Pet hates when travelling

Bob_the_Saver

Pet Hate 76290 (B)

That sign in the bus station in Vientiene that shows where the airport bus doesn't depart from.

Bogof_Babe

CruisingSaver wrote: »

All of my pet hates are cruise related but if I start I may never finish, so I'll just leave it at some of my fellow passengers .

CS

Aww g'wan, you know you want to . I've decided I'm not craving another cruise for the foreseeable, and would love some concrete reasons! (Well apart from the Concordia disaster, which I can't get out of my mind ).

Alias_Omega

elisebutt65 wrote: »

People who let their kids queue at the baggage carousel, usually in front of you, so there's a good chance that you'll whack them with your case as you swing it off.

I dislike...constantly telling the children (9 & 5) to move away from the baggage carousel as people will bash them with the bags, though the children dont seem to listen and think they should stand right over it, putting there fingers into the gaps. Meanwhilst the youngest (not mentioned age wise) presses the red emergency button at her waist height..

Then trying to haul 4 suitcase, 2 trunki's, many bags, push chair onto one or two trolleys to get out to the car.

Nice eh..

Alias_Omega

Another one..

Venice at high tide.. Just not fun...

Doshwaster

Alias_Omega wrote: »

Then trying to haul 4 suitcase, 2 trunki's, many bags, push chair onto one or two trolleys to get out to the car.

Nice eh..

I think an experience like that would be to make me spend my holidays at home. As a generally relaxed solo traveller, I often see very stressed families at airports and wonder how the cope.

CruisingSaver

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

Aww g'wan, you know you want to . I've decided I'm not craving another cruise for the foreseeable, and would love some concrete reasons! (Well apart from the Concordia disaster, which I can't get out of my mind ).

OK seeing as you asked so nicely.........

The passenger in the buffet on Ventura who thought it was socially acceptable to stick his finger in a sauce provided for one of the dishes to 'see if he liked it or not' :mad: Why would you do that??

Passengers who use the toilets, don't wash their hands afterwards, and then wonder why the ship is struck down with sickness bugs soon afterwards. They often blame the fact there are kids onboard - no it's you, you filthy beggars!

Passengers who talk to the staff and crew like they're something they've just trodden in. An outstanding example of this was a passenger we christened Mr Spoons who, on the first day of a 35 night cruise to the Caribbean, was yelling at one of the waiters because there were no teaspoons. He followed this up a few days later by yelling at another crew member because they took longer than 5 seconds to provide a pot of clotted cream for his scone. I snapped and gave him a b*ll*cking in front of the restaurant staff and other passengers for being such a rude and ignorant halfwit!

Passengers who reserve seats, sunbeds etc. and get ars*y when you move their books that have been sunbathing for the last 3 hours whilst they have a wander ashore.

People who assume that because you're younger than them, you've cruised less and proceed to bore you rigid with every single second of the 3 weekend cruises they've done :cool:. I have so far resisted the temptation to return the favour and bore them senseless with details of all of our cruises but I know that one day I'll snap

Passengers who book a cruise on a family friendly ship in the middle of the school summer holidays and proceed to whinge and whine that there are kids onboard to anyone who pauses to breathe in their company. What did they expect? A colony of Martians??

How's that as a starter for ten? :rotfl:

CS

Alias_Omega

Doshwaster wrote: »

I think an experience like that would be to make me spend my holidays at home. As a generally relaxed solo traveller, I often see very stressed families at airports and wonder how the cope.

Its not that bad, just takes a bit of organising. We plan what to do in the event of an aircraft accident, and when what we are doing when we get to the baggage area. Its usually one will take the youngest and head through XYZ door, the other will take the other remaining two (9&5) and go to XYZ door.

I think the last time we landed at the airport, we have to have 2 cars back to the house otherwise we would have not gotten all the stuff back. I blame Mrs AO as she decided it would be good to take 200kg of baggage back. :rotfl:

zagfles

Doshwaster wrote: »

I think an experience like that would be to make me spend my holidays at home. As a generally relaxed solo traveller, I often see very stressed families at airports and wonder how the cope.

We find driving holidays so much easier than flying with a family. No worries about weight, liquid rules, about baggage pooling rules, carrying baggage around etc. And the kids seem to get less bored on an 8 hour drive or a 6 hour ferry crossing than they do on a 2 hour flight (plus 2 hours hanging around at the airport).

zagfles

Alias_Omega wrote: »

Its not that bad, just takes a bit of organising. We plan what to do in the event of an aircraft accident, and when what we are doing when we get to the baggage area. Its usually one will take the youngest and head through XYZ door, the other will take the other remaining two (9&5) and go to XYZ door.

I think the last time we landed at the airport, we have to have 2 cars back to the house otherwise we would have not gotten all the stuff back. I blame Mrs AO as she decided it would be good to take 200kg of baggage back. :rotfl:

Been there done that :eek: - whenever we fly these days (or get any public transport) I insist we don't take more than we can comfortably carry a few hundred yards. Can't always get trollies everywhere, sometimes wheeling is impractical (eg stairs, cobbles etc). Clothes can be washed (which some people just don't seem to appreciate!) and even if you're smelly who cares, you're on holiday!

Bogof_Babe

CruisingSaver wrote: »

OK seeing as you asked so nicely.........
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How's that as a starter for ten? :rotfl:

CS

Put some nice waves in instead of quoting your whole post, hope you don't mind .

All very good points (and :eek: at the unwashed hands - I loved the smell of the handwash liquid in the public area loos and couldn't get enough of it!).

My reasons are somewhat more prosaic than yours, e.g. waiting almost five hours for my luggage to reach my cabin, when my travelling companions had theirs by the time we reached our corridor; the (small!) pool/s being either out of use or full of shrieking kids; "at sea" days which seem to go on forever; showers with non-removable heads (a regular bugbear of mine)... oh and being seasick in the Bay of Biscay!

On the plus side though, it's nice to have your own space for the whole duration of your holiday, and not have to worry about getting from A to B. Mind you, the train services to Southampton were quite overcrowded, and that's with us going down the day before the cruise sailed!