Whats your worst vacation you ever had?

[MILKY]

Ah shit, here we go.

I was about 8-9 years old and when on holiday in France I got acute appendicitis.

So we were on a campsite ish (More like glamping) and went to the front desk to get a French translator for the hospital (this is ~2008 no google translate).

When we arrived it was about evening and the real doctor already went home. When we went inside the room to get examined our translator flat out just passed out as she could not handle hospital smell (like wtf why would u go with then?!?!). The "night" doctor examined me and determined it wasn't too bad and they could look tomorrow. I was a very active/moving kid and I was laying still from the pain not moving at all which was a very bad sign, but try that in a foreign language, u kinda just didnt speak much beyond "can I have a baguette please" so u can't communicate that a 9 year old is in insane pain if it is not crying.

I was placed in a room, but first a got a nurse that was still in very early stages of her career (like student) and tried to put a drip in. She fucked up so bad I felt it through the local anesthesia they put on. Anyway, that evening they drove me twice in an ambulance to another location in an attempt to find a room for kids so I could be operated the next day. I was put in a room with my mom and we slept the night.

The next morning at 7 am, my mom went to the toilet and at that exact moment the doctor came by and I was RUSHED into surgery due to the severity of the case that never should have been left until the morning. My mom wasn't there when I was rushed into the surgery room and I was in a room full of French doctors and nurses and I got put under anesthesia in a foreign language and I never ever had been under before, it felt like I just couldn't breath anymore at one point and I only saw my mom when I came out of surgery.

You would expect I would go home the day after, but nope! They tried giving me powder antibiotic that I just barfed from instantly and we could not communicate that to the nurses due to the language barrier and had to wait another full day until an English speaking doctor came that day and we could explain it to and get liquid antibiotics. Finally I was able to return to the campsite and "enjoy" the rest of my holiday.

Once back in the Netherlands, we found out they fucked something up with the wire to close the wounds as they didn't dissolve properly and infected causing me to have another level of pain and they had to forcefully pull out the wire out of the infected tissue.

Later on I learned usually they make an incision of about 1-2cm to remove an appendicitis but mine was about 4-5 cm as what I assume is due to the possibility of it already having ruptured or was about to rupture. Due to me being 9 years old at the time the scar grew when i got older and now is about twice the size, meaning about 8-10cm.

tl:dr So yeah, France is a beautiful country with amazing landscapes but their medical centers suck ass (back then), would not recommend to go to the hospital there.

Also I am surprised I did not get PTSD for hospitals from it.

Honestly you survived more plot twists than most main characters in action movies

 

[Nazeer]

egypt never going there again fuck egypt

should have called me bro, i give you tour for free inside pyramid and you will see all the mommies!!!!!!!

 

[Ryan Lucas]

went to egypt and @Nazeer kept trying to sell me bracelets, worst trip ever

 

[sloome48]

should have called me bro, i give you tour for free inside pyramid and you will see all the mommies!!!!!!!

he will scam u

jk

 

[klown]

should have called me bro, i give you tour for free inside pyramid and you will see all the mommies!!!!!!!

I was there like 6 years ago, bro there was so many black people on pickup trucks with guns I swear egypt is paralake irl, also the plane almost crashed

 

[AstroNoodle]

I was in Paris many years ago and even back then it was a shithole. trash everywhere and the people where unbelivably rude. Other places in France where very nice to visit though

 

[Spagety]

What is it with you and recommending everyone to go to Iraq all of the time

My worst trip was to Huelva because it's ugly, the beaches suck, and there were jellyfish

Its the only interesting place i have traveled to so i just recommend it to everyone

 

[flugs]

London, booked some hotel via booking that had “pay at arrival”. After arriving after midnight their card terminal “didn’t work” and they demanded cash payment before allowing us in our rooms. Had to run mile and a half to the nearest atm in some skedgy neighbourhood to withdraw over £500 and ran back hoping not to get robbed by al the unsavory types that seemed to be looking at me withdrawing the money.

I would have robbed you if I were there

 

[Ryan Lucas]

unironically worst "trip" i went to was to folkestone to go to the 3 story skatepark,
basically, got to the hotel it was called the britannia or some shit idk, took an hour to even get the keys to our rooms, the bar reeked of piss and for someone reason it had a carpet floor with not a single inch of it not stained in something. basically we all get to our hotel rooms, mediocre hotel room, looked more like a hostel or a uni accommodation, get in the shower before going to bed, go to close my curtains and i had literal blood stains on my curtains, parents didnt have hot water in like 2 of the rooms they got transferred to, and overall place was just shit. only thing they could offer us was a cheap bottle of white wine. we stayed there for maximum an hour before we just decided to leave,
took another 45 minutes for them to actually give in and refund us

 

[Skudist]

Definitely when I drove to Berlin, the drive there was great and I saw some funny shit but once I got into Berlin it all went downhill. A homeless man wouldn't stop begging me for chicken at KFC, I got charged 20 euros for a piece of shit steak the size of a phone, I got a speeding fine because I didn't know the Autobahn ended, the Hotel was not soundproof and worst of all, I got told 'Wir haben keine Eis' at 3 different McDonalds when I was craving a McFlurry

edit: and it smelt like dogshit in the city centre
edit2: no one fucking speaks English????

You must've had extremely bad luck with the Germans you were talking to, considering that Germany, Berlin especially, has a rather high percentage of English speakers

 

[whiskey wednesday]

Definitely when I drove to Berlin, the drive there was great and I saw some funny shit but once I got into Berlin it all went downhill. A homeless man wouldn't stop begging me for chicken at KFC, I got charged 20 euros for a piece of shit steak the size of a phone, I got a speeding fine because I didn't know the Autobahn ended, the Hotel was not soundproof and worst of all, I got told 'Wir haben keine Eis' at 3 different McDonalds when I was craving a McFlurry

edit: and it smelt like dogshit in the city centre
edit2: no one fucking speaks English????

Thats crazy when im there is fantastic never experienced anything like that in berlin. And yes you have to watchout for autobahn

 

[Medium]

You must've had extremely bad luck with the Germans you were talking to, considering that Germany, Berlin especially, has a rather high percentage of English speakers

only the young generation spoke english but I went to a lot of ma and pa shops with old people as owners, they didnt speak english