My idea of hell is ...

Oh, I just love holidays, in fact I would like to permanently be on holiday but then if it was permanent, it wouldn't really be a holiday would it, so I'm already talking nonsense!

Tripe.... oh nooooo, I was forced to eat that too as a child and can distinctly remember the texture let alone the taste!

Wouldn't do if we were all the same would it?
I thought the point of this thread is to declare our personal idea of hell.

Package holidays are mine!

In fact I don't really like holidays much at all!

having to relive the last three years again x

You can't beat tripes a la mode de Caen in a Normandy fishing port like Honfleur, JustMe, even when the plumber marches through the restaurant having seen to a blocked loo in the WC, with a very grubby-looking plunger over his shoulder!

Agree about the iPods, though.

To have to eat offal. Of any sort. I was force fed it as a child and never really recovered!

Also listening to someone's iPod on a train or plane. It makes me want to scream at them. As it is, I just glare a lot, but that doesn't work.

One word - karaoke.

To find myself on a tight-rope over a gorge.
To be locked in a very small room full of "reality tv celebs"...
To wake up tomorrow morning to realise that I had toiled in the garden [in my dreams.]
Ariadne A big warm huggle from me to you.

Dorset on a cruise you can be solitary if you want to. If I wanted I could have all my meals, the same choice as in the restaurant ' in my room. Never mingle with passengers and just watch the scenery go by, then go ashore in the ports.
In fact, if I feel I don't want company that's what I do. I can spend hours just sitting looking at the sea.

Exactly Anno . A package holiday simply consists of a hotel and a flight (and a resort transfer should you not be hiring a car or taking a taxi) . The hotel can be chosen according to budget and once you arrive you can do whatever you like, whenever you like. My DH and I have had some lovely "package holidays" in the past where we have only used the hotel as a base and travelled around doing our own thing.

It's always possible to go on a cheap package deal - if you're lucky - and do your own thing once you get there.

I am not sure which package holidays you are describing Harrigran but certainly none that I have ever been on? Perhaps it was an 18-30 ?

Mind you a holiday of any kind sounds good to me !

Visions of holiday reps with pitchforks forcing people on to boat trips and to attending barbecues on beaches

kitty, that's a Hitchcock scenario if ever there was one!

Yes Harrigran I can appreciate someone disliking a package holiday. But to describe it as "my idea of hell" is another thing entirely.

Marelli you've just given me goosebumps - heights terrify me, Hell for me would be on a high narrow ledge, surrounded by birds and rodents - thankfully that doesn't happen too often.

To be standing at a very great height, knowing that I had to make my way down.
To be in a small enclosed space.
Not to have my garden and not to be able to hear the birds singing there.
Not to have access to books.

I think it probably depends on the package holiday. An agent packaged a holiday for us to Hong Kong, then India with a private tour. It was wonderful! I think that some may perceive package holidays to be the cheap and cheerful Brit abroad type only. If we are doing something where there is a lot of uncertainty we want to be packaged so that we can be sure someone is taking responsibility. When we go to Egypt we tell the company what we want and get them to package it so that if trouble does erupt it will be someone's responsibility to get us out. Nothing wrong with package holidays imo.

I would also find losing my sight just too awful.

Not so unusual gillybob to dislike package holidays.

Not being able to read
Falling out with my family to such an extent that I was banned from seeing my two little GDs [this has happened to 2 ladies I work with, how bad does a falling out have to be for this to happen?]
I would also hate a package holiday
Not being able to go for hikes,
Living in a flat without a garden
Going on a cruise - I'd rather go on a banana boat, I'd see some more of the world and not be forced in to being jolly.

I can imagine that would truly be HELL Ariadne I sincerely hope that it never happens. Stay well.

Finding another lump.

Ella46 I find it incredible that your idea of HELL could be a "package holiday of any kind"

What a strange world you must live in .

Wearing high heels and a tight skirt and trying to get on a bus.

Being 12, spotty, and having to do PE with the hateful PE mistress from hell.

Working in an office - I did it do long I cannot bear the thought.

Being confined in a small space.

Needing the loo and not finding one.

The labour bed.

Driving a car again (I've given it up) in heavy traffic in the rain, on a route with lots of right hand turns and no little green arrows.

Finding I am still married to the most boring man in the world and having to hear about every stroke he played in a golf match

Living in a town with no garden.
Having noisy neighbours or any neighbours for that matter.
No music.
No car.