March 23rd, 2009
Top 20 holiday complaints
Travel agencies get the weirdest complaints. The Daily Telegraph created a top 20. Fun guaranteed!
1. The beach was to sandy
2. ‘Topless sunbathing on the beach should be banned. My holiday was ruined because my husband was looking at other woman all day”
3. On e hotel guest complained that the soup was too think and strong. As it turned out he was drinking the gravy.
4. One man spotted a clearly ‘excited’ elephant drinking water. His honeymoon was ruined because he felt less of a man….
5. A woman threatened to phone the police, because the hotel personnel has locked her in her room. As it turned out, she had the ‘do not disturb’ sign on the inside of her door.
6. “We bought a Ray-Ban sunglasses at a street vender for 5 euro. Later it turned out to be fake! ”
7. “Nobody had told us that there would be fish swimming in the sea. Our children are very shocked. ”
8. “Our flight from Jamaica to England lasted over nine hours, while it took the Americans only about three hours.”
9. “My fiancé and I had booked a room with two beds. We got a double bed. I hold you now responsible for the fact that I’m pregnant. ”
10. ‘In comparison with the three-room apartment of our friends, our one-room apartment was significantly smaller … ”
11. The brochure said ‘no hairdressers on the site’. We are hairdressers in training, are we aloud to come? ”
12. On a holiday in Spain: “There are too many Spaniards, the receptionist speaks Spanish, the food is Spanish and there are too many foreigners.”
13. ‘The beach was not as displayed in the brochure. In the brochure it was yellow, but it really is white. ”
14. “We had to queue outside, and there wasn’t even air conditioning.”
15. “It is your job as a tour operator to warn us for noisy guests in advance”.
16. “I am bitten by a mosquito. Nobody had warned me that they bite. ”
17. “It would be mentioned in the folder that the local store does not sell good cookies.”
18. “The local shop owners are quite lazy. They close their shops at noon. During the siesta, I often need things; they should not be allowed to close their shop. ”
19. “Almost every restaurant that I found during my trip to Goa (India), to my disgust, only served curry. I don’t like hot food. ”
20. “We booked an excursion to a water park. But nobody had told us that we had to bring a swimsuit and a towel. “
