Ten easy tips on how to ruin your summer holiday
By Darren Cronian on Friday, June 18th, 2010

Millions of Brits will be heading off on their holidays as soon as the schools close in the summer, and it is surprising that even the basics people can forget. In this post I want to provide you with tips on how to ruin your summer holiday. In other words do the complete opposite!

Ten easy tips on how to ruin your summer holiday

Here are my ten tips on how to ruin your summer holiday.

Before you go on holiday

- Let your passport expire and then alter the expiry date with a felt tip pen.
- Pack your favourite illegal drugs in your socks, no one will find them.
- Pack fireworks for your 10th wedding anniversary party on the beach.
- Write down your pin number on a sticky note and stick it to your credit card.
- Leave your door open with a sign informing people that you are on holiday.

While you are on holiday

- Don’t protect your skin from the sunshine and spend your holiday in bed with sunstroke.
- Flash your gadgets and wallet full of Euros at holidaymakers sat around the pool.
- Drink 15 pints of beer and dance naked on the roof of a police car.
- Go bungee jumping without travel insurance and break both legs and arms.
- Let the kids attempt to swim the Atlantic Ocean unattended.

Obviously, I am not suggesting people should dance naked on a police car, the point I am making is that holidaymakers should use common sense and not leave their brain at home. So, what other tips would you add to my list? Feel free to add them in the comments.


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11 responses to “Ten easy tips on how to ruin your summer holiday”

Martin | 18 June, 2010 at 11:01 am

Brilliant post, great information and a good source or info BEFORE you think about your next holiday, keep it coming!

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Simon | 18 June, 2010 at 11:05 am

Anything that gets you arrested or in hospital are probably the two things that will ruin your holiday the most. But another common one is people going on holiday hoping it will work some magic on a failing/failed relationship. I’ve never seen in end in anything other than a terrible holiday for everyone.

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Wink Lorch | 18 June, 2010 at 11:47 am

And here’s 5 more for Your Return from Holiday (or How to Ruin the Memory):

1) Arrive at airport security with those lovely bottles of wine in your hand luggage

2) Arrive at airport security with that dinky little corkscrew you had to buy because the self-catering place you rented didn’t have one (it’s got a knife on it).

3) Pack those lovely bottles of wine in your suitcase just wrapped in some dirty washing (that’ll protect them, won’t it?).

4) Arrive for your first morning back at work with a massive hangover, fully errrr …. refreshed … from your holiday.

5) Invite your best friends and family to view all 2,573 photos you took sitting around your laptop computer with a bottle of the cheapest wine you found on holiday (that survived your suitcase).

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JR Riel | 18 June, 2010 at 11:48 am

Ahh great stuff, good angle. I don’t think I can top any of those tips tho, writing in your passport with a felt tip pen was my personal favorite. Speaking of passports, I know of one person who packed their’s in their check-in baggage but they couldn’t get through customs to retrieve it. You should definitely do that to have an amazingly horrible vacation.

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RobertKCole | 19 June, 2010 at 6:07 pm

Great stuff – I imagine in the interest of quality journalism, you have thoroughly researched each one of these through personal experience… :)

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Barbara Weibel | 20 June, 2010 at 3:06 am

What a hoot! A marvelous way to make your point.

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Darren Cronian | 20 June, 2010 at 8:18 am

Thanks for the tips, keep them coming!

@ Robert, as a professional journalist of course I researched this through personal experience, just like I research every post that I write ;)

@ Wink, haha love them!

@ Simon, yeah I would imagine that could turn into a nightmare holiday!

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Honor Baldry | 23 June, 2010 at 4:02 pm

One more for before you go:

Decide that travel insurance is a waste of money…

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Jessica | 26 June, 2010 at 10:50 am

While on holiday… Just have fun!

I had a laugh here. The expired rewrite with felt tip pen was too funny. You know I bet someone has done that before. It’s just like changing your temporary license plate expire date.

- Jessica

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Terri P. | 26 June, 2010 at 3:16 pm

You definitely don’t want to learn a few words of the local language. Everyone on the planet speaks perfect English and would be very offended if you made the effort.

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Leng | 28 June, 2010 at 3:53 pm

Unusual perspective but a refreshing post. Another point I would like to make is holidaymakers should be selfish and have a great time at the expense of other holidaymakers. It would not ruin your holiday but certainly ruin others’.

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