Sorry. I couldn't resist the snark.

Being on vacation would make anyone a little more sensitive to hardships and disruptions. But, it has to be noted, based on the the descriptions, it was disruptive, but well short of an actual survival situation.

I do get a little annoyed by the tendency of every inconvenience, insult and disruption to be capitalized on, magnified, reveled in, and dramatized to sound like an epic.