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Holiday horror stories

What happens when good getaways go bad? iVillagers recall their worst-ever holidays. Beware before you book...

• My drink was spiked!
• Hotel 'hell on earth'
• Mosquito miseries
• Little apartment of horrors
• No fouling please, we're British
• The wrong sort of romance

My drink was spiked!
I think the worst holiday I ever had was just a catalogue of bad luck (and probably a stupid choice of destination). A friend and I flew to the Greek island of Ios, not realising it was a complete playground for really drunken holidaymakers.

First, the flight was severely delayed, and then we ended up having to stay in a weird tenty thing that was unbearably hot during the day. However, worst of all, when we went out on the first night, my drink was spiked with Meths so I spent the rest of the holiday frying in a tent and feeling really sick. Eugh.
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Hotel 'hell on earth'
My nightmare happened on a family holiday to Majorca. We should have known better than to go to Magaluf, but the brochure advertised it as a 'super family hotel, exclusive to Thomson's.' Apparently, no singles or couples were allowed to book that particular resort. How wrong could we be?

To be fair, the hotel was lovely during the day as all the drunken yobs were sound asleep, but between midnight and six in the morning it was hell on earth. Strangers knocking on your door, lads peeing anywhere and everywhere, and as for the rest, well, I'll leave that to your imagination. When it finally came to an end, I've never been so glad to be coming home - then disaster really struck.

The plane that we were meant to get on wasn't big enough! Unfortunately we had to wait behind with 43 other irate passengers. To top it all, the only way home was to fly from Majorca to Ibiza then Ibiza to Edinburgh. It took me, my husband and two children aged seven and four a total of 23 hours to arrive back home, exhausted and somewhat angry.

But did I go to my bed? No I didn't! I went straight down to the travel agents to make sure no-one else was due to go to the same place. Our local travel agent was horrified. After lots of letters to Thomson Holidays, we did eventually get about £800 in compensation, but once you've had a nightmare you don't forget it in a hurry!
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