The thing you hate most about traveling

[steph_vz]

- stinky feet when shoes are removed
- passengers who can't clean up after themselves in the bathrooms on planes
- missing the fantastic food you ate on your holiday!

 

[crm911]

I hate bad seat etiquette - people who recline immediately after take off or during meals.

Lately I seem to sit in front of people whose legs intrude into my foot space and I keep bumping into them.

Unresponsive touch screens on QF where you need a hefty push a few times to register and annoy the passenger in front. It's worse when the person behind you decides to play games on it.

 

[Natalie_B]

1. The trip to the airport.
2. Security Screening
3. The flight
4. Immigration on arrival
5. the failure of the car hire co to provide what was requested.

So not much then

 

[Mardi]

1. How hot it always is in SYD international immigration/baggage area on arrival. I get off a long flight tired, not feeling the freshest, and then have to stand around in an overheated room for ages waiting for baggage. Last time 5/6 bags came out first. Number six was just about last. Is the heat just me? I tend to feel cold, not hot, but I'm always hot here.

2. How much weight I have put on living it up overseas/in J or F.

 

[rotor]

Unresponsive touch screens on QF where you need a hefty push a few times to register and annoy the passenger in front. It's worse when the person behind you decides to play games on it.

I don't understand why they introduced the touch screens without controllers! Well I do, to save money, but when i first got on a plane with AVOD and saw there was no controller, my first reaction was dread, that I'd have to put up with the person behind me punching the screen the whole flight, which they did.

There is a knack - rather than "tapping" it with 1000 Nm of force, some screens need more of a caress from your finger to register, rather like checking if an avocado is ripe

 

[Mardi]

I don't understand why they introduced the touch screens without controllers! Well I do, to save money, but when i first got on a plane with AVOD and saw there was no controller, my first reaction was dread, that I'd have to put up with the person behind me punching the screen the whole flight, which they did.

There is a knack - rather than "tapping" it with 1000 Nm of force, some screens need more of a caress from your finger to register, rather like checking if an avocado is ripe

I find they work best when lightly tapped with a fingernail, rather than a finger tip.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

I really hate being in 4 or 5 or 6 different hotel rooms in different cities in a 7 to 10 day trip.

Bad enough unpacking / repacking / unpacking - but so difficult to remember room number after changing hotels - so much more so when you mix in a fair degree of alcohol.

No such problem this time at Renaissance Beijing Capital Hotel in PEK - here is my room door:



And the room number:



Now even a mental midget such as myself never gonna forget that one!

 

[Hvr]

With the room numbers changing everyday I take a photo of the number plaque on my small camera rather than rely on my ever fading memory.

 

[BoyZeus]

Back on-topic there is almost nothing (except for missing my family) that I hate about traveling. I feel that it is a great privilege, and I try to enjoy every minute

+1 - well said Princess Fiona, it surely is a privilege.

 

[lovestotravel]

Coming home
At least that means the next trip is approaching I guess

Saddest moment for me is when the crew say "Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Melbourne"

 

[Mardi]

Getting on the Dash 8 to CBR having just flown long haul in J or F

 

[elbarto]

Putting up with ignorant and disrespectful people.

 

[Stoopidsteve]

What do I like?
I love the way travelling manages to highlight my own character flaws and shortcomings: tiredness exacerbates my intolerance, arrogance (DYKWIA??), impatience (I HATE waiting in immigration/TSA queues and have to practice deep breathing exercises), inability to accept there's some things I cannot change (waddya mean there's a storm so we have to divert 1000 miles?), and getting upset that the world is not following my script (you mean the airline is NOT deliberately making the plane late to annoy me?). When I catch it I try to laugh at myself and remind myself that I'm NOT important on any scale, and that me being late to the destination will NOT mean the downfall of civilisations and outbreak of global war. And I do like the delicious feeling of not having to decide whose turn it is to get up at 5am to referee the kids' morning arguments.

So what do I dislike? most travel is work related, so I almost never have enough time to explore and enjoy, and always that feeling of guilt when I do that the family is not with me to enjoy it too.

 

[Maca44]

The majority of my travel is now long haul international for pleasure. I used to look forward to the destination and hated the flight, but have now learned to enjoy the ride just as much. I know some members will still hate being stuck in a huge metal cylinder for about 14 hours, but it's a mental attitude you have to adopt before you fly to enjoy it.

One of my pet hates is pax who stand up before the seat belt sign is out, and I'm stuffed if I know why because they can't get off the plane any faster.

 

[under the radar]

Narcissists

 

[john_l]

Early morning flights!

 

[maomaocat]

The morning after the early morning commute flight. So dead.

 

[anat0l]

I'm sure there's many things I don't like. I don't nominally take pleasure in having to enumerate them, but a few which stick out right now:

• Taxis. Too expensive and more often than not you get a bozo who doesn't know directions even though the destination is hardly esoteric. It's really unfair with this broad brush, because when you get a really good taxi driver, they are worth their weight in gold - no jokes.
• Early morning flights. Don't like them, but a necessity many a time.
• Running to the gate at a flat out pace. Doesn't help when carting a fair amount of cabin baggage, and personal baggage (e.g. lounge food, alcohol...)
• Rude passengers. Can't describe them, they have many, many evolutions and spawn types.
• Red eye flights, particularly if they are 3 - 5 hours in length.
• Arriving late at night, then out early the next day, with an effective "hotel room" time of less than six hours. Really puts you in a tight spot when the hotel rates are extortionate (so do you sleep in the terminal?)
• Having a huge baggage weight allowance, but not enough space in the baggage to fit all your stuff (mainly because the stuff isn't too heavy, it's just awkwardly dimensioned).
• Numpty security screening staff. Bad enough you shouldn't talk back to them, but I didn't really need one with an IQ of 3.
• 50 counters for arriving immigration (passport control). 8 of them are open. 7 are for citizens. 1 only is for tourists. And you're a tourist. And there's more than one flight arriving.

That's all I can think of for now.

 

[Major]

Being seated next to someone who's only contribution to personal hygiene has been to watch a deodorant or toothpaste commercial on TV.

Self important immigration people who threaten to send you to the Gulag if you put your foot 1 mm over the yellow line.

Taxis...doesn't matter which Country you are in they all seem to be driven by someone from another Country

 

[rotor]

What do I like?
I love the way travelling manages to highlight my own character flaws and shortcomings: tiredness exacerbates my intolerance, arrogance (DYKWIA??), impatience (I HATE waiting in immigration/TSA queues and have to practice deep breathing exercises), inability to accept there's some things I cannot change (waddya mean there's a storm so we have to divert 1000 miles?), and getting upset that the world is not following my script (you mean the airline is NOT deliberately making the plane late to annoy me?).

Good points - have to agree - standing in the customs line patiently behind first time travelling families with screaming kids after a long flight and managing, somehow, to maintain my composure has helped me in day to day life. It's been eye opening for me, as I only recently started to travel frequently. What has astounded me is how much people complain on flights - it's often obvious they are irregular flyers who think they are holier than thou because they are flying international, but there's no excuse for some of their behaviour. It definitely helps frame everyday life.