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How To Have a Miserable Vacation

By Susan Breslow Sardone, About.com

Tips for making a week feel like a lifetime.
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: varies

Here's How:

  1. Don't plan ahead or make reservations. Just take your chances.
  2. Go during the height of the season.
  3. Stay at the cheapest hotel you can find.
  4. Fight over what you're going to do each day.
  5. Always give in.
  6. Wait on long lines for food or attractions.
  7. Eat near families with small, sniffling children.
  8. Expect first-rate service from a third-rate establishment.
  9. Spend too much time in the sun without SPF and get burnt.
  10. Blame each other for having a rotten time.

Tips:

  1. Avoid these 10 like the plague!
  2. Laugh, commiserate, and vow you'll do things right the next time.

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