The thing you hate most about traveling

[MikedOut]

I tried that last time and for some reason it wouldn't work......ended up back with happy's. When I asked why it might have rejected me I got the usual attitude.

 

[pgsdiver]

I need to add to my list:
Having to walk through smokers' alley to leave the terminal.
Apologies (a bit) to all you smokers out there.

 

[Hvr]

I need to add to my list:
Having to walk through smokers' alley to leave the terminal.
Apologies (a bit) to all you smokers out there.

I totally agree, it is a disappointing end to many a trip. Pity the pigs can't wait until they leave the non-smoking areas.

 

[oz74]

Love everything about travel even the long flight in y ( well maybe not love) but I can deal with it.

I have a job that has me running most days so I would always rather be in a metal cylinder at 30,000 feet, reading a book or having a drink than on the ground dealing with knobs! Lol

 

[monoccular]

Fellow travellers who stand in the aisle during disembarkation to retrieve AND repack their hand luggage (when they can stand in the aisle seat and do it all), and especially when they have more that the allocated amount. So many just refuse to think when flying.

 

[fairhsa]

I think the others have pegged it. Worst thing about travelling is all the other travellers Especially the kids.

 

[Deleted member]

Rubbish Vodafone service ( coverage) in UK

 

[Fifa]

For me, it's the 2 hour drive to get to CBR ...
And there's no other choice.

 

[IrishPete]

For me, it's the 2 hour drive to get to CBR ...
And there's no other choice.

You could move...

 

[IrishPete]

What happens when you do it more than once?


I wouldn't want to stay in a backpackers but cheap hotel near the airport would be nice.

No, it needs to be IN the airport. Immigration queues (out and in) soon eat into your sleep time and make the whole thing uneconomic. If they can give you a sleeper seat in Business Class, how come such a thing isn't available in an aiport?

IP

 

[IrishPete]

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

I actually quite like this part of the journey. It feels like a proper plane, rather than the sterile tube of the longer haul flights. I spend a few minutes reading the local papers (which may not have seen for weeks), have a cup of tea, and then we land and it's over.

It's the time spent in Sydney Airport beforehand (or after, on the outward leg) that really peeves me. It's an awful place, designed to part traveller from their money. I mean, who charges for the bus between domestic and international? Which you also have to pay for if you're using the long-term parking? Who charges newly arrived travellers for a trolley? Where are the international travellers supposed to have got the coins from? The price of the train to the city is extortionate too. Rip-off with a capital S-Y-D.

Are you getting the picture, that the thing I hate most about travel is transiting through Sydney Airport? But with Canberra as my nearest airport, it's almost unavoidable, as the connections through the much more civilised Melbourne Airport just don't work as well. And if I want to cut the equally money-grabbing Snow family out of the loop, only Sydney Airport is driveable to (hence my experience of the long-term parking there) and the train to Sydney is cheap and pleasant but so slow and infrequent as to be almost unuseable except when being very leisurely (hence the experience of the Sydney airport to City train prices).

IP

 

[Fantic125]

Heated toilet seats in Japan and Korea.

It's just wrong.

 

[Fifa]

You could move...

Not a viable option at our age :shock:.
We've both got good jobs which help pay for our travel.

But when we retire...

 

[Fifa]

Who charges newly arrived travellers for a trolley? Where are the international travellers supposed to have got the coins from?

Trolleys are actually free in the baggage claim area at T1.
You only have to pay for them on departure.

 

[Rebekkap]

It's little things in hotels that bug me - like coathangers that can't be removed from cupboards, and powerpoints where I can't plug in a charger because they're too close to the floor, and tiny sized cups for tea.

 

[Slime]

Check in lines and why people take so long at the check in counter and how is it possible for people to be so unorganised that they need to repack their luggage at the check in counter.

 

[anat0l]

Check in lines and why people take so long at the check in counter and how is it possible for people to be so unorganised that they need to repack their luggage at the check in counter.

Usually it's those who are pushing their luck with the scales, and/or the check-in staff are being particularly picky about keeping everyone to their allocations today (including the cabin baggage).

At Ryanair, it's those people who forget who they are flying, and are now in dire straits as it's either throw away items or throw away cash.

 

[JohnK]

Long days with long transits. There is only so much time one can spend in a lounge before going nuts.

Oh, and the 22 announcements on an MH HKG-KUL flight with each one of them in 4 languages. :shock: Really, really painful when trying to watch a movie or playing games.

 

[IrishPete]

Long days with long transits. There is only so much time one can spend in a lounge before going nuts.

Oh, and the 22 announcements on an MH HKG-KUL flight with each one of them in 4 languages. :shock: Really, really painful when trying to watch a movie or playing games.

I book my flights as much on quick connections as price (hence Etihad who seem to understand the idea of quick connections in a way that many other airlines don't).

And video on demand at least means you can rewind the movie or TV show to the point at which the intrusive and repetitive announcements started. Prior to VOD being common, repeated announcements could make watching a movie, already hacked to bits to make it suitable for children, completely pointless. I watched the A-team on a flight, and I honestly couldn't follow the plot, I think partly because so much swearing and blood'n'gore had been cut out. It seemed like it only lasted an hour.

I wonder why creative people allow their product to be hacked to shreds like this (though "creative people" and the A-team movie probably shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence). Surely there must be another way of stopping children from watching movies unsuitable for them, like a password issued only to adults?

So yes, add heavily edited movies to the list of things I dislike about flying. And restricted volume so I can barely hear the movie even at full volume - apparently the airplane noise isn't a health hazard but the headphones are.

Pete

 

[Rebekkap]

I book my flights as much on quick connections as price (hence Etihad who seem to understand the idea of quick connections in a way that many other airlines don't).

And video on demand at least means you can rewind the movie or TV show to the point at which the intrusive and repetitive announcements started. Prior to VOD being common, repeated announcements could make watching a movie, already hacked to bits to make it suitable for children, completely pointless. I watched the A-team on a flight, and I honestly couldn't follow the plot, I think partly because so much swearing and blood'n'gore had been cut out. It seemed like it only lasted an hour.

I wonder why creative people allow their product to be hacked to shreds like this (though "creative people" and the A-team movie probably shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence). Surely there must be another way of stopping children from watching movies unsuitable for them, like a password issued only to adults?

So yes, add heavily edited movies to the list of things I dislike about flying. And restricted volume so I can barely hear the movie even at full volume - apparently the airplane noise isn't a health hazard but the headphones are.

Pete

I was watching "I give it a year" the other day on those tablets they give you in J on Virgin. I was wishing it was a bit more edited (or edited at all) as there was a LOT of full frontal male nudity and I was sitting next to my boss. Awkward.

And if you take your own headphones you can hear just fine. The volume's not that low, just the airline headphones are really really bad. Even my blackberry earbuds give me decent volume.