Vacation Experience Thread: Share your funny, scary, or heart warming vacation storie

[ShadowBoxer]

I saw a vacation experience thread on another message board site that I visit on the regular and it's filled with some good vacation stories, some funny, some scary, some heart warming. To my knowledge, SHH doesn't have such a thread, so I thought I would create one. Since summer is approaching, I thought this was a good time to create this thread. And since I am finally going to Disney World this summer, I thought it would also get me amped for Vacay in June ha. So fellow hypesters, what are some of you guys and girls vacation stories?

 

[Greens]

Disney World is great. You should make an effort to visit Universal Studios as well, if that is at all possible.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

Disney World is great. You should make an effort to visit Universal Studios as well, if that is at all possible.

I been to both Universal Studios theme parks. Went to the Hollywood one in Los Angeles last summer and I been to the Orlando park in 2007 and then again in 2009. I would like to visit the Orlando park again just for the Harry Potter section.

 

[Greens]

I been to both Universal Studios theme parks. Went to the Hollywood one in Los Angeles last summer and I been to the Orlando park in 2007 and then again in 2009. I would like to visit the Orlando park again just for the Harry Potter section.

Oh, okay. The Orlando parks easily beat the Hollywood parks, both Universal and Disney.

 

[Erzengel]

I've been to WDW like 9 times since 2005? I love it. Not just the rides, the restaurants, shopping, shows.

Universal is good too but I think I can only spend three days max there every few years while Disney I've spent five days there easily. One time we went back an extra day because of Food and Wine Festival.

 

[Greens]

The sheer size of WDW amazes me every time I go. Not just the theme parks, but the resorts, water parks and grounds in general. You can take a damn ferry to go from one park to the other!

 

[Erzengel]

When you are younger it's all about rides and grabbing a quick bite in between. Now even the restaurants is something I plan on. Which ones we haven't eaten yet, which ones we've enjoyed. I've eaten in every country except US which is essentially just a burger place.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

I am 27 and this coming June will be my first time going to Disney World. The trip is booked and paid for. Now I am just on the Disney World site planning all the things I wanna do and it's pretty overwhelming. I am only there for like 3 days so I know I won't see or do everything. But I plan on going again next summer for a week.

 

[Erzengel]

Are you staying in the Park?

 

[ShadowBoxer]

Are you staying in the Park?

Yea I am staying at one of the disney hotels.

 

[Enriquespy]

Rome city is like an Epcot version of itself. Just bigger and with lots of pickpocketers.

London is extremely hot, like 40° celcius when it's not cold and raining. ... Ok, maybe it was just that time I went when the heat wave killed tens of thousands of old people.

Vancouver is also very hot, and Switzerland. Or maybe I happen to visit places during freak heat waves. who knows?

 

[KevanG]

I went to Disney as a kid, I don't remember much besides it was fun and I have an undying hatred of "It's a small world'' that enrages me whenever I hear it. No idea why.

I also remember going on vacation as a kid and we drove threw a bee storm, a literal cloud of bees. One got in the car and stung me about an inch from a very sensitive place.

 

[Erzengel]

Yea I am staying at one of the disney hotels.

Utilize the fast pass as soon as you can to save your place on line at the more popular rides. This will save you from waiting 90 minutes on some rides.

Most popular rides at each park:
Magic Kingdom: Seven Dwarves Mine Train, Space Mountain
Animal Kingdom: Kilimanjaro Safaris, Expedition Everest, Kali Rapids
Hollywood Studios: Toy Story Mania, Tower of Terror, Aerosmith Roller Coaster
Epcot: Soarin, Test Track

Download the My Disney Experience on your phone, it allows you to do your fast passes, as well as book reservations, see park hours, wait times for rides and connect to your magic band.

Book your dining as soon as you can, popular places do book up and you'd be stuck eating at 5 or 9:30 pm.

Give yourself an hour to travel around the entire park. Need to go to Epcot for dinner from Magic Kingdom? You'd be surprised how long it takes to walk through the park get transportation (monorail, bus or boat) and then walk through the other park to get to a restaurant, show, fireworks.

Staying inside the Park also means you get extra time at the park sometimes in the morning and sometimes at night.

You don't always need to take the bus everywhere. Some places it's easier to take a boat or monorail to a specific park. For instance from the Boardwalk resort, you can take the boat to Hollywood Studios and you can walk to the back of Epcot. Actually, there is no bus from this resort that takes you to those parks.

 

[chamber-music]

London is extremely hot, like 40° celcius when it's not cold and raining. ... Ok, maybe it was just that time I went when the heat wave killed tens of thousands of old people.

I find it weird that people think it rains all the time in London and is cold. Britain in general has a mild climate and it rains far less than people expect.

Average annual rainfall in London is less than cities such as Amsterdam, Milan, Zurich, New York City, Dallas and Tokyo.

 

[Enriquespy]

To be fair I've been in London 3 times, and in only one did it rain all the time. The other two had one the freak heat wave and the other mild climate.

 

[chamber-music]

To be fair I've been in London 3 times, and in only one did it rain all the time. The other two had one the freak heat wave and the other mild climate.

I wasn't criticizing you, I was talking about the general perception people have

 

[michaelcard]

My last semester vacation experience too much scary. We had been to Daintree and night it was very difficult to find the way and we had carried solar path lights, solar batteries and solar landscape lights these solar items were very much helpful and we enjoyed a lot there almost all night our almost all night were spent in forest instead of the resort which we book... we were cooking in forest only using electric stove with solar power supply, cooking food in between the jungle was much fun.. If you are going for forest trip try to take solar items you can purchase it from here https://magesolar.com/best-solar-path-lights/ or you can buy from any other genuine solar products sites, because going to forest and spending all time in resort doesn’t give any fun... just make your vacation adventures.

 

[STINGRAY]

I`m going to travel back in time...waaay back, decades ago, to a time when I was not married and went to the coast alone on my motorcycle.
Being alone, and on a `cycle I traveled light...just a pair of saddlebags...
(Man that was along time ago..! Now my wife has me load half the house in the truck for a week at the beach!)

Anyway...waaay back when...I was doing the early morning pre-trip check on the `cycle, lubricating this-n-that.... My front brake handle control was squeeking...As this was going to see some degree of consistent use, i resolved to give it a shot of good ol` WD-40.... I grabbed my blue & yellow can...the application straw was missing. That lil` red plastic straw that allows you to put just so much in just the right place, without spraying slick WF-40 all over.
I searched, could not find that lil red straw anywhere...
I went to my neighbor.... He had WD-40...
He had no straw either.
Nowadays the straw is affixed to the can, and cannot be lost...This was the long ago ancient past, before such modern improvements.
I tried yet another neighbor..same story...They`ve got the can... cannot find the straw...This is getting ridiculous.
I am seeing my planned early start become a mid-day excursion.
'Screw it!' I proclaim, and I go ahead and spray WD-40 ALL OVER the brake handle just to get at that squeek .... I wipe off the excess as best I can, and start off....
Several instances of my hand sliding off the brake at crucial moments stop me several times for still more wiping off, but no accidents ensue.
Four hours later, I am at the beach.
I unload, get dressed for sun, and head onto the sand...Carrying a beer to relax.
The sun is hot...I stride to edge of the surf, feeling it come in around my ankles, I tip back the cold brew and drink deeply...
The water recedes...I look down...
There, between my feet, the Atlantic Ocean has deposited ...
A `Lil Red Plastic WD-40 Straw.
Now, I know it is hardly a trip to The Twilight Zone..But..
What are the odds...?
(I still have that straw, too.)