They walk among us...
some humor for y'all.
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 by DrJBHL | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Incredible but true. These are actual complaints received at "Thomas Cook Holidays".
Extinction can't happen soon enough.
1. “On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don’t like spicy food.”
2. “They should not allow topless sunbathing on the beach. It was very distracting for my husband who just wanted to relax.”
3. “We went on holiday to Spain and had a problem with the taxi drivers as they were all Spanish.”
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. “It’s lazy of the local shopkeepers in Puerto Vallartato close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during ‘siesta’ time — this should be banned.”
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. “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.”
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. “When we were in Spain, 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 fiancée 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.”
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Reply #22 Thursday, April 13, 2017 1:45 PM
Or when you go to an English pub and nobody speaks English.
Reply #23 Thursday, April 13, 2017 4:45 PM
E' by gum, lad, that's not a nice thing t' say 'bout our hops establishments.
Reply #24 Thursday, April 13, 2017 10:07 PM
A traveler who saw a "deer crossing" sign asked how the deer knew where to cross, while a tourist travelling on a cable car passed a car travelling in the other direction and asked with surprise: "Where are they going?"
Bruce Tepper, who works as a travel industry consultant in California, says one of his clients had a traveller wanting to fly from Minneapolis to Tokyo on a flight that went "as far north as possible".
When quizzed on his request, the man said he was pressed for time and needed to go around the International Date Line rather than over it, as he couldn't afford to lose a day.
"An assurance that he would get it back on his return was insufficient," Tepper says.
"I was told by a ranger at Yosemite that one visitor asked "what time do they turn off the falls?" she says.
In case you're wondering if that could possibly be true, Deb Hickok of the Fairbanks visitor bureau in Alaska says she has been asked what time they turn on the northern lights.
The customer service centre at Wotif.com says a lady booking a two-bedroom apartment for her family asked to have the second room changed from a twin to a double because her children were not twins.
Bottom line: It's just not safe to travel anywhere!
Reply #25 Thursday, April 13, 2017 11:10 PM
That's like the traveler who asked a council beach attendant to hold the incoming tide for an hour so he could dig for bait worms.
And there was the woman who asked a park ranger if bears really stole picnic baskets... and when was the best time to see Yogi.
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Reply #21 Thursday, April 13, 2017 12:41 PM
And what's with being called a foreigner when I'm abroad?
Everybody back home knows I'm not.
However, what really irked me was travelling from New Zealand back to Australia early one morning, and landing in Brisbane the same time as I took off from Christchurch. Damned travel agent didn't warn me that would happen, otherwise I could have stayed in bed 4 hours longer and still got home on time.