Holiday Horrors?

Da Bounca

anyone want to share with us any calamitys or funnies that happened to them while on holidays locally or abroad?

this board could do with a bit of livening up.

Lenny

Heh, I remember the time when I went to Holland for a school trip for 3/4 days
Was good fun in all, but one night some person in the same room as me decieded to play with a lighter and lynx can
Caused the carpet to get burned and then the water spriknlers to burst down on us in the room, the owner came running up to the appartment from down the road, (we sat in the room pretending not to hear the fire alarm) and opened our door from outside, and saw it was us, we threw our bags and clothes over the burned carpet and said we were just spraying lynx and it musta set the alarm off
worked like a charm

Panda

I've been on a few holidays so heres the list:

Scalded by an airhead air hostess en route to new york.
Food Poisoning in Turkey sick for most of the holiday.
In Spain our room was bombarded by noise from the nightclub (i was too young to go)
Flying with Aeroflot, such a bunch of cowboys, the plane was just like the one from the film "Alive", someone got sick in the aisle but they just put some news paper over it. The smell was brutal.

I'm sure theres more but i cant think of any right now.

Lenny

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Lenny

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SantaHoe

That's some nice testing Oj.

Lenny

hehe I was genuinely testing something.

SantaHoe

lol yeah, but you've ruined a perfectly good thread in doing so

Lenny

lol, would yea get outa that
Only 2 people replied, you're probberly one of the few who checks this board once every few days
I can always delete my posts..

Shamrockman

It was on September 1st. Ireland played against Holland and won. I was in Amsterdam that day, wearing an Irish soccer jersey to show my support, and when I wanted to board (it was KLM) the stewardess and the captain refused to let me on. They said not with that T-Shirt. Well, finally I was allowed to look for my seat :-) Found that quite funny. DUTCH, you are losers!

Coyote

Where to start?
Back round info
i was backpacking around china and Vietnam for 6 weeks.

When in western china I desidded to clime one of china's holy mountains (Em Sha) Em Sha is 3,000 meters, and 18,270 steeps and 23km along a path to the top. As I happened to be in the middle of china I could not get to a bank so all the money I had was 5 quid. After 9 hours of climbing steps, I ended up at a Buddhist monastery at 2,800 meters (9,000 feet), where the min room rate was 80¥ i just had 35¥ after showing them i had no money (they could not speak English) they gave me a room for the night. The next day i had to clime down a 5-hour clime. After 1 hour climbing down I slipped falling about 20 feet down the stepped path cutting open my wrist and taking a large lump out of my hand. The resion I stopped falling was a small 4x4 stone slab where the path turned at 90° turn, if i had not stop there then the next stop was about 1000 feet down the mountain over the side of the stone slab. Then I had 4 more hour’s clime with open wounds to the bottom, then a 1-hour bus right to a small town with somewhere that sold bandages.
Still have scars 2 months after where I cut open my wrist and hand.

2 days later.
I boarded a hard sleeper at 8:20pm for a 13 hour train ride south over night, my train arrived at 9:15am, then i got off the train and got on a bus for a 12 hour ride (as the crow fly’s it's just 70 miles but 12 hours by bus) if it's been raining the day before you can not drive on the road as it will be washed away. 80% of the ride was along roads with 1000-foot cliff 2 feet out side my window, the bus stopped 3 times over the 12 hours for the front of the bus to be lifted up on a jack. Then the busman would turn the steering wheel and the front wheels would just turn half way, a guy would clime under and fixes the steering for a few hours till we stopped again. 3 times we came to places where the road had been washed down the cliff and mud had been pushed in its place so we could get by. And I saw 3 accidents on the road with trucks turned over or having gone over the side.
(As a side note i got to watch 3 Kong fu movies in Chinese (no subtitles) and 1 hour of karaoke all at full blast, with half the bus singing along)
This link is to a bus that drives the nearly the same route which the driver fell asleep and killed 34 people.
this link is to a bus that drives the nearly the same route which the driver fell asleep and killed 34 people.

4 days later on a 6-hour bus ride, after about 3 hours the busman kept stopping the bus to spray water on the wheals, after 45 more min he stopped the bus on a flat road for us to wait for the next bus as the brakes on our one had failed.

1 week later I had to travel from dail in western china to Hanoi in Vietnam.
Checked out of my dorm at 11:30am on Saturday got on a Chinese sleeper bus at 8:30pm (a Chinese sleeper bus is a bus with beds about the size of a single bed in with, but just 5, 8" foot in length when you buy a ticket you buy one half of that bed and who ever buys the other ticked you have to share the bed with) (you sleep in your close) that was 13 hour bus drive over night to Kuming when i got there at 9:20am, i when to the train station to get a train to Hanoi only to find out that the train line was washed away. And I would have to wait 12 hours to get a other sleeper bus to the border to Vietnam, got a other sleeper bus at 9pm over night, got to the border a 8am. Spent 1 1/2 hours crossing the border, then a 5 mile ride on the back of a motorbike with my backpack on me to the train station up hill on a dirt road. Had to bribe the ticket girl to get a ticket that night on the train.
So with 10 hours to fill I spent 2 hours on a bus up to supa (a hill tribe village in north Vietnam) climbed a hill there and then 2 hours back to the train station. Got on the train at 8pm to find that I had a steal bench with no padding in 30° heat and 90% humidly and no fans or AC. got in to Hanoi at 4:30am on Tuesday and when i got up off the bench a cockroach landed on the back of my neck.
Got a pedal cab to where I was staying in Hanoi.
So I checked out on sat in china and checked in on Tuesdays in Hanoi.
over 60 hours of travel.

That’s just some of them

Riam2

Okay, I just had to get in on this one. We went to Florida this year - looking forward to it for ages because I'd had a baby and everyone in the family could do with a rest! Booked a villa with a pool and was looking forward to sitting by the beach during the day, and then the pool in the afternoon when the kids slept, and then eat by the pool at night.

First thing was red tide on the beaches - couldn't go near them because of respiratory distress. It arrived the same day we did and stayed for the two weeks.

Second thing was the pool was infested by ants - tried everything to kill them but were told the only way to destroy them was get the nest, and that would take - two weeks - to work. Guess how long we were there for?

It was over 100 degrees the first week so we couldn't do too much (usual temp. was about 80) and the second week it never stopped raining - we thought we were back home. Thunderstorms every afternoon and night so couldn't swim because of the lightning (considered it but a woman got killed in St. Petersburg that week from a lightning strike in the pool).

The exchange rate we knew was bad, but since we were last in the US prices must have gone up a lot too, because even at the old rate everything was hugely expensive so we couldn't do our usual Christmas shopping - came home with all our money (not necessarily a bad thing).

And then - we were over there for September 11th, and we were on stand-by so we couldn't get home. After three days of trying, we'd to drive from Venice Beach to Toronto - 48 hours (and I don't drive so it was just the husband, and with a three year old and nine month old in the back seat). 1700 miles. Then it took us three days to get home from Toronto, and on the way home we saw the headlines about Aer Lingus making cuts - guess where the husband works?

One to remember all right.