Most Ridiculous Complaints Made By Holidaymakers

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Most Ridiculous Complaints Made By Holidaymakers

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

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

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

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."

Source: Peter Dickinson
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9 years old but still funny!
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#12 obviously failed Geography.
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Username Taken wrote: Sat Jul 23, 2022 1:06 pm #12 obviously failed Geography.
Failed history, too

They should hold their great great great wosnames responsible for buggering up the whole Independence Day thing. You know; the one before the alien spaceship with the fresh prince!
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Username Taken wrote: Sat Jul 23, 2022 1:06 pm #12 obviously failed Geography.
Same as #3 and #15 who obviously think Spain is part of England coz there are all these Spanish 'foreigners' there.. :plus1:
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Clutch Cargo wrote: Sat Jul 23, 2022 2:24 pm
Username Taken wrote: Sat Jul 23, 2022 1:06 pm #12 obviously failed Geography.
Same as #3 and #15 who obviously think Spain is part of England coz there are all these Spanish 'foreigners' there.. :plus1:
It's just like the tourists on a package that arrive at Seam Reap airport and get picked up by the hotel limo, arrive at the hotel where the staff speak English, dine at the hotel's restaurant or the tour selected restaurants, do the arranged tours to designated sites and shops, then go home telling their friends that everyone in Cambodia speaks English.
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These people are allowed to vote. No wonder we're screwed.
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I live part of the year in Spain, and trust me, if you dont speak spanish, you are fucked overthere, they are completly at the bottom for english-speaking in Europe !!

But i ve got another one:

The hotel massage didnt garantie happy ending !!! ?? Who tf wants to go there ??
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Don't know if this is true, but the owner of some high-end beach bungalows on one of the islands once told me that a family had complained that the non-stop noise of the waves had kept them awake all night. :o
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You’d think it were just an old joke, but some passengers really do complain that their window doesn’t open…
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