Have you ever had a distastrous holiday...

[carole]

I was thinking about this today,not sure if there has been a thread before on it, but just wondered how many of you have had a holiday ruined, or not go quite according to plan.

I can only share about our first three short breaks away, the first one was when we went for an overnight stay, to a small seaside town about 40 mins from here, we stopped half-way and had a great time at the hot pools and hydrosliding all day, well my son and hubby were, I was pregnant with my daughter.

We got to our holiday park unit, got some fish n chips for dinner, and suddenly right afterwards my husband became violently ill, I had to run in the dark to the holiday park reception to ring a Doctor, the local doctor is not the nicest guy in the world, I explained I could not drive, his response well I am not a bloody taxi service, hmm nice, and me worried sick, luckily two lovely ladies offered to take him, it was a long windy road, and hubby was in extreme pain, when we got there the Doctor was having a family party, but he was very good.

An ambulance was called and hubby went off to hospital with suspected renal colic, a kidney stone was likely, that it had moved, one he never knew he even had, and the hydrosliding was indeed probably the reason it moved. I had to ring my parents to pick my son and I up.

The second one was , when hubby had work to do at his aunts ski chalet, he had to remove a large ramp,off the chalet, he decided best to do it at the start of the holiday and then enjoy the rest of the time off, bad mistake, silly me here forgot he had removed the ramp and went off the edge into mid-air, it was quite a drop and I badly sprained my ankle, the pain was so bad, we opted to pack up and leave, and I was really glad I did, this poor ankle was on its fourth sprain and it was not liking it, I spent the next week in severe pain and not being able to do much, so much for the fun holiday.

The third one was not so bad, I had just chosen very bad accomodation, it looked good in my holiday park book, but when we got there it was awful ,stank, so mouldy, furniture ripped, it did spoil it some, as part of being away is staying somewhere nice to me.

Anyhow have had a few good breaks away since, but for a while we thought we were jinxed and were scared to leave home, how about you, tell me all about yours ? thanks.