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 Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 5:26 am
Ever had a shocking travel experience?
A hostel never to return too?
An airline that lost your bags and then says you
travelled by boat?
A border gaurd who stole your girly mags.
Fill in here.
e.g. from me.
1) NEVER FLY THAI AGAIN!
2) Avoid getting abducted by cults in Korea
they are boring with no sex or drugs at all.
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 12:07 am
I watched in abject horror as a baggage handler from Egypt Air put a forklift blade through a suitcase.
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 1:53 am
I watched them load the luggage on planes as it was garbage needless to say my lap top didn't do so well!
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 4:11 pm
My sister and I used to live near an open-pit mine. Some of the blasting dust got stuck in the fabric of my sister's suit case and she was almost arrested for trying to bring a 'bomb' onto an airplane. Their sensors detected the materials. Luckly the security guards there knew us and the air port itself was next to the mine. >.< that was a wierd experience.
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:25 pm
heh Ive traveled my fair share so far in life (enough that my family calls me Uncle traveling Matt) ((its a fraggle referance)) although Im not an uncle nor named matt.
Ive rode on a bus with a guy snorting coke in the back, Ive seen two people having sex in teh back of a travel bus.
Ive never really had a great flight anywhere I always get delays, like from Chicago to Albany when I sat in the dammed airport for 13 hours stare
The airport in homer alaska lost my luggage, which is pretty impressive if you consider that its only one bay. Lost it so well it took them till the next morning to find it.
But, the worst I had was when I was in a small twin prop beaver in Alaska, the plain shook something horrid, and coming over some mountains you have to the turbulance is, well less then unpleasent. If anyone travels in Alaska always drive if possible (oh but watch out for the moose stare )
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Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:38 pm
Your arms are my castle . . . Um, I don't have anything too bad.
Just when I was returning home from Florida, the flight got delayed so much that I came home at like 1 or 2 in the morning. ._.
Fortunately I came back on a weekend or something so I could get some rest before I had to go back to school. . . . your heart is my sky.
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:13 pm
Uh well.
We were on a train on the way to Oklahoma, and a freight train ahead of us got stuck, so we had to stop and wait a good two hours till it moved.
Then we went to Mexico, and in the first 15 minutes across the border, we got pulled over for speeding. My parents couldn't really speak Spanish, so it was pretty hard to communicate. But in the end we ended up paying $60.
Other than that I can't think of anything horrible.
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:47 am
Never fly through the Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris if you can help it. It's the worst I've ever been through, worse than the little ghetto ones in small towns.
For the overall shape, imagine a figure 8. Now imagine it with and extra circle on the bottom (maybe two extra, I can't remember exactly). Ok, now imagine that the left and right sides don't actually touch except at the top. So in order to get from one side to the other, you either have to go outside across the parking lot (which they won't let you if you're trying to catch another flight) or walk all the way over to that one crossing. You guessed it, I had flights that were right next to each other, but as far away as you can get in walking distance, because I had to go all the way up and all the way down again. I missed my flight because of this.
It's not terribly old, only a few years, but already looks worse than airports twice as old as it, because it's really badly built. I think I recall part of it collapsing at one point...
There are stupid numbers of metal detectors. Worse than in American airports right after 9/11. Each set of like, 5 gates has one, and to get to the bathroom or newsstand you have to go back, then there are some just placed every however-many-feet also. This is part of why I missed my flight.
Also, none of the gates are actually marked with their numbers. They have TV screens that are off until 15 minutes before the flight, when the stewardesses turn them on, and it'll show the number then. This is why I missed the second possible flight that I could have taken, because they didn't announce it over a loudspeaker, and I was one gate too far over (thus in the wrong section, since they're marked off with metal detectors).
I very nearly missed one more because the French hate speaking any language but their own (I'm generalizing, but it was true in this case), so they were very unfriendly to my English/German attempts. They hate both of my countries. I finally just threw a hissy fit, added some tears, and made the guy show me the goddamn gate (which neither he nor the guy who stands at the metal detector all day could completely locate, luckily the old man mopping the floor in the middle of the night knew).
Yeah, bad experience.
Also, the phones only accept special cards that you have to buy there, and I would've had to walk all the way to the other side again to get one. So my whole family was flipping out about where I was because I couldn't call them.
Some of this might be a little dated, I last went through there two years ago.
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:25 pm
I just came back from jamica and not even 2 hours off the plane i was offerd drugs like shrooms and ganja and hash it was crazy and hot and humid jeeze but it was awesome im going again next year this time during spring break.
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:03 am
All my travels have been pretty good.
My brother had a horrid time, more because of a bank than an airline or so on. He was stravelling to South America (Argentina, etc - the Machu Pichu thing) and was asured repeatedly by the bank that it would be perfectly OK to leave a large portion with them and they could transfer it when needed. So off he goes and starts running low on funds in a week or so. He goes to a major bank in ... forget the city .... but it was Florida Street. He sends the transfer request. And waits. And waits. He runs out of cash and ends up living in the alleyway next to the bank checking for the cash every day. The bank (on the home end) managed to send the money to Florida, USA - not the bank in South America. He was lucky enough to meet some friendly tourists that helped him out a little and his big vacation was cut from an expected 5 weeks or so to a mere 2.
The kicker was that he never did get his money back ...
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:00 pm
dramallama A post Sometimes probably a bit unfair and offending !! I understand that Anamana had had a bad experience about our airport, and I would certainly have had the same distressfull feeling when every-thing was conspiring against my going back home. We know all about terrorism in our country ! 9/11 was probably the evilest thing the world has ever experienced in time, but bear in mind that we have been hit quite a few times by these fanatics. And probably will again in the futures. We are chasing them with a lot of efficiency, even Britain finally wedges war against them. So having detectors, people controlling, double, triple and even more probably, you will agree with me, is probably a very good thing for security. As for the French "supposedly hatred" of the Americans and the German people, I think it is a very silly minority ( Let me remind you that the most important number of Tourrists in France are the German people !). We do have dislikes about some people but I think that you are exagerating a bit. We are really proud of our Language, even if the all English world is not what we are fighting for, lack of diversity is SOOOOOO boring !!! But that's an other subject. Not to underestimate your distress, I wanted to react because this post offended me as a French person. emo A few facts about this so difficult to "understand-airport"- Its nick name is "le camembert" Built between 1964 and 1974. Last update, some ramps crashed because of a very silly architect, 2 people died, lucky it wasn't rush hour. wahmbulance Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle is in the North of Paris and is the first international airport build in France. It's name comes from the famous General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970). It's the second airport in Europe in terms of passengers (51 260 363 passengers) below Heathrow in London (67 344 054) and just before Francfort International airport(51 098 271), it's seventh in world ranking. In terms of traffic, Roissy is first place with 525 660 mouvements in front of Francfort (477 475) and Heathrow (475 999). In volume of fret, it is first rank in Europe (1 876 900 tonnes of goods) in front of Francfort (1 838 894) and Heathrow (1 412 033) and 7th in world. (figures 2004) 25 km north-east of Paris its surface in 3200 hectares, employees 90 000 , 700 companies for more than 200 kinds of jobs.This airport can still expand due to the extant of its width. Passagers' traffic in 2003was : CDG 1 : 9,3 million of passagers CDG 2 : 34,7 million CDG 3 : 4,2 million. Like evry where in the world these small mishaps make the philosophy of travelling the more interesting ... cheese_whine
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:35 pm
I think one of the worst times I've had travelling was trying to cross the Canadian border from Minnesota into Canada (to go see what was in Canada and to say we were in Canada hehe)
I didn't have my I.D. or a birth certificate or anything. The guys at the border check made me poke my head out from the back seat and asked me "Are these your parents?"
And I had to say yes... I was almost tempted to make a scene and mouth the words "No... they are not my parents, help me!!!!" but I decided to be a good girl that day.
Then we had a helluva time navigating through the ridiculous Thunder Bay, which is a city in Canada I just despise now. Ugh. It's like walking into a city where the inhabitants of Wal-Mart have spilled out and created a civilization.
And I'm very sorry for those of you who live in Thunder Bay. But seriooooously, if you saw it from my American eyes, you'd understand!
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:02 am
I just want to say.... no. I have never had a bad travel experince.
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:59 am
LadyNightcrawler I just want to say.... no. I have never had a bad travel experince. Lucky you are, young padawan. Bad travel experiences, you shall have eventually. xp
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:34 am
Ozumou Ever had a shocking travel experience? A hostel never to return too? An airline that lost your bags and then says you travelled by boat? A border gaurd who stole your girly mags. Fill in here. e.g. from me. 1) NEVER FLY THAI AGAIN! 2) Avoid getting abducted by cults in Korea they are boring with no sex or drugs at all. LoL...great, xd
I've traveled on a train and had my bags left on there by my step dad, he looked right past them when he was getting our crap. They found it by the time they reached Chicago(we live in Kansas) and then they sent it all the way back to Lexington Kansas, and then, since my dad put the wrong address on it, the destination address, bot our home address(we had gone on a vacation to CA) and so some dumbass forgot to label our home address on there and they sent it to Arizona on it's way to California and they lost track of it there. That suit case had my clothes in it, most of the hygene products were put in there, and it was about 2 months of bullshit before I got it back. We found out later from our Aunt and Uncle-we stayed with them on vacation-that the train station had sent my suit case to their house without them knowing it.
The part that pissed me off the most was, 90% of my wardrobe and everything I owned was in there and AFTER we had replaced just about everything in there because they said that they lost it, THEN we got the call from my Aunt and Uncle that the assholes sent it over there. And they would've sold all of my s**t at the train station for about $1 a piece like a garage sale with EVERYTHING in there. Even my UNDERWEAR. Demented bastards!
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