Has anyone gone on a vacation that sucked...well, teabags?

[babylonsister]

:shrug:

I have. I'm just wondering if I'm the only one who went somewhere that just wasn't right. x(

[mzteris]

1. well - if it "sucked teabags" maybe

it was TOO right. . .

:rofl:

[babylonsister]

3. Ha! Yes, I forgot, that used to be a good thing!

:rofl:

[Believing Is Art]

2. Yeah, but I wouldn't blame the location

Went to OBX one spring break. Within a day nothing was staying down, my temperature was 104 and I couldn't stand up.

I've been on better trips.

[ArtVandelay]

4. I have been on some that were very stressful. I know that

people fight more on trips, because of the stress/unknowns. We just plan for extra fights at this point, really. Big family get-togethers are really bad. Over-seas with extended family is a very bad idea to say the least. We try very hard any more to just avoid any and all stressful unknowns.

[Adsos Letter]

5. Oh, HELL yes...it even affirmed Einstein's Second Theory of Relativity...

"The closer you are to (certain specific) relatives, the slower time passes..."

:hi:

[babylonsister]

7. I'm not even talking relatives, but just a very wrong,

somewhat expensive trip that was truncated with 4 days to go. :scared: It was bad.

:hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. We took a family trip that we still refer to as our own National Lampoon vacation hell

Drove to Florida. Car broke down in southern MO. We spent the night in the parking lot of the car repair place waiting for them to open in the morning so we could fix our car. And it was a Sat night, this was a deeply religious county and we had no idea if the place would be open on a Sunday. A cop came by at 6 am and called the owner of the repair shop. He came in and fixed our car but fucked it up.

We got stuck in the sand by the side of the road in Alabama. You know those signs that say 'SOFT SHOULDER'? They really mean that.

By the time we got to Florida, the car was in bad shape. So we went to an auto parts store and bought a new water pump and decided to put in on ourselves. Then we went back to our camp site (the most expensive place we have ever camped - and this was almost 20 years ago) and read the fine print on the contract we signed when we paid for the camping spot and realized we would be violating about 100 state and federal laws by draining our water pump at that campground. But we had no choice so we waited till dark and stayed up all night taking off the old water pump and putting on a new one.

Got the car fixed and decided we should vacate that camping ground before we were arrested by the environmental police and so we drove to another expensive spot where we were woken up every morning by the sun and 90 degree heat at 7 am. And the bugs!! OMG we call them cockroaches, in Florida they call them something else and think they are cute. It is also against about 1000 laws to kill them.

On the way home, we ended up in Kentucky close to Fort Campbell and couldn't find a motel for over 100 miles because of some event at the base. We finally got a motel in the middle of the night and it goes down in history as the most grotesque and overpriced motel room we have ever stayed in.

And if you ask our kids today about fun vacations we took (we went somewhere almost every summer) they say the vacation to Florida in 92 was the best of all of them.

We have not been back to Florida since. I am too scared that those environmental police are still looking for us.

[babylonsister]

8. Okay, you win!

:rofl: Ah, memories! :D

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. That was also the trip when we both decided to quit smoking the day before we left

By Florida, I was ready for an insane asylum. :rofl:

[elleng]

9. Great story, Kansan,

esp part about kids!

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. I forgot this part:

We went to New Orleans for a day. Kid #1 wanted a hat from Hard Rock Cafe. So we went to HR and the line for the gift shop was 2 blocks long!

I have been back to New Orleans at least 5 times since that trip and have NEVER seen a long line at HR at any other time.

So it starts raining and we decide we are better off standing in that line than walking the mile or so back to our car. So we do the line by taking turns standing while the other one took one kid and went shopping, to the bathroom or whatever. Back and forth for 2 hours.

Finally we get in, buy the hat and start walking back to our car. It starts pouring down rain and we get the hat out so the kid can stay dry. Hand kid the hat, start running and kid screams.

We stop and run back and he is frozen, in the rain, screaming "IT SAYS LAS VEGAS!!"

Hat was from Hard Rock Las Vegas. We were in New Orleans.

[elleng]

12. Thats what we get

for teaching them to read!

[Missy Vixen]

13. Oh, yes

Our family motto: Do not EVER take a ten-day cruise crossing the Pacific to Hawaii.

Bad, BAD idea.

I'm so sorry for your awful vacation. :hug:

[babylonsister]

14. Not the cruise! Ten days? Ugh, that'd be unacceptable!

You win! :hi:

[Missy Vixen]

16. Oh, there are no winners here

I promise that nobody won there. ;-) :hi:

Just remember -- the Pacific Ocean is NOT like a bathtub, and it's very possible to get sick on a cruise ship, no matter what the booking agent tells you. :mad:

In the meantime, there's nothing that sucks worse than a bad vacation, especially if it's an expensive bad vacation. :woohoo:

[drm604]

15. Years ago, my brother and I went camping on Assateague Island in Virginia.

If you haven't heard of it, it's next to Chincoteague Island, also in Virginia. Chincoteague is famous for it's wild ponies.

Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful place and I may visit again someday, but I will plan differently and I won't camp there. It will be a motel the next time.

They had the biggest most aggressive mosquitoes I've ever seen. One of them left a smear of blood running down my leg. They pestered you constantly. One night we went into town and saw a movie just to escape from the heat and mosquitoes.

One morning we decided to drive down to the beach. We came to a side road with an arrow labeled "To The Beach", followed it, and quite literally ended up at the beach. We had to walk back to the campground and have the manager call a tow truck to pull us out of the sand. We were told "it happens all the time". I can't prove it but I think that sign was there to make money for the towing service.

We went over to Chincoteague Island to see the ponies. This is one of the main attractions of the area, if you go there you go to see the ponies. There was a trail - it may have been call "The Pony Trail", I don't recall. Anyway, we were told that if you hiked that trail you would see the ponies. It was a mile or two long, I don't remember exactly. It started at the parking lot, then eventually looped around back to the same lot.

So we parked and hiked the trail. We quickly had to come up with a plan where we stopped every 30 seconds or so and brushed the mosquitoes off of each other's backs. We walked that whole trail, brushing off mosquitoes the whole way and you know what? We didn't see ONE FREAKING PONY.

When we finally got back to the parking lot - I kid you not - it was full of ponies that had wandered into it. They were covered with streaks of blood from the mosquitoes. One of the damned things was standing right behind my car and wouldn't freaking move. They were so used to people (or so damned stupid) that they didn't move even when I started the engine, or even when I blew my horn. These were wild animals so I didn't want to mess around with it trying to get it to move, so we sat in the damned car in the heat for I don't know how long until it finally decided to wander off. Then we had to wend our way around the various firmly planted ponies until we got back out onto the road.

What a wonderful place that was.

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. LOL We got stuck in the sand too on our worst vacation

When we called the tow truck, the guy said well you can either give me your credit card number and I can get a guy down there in 3 or 4 hours or you can just sit there and someone will eventually pull over and help you out. All the locals carry tow ropes in their cars.

Sure enough, not 15 minutes later, this guy pulls over, grabs a rope out of his trunk and pulled us out.

And that was the only really good thing that happened on that vacation.

[babylonsister]

20. My brother was stationed in

Chincoteague, so I've been there to visit. Luckily, I had heard about the mosquitoes, and now I'm glad I'm not a horse person! Funny in hindsight, no? Maybe?

[drm604]

21. Funny at the time also.

Believe it or not, we were able to laugh about it at the time. I wouldn't rule out going again. I would just plan differently.

[JohnnyLib2]

18. Bad morning in a lovely place--

Returned from carefully taking the weeks worth of bagged trash to a landfill on Cape Cod.

Wife asks, did you put the bag of laundry in the trunk?

Unforgettable hour of digging in landfill, to amusement of other vacationers.

Find laundry, leave town, car breaks down.

[babylonsister]

19. Oh no!

:rofl: and :hug:

[dembotoz]

22. Mine all do-which is why i no longer go on vacations

that and it is cheaper too

[ninety lives]

23. Yes, I went to a boring beach house for a week

It was all I thought I could afford.

However, I got wise and went camping the next year for about half the money.

[cobalt1999]

24. Camping on the Gulf of California (Baja Mexico)

Unbelievable heat,so hot ice in the coolers melted instantly it seemed.

Launched a boat for island exploring the next day, woke up early to find the sunk, pulled it to shore on high tide and got it bailed out but the engine was dead, pulled the boat back onto the trailer. No boating.

Driving back to civilization the U-joint failed to the drive shaft. Luckily it was a 4 wheel drive, so we got back on the front wheel drive only.

Back in the states, we showered, rented a car, drove to Vegas, stayed in an beautiful room, people bringing us drinks by the pool, then went and got married that evening.