Holidays

[Clivia]

From Thomas Cook Holidays - listing some guests' genuine complaints during the season


1. "I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local
store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts."

2. "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."

3. "On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry.
I don't like spicy food at all."

4. "We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our swimming costumes and towels."

7. "The beach was too sandy."

8. "We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as yellow but it was white."

10. "Topless sunbathing on the beach should be banned. The holiday was ruined as my husband spent all day looking at other women."

12. "No-one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled."

13. "There was no egg slicer in the apartment..."

14. "We went on holiday to Spain and had a problem with the taxi drivers as they were all Spanish."

15. "The roads were uneven.."

16. "It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England it only took the Americans three hours to get home."

17. "I compared the size of our one-bedroom apartment to our friends' three-bedroom apartment and ours was significantly smaller.."

18. "The brochure stated: 'No hairdressers at the accommodation'. We're trainee hairdressers - will we be OK staying there?"

19. "There are too many Spanish people. The receptionist speaks Spanish. The food is Spanish. Too many foreigners now live abroad."

20. "We had to queue outside with no air conditioning."

21. "It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel."

22. "I was bitten by a mosquito, no-one said they could bite."

23. "My fiancé and I booked a twin-bedded room but we were placed in a double-bedded room.
We now hold you responsible for the fact that I find myself pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked."

They walk amongst us, they breed and they vote. Be afraid! Be very afraid!

[Greg]

What no egg slicer, I feel their pain

[Clivia]

my favourite is number 18

[Greg]

May 6, 2014 11:02:09 GMT Clivia said:

my favourite is number 18

They should be ok as they're not actually hairdressers yet, might have to go elsewhere once qualified though which would be a shame if it's nice 

[dinamic22]

Wow some right pearlers in there 20 & 23 are my favourites

[newdawn]

#23 - yeah....righto!

[teethcv]

i think every woman shouold go topless on a beach its good for them to get some fresh air

[Greg]

May 6, 2014 11:34:40 GMT teethcv said:

i think every woman shouold go topless on a beach its good for them to get some fresh air

Not EVERY woman surely 

[Deleted]

Love it.

Thanks Clivia

[lairey]

The frightening thing is, some people really are that stupid. I work in the travel industry and some of the things people complain makes me worry for humanity

[ronaldo]

May 6, 2014 11:34:40 GMT teethcv said:

i think every woman shouold go topless on a beach its good for them to get some fresh air

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO not all I couldn't put up with that nipples scraping on the beach when they are walking no thanks

[mart166]

Number 14 & 19

Did not get that problem myself, last time I was in Spain it was a job to find spaniards !!!!!


MP

[Clivia]

on our last holiday the rep told us that a woman was complaining because a lizard was staring at her - really they should have signs for the little lizzards 'don't stare at hotel guests'

[tigerlilly]

This is really quite worrying.

[CaptainChaos]

Brilliant complaints - Darwin Award contenders the lot of them

Here's a Swimming Resort sign from one of our earlier holidays - Notice the notice on the left (bottom part):




I ought to have complained at the time "Excuse ME! I wanted to bring my machine gun and machete in for a swim!"