Spring Break Trips That Turned Into Complete and Utter Nightmares

Spring break nightmares

Spring Break is meant to be a time of day drinking on beaches. Night drinking in clubs. Pretty much just drinking and partying while also wearing next to nothing. Or absolutely nothing, if you’re one of the lucky ones to find a hot hookup during the week. People celebrate Spring Break in all kinds of ways, in all kinds of places. Most of the time, it winds up being an experience of a lifetime, with all the best memories. Sometimes, though, things can take dark turn, and Spring Break shenanigans become horrific cautionary tales (especially those that happen south of the border). These are the biggest Spring Break nightmares the season has to offer.

Getting blackout drunk in Hawaii isn’t as nice as it sounds

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23-year-old Blaine just wanted to take his buddy out for drinks on his 21st. Turns out, slamming booze without stopping to breathe is kind of a shitty idea.

We woke up to a scene straight from The Hangover: on the roof of a six-story building miles from his bar, semi-shoeless, and covered in bush material.

When your mom is so embarrassing she gets kids kicked out of hotel bars

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Sometimes being the “cool mom” is a thing best left for high school house parties. And not, say, a bar in Cancun.

Beth Brennan’s mother took her and her underage sister on a spring break vacation, and, being the “cool mom” she was, decided to plaster the girls with drinks. That is, until hotel security threatened to kick her out and send her to a Mexican prison, where we’re sure she’d get all the free drinks she could ever ask for. Or not.

When the spring break shenanigans shock your own doctor

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Redditor LandoneW recounts the aftermath of a spring break trip to Lake Shasta: “…left the vacation with pinkeye, a broken toe, two broken ribs, a blistered sunburn, the worst hangover of my life, and an ear filled with so much wax that I thought I had somehow completely lost my hearing in it.” Even his doctor was fazed by the damage.

Honestly, though, how does one even reach that level of earwax buildup?

A trip to Mexico ends in a four-story fall from a balcony

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Riley Finley and his twin brother headed down to Mexico for spring break (are you sensing a theme here?).

Next thing you know, he’s in a hospital clinging to life on account of having fallen over a poorly constructed balcony railing four stories up. He managed to make a full recovery, but the lesson here probably has something to do with checking construction sturdiness before you get too drunk to notice how shoddy it is.