9 Surefire Ways to Ruin Your Vacation ...

By Neecey

9 Surefire Ways to Ruin Your Vacation ...

Oh boy are there some surefire ways to ruin your vacation or what? You’ve saved up all year for your special trip, you’ve been looking forward to it for what seems like an absolute age and then, just one mistake and your vacation of a lifetime becomes one you can’t wait to forget. Know the ways to ruin your vacation and avoid them!

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Forgetting Your Passport

One of the most common ways to ruin a vacation is to leave the passports at home. Yes, some domestic flights don’t require a passport, but that’s not the point. If you're flying abroad, you’ve already gotten to the airport you’re going to miss your flight and potentially miss your connection to your hotel. Congratulations, you’ve already lost at least a day of quality vacation time!

2

Forgetting the Plane Tickets

Whilst forgetting your plane tickets won’t destroy your entire vacation, it can cost you quite a sizeable amount of money to have them printed at the airport. If you want to stop this becoming one of your ways to spoil a vacation, print them off and pack them in your suitcase the night before departure.

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The Holiday Rush

The holiday rush is where you arrive just in the nick of time. It involves the mad dash through traffic and the desperate search for a parking space. Sometimes you’ll get to your flight and sometimes you’ll miss it. Learning time management skills shouldn’t be a priority whilst on your vacation. It’s one of the most common ways to ruin a holiday, so if you must arrive three hours early do so.

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Drinking Too Much

Save the heavy drinking until you actually reach your destination. The departure lounge isn’t your local bar. Limit your drinks tab to one or two, or better yet, none at all. There have been countless stories of passengers spending a night in the drunk tank for abusing airport staff and other passengers whilst under the influence of alcohol, or even worse, your drunken antics could end up on a reality TV show! Arriving at your destination with a hangover is not smart - especially if it is combined with jet lag.

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Listen to the Promotional Spiel

Spend as much time as possible on researching your chosen destination. Do you really want to find yourself with a great view of the construction site and the back alley with all the junkies next door? Picking totally the wrong accommodation is amongst the top ways to ruin a vacation because there’s nothing worse than hating your hotel.

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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch
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The Weather

There’s a reason why countries have off-seasons. In Costa Rica, it’s raining ALL the time during the off-season. In many Austrian ski resorts, there’s a distinct lack of snow. Don’t get drawn in by the low prices by booking at an obscure time of year. Not having anything but thunderstorms for two weeks is definitely not conducive to a good time.

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Joking with Security/Customs

That joke about the ten kilos of cocaine in your bag might have sounded great in your head, but unless you want the fingers of a slightly overweight security guard fumbling about in your nether regions, keep the jokes to yourself. They’ve heard it all before and they won’t hesitate to make your day harder if you want to delay the process with your unfunny stand-up routine.

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Not Buying Travel Insurance

To this day, I can’t understand why someone would travel without insurance. It’s such a small amount of money for such peace of mind. If you lose your luggage or something goes wrong, you can claim amounts back on your policy. You can take out travel insurance online within minutes for a fraction of the cost of a holiday. Don’t risk this becoming one of the ways to ruin a holiday in your household - take it out.

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Home Alone

Never EVER leave your kids with the house to themselves. Teenagers will hold a party and will break something you love. It’s not worth the hassle. Send them away to a relative or invite a responsible adult over to watch them. $20,000 of damage isn’t worth your misplaced trust. All memories of a fabulous holiday go out the window (probably broken window) if you return to a trashed house/garden.

Have you ever had a vacation ruined? What happened? Please share!

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i think its more so that it was made to sound that every single teenager out there is going to do this, when in fact many teenagers are either responsible and smart enough to understand the consequences that would arise from taking those irresponsible actions, or scared crapless of what their parents would do if the teen were to do this. i find myself feeling very offended and scapegoated as a smart, responsible 17 year old girl who has been left at home during parental vacations without any parties or destroyed properties.

The Last point is ridiculous stop making such assumptions

I don't think it's about respecting your parents and what not, I respect my parents, I probably have the best parents in the world and I still threw parties! All the time when they went away... I remember a neighbour owned a bus company and kept one of the mini buses out the front of his house and it got kicked in, thousand of dollars damage which of course I paid for. I know when I was a teenager I knew what the consequences would be for whatever happened, but I just did it anyway. You're a teenager, you're expected to do dumb sh*t it's the way you learn. You make mistakes to learn from them. Nobody ever learnt anything from doing nothing

Your own actions don't dictate what others do. Delia was right, I find this an offensive assuption

My goodness. Not a big deal.

Growing up in my house, there were consequences to every action we took. My brother lost $3286.00 that was set aside for "college" ... he saved that for years BUT because he had the mother of all parties and his "friends" trashed our house my mom/dad promptly took the money he earned over the years to pay for clean up/ repairs/ replacements. It was called a "fun fund" meant to be doled out for whatever he wanted to spend it on while at college ( his agreement with our parents) so he could be sure he had pizza {beer} money whenever he needed it .... He blew it! He had a really crappy college life cuz there was barely any $ for the occasional pizza and he became known as a sponge... The rest of us totally learned from that lesson .... My parents still took vacations and left us (7) at home. Anything got broke, ya fessed up immendiately and pulled the cash out of your own piggy bank. I teach my 8 yr old the same lesson...If I buy it you break it out of negligence... You pay me back...

Obviously you just weren't respectful. Respectful children wouldn't do that.

I had to pay for a broken glass porch door! My brother on the other hand had to go to jail - whatever - we both turned out ok! Lol

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