MINI: Regretcation Stories

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Music, Comedy

4.7 • 820 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

This week on the show, we’re launching Christian O'Connell's Regretcation the competition that celebrates the holidays that went completely off the rails. Missed flights, dodgy hotels, food poisoning, broken bones, crocodiles, lost luggage, disastrous family trips… if it ruined your getaway, we want the story.

Every day, the best “holiday from hell” wins $500, and on Friday one of those stories will score a massive $10,000 dream holiday, thanks to RACV Travel & Experiences.

It’s equal parts chaos and comedy. If you’ve ever had a trip go so bad it became legendary, this is your moment.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	IHart Podcasts. You can hear more. Gold 104.3 podcast, playlist, and listen live on the free IHart app.
0:09.2	Got anything good?
0:11.1	Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
0:19.0	Every single day for your holiday from hell story, you win $500.
0:22.8	And that money's safe.
0:24.4	You win that.
0:25.6	You could also be winning a $10,000 holiday on Friday's show.
0:30.0	An incredible prize.
0:31.4	Some emails for us all.
0:32.8	Who we got here?
0:35.2	Lorraine.
0:36.1	Christian, in August, my sister and I flew to Delhi to watch her 24-year-old son
0:40.2	compete in the world paraathletics championships.
0:43.6	Incredible.
0:44.2	Six-day trip that quickly became a saga.
0:47.0	Jetstar cancelled our Melbourne-Singapore flight, so he missed his first race.
0:51.3	Oh, that's awful.
0:52.7	Our rescheduled flight the next day was delayed due to a loose ceiling panel. Then again, in Singapore, we circled for an hour in a thunderstorm, which meant we missed our connecting flight to Delhi. When we finally arrived in Delhi, our luggage did not make it. Oh, my God. The worst part, my sister had written all her son's race times in the diary, packed in her lost bag. When we checked online, we misread the schedule. Oh no. I thought the finals time was the qualifying race. When he realised I'm a mistake when my son texted to say that he had made the final. Oh my word. It's actually just a sad story. Sadcation. It's just sad.
1:50.2	This is not great radio. Deborah's got a better one, I hope. Deborah. Hi, Christian. How are you? I'm good. Welcome to the show, Deborah. So what is your holiday from hell story? Your regretcation? Well, when I was 19, I went overseas on my own and did a tour. When I got to the hotel in London, I found out that my roommate was a lot older than over 50s.
1:52.4	Then I found out that I had the right room, but the tour people had booked me into an
1:57.7	over 55s tour, another under 30s tour.
2:00.6	Oh, no.
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