Travelers "actual" complaints

[bocceball1]

Posted this a few months ago in the travel section....got a few views ...thought I'd share this in General Topics for everybody to enjoy

Found this on another site....would've linked it but don't know what the rules are re linking....Just thought they were hilarious!!!!! and wanted to share.

THESE ARE ACTUAL COMPLAINTS RECEIVED BY “THOMAS COOK VACATIONS FROM DISSATISFIED CUSTOMERS”:

1. “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.”

2. “It’s lazy of the local shopkeepers in Puerto Vallarta 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.”

4. “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.”

5. “The beach was too sandy. We had to clean everything when we returned to our room.”

6. “We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as white but it was more yellow.”

7. “They should not allow topless sunbathing on the beach. It was very distracting for my husband who just wanted to relax.”

8. “No-one told us there would be fish in the water. The children were scared.”

9. “Although the brochure said that there was a fully equipped kitchen, there was no egg-slicer in the drawers.”

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

11. “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.”

12. “It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England. It took the Americans only three hours to get home. This seems unfair.”

13. “I compared the size of our one-bedroom suite to our friends’ three-bedroom and ours was significantly smaller.”

14. “The brochure stated: ‘No hairdressers at the resort’. We’re trainee hairdressers and we think they knew and made us wait longer for service.”

15. “There were too many Spanish people there. The receptionist spoke Spanish, the food was Spanish. No one told us that there would be so many foreigners.”

16. “We had to line up outside to catch the boat and there was no air-conditioning.”

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

18. “I was bitten by a mosquito. The brochure did not mention mosquitoes.”

19. “My fiance 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.”

[beachproperty]

Some people should never be allowed out of their house....No clue!

Needed a good laugh....in fact I think I've met some of these people on holiday in Thailand!

Thanks for the post ...funny!! LOL

[simon43]

Just to keep this post relevant to Thailand,, here are some genuine complaints or requests that I've received at my hotel in Phuket:

- Please remove the gecko from our room - it will climb into our ears when we sleep (Chinese guest - have you ever tried to catch a gecko?)

- Your room had no light switches, so we had to sleep with the lights on (American guest who did not understand pull-on, pull-off light cords)

- Please organise my sightseeing itinery (Indian guest who was staying for only 4 hours 'transit')

- I need many blankets, the room is too cold (Indian family who insisted on switching the air-con to freezer mode)

- This room is disgustingly dirty (weird American woman who spotted a 1mm black ant in an-otherwise spotless room)

- The hotel is only accessible by walking through a muddy jungle (British guest who 'took a wrong turn' and tried to access the hotel via a rubber tree plantation in the monsoon)

I could add more...

Simon

[bocceball1]

Some friends of mine visited from the states.....What impressed them the most was the "bum guns"...thought they were great and wondered why they don't have them in the US.

[metisdead]

Posted this a few months ago in the travel section...

Please do not cross post the same topics across multiple forums, no need for a duplicate topic to be running.

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