Do you have a bad travel exprience?

I have a nightmare in Hanoi and Sapa
In Hanoi we got in a taxi with a corrupt taxidriver, his meter was running twice as we were really driving and when we wanted to stop, the driver threatened us with a stick. He wanted the money for the distance he had already driven (20.000 dong for 500 meter).
There were 3 hotels with the same name in a row in Hanoi. We had booked one and the one we walked in said we had to wait until 8 am before we could get the room with window for 15 dollar (which they also said in a reservation e-mail). We could wait in a small other room without window (which they did not say in their e-mail; it said we had to wait in the lobby and could use the internet there). So when I asked about this internet at 8 am, they took me to the hotel with the same name next door. There I asked about the room and got the room for the price they e-mailed me. When I wanted to pick up my luggage, the first hotel charged me 15 dollar for the room! For just 3 hours without any using of the toilet or shower. And the room with window costs 15 dollar, so the room without should be less right? No, also 15 dollar. Great.
In Sapa my friend got hit by a car. He was protecting his head by raising his arm (cars were racing by on the road really close). His hand touched a outside mirror of a passing car and the mirror folded inward (like you sometimes do when you park your car on a busy road). The driver got mad and wanted 4 million dong (300 dollar) for his broken window (which wasn't broken at all). He grabbed a stone and wanted to throw it at my friend when he refused to pay. Thank god there were more people there to help him, because this would have escalated badly otherwise. An English guy and his Vietnamese wife passed by and talked to us and them. She said that the driver said that we were just rich Westerners and that we could well pay a 100 dollars. The English guy guy told us this happens everyday over there. So this is how some North Vietnamese make a living.
This is our experience and I am sure there are much more nice Vietnamese than bad ones, but take this as a warning. Be careful not to get hit by a car, because you have to pay for it.

do not, and I repeat, do not fly after a night of excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages. Worst..feeling..evar.

Originally Posted by oneeightyseven

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do not, and I repeat, do not fly after a night of excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages. Worst..feeling..evar.

-1. This is false information.

Flying hungover is bad, bad, bad.

1) Flying hungover isn't so bad, but only if you have a good reason for being hung over (e.g. got laid, bachelor party, etc.)

2) Never, ever, book a hotel in advance when in Southeast Asia. Unless you are on a honeymoon and your wife is super bitchy.

3) Sapa is supposedly a tourist trap. Locals are a lot kinder where less white people tread. That said, Northern Vietnam is a lot more violent than in the south.

I really don't like FL.

Curacao. The beaches are dirty and tourism isn't their main draw which means they generally do things on CT. That gets old quickly.

Actually most of my time in Delhi was a terrible travel experience. Those people really know how to get under my skin. Not to say that about all of India, but Delhi in particular.

Tell me more about Delhi.

A friend of mine went to Delhi to participate in an anti AIDS effort there. He is a fairly goodlooking guy but came back covered with pimples and other signs of severe skin irritation. He said the air is so polluted his skin could not cope with that. He told me of a couple of swedish girls who went back home after a couple of weeks with their faces and arms covered with skin problems as well.

Originally Posted by Flieger

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Tell me more about Delhi.

A friend of mine went to Delhi to participate in an anti AIDS effort there. He is a fairly goodlooking guy but came back covered with pimples and other signs of severe skin irritation. He said the air is so polluted his skin could not cope with that. He told me of a couple of swedish girls who went back home after a couple of weeks with their faces and arms covered with skin problems as well.

No skin conditions here (was only there for 5 days), but:

1) Most annoying people on Earth if you don't have lots of local friends to escort you around. Everyone is trying to rip you off. You thought people were good at "ripping you off" in Mexico? Vietnam? Thailand? Mumbai? Brazil? WRONG, FGGT. Delhi takes it above and beyond to another extreme. Don't believe me? Go there, report back. It's hard to walk down the street without someone trying to scam you or get your money every twelve seconds. And these guys don't make it obvious so it's really hard to just say no. Because they aren't overtly selling you anything. Poor Indian peddlers are also the most obnoxious hoverers and pushers in the world. It makes me never want to buy anything from them just in spite.
2) The weather is dreadfully hot in the summer
3) There is lots of dust in the air and any time you take transport (bus/tuk tuk) the dust goes straight into your eyes/nose. Impossible to breathe easily and you cannot wear contacts.
4) Not much to do in the city compared to other places in India.
5) Sprawled out city - forget about walking to places.

On the plus side it is very cheap. Also, I do not mean to stereotype Indian people. Only Indians in Delhi who prey on non-Indian visitors.

Yes thank for asking . I do have a bad travel.

Originally Posted by cheessus

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-1. This is false information.

are you nuts? I was throwing up probably 2 hours before my flight. My stomache was so uneasy and when the plane took off, I swear I could have described the "death" feeling.

Managed to visit Cape Cod during the gay festival, every store had some kind of gay marital aid on sale in the windows, every waiter tried to come on to you, it was terrible. I haven't got anything against gays but I just don't like them doing things around me.

Then on the way back, we were right about in the area of the perfect storm, the seas were absoloutly terrible, when the engine sucked a lobster into it, which wrecked it obviously so we were left bobbing in like 25 foot waves in terrible weather for like an hour untill they finally fixed the engine.

Originally Posted by oneeightyseven

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are you nuts? I was throwing up probably 2 hours before my flight. My stomache was so uneasy and when the plane took off, I swear I could have described the "death" feeling.

I read your original post wrong. Flying wasted is awesome.

Plenty of bad travel experiences. I've described a few food poisoning episodes in graphic detail on here before. There are more stories too.