Worst travel experiences

Man I loved the Terminal, what a comfy movie.

It wasn't so much a terrible experience, but more dissapointing;

I study abroad in Taipei, but i've studied Japanese for 2 years and have alot of Japanese friends. They're some of the kindest, warmest, most friendly people I know, so when i went to visit Tokyo a couple months ago i was expecting society have a similar vibe.

Nope. Coldest, most socially detached city i've ever been. The feeling of isolation is huge. People walk around avoiding eye contact, avoiding all human contact.

Had sex in Bolivia the condom broke and now I have a son

Had to cancel a trip to the USSR because the USSR collapsed and every government issued travel bans while the place had a revolution.

>>1200886
2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption
Got stuck in Scotland for 2 weeks.

Went to Berlin with my family, ended up being fucking horrible because everyone wanted me to either be the tour guide or be dragged along.
If I didn't do either then I was the asshole buzzkill. One night I just sat outside of a closed Lidl chugging beers because I didn't feel like going back inside yet.
Constant fighting, passive aggressiveness, no privacy at all and in general I felt the need to neck myself several times. Worst week abroad in my life.
In contrast my trip there with a couple of friends instead was awesome.

>>1200972
Tokyo sucks. visit other places in Japan, it's lovely

>>1201000
That's brutal

Greyhound driver left me at the Canada/US border. My customs clearence took about 15 minutes and this asshole just left without me, I stood there with my huge ass bag and backpack. Fortunately a Quickshuttle driver saw the scene and offered me the last seat on the bus for free, so it wasn't that bad.

Had a run of a week where I split up with the girl I was traveling with, got bad food poisoning (lost 5kgs in 2 days), and had my bank card swallowed by an ATM.
Then had one of my best traveling experiences immediately after; the Ma Li Peng pass in Vietnam

>>1184100

>>1201000
You only got stuck in Scotland. I got stuck in China for 2 weeks. And my asshole (thankfully now former) employer counted it as vacation days.

>>1200886
>ITT: Worst travel experiences
Plane diverted to Mexico during 9/11. Got stuck for a week. But, it didn't have to happen at all!

On the tarmac in Miami, still some boarding passengers,but door not even shut or jetway pulled back, pilots told to takeoff asap or be grounded from control tower, right as it all was happening. Well, crew was Mexican based so they made no announcements and made their decision, shut the door, tookoff without a single announcement the whole flight, and headed for their home base selfishly.
Stuck in Cancun for a week at all inclusive. Only had clothes for day trip, as was going down to a meeting, oops. Had to go shopping. Was strange to watch it all on CNN on TVs at the hotel.

>>1201091

you must be pretty old

>>1200886
One time I took a piano through India and Asia. It was retarded as fuck. It went in a [LAGE SUITCASE] and it took a crane to get it out.

Bedbugs from a hostel. Twice.

>>1201119
Did you take a bike a chosen form of transportation?

>fly Sydney to Los Angeles

Decide to save $500 on the flight by going Air China which has to 6-8 hour stop-overs in China and Japan, then 15 hours to L.A.

It wasn't worth the $500 savings. Should've just gotten a direct flight for the extra money, those stopovers were hell.

It actually sounds fun man

But how is that more expensive than a shitty Delta flight from Sydney to LA (i've done this, it's budget airline, with budget prices)

>>1201286
I remember your post.

Got my rental broken into and backpack with my passport stolen in LA.

On a positive note, the thief booked it when the alarm went off and my Gameboy color with pokemon yellow fell out, so he got a backpack filled with my dirty laundry. And passport.

>>1201481
>>1201549

Off topic but I'm doing NY - Sydney this summer. Thinking about just sucking it up and getting a decent seat on a decent airline like Qantas. Is it worth it anon?

>>1200984
ewwwwww

bolivians are gross

>>1200886
business trip to Hungary
shitty hotel - contracted Salmonellosis on last day
had to drive back 500mi next day
oh_shit_i_have_to_ship.jpg
crashed rental car on highway - entire side damaged
stay in hospital for 2 weeks
no appetite - even sparkling water tastes horrible
lost 5kgs
back home, need to turn in shit samples to authorities for another month

>>1200886

Spent 8 days in Goteborg Sweden for a destination wedding.

The groom (my brother) was a giant faggot the entire time. Also it was rainy and cold every single day. And this was in the middle of June.

The people and some of their customs got on my nerves.

I'll never return to Sweden. Norway, maybe.

>>1200886
i moved to finland thinking it would be fun
little did i know the government doesnt give a fuck about its people or at least not a half nig like me
now im stuck, poor, lonely and worthless and want to go back to colorado

>>1201586
yes

>>1202820
LMAO

that sucks dude. how about exploring other cities in europe before moving back to colorado?

>>1202820
Try Germany, I know there are a lot of memes about it, but as a South American, they treated me really well,gave me a job, helped finding a place to stay, and also got me a gf. Now I'm currently in Brazil but working for Germany.

I literally shat myself in Sofia, Bulgaria. While outside, on the way home. Got to my Airbnb after a terrible walk of shame, then the key broke in the lock. Had to call my host who appeared on the scene 20 minutes later, me sitting in front of the door and an awful smell emanating from somewhere. Got kicked out of the Airbnb some hours later because he said he felt uncomfortable with me. So I had to stuff my shit covered jeans into the rucksack, ended up going to a hotel.

>>1201586
Yes, fly via Dallas. Get the A380 which is typically an emptier flight than from LAX which is always full

>>1200972
>Nope. Coldest, most socially detached city i've ever been.
typically metropolis mentality. Everyone's busy and have no time for you.
I can say so the same with many big cities in East Asia. If you expect open Asian folks, then just go to the farmland.

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>>1202869
i hope i wont end up like this in SEA this summer

>>1202820
you HAVE to go back, Trayvon

>>1200886
got an 8 hour flight delay in darwin airport
they decided to bullshit us about the length of the dalay "just a few more hours" so nobody could leave and see the city
all we got were some meal vouchers

refugees got my ferry link to greece canceled, resulting in me having to take some 12 hour buss trip overland where turkish police shook everyone down for pocket change and cigarettes

train in vietnam where the read toilet leaked going downhill, and the front toilet leaked going uphill
also some evil food poisoning

>>1200886
In 1990 I owed fines to Calgary Transit (didn't pay for C-Train ticket) & the Calgary City Police do annual round-ups for ticket delinquints like me, usually at night.

Got a knock at the door, aw fuck itsa cop, ask for me, I lied and picked a random name, they asked to see ID, say I don't have any, "invited" to sit in patrol car while they query CPIC by radio. It comes back as a USAF soldier awol and wanted out of Montana. Panic! Tell them the truth but cops wouldn't hear of it. Booked on a sat night. No one home to answer my phone calls.

Monday AM i'm transported to Alberta/US border at Sweetgrass, 3 hrs locked in a small rat cage. MP's waiting for me and I figure at long last they'll have a picture to verify and this will end here. Nope! MP's are mindless fucks, they'd been instructed to return with one. So now i'm on a ride to god-knows-where in a foreign country i'd never been to. To their credit the backseat was more comfortable than the Sherrifs van I rode to the border in but the 2 MP's never said a word the whole ride except if I needed to piss.

Hours later brought to a huge air base & put into a clean white jail cell and fed better than Canadian jails i'd been to.

Next day a G-man type comes into my cell and the 1st thing he says is 'that's not him'. Yes!! They were not happy, I was promptly escorted to the front gate and abandoned in a fucking prarie in the middle of winter km's from nearest town, no money & only a light jacket.

Some guy stopped & picked me up & got me into the town of Great Falls. From there I hit the bank machine & had just enough for a bus ticket back to Calgary. Just as I get off the bus 2 cops are waiting for me, ask if i'm xxxxx xxxxx. Yes. I'm promptly rearrested for unpaid tickets. Spent another night downtown as a "guest of the Queen" before finally being allowed to use the phone to call a buddy who came down and paid the $60 fine and get me out.

Lessons learned.

>>1202889
Shit man, I had a friend who flew back international to Calgary just a couple months ago and got locked up almost overnight in their little holding room just for an unpaid C-train ticket.

Thank god I moved away from that miserable 'city'.

>>1202889
That was a fun read. Good lord.

>>1202889
Jesus Christ!

>>1200972
>Nope. Coldest, most socially detached city i've ever been. The feeling of isolation is huge. People walk around avoiding eye contact, avoiding all human contact.

It's called being the largest metropolis on earth and a place where the "tourist attractions" most people want to see aren't actual tourist traps, they are just the normal busy as fuck places that real Japanese people are carrying out there day in.

Japanese people, even in Tokyo, are kind and friendly as hell once you're in a one on one setting. On the street in the middle of Tokyo though you're just a dumb fuck if you think everyone has time to stand around interacting and making personal connections with millions of other strangers.

>>1202889
10/10

>>1200984
Daddy?

>>1201481
Are you a jew?

>>1200972
>Nope. Coldest, most socially detached city i've ever been. The feeling of isolation is huge. People walk around avoiding eye contact, avoiding all human contact.
i found people in tokyo to be really friendly

>>1200886
went to a music festival abroad, train back to the airport was delayed, missed my flight, had to spend 72 hours in valencia airprot, couldnt sleep as I needed to check for standby seats on flights every 2 hours

>>1201113

You must be 16

Being stuck in in Dublin for 3 days due to baggage handler strikes and my bags lost due to strikes when travelling with Ryan Air, eventually getting a paid ferry to Liverpool to train all the way down to London.

Flying with AirBerlin, the delays I didn't mind thats normal and I think everyone should be patient. However the air crew allowing a ridiculous amount of on board luggage meant all the above stowaways were full by the time I boarded. So I sat with my backpack on my lap for the flight to Budapest.

Lastly one being entirely my fault, getting too drunk before flying back from Belfast and being told they were going to check with the pilot whether they would allow me to fly. Fucking terrifying moment, awaiting whether I will be stuck further in Northern Ireland or not. They eventually allowed me to board.

>>1202889
>I'm promptly rearrested for unpaid tickets
Lost it.

Was on Malta this January, coldest winter in 30 years. Hostels of course weren't used to this so they didn't have heating. It was colder inside than outside, to the point where you could see your own breath. It was also windy as fuck which made it even worse. The journey home (to Austria) also took 11 hours instead of 5 because of flight delays across Europe

>>1201076
Got stuck in Korea for 2 weeks.
My employer counted it as vacation days too.

got separated from my friends and was depressed and lonely drinking alone at a local bar, ended up blacking out and smoking meth and fucking some disgusting older woman. sat in bed for 2 full days after trying to recuperate from everything.

>>1202889
Half Life 3 confirmed!

>>1201000

That's the sound I make when I have a pants eruption.

Was in college on spring break. I took a cruise that had a one day stop in Cozumel, Mexico.

I fucked up and forgot to pull out cash on the boat before we went into port so I had to pull out cash at one of the Mexican ATMS. I picked the one next to Senor frogs because it was a touristy area so I thought I would be ok.

In hindsight, this was a terrible place. A week after I get back, I check my account balance to see its at $-800. Since it was a debit card and not a credit card it took almost over a month to get my money credited back. So I didn't have a penny to my name that whole time and was basically eating scraps from my friends.

Was near Beijing for three months working a contract to setup a data center. Easy work, done it before. Actually get done early because we rock and still get paid for three months anyway. 5 of us, 4 go home to the US because they got another contract to work. I got 3 weeks to fuck around, decided to fly to Thailand for two and a half weeks. All is great, multi entry visa for China so no issues coming back and taking my original flight. Also get paid extra for being on-call and a quick flight back if shit storm happens.

Check into hostel because I'm a cheap bastard, first week goes great. Full tourist mode, enjoy watching Aussies get drunk and fight each other over sluts. Second week, things are damn near the same save for Friday night. Local Bangkok police "raid" the hostel because of reports of drugs. I say "raid" because they only hit one room because they know who they are looking for.

My room.

Luckily not looking for me. Go through my shit anyway to make it look good. Three of the four people get arrested for drugs, seems only one was wanted though the other two are just idiots with a need to smoke up. Is cool, they leave the rest of us alone. I shrug it off until three hours later they come back for two more of us because they had been "implicated". Well fuck, not sticking around for this shit. 5 of 8 people in the room arrested and I'm 90% sure they are going to come back for the rest of us. Pack up, head out to find another place to stay.

Get to an expat bar and ask for some help from the expats, tell me to get out of the country ASAP. Police will be looking for you. Well fuck. Call airline, get next plane back to China (Hong Kong), leaves in three hours. Get a lift from an expat on his motorcycle to the airport, exchange contact info, get the hell out of town and make to Hong Kong no problems.

>>1204280
Don't go to the Philippines. Duterte will murder your ass

>>1200972

Eh, you're not a special snowflake you cunt. I hate this "pay attention to me" attitude.

It's the same treatment in any huge city. Try NYC and people are accustomed to ignoring everything here. Things that would send most small towns into an uproar.

My worst experience was when I was backpacking in Thailand and decided to visit a ladyboy bar for laughs. One of the patrons there complimented me on my "dainty hands" and kept offering me drinks. I black out and woke up locked in a room surrounded by ladyboys. Most were drugged out and barely there.

I was there for 7 weeks. They put hormones in my food and made me dress up like a girl, wig, makeup, the whole nine yards. I had to listen to what I assumed were sissy hypno tapes, but they were in thai so they didn't really do anything. Eventually I escaped by pretending to be feminized at heart and eager to serve bar patrons. My first night as a working bar girl, after satisfying several well hung clients (yolo), I made my break for it and ran out, chased by muscular ladyboy bouncers. I smacked a man off a scooter, stole it and rode away. I ditched the bike about 50 km away, I had no money, and my visa, passport, ID, etc had all been taken by the bar. I had to freelance sell my boipucci to survive over the next few days as I made my way to the American embassy. The person at the embassy who helped me secure passage out of Thailand sighed and said I was the 5th person this week.

>>1204453

THINGS
>that never happened

>>1203638
Was the Lost luggage with Ryan Air in Dublin mid last year dude?

>>1202866
The German government provided you with a girlfriend?

>>1204453
I remember this pasta

>>1204453
Oh hey I had exactly the same thing happen all of my family when we visited.
Granny never really did want to come back.

>>1204453

>Numerous people have masturbated to this scenario

>>1204453
sigh
*unzips*

>>1201481
So around $100 earned per hour by taking the layover? Damn you must earn a lot and not know how to relax with a book at a greasy airport

>>1202725
>The people and some of their customs got on my nerves.
Story time

>>1203634
ayyy rekt

>>1205166

I posted the whole thing in Travel once.

The people are nice, but they are so goddamn polite and reserved it borders on autism. It's like they can't cut up, relax, or express a controversial opinion ever.

The whole "use only what you need, when building a home" thing got on my nerves, like there would be one bathroom in a 5BR house. Tiny fucking shower, no pressure. Floor studs in between rooms. All the dark clothing, and stripes.

IDK, don't wanna shit on Sweden too much. It was the circumstances of the trip that went bad. You would have to pay me a lot of money to live there. I consider Germany/Austria/Switzerland to be superior to Scandinavia in every possible way.

>>1204613
Come on dude, that's like 40 hours of travel time. Sounds brutal compared to 15 hours of travel time for an extra $500

>>1204280
That actually sounds like a pretty cool adventure, having to slip out of the country at night with the help of an expat

>>1205652
>tfw that's more than my entire monthly salary
Travel is probably the worst passion you can have if you're not a first worlder.

>>1205234
I read the original story haha

>>1204453
>5th person this week
Kek'd

>>1201000
are you the guy on BBC news who shouted "I HATE ICELAND"?

>>1205234
i think i remember it actually. i cant remember the story but what you say rings a bell for sure

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>>1202889
>I'm promptly rearrested for the unpaid tickets

>>1204015
MILFs are always a good time m8

>>1200972
>>1203578
I've been to Tokyo twice. Once in the late-90s, again 5 years ago.
It was a VERY different feeling.
Before the turn of the century, there were friendly cops, jovial evening foot-traffic, and outgoing people who could tell we were lost, who would help, even with limited English, and occasionally students who just wanted to practice their English on us.
It was a lot of fun, and really cool.

Again in the 00s, the whole atmosphere of the city had changed.

I guess Tokyo picked up its real metropolitan feel sometime between those visits.

>>1207037
* teleports behind you *
AAAAYYY HAET'EYESLEND

>>1202820
Yeah... with the whole refugee thing, I can't imagine you being a popular guy in Finland

>>1207816
Except in Club Swagga, Helsinki

>>1204015
Where did this happen?

Was getting picked up in an airport in Hanoi for an early flight to Kuala Lumpur, so had a taxi arranged to pick us up around 4 AM outside our hostel. When we come downstairs the taxi is outside, but the driver is sound asleep. Not a problem initially, but the problem is he never entirely woke up. Over the course of the 30-45 minute drive he would slam his head against the seat, put on cruise control and stick his entire torso outside the window, and suddenly scream in an effort to keep himself awake (he lost consciousness briefly several times regardless). This along with Vietnam already having some of the worst driving conditions, as well as considerable rain that morning, put me in a panic for the entire drive.

>>1207037
>>1207450
https://twitter.com/CasualSaturdays/status/797080154816253952
top bantz

>>1202889
Holy fuck. I live here now and was going downtown to pay a gay ticket the other day and gave serious consideration to not paying the stupid ctrain fare as a sort of fuck the police. Glad I did.

>ticketed for snow 'obscuring' view on rear window
>it wasnt
>155$
>decide to fight it
>park in 3 hr parking at train station and train into dt to avoid crazy parking rates
>'justice' is a dickhead and doesn't cut me any slack
>pay 155$
>last second conscience gets me and I pay fare on way back, get stopped by police and avoid fine
>get back to car after 2hr45min, parking bitch literally circling like a fucking vulture giving people tickets

holy shit this town is starved for cash

fucking australia from landing to takeoff
never ever go to that fucking shit country

>>1200993
Thats more of an anti-travel experience.

>>1201024
Greyhound, not even once.

>>1201049
Story about the grill?

>>1202866
> helped finding a place to stay, and also got me a gf.

I came here to avoid /pol/

>>1202869
Oh. . . my . . . god. . . this made my year already.

>>1204015
>Get separated from friends
>Immediately pick up two drug habits and catch a VD from old woman

wut

>>1204280
Metal

>>1208054
Great story.

>>1202725
I think I remember reading about this before.
If you have posted the story before, would you mind doing so again?

>>1207898
>holy shit this town is starved for cash

Hopefully it won't be once movement starts to be made on that Keystone pipeline.

>>1202889
God I fucking love Calgary.

>>1208054
I live there lol
what didn't you like?

>>1207442
no you just lost a good bit of CUTEness

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>>1202889
>it comes back as a USAF soldier awol and wanted out of Montana.

note to self - come up with better alias than "john smith"

Traveling from some place really cold and dark during winter to someplace really sunny and desert like las vegas seems like a good idea right? Its a mind fuck in my experience. The daylight will feel like an illusion and you'll feel comfortable at night like a wierdo.

>>1204337
Everyone was really nice the one time I visited NYC. Just generally helpful people tbqh

>>1207442
I think you're just older. I'm ugly and when I was solo people were never came up to me and tried to help, but when I was with other people they always did.

While I'm flying and want to pump out some reps, and walk over to the squat rack to see it being used, with a line in front, is usually a bummer for me