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

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Another day, another Regretcation disaster story.

All week we’re celebrating the trips that went so wrong they became iconic.
Each morning, one “holiday from hell” wins $500, and on Friday one of those heroic disasters scores a $10,000 dream getaway, thanks to RACV Travel & Experiences.

It’s pure chaos, pure comedy, and pure catharsis.
If you’ve ever had a trip implode in spectacular fashion… this is your moment.

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0:00.0	IHart Podcasts. You can hear more
0:03.1	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.
0:19.3	Regretication for doing this thanks our RACV travel and experiences.
0:24.2	Save on handpink holidays you won't regret with RACV traveling experiences this Black Friday.
0:29.8	Check out RACV's website for details every single day this week then.
0:33.7	For the best story of your regretcation, you get $500.
0:37.3	And then also you could be winning a do-over, $10,000 holiday this Friday on the show. Naomi's had a regretcation. Christian, in the early 80s, my boyfriend and I flew to Trinidad to visit his friend. We had Laker Airlines flights via Barbados. Oh my word. Who was the crazy guy?
0:54.4	It was a guy.
0:56.2	Until the day before, when Laker went bused.
1:00.2	We were...
1:01.0	What, the person?
1:02.6	Freddy?
1:04.3	We were rebooked two days later, but had no way to contact our friend.
1:08.9	Of course, 80s, no mobiles.
1:10.7	Right. So she waited at the airport for two days. Oh my God, like, what's that? Is it Tom Hanks? Yes. The terminal? The terminal just lives there. We should do it at time before phones. Because stuff like this used to happen. Where then wasn't there when we finally arrived late at night. all we had was her street name, which turned out to be four miles long.
1:32.9	It's like a freeway.
1:34.5	After driving up and down aimlessly, we gave up and went into a dodgy hotel where the bathroom door hung up one inch.
1:43.2	And the staff bang on our door all night demanding payment
1:46.5	we couldn't make until the bank opened.
1:48.5	Oh my God.
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