Not sure whether to laugh or cry
Vacations are supposed to take you away from the craziness of everyday life…hope you don’t end up sharing a hotel with any of these people…
- “The beach was too sandy. We had to clean everything when we returned to our room.”
- “It took us nine hours to fly home to England. It took the Americans only three hours to get home. This seems unfair.”
- “I was bitten by a mosquito. The brochure did not mention mosquitoes.”
- “I compared the size of our one-bedroom suite to our friends’ three-bedroom and ours was significantly smaller.”
- “We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our own swimsuits and towels. We assumed it would be included in the price.”
- “We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as white but it was more yellow.”
- “There were too many Costa Rican people there. The receptionist spoke Spanish, the food was Costa Rican. No one told us that there would be so many foreigners.”
- “They should not allow topless sunbathing on the beach. It was very distracting for my husband who just wanted to relax.”
- “No-one told us there would be fish in the water. The children were scared.”
- “It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel.”
- “Although the brochure said that there was a fully equipped kitchen, there was no egg-slicer in the drawers.”
- “We went on holiday to Costa Rica and had a problem with the taxi drivers as they were all Costa Rican.”
- “The roads were uneven and bumpy, so we could not read the local guide book during the bus ride to the resort. Because of this, we were unaware of many things that would have made our holiday more fun.”
- “It’s lazy of the local shopkeepers to close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during ‘siesta’ time — this should be banned.”
- “The brochure stated: ‘No hairdressers at the resort’. We’re trainee hairdressers and we think they knew and made us wait longer for service.”
- “We had to line up outside to catch the boat and there was no air-conditioning.”
- “On my holiday to Goa in India , I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don’t like spicy food.”
- “I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local convenience store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts.”
- “My fiancé and I requested twin-beds when we booked, but instead we were placed in a room with a king bed. We now hold you responsible and want to be re-reimbursed for the fact that I became pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked.”
I’m really not sure I believe that last one but these are supposedly actual complaints lodged with the Thomas Cooke Travel Agency.