vacation mishaps - share your experiences!

[ixfd64]

The thing about vacations is that mishaps often happen. Often, it's those little mishaps that make a vacation more memorable. While most mishaps probably won't as bad as those in the film RV, some will provide interesting experiences. Want to share yours? Here are mine! :)

 

 

 

1995 Lassen Volcanic trip - highway exit incident: In 1995 (I think), my family went with another family to Lassen Volcanic National Park. They drove in the lead with us in tow. However, they missed the exit! We had to get them to stop, and since we didn't have cell phones at that time, we had to use all sorts of means - honking, waving, and using our lights!

 

 

 

1997 Ensenada cruise - hot chocolate incident: In December 1997, we took a cruise to Ensenada. I got some hot chocolate, and felt something touch my lips. It was a dead fly in my hot chocolate! We reported it, and the cruise line apologized by giving us a tote bag with some clothing. They woke us up in the middle of the night when they gave the stuff to us!

 

 

 

1998 San Francisco conference - laptop spill incident: Some of you may have seen the film Deep Impact where the scientist Marcus Wolf, shocked to learn that Earth is in danger, slams his pizza on his desk. I was young at the time, and I tried to imitate the scene - and ended up spilling mineral water all over my laptop. Luckily, nothing happened.

 

 

 

1998 Yellowstone trip - incorrect route incident: Well, we basically took the wrong road and ended up towards the National Elk Refuge. It was scary and very late at night. We arrived at our hotel at 1:00 AM! (On an unrelated note, we arrived at the hotel (we had to change our old one) at 2:45 AM on the last day due to road construction!)

 

 

 

1999 Japan trip - expired passport: My U.S. passport was expired, but none of us noticed it. o_O The U.S. airport inspector didn't notice either. However, it was found out by the customs in Japan, and we almost got sent back to the U.S.! Luckily, they were nice enough to let us get a new one at the U.S. Embassy.

 

 

 

2000 Taiwan trip - fireworks wildfire incident: We were setting off fireworks for the Taiwan election in April 2000. However, one of our bottle rockets caught the grass on fire! It would have spread, but luckily my father and my uncle put it out, and they took a p*** on the ground for good measure.

 

 

 

2000 Southwest trip - coffee spill incident: This was a relatively minor incident, but... Basically, I accidentally spilled a tough-looking African-American guy (not trying to be racist, just to clarify). Luckily, he was a cool guy about it, but all the people in the room looked scared! :o

 

 

 

2002 Hawai'i trip - customs fruit incident: At the customs inspection, the officers found a pear that all of us forgot about! Luckily, we didn't get fined - they just told us to throw it out or eat it on the spot - my father chose the latter.

 

 

 

2003 China-Japan trip - incorrect airport: The taxi driver took us to the wrong airport, and we were almost late for the flight! Thankfully, this was corrected. The freaky thing was that the airport was pretty empty, somewhat reminiscent of Stephen King's The Langoilers.

 

 

 

2003 Southwest trip - constipation incident: This one's kind of disgusting, but a funny story. My older aunt had constipation for a few days, but we finally found some prune juice (a treatment for constipation). Things got messy when she had to take several dumps out in the middle of Death Valley National Park!

 

 

 

2005 New England trip - blown tire incident: We blew a tire on a sharp object on our rental car. See, we usually buy insurance for a reason! Because of that, we weren't charged extra.

 

 

 

2007 Taiwan-China trip - towing incident: My aunt got her car towed. She had to pay about $70 USD. It wasn't much, but we were annoyed that we could have avoided the fines had we returned to the car a minute later!

 

 

 

2007 Taiwan-China trip - garage door incident: On the way back from a night market, my aunt accidentally crashed her car into her garage door railing and damaged it. Two words: s*** happens. Luckily, one of her friend's husband was experienced with handiwork and fixed it.

[Agunimon979]

[Chocobodude0]

On my trip to Hawaii, we went to a zoo, and we got to do an acitivity with the dolphins. While in there, a baby dolphin kept coming up to and started nibbling on my toes, needless to say it was scary. The trainer said it liked me, which is why it was doing that. Right after she said that, the dolphin rushed towards and buttheaded me right in the stomach. even with my life vest on, it knocked the air right out of me. Ever since then, dolphins have been my least favorite animal. :x

[Echofish]

This was when we were moving to the UK. We missed our flight (due to the ticket salesman telling us our flight was 10pm when it was actually 8pm) so we had to wait for the next one just 3 hours later. It was midnight, after a long talk with some people to get us in the next plane, we checked in. I was sleeping in on the floor our luggage as a pillow since I was tired of waiting for so long. All of a sudden the ground started shaking and all I could hear was people screaming "EARTHQUAKE!!" so we made a mad dash outside the airport.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Earthquakes are really common in the Philippines anyway, but it just had to happen to us at that moment. Funny how the mannequins of flight attendants started shaking and falling down as if they were real people :lol:

[TotalTalker]

Geese, you've been on a lot of holidays lol.

 

 

 

I havn't really got many experiences.

 

 

 

When we went to spain, it was thunder and lightning, and i looked out to the sea and saw fork lightning. I then went and jumped into the FREEZING cold swimming pool.

[vladmoney]

flying to Latvia, we missed our flight somethign wrong with our passports. Thankfuly the airline let just got us on the next flight via stand by, and we ended up flying first class \ .

 

Have a bunch more stories, but I don't think you guys will be interested in the much small stuff.

[knives669]

:lol: You've gone on a lot of vacations to a lot of different places! You also spill things a lot. :lol:

 

 

 

Anyway, I've never had a lot of mishaps on my vacations other than the occasional getting lost. :P

[Futurama]

The only one worth counting for me is Tenerife a few years back when I thought it would be a fantastic idea to order an omlette and a litre of sparkling sangria to myself.

 

I don't even remember walking to the belgian bar across the road and very vaguely remember ordering a tequila slammer, suffice to say I was carried out of the bar by my mates, sat on a wall and knocked myself unconcious by somehow hitting my head off the wall I was sat on.

 

Next thing I know, it's 4am and some woman is shouting "STAND STILL AND HOLD ON!" at me. Turns out I was having a chest x-ray, followed by a head scan, followed by being put on a salt drip to prevent dehydrating. After that I just remember waking up in a hospital next to this scouse guy who'd broken his leg saying "you alright there mate?" and laughing as he does.

 

 

 

Yup, that was the day I learned my limits.

 

 

 

If that wasn't enough, we crashed a hire car there a few days later. Anyone fancy a trip abroad with me? :D

[Wisp]

The first day i went to hawaii, on a month long vacation, my leg brushed a motorcycle, and i got a 3rd degree burn, which didn't allow me to safely swim for the rest of the vacation :cry:

[jarobi]

well the only experience is me and dad went to montreal and we could read the signs and later on there was a sign that said closed road in french and we went on and got find and i went to florida and got chickenpox

[RayOxide]

well the only experience is me and dad went to montreal and we could read the signs and later on there was a sign that said closed road in french and we went on and got find and i went to florida and got chickenpox

 

 

 

Retype, please.. :-s

[Phil]

in 1999 I went with my parents to Turkey. First night there, there was an earthquake (5.2) Everyone slept outside the next night, was kinda funny to watch.

 

 

 

Later in the holiday I saw an old lady step off a moving bus type thing and crack her head open on the road. I later fainted due to shock and the heat.

 

 

 

Same holiday we went on a boat trip to Rhodes, we tried to exchange some currency but the shop had just closed so we decided to trade with a local woman. We ended up mixing up the exchange rate and so we were left with a few pounds worth of cash, which we soon found out. She must have got off with about ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã40 or ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã50. Our fault though.

 

 

 

Yeah that was an interesting holiday :P

 

 

 

Have had little mishaps on a lot of holidays but none that bad.

[Star.]

Same thing happened to my brother, doomsavenger, he was getting off the bike and his leg touch the circle thing.

 

 

 

I was riding a Scooter/Moped/w.e (I was 12) and I was going fast and I crashed and did hurt to my head. Lots of blood I remember and I was told I nearly got ran over by a truck when I was lying on the ground :shock: Spent most of the days in Hospital.

 

 

 

Once I was puking my food up in Austria so when I came back to England I found out my liver was being a dysfunctional again, another week in hospital because of it, not as bad as the first time. :D

 

 

 

And once on the plane I walked in on a couple in the bathroom .. My alibi: they didn't lock the door.

[Striker6]

well the only experience is me and dad went to montreal and we could read the signs and later on there was a sign that said closed road in french and we went on and got find and i went to florida and got chickenpox

 

 

 

You went all the way to Florida before you realised you were on the wrong road :-s

 

 

 

What did you do when you started driving through timezones?

[vladmoney]

 

And once on the plane I walked in on a couple in the bathroom .. My alibi: they didn't lock the door.

 

that's halarious, mile high club alrriiiight :wink:

[WutangFlu]

i think this guy had a few problems..

 

http://consumerist.com/consumer/complai ... 273015.php

[Nadril]

My last trip actually. We were supposed to get on our flight at 3:45 pm on wensday. So we get there at around 1:00, eat and sit around.

 

 

 

Well it gets to around 3:00 and they said the flight will be delayed because of weather, and it will be ready at 5:00.

 

 

 

It gets to 5:30 and they announce that, while the plane was there, there was a crack in the windshield and that it would take 12 hours to fix.

 

 

 

For a good 2-3 hours we just waited around until finally we found out we could get on a flight they got us for the next morning at 7:45. We tok it, got a bunch of vouchers and stuff and also got a free stay at a pretty decent hotel.

 

 

 

 

 

Next day (today) went fine. Got up, got a taxi over there and flight went smooth. We also got a ton of leg room.

[Infernalz]

every year, my dad and 1 go down to his friends boat for a week or so. and everytime, something happends.

 

 

 

first time--we went down to a swimming place on the other end of the lake, a report came over the radio that a huge storm was rolling in and that all boats should moar back at their respective docks. so, we rode back going fast, but not like a blur speeding past. about half way back, THE STORM HITS! rain is coming down by the water cooler full (ok more than a bucket... and a bucket has been used too many times :P) Bob( my dads friend) has his little captians hat on with no bil so rain is getting in his eyes and such, so my dad gives him his hat- regular hat longer bil. as were closing in on the dock, we see a down black sail boat! we kept going past and thought nothing of it... when we dock, tie the boat up and such, a call comes over the radio 'there is a black sail boat down on the lake, if anyone knows the coordinates of the ship, or is close enough to help please do so, or radio in the longitude and lattitude of the down boat.' well Bob knows the longitude, my dad knows the lattitude, so they radio it in and the crew of it were rescued! yay!

 

 

 

next year-- As usual, Bob comes up to take us out on the boat. when were about to leave, we notice that one of the recharger switches is off and the boat has lost electrical power... ya.. guess who accidently hit it :oops: ... so we go to the marina house and borrow the jumpstarter to get it up and running. it seems to work so we head out, but know that we shouldent go out too far because it might not work... about half way through the time we were suppose to be out... the power dies... and we are maby 10 yards from the nearest mountaion side sticking out of the water... so we flag down a passing speed boat and have him tow us to saftey. when we get back we tie it up, my dad and Bob EACH give him $100, YA! so he can take his girl friend out on a nice dinner...

 

 

 

NEXT year-- yes... EVERY YEAR something happends... we go out as usual seeing another part of the lake. when were done with all the sighe-seeing and are heading back in... an engine gives out... BUT IT WASSENT MY FAULT THIS TIME! W00T! so we cant do anything out on the lake, so we head back in on 1 motor.

 

 

 

some years after that-- i drive the boat out and such, as i guess the legal age to drive a boat is less than a car, and well... since i was deiving... you know something bad was going to happen,,, nothing major did, just me driving probably made everyone think that something would happen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yes EVERY YEAR something new happends. even though we have been out almost 6sh years or so, i can only rember those big events on the boat, the other times only little things happend, yet every year SOMETHING had to happen, or it wouldent be a vacation! :P

 

 

 

i cant rember the exact years because i cant rember if those events happend in order... if the motor and battry thing happend in 1 year, but i know they heppened.

 

 

 

i forget the boats name... but it was on black lake in Idaho in cor de lane.

[reaper88888]

On a camping trip, we foolishly pitched our tents on a steep, rocky slope; I woke up in the middle of the night rolling down the hill..

 

 

 

On a trip to Australia, I ended up being the only person with a broken seat-back tv for the whole 5-6 hour flight...

 

 

 

Florida. Red Tide and the end of horseshoe crab mating season, with hundreds of rotting horseshoe crabs and fish all over the beaches...

[Hexbot]

Missed the plane back to England because i was eating a Burger King right outside the boarding gates! I don't really know why i did it. :XD:

[Bludragon124]

Well, on our way home from our Colorado family reunion last year, our flight was delayed for a good 3 hours because of weather. Because of that, I got hungry, so I went to KFC and got some popcorn chicken. It was tasty, but around then I started feeling sick. After waiting three more hours with me on the floor nauseous, we finally got on the plane. As we are about to take off, I feel a familiar feeling welling up in my stomach, and taste bile in the back of my throat. My dad grabs an air sickness bag just in time, and I proceed to blow chunks all up inside it. After that I felt much better, though.

 

 

 

And one time in Africa my uncle had to bribe a Tanzanian official to let us out of the border. That's a story for another time.

[ThurinEthir]

The only vacation I can think of with mishaps was a trip to Toronto/Mississauga.

 

Somehow, within a span of 7 days...

 

We're going to McDonald's, and the McDonald's is in the same building as a Pizza Pizza. We end up going into Pizza Pizza asking "Can we have a happy meal?"

 

The fire alarm at the hotel I stayed at gets pulled. A car was on fire a few buildings over, and the hotel manager felt that it was a threat. Yeah, I woke up at 4 AM and had to walk down 30 flights of stairs. Not fun.

 

On the way home, at the airport, we get stopped at some point in security. Why? They thought my sister went to Chicago by herself. A little mix-up with passports, I guess.

 

 

 

If I think of something else, I'll post it.

[sithlord_man]

Well its not much of bad luck (well maybe it is) but the week we were set to go to Lake Tahoe in South Shore a small fire breaks out...now it was a Wild fire and we had to cancel are stay due to the ash and fire -.-

 

 

 

even though its not much of what it is, it somewhat fits the topic