Stupid travel complaints

[viper37]

That made me laugh.  This is the kind of news I read the newspapers for 

http://www.thestar.com/travel/article/1055019--stupid-travel-complaints

A recent survey from Thomas Cook and the Association of British  Travel Agents revealed 20 of the most ridiculous complaints by  holiday-makers made to their travel agent.

• "I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local  store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts."
• "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."
• "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."
• "We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our swimming costumes and towels."
• A tourist at a top African Game Lodge overlooking a water hole,  who spotted a visibly aroused elephant, complained that the sight of  this rampant beast ruined his honeymoon by making him feel "inadequate."
• A woman threatened to call police after claiming that she'd been  locked in her hotel room by staff. In fact, she had mistaken the "do not  disturb" sign on the back of the door as a warning to remain in the  room.
• "The beach was too sandy."
• "We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure.Your brochure shows the sand as yellow but it was white."
• A guest at a Novotel in Australia complained his soup was too  thick and strong. He was inadvertently slurping the gravy at the time.
• "Topless sunbathing on the beach should be banned. The holiday  was ruined as my husband spent all day looking at other women."
• "We bought 'Ray-Ban' sunglasses for five euros from a street trader, only to find out they were fake."
• "No one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled."
• "It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England, it only took the Americans three hours to get home."
• "I compared the size of our one-bedroom apartment to our friends'  three-bedroom apartment and ours was significantly smaller."
• "The brochure stated: 'No hairdressers at the accommodation.' We're trainee hairdressers — will we be OK staying there?"
• "There are too many Spanish people. The receptionist speaks  Spanish. The food is Spanish. Too many foreigners now live abroad."
• "We had to queue outside with no air conditioning."
• "It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel."
• "I was bitten by a mosquito, no-one said they could bite."
• "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."[/l][/l]

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[HVC]

most of those have the be fake. though i do like the wife complaining about the topless beach lol

[Ed Anger]

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

Ugh. Lining up like some plebs. 

[Josquius]

HVC has made me cynical, a lot of them could well have been phoned in by prankers....but....I'm sure many of them were genuinely by idiots. You hear this type of thing a lot.

[Malthus]

most of those have the be fake. though i do like the wife complaining about the topless beach lol

I liked the elephant. 

I suppose they are mostly fakes - but you never can underestimate stupidity. 

[viper37]

I don't think it's fake, there are really stupid people out there.

[sbr]

A woman threatened to call police after claiming that she'd been  locked in her hotel room by staff. In fact, she had mistaken the "do not  disturb" sign on the back of the door as a warning to remain in the  room.

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

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

  These are my favorites.  I would bet most of them are real, there are a lot of stupid people out there.

[Gups]

I'd love them to be true, but they sound too contrived.

"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"

[crazy canuck]

Damn Americans are always getting home from points south before I do. Bastards.  Something should be done about that.

[Razgovory]

I don't think it's fake, there are really stupid people out there.

Perhaps, but these sort of fake lists float around the internet all the time.  I R Skeptical.

[Richard Hakluyt]

They were written by drunken tourists on their way back to Britain "'aving a laugh" 

[Razgovory]

Incidentally, this list was picked up by a British paper back in 2009.  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/5005019/20-ridiculous-complaints-made-by-holidaymakers.html  Found it on the Snopes forum from 2009.

http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=43441

[Darth Wagtaros]

They were written by drunken tourists on their way back to Britain "'aving a laugh" 

That or they were taking the piss.