What's the worst start to a vacation you have had?

[clappyclaps]

I've had two fairly bad ones (in my standards) in most recent years.

The first was i suffered a really bad allergic reaction on my face (to something that was unknown at the time and not food related) on a 13 hour flight and spent the entire flight plus most of the week following feeling and looking like I'd been stuck by a bee in the face.

The second was last year I travelled to Denmark and Sweden for Eurovision. Caught some sort of bug or virus the day before Eurovision and spent the next few days very unwell and missed all of Eurovision. The only upside is that I was staying with family rather than being ill in a hotel!

 

[DCL58]

Hitting a woman who was in the street on the bus ride to Beaches, Jamaica from the airport. Then being left in the bus parked at the police station when an angry mob surrounded the bus. Luckily another Beaches bus showed up and saved us. Not a great start to a vacation.

 

[RF536]

Found out 1 week before our 10 anniversary trip to Disney with 2 small kids I was being let go from my job of 10 years, company went bankrupt. Still went on trip.
Driving from Michigan to Fl with 30ft travel trailer. 1st day we blew a tire on the trailer in Lexington. Stopped and was able to find replacement tire and have it put on next day. Get back on road and blew a second trailer tire 100 miles down the road. Put on spare and continued. Drove all day and DH said he wanted to keep driving as long as possible to make up time. Decides to get gas and keep going. No soon are the words out of his mouth and we blow tire #3 and spare is already on trailer. Had to spend the night at a truck stop. Employees helped us find a tire shop to replace the 2 blown tires and the 1 remaining tire that hadn't blown.
We had replaced all tires prior to trip, found out the manufacturer had a bad batch. We now carry 2 spare trailer tires.