best and worst holidays

PompeyPete

Doshwaster wrote: »

Worst holiday: As a child: every sodding time we went to Skegness and stopped in a caravan. That would be considered child cruelty these days.

It could have been Morecambe!

D-i-Y for us.
Best holidays: 5 weeks campervanning round both islands of NZ, and 3 weeks in a clapped out taxi feeling every single bump on the roads touring Myanmar (Burma).
Worst Holiday: 4 months on a 'grey-funnel line' cruise to the South Atlantic in 1982;)

Miró

Best holiday

3 week tour of Cambodia and Vietnam. Lovely friendly, welcoming, people, beautiful countries (despite the poverty) and fascinating history. Especially loved visiting the temple complex of Angkor Wat and cruising on the Mekong River

Worst holiday

Egypt...Hurghada & Nile cruise with visits to the usual temples, tombs etc. Fascinating to see the antiquities but hated the culture of exploiting, hassling and swindling tourists...horrid, horrid, horrid!

Both were organised small group tours with a tour manager in tow.

Worst holidays as a child

Caravan in Hunstanton - how I didn't die of hypothermia I'll never know!

Zoetoes

I'm not very well travelled but...

Best
Egypt - stayed in Sharm but did the Cairo trip. Loved everything about it.

Worst
Benidorm - need I say more!

I usually just book a package holiday online after phoning round to see if anyone can beat it, I'm a bit scared to diy in case I mess up!

As a child
From what I can remember we only had one holiday and that was Butlins when I was 3 - I have memories of the blue headed men (?) and the sun reflecting off the rocket slide!

lady1964

Worst as a child probably the week in Brixham, Devon, stuck in a caravan with siblings & parents, it rained the entire week and my mum had to take us out to buy wellies. This was waaaay back in the early 1970's. Worst one as an adult was probably the time spent in a caravan in Porthcawl in Wales, friend & I went to her grandad's caravan, gas lamps, no heating, no proper toilet or shower, the toilet was a bucket and showers in a block. It rained from when we arrived on Friday evening to when we left on Wednesday morning - at my insistence due to the dreadful weather and the more dreadful caravan - This was in 1985.

Best holidays have been with my hubby & kids, we've had some crackers over the last few years, Barbados, Cape Town, San Francisco but probably just edging it is the 3 weeks we had in Brisbane 19 years ago where some of my family live.

We usually book holidays ourselves, flights & accomodation seperately. We've used owners websites to book apartments/villas and not had a really bad one yet (well there was one pretty poor one in Torevieja, but that's another story). All bar that one have been great and we've had better & cheaper accomodation that we could hope to get for 5 of us in an hotel. I've used travel agents when booking holidays with my mum to Egypt because she prefers things done that way.
We're off to Cancun in July and we've booked directly with the hotel and our flights have been booked directly with BA.
Lady1964

Doshwaster

PompeyPete wrote: »

It could have been Morecambe!

Funnily enough, I use to get dragged to Morecambe with my Aunt and Uncle until I came up with the cunning plan of being so naughty that they refused to take me. I couldn't get out of our family trips to Skeggie though.

greenface

Best- New York City just for the sights smells and sounds of NYC. Camping in France with 24 friends amazing time with amazing people. & Paris a romantic July with Mrs Greenface .

Worst- Barrow-in-furness where the chippy closed for lunch,Upper Gronant in my aunties carapram as a kid, & Skegness (my grandad said when you look at the map of Britian and it looks like a old woman riding a pig . Well where the old womans 4rse meets the pigs 4rse thats Skegness) It rained and rained and rained for the whole 20,000 minutes we were there.

PompeyPete

Doshwaster wrote: »

Funnily enough, I use to get dragged to Morecambe with my Aunt and Uncle until I came up with the cunning plan of being so naughty that they refused to take me.

Morecambe's been on the comeback trail ever since;)

PompeyPete

greenface wrote: »

Worst- Barrow-in-furness where the chippy closed for lunch.

Hope you never had to endure a footie match at Holker Street on a dismal Saturday afternoon;)

p-pincher

Definitley prefer to book my own, cant remember the last time i used a travel agent but can remember when we'd all go down there and sit for hours searching through all the different holdays. Cant imagine booking a holiday now without looking through Trip advisor first.

Best holiday-Gotta be New York, went for the third time last December and i love it more every time we go. Shopping, eating, the sights, the accents, whats not to love!!!

Worst-Went to Magaluf bout 8 yrs ago, which id been to before on a girlie holiday and loved, and stayed in the worst cr*p hole ever, DH booked it over the phone and when he came off he said were staying at the Kensington apartments, I remember saying if its got a posh name its gonna be rank, and you know what i was right. Can look back now and laugh.

I also hate Haven but the kids love it, we asked them the other day what there best holiday would be, bearing in mnd they've been new york, canaries and we're soon going eurodisney, they want to go back to Haven in bl**dy mablethorpe.

Lydette

i had a travel agent booked my holiday in hongkong. so far it was a good experience.