Have you ever cut a holiday short and come home early?

[rastahomie]

About ten years ago Mrs. Homie and I saw a thing on The Travel Channel about the Mall of America. It looked really cool, and we had an anniversary trip and it was only about a seven-hour drive, so we figured, what the hell? Well as it turns out, the Mall of America is just a big mall, and it wasn't nearly as cool as the Travel Channel made it out to be. So we headed home a day early, cutting our weekend trip short.

 

[rastahomie]

We were at the hotel. I got up, threw our stuff in the suitcases, marched them down to the lobby and out the door.

Close enough, lol!

 

[Vijoge]

Close enough, lol!

We still had three or four days left on our reservation, too. It's not like we were leaving the next day anyway lol

 

[Poohlove]

We went camping in Harper's Ferry WV for what was supposed to be a weekend but we ended up leaving on Saturday. The bugs were awful and it had rained all day Saturday and was forecast to do the same for Sunday. Everything we wanted to do was outside.

We came home from Florida early because the weather there was too hot even for the locals and being out while the sun was up was unbearable. We took an earlier flight home rather than spend a day in the parks like we had planned. We were home for about 45 minutes when a storm with straight line winds came through and when all was said and done while we were spared damage we did lose power for 5 days. Had we not come home when we did we would have had to spend the night at MCO.

 

[Kellykins1218]

I took our special needs sons to summer camp last July. They had an issue with bed bugs so we came home... only to find out my husband had a girlfriend and was planning on spending the week with her. Not the best ending to what was supposed to have beeen a fun, relaxing week.

 

[luvmarypoppins]

My dh and I were in New Orleans. He was at a conference and I was doing the sightseeing/vacation thing. We sadly got a call that my dad had died so we were on the next flight we could get out of there.

 

[BadgerGirl84]

Yes. We planned a 3 night stay in Door County, WI a year and a half ago as a family of 3 when I was pregnant with my second. It was going to be our last little trip as a family of 3 with our 2 year old.

We stopped at a small amusement park (Bay Beach in Green Bay) on the way up and had a blast. Until my daughter rode on my husband's lap on the big slide (the kind you ride down on a burlap sack). Her shoe (crocs) caught the edge of the slide and dragged her foot back as she was riding down. She was screaming and couldn't walk on the foot. We took her to the ER where they said it wasn't broken but we came home early the next morning because she was miserable, in pain (despite ibuprofen) and it wasn't any fun.

I had her seen by a pediatric ortho later in the week to confirm it wasn't broken. Expensive trip--paid for an ER visit, a specialist visit, radiology, and we had to eat the cost of our 3 night VRBO rental. I was quite disappointed and of course felt awful for my daughter.

 

[lifesavacation]

We came home early on our honeymoon in Mexico because my husband got really, really sick. Poor guy was sick for weeks.

Another ruined vacation was a few years ago. We drove for 7 hours to my grandmother's house. The next day we discovered my daughter had lice so we put a shower cap on her head and drove back home to take care of it.

 

[#1hoosierfan]

Twice. Both times for hurricanes coming in... Once in June and once in July. Not the most common hurricane months.

 

[scrhsa]

It wasn't really a vacation but we were spending the week after Christmas with my in-laws when my Dad's cancer took a turn for the worse. We were there only about day.

 

[awalker1015]

We did this past October. My nephew and I left Disney World early because of the hurricane. We were supposed to fly out Saturday night and flew out at the crack of dawn Thursday. It wasn't worth it to have the rest of the family at home worrying about us if we stayed. Still bummed as we missed a lot of great meals and didn't get a chance to ride a few of our favorite rides.

As it was the pilot made the announcement before take off that it would be rough as the first bands were starting to hit. Not a fun couple of flights home.

This. We also had to leave a few days early. Only we were driving back home. That was a bummer.

 

[Disney got all my$$$]

Not yet. Once we were 1 week into a 2 week vacation. While packing up for the second part of our vacation, we get a call that we had a major house fire, with total loss. We did what we could by phone and drove to Disney the next day for the second week of vacation. It wasn't the most stress-free situation, but we also didn't have a house to go back too...

 

[Foxhound3857]

Once, had a two-day weekend reserved at Buffalo Bills in Stateline Nevada. Came home after one day because I hit a Royal Flush my first night there. Decided I would just bring it all home and watch Football from the comfort of my couch (it was Divisional Playoff weekend).

When you get up and leave that early, you get no traffic, which is also nice.

 

[anniemae]

once a day early due to an impending hurricane that wound up not happening but was forecast for the brunt of it to hit the day we were leaving. Did not want to get stuck if it wound up being as bad as they predicted. We were picturing airport closure, delays once it opened up again, outages etc.

another time a death in DH family.

 

[ClaraOswald]

If so for what reason.

June 2022. It was supposed to be our last day in Disneyland. Husband wasn't feeling great so took a covid test and it was positive. So we packed up and got on the road a day early (3 day drive home.) I think that's the only time I can recall ending a vacation early. At least in my adult years. Not sure about when I was a kid, but I don't think so.

 

[DL55]

Trip to Yosemite was cut short due to a wildfire too close to the exit road. Hotel stopped serving liquor (many unhappy campers) the evening they closed the road knowing we would be evacuating the next morning. At least we had a tent cabin reservation. Some day trippers didn't have a place to sleep that night.

 

[Ronaldo17]

December 2023, Baggage handlers were going on strike at Manchester airport from two days later, 12/26, we flew home two days early to avoid very long delays waiting on baggage.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

We cut a 3 night tent camping trip with an 18 month old, while I was 10 weeks pregnant, short by a night. No explanation should be needed there.

We also left New Orleans a night early due to an incoming hurricane (not Katrina), but that didn't really change our trip length, it just shifted one night to another location.

 

[focusondisney]

Yet another zombie thread.

 

[ClaraOswald]

Yet another zombie thread.

What does that mean??