained all day, every day. The parents had rented a house. I had started my accountancy articles, had no money, and two weeks annual leave.

I could have put up with the rain and the boredom, it was the constantly fighting relatives.

Magico Gonzalez

Donegal, around 1980. Seemed magical at the time.

Misread the title, first not worst!

Agricola

Few days in some caravan site on the coast of Mayo in the mid 90's. Portable TV with 2 channels, not even my PS1 to keep me occupied while it rained solidly. Hellish.

Jamaican Me Crazy

Gorey. To be fair, there was nothing wrong with the area but it just bloody rained non stop for a week and ended up costing a fortune in indoor activities. That was the last time I ever holidayed in Ireland for more than 2 or 3 days.

Thurles. No redeeming qualities. Horrendous weekend in a disgusting hotel.

PopePalpatine

When I was about 5-8 years old my family went to - you guessed it - Bundoran for a bank holiday weekend. The most prominent memory I had of that weekend was being kept awake at night by the traffic passing by the hotel. Also, we spent the day in a crappy funfair and never so much as dipped a toe in the sea.

Also, my mum and her older sister brought us to (I think) Rosslare or Youghal when I was 8. I know what age I was then because one memory that sticks out was standing outside of a decrepit cinema with a poster for Eight Legged Freaks. We spent the first night in a crap B&B with flowery wallpaper, and I lost my favourite Hot Wheels car down the side of a bed and never saw it again. When the highlight of a holiday is getting the ferry at Passage West, you know your holiday was crap.

Mr Rhode Island Red

Hasn't been mentioned yet...KILKEE!

Ohmagud what a kip.

DEFTLEFTHAND

The next town on from Bundoran, Ballyshannon is pleasant enough, I went to the Rory Gallagher festival there a couple of years back but we had to stay in Bundoran because of no other available accom. It's not that bad in fairness, just your average rundown seaside town which has seen better days.

suicide_circus

A long weekend in Waterford town about 10 years ago. Zzzzzzzzzzzz.

BattleCorp

Jamaican Me Crazy wrote: »

Thurles. No redeeming qualities. Horrendous weekend in a disgusting hotel.

Ah stop would ya. They had Feile. Fcuking awesome times.

Feile combined with Euro 88 and Italia 90. The golden days of my youth.

Milly33

Wasn't the worst town but the worst place we stayed the Wooden house in Wexford joke of a place

road_high

Jamaican Me Crazy wrote: »

Gorey. To be fair, there was nothing wrong with the area but it just bloody rained non stop for a week and ended up costing a fortune in indoor activities. That was the last time I ever holidayed in Ireland for more than 2 or 3 days.

Thurles. No redeeming qualities. Horrendous weekend in a disgusting hotel.

Lol, who goes to Thurles ever, bar Munster people for the odd match. Unbelievable kip of a town. Last I heard the two hotels there had (not surprisingly) closed down?

blackbird 49

Menas wrote: »

Mosney. That is all.

Worked in the offices there for the summer after I finished school (1985) I remember one particular Saturday a family that obviously decided they would like to stay for a week came in, had a look at the Brochure, ask were the chalets as good as the pictures, I said not exactly while trying to keep a straight face they decided to stay, needless to say about a half hour later they came back and demanded their money back.

fryup

family camping holiday in Donegal mid 80s

it rained and rained and rained every f*cking day

only bit of excitement we had was taking a short-cut home across the border thinking would we be blown up or shot at, i was secretly hoping we would be just to end the misery