Haven Holiday Highs And Lows
Would you ever turn down a free upgrade? Whether it be upgrade your economy to business class, standard to first class, 3 stars to 5 stars?!? Never! Until now. Had we have been given the choice of an upgrade knowing what said upgrade meant we would probably have said no!
We couldn't believe our luck again after arriving at our caravan and realising we had a free upgrade. Our little deluxe had been turned as if by magic into a prestige. Amazing we thought! It's lovely! Radiators, beautiful shower, decking, speaker and eventually I found a dishwasher. Result!
Soon the cracks started to show. No TV on the wall in the bedroom where there once was one. Parts of the blinds falling down, big wet patch on the floor (it's still wet 5 days in), slow draining sink, broken potato peeler, huge ice block in the fridge.....I mean seriously even I defrosted my fridge freezer the other week. It's like a tribute to the Titanic in there.
Iceberg ahead!
As more and more features failed on us we started to think maybe we should just ask for a full working deluxe instead. Is the dishwasher worth it? I don't know!?!
All in all its still a nice caravan but had we have paid the extra £200 to upgrade I would not be a happy bunny. However, I do still feel they have put us here and should we still put up with its flaws?
I'm now well and truly on the edge. I normally bring most of my kitchen because I like to cook and sometimes your own equipment is best. This time I didn't because the last time we came it was pointless and they had everything. The one time I don't it's typical the bloody potato peeler is broken. Tried the knife, that was rubbish so I gave up peeling and thought wedges will be fine. It then took me ages to cut them with their tiny knife because I had that or a bread knife to choose from. I then over boiled them. I mean really?!?
So as if our first holiday as 4 wasn't interesting enough Mikey has shit his pants and decided to do a wee in the bush outside our caravan. We then had to remind Mikey that the point of weeing in a bush is only if there's no toilet around. Not for general use. But well done for not doing it in your pants! woooosssaaahhhhhhh
We tried to do one of those awesome family portraits in the arcade because we had when Mikey was a baby. Mikey had other ideas he pressed every button so we ended up with a page of grey. Wasted £2 there. He's more of a thieving money grabber than Tesco.
See what I mean?
This got Phil and I reminiscing about the days we used to go on holiday just the two of us. Playing pool, drinking WKD's, getting up at 9. Doing whatever the hell we liked. If the caravans a rocking...cheeky!
Making memories is fun. It doesn't come without its challenges though. Same shit different location but at least Phil's not at work and we can eat loads of crap.
Bike rides, archery and pizza making family fun. Jacob was around somewhere.
We didn't let The pooey pants or dodgy caravan ruin our holiday though. Just rolled my sleeves up and scrubbed that poo. With only one Mikey accident and great family fun, this was a holiday to remember. I love my little family. A happy Mum in a Mann's world.
