Genuine complaints from holiday makers

[Earl Smith]

From Thomas Cook Holidays listing some of their UK clientele’s genuine complaints.


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 took the Americans only 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 and they vote!!!
Be afraid! Be very afraid!

[John G]

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

:biggrin: classic

[purpledragon]

most of those have bought a mug off us

[Earl Smith]

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

I lived and worked in the Canary Islands for 15 years. At one time when the hours changed in the spring time, the UK did it a week after the Canaries. I was asked on more than one occasion, why it took them 3 hours to fly to us but 4 hours to fly home. I usually told them it was because they were flying uphill. They believed me and went away.

[purpledragon]

Had to add to this we have recieved a message through the ebay messaging system now remember to send this message to us they had to find our ebay name etc and send it through the ebay messaging system the item in question is still for sale as its an ongoing listing.

Dear brett-jane,

hi
i have recently ordered a set of these banners
i would like to order some for a friend and cant seem to find you again on ebay.
are you selling anymore of these
many thanks
name deleted to protect the stupid

[John G]

That could mean that they can't find the exact listing they bought off and couldn't be bothered to look through your shop could be plain laziness

[purpledragon]

no it couldnt john . when they sent the message it was a message about the item not just a general message in other words the link to the item etc is in the subject line they had to find the item then click ask a question about this item

[Ian M]

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

A friend of mine was a train driver & one day the train he was driving had one of the two engines break down. He managed to keep going with just one engine but, a lot slower when the other engine decided to start to fail. He stopped at the next station & one of the passengers who was very angry at the delay went upto him & said how annoyed he was at how long the journey was taking from Manchester to Leeds. He told my friend the journey was taking longer than his flight from Switzerland to Manchester & it just wasn't good enough. My friend said to the passenger 'if your plane had the same problem as my train you wouldn't have even reached Manchester you would have crashed'. :biggrin:

[icanattitude]

It's so refreshing to note that there are stupid people everywhere - not just my home town!

[mrs maggot]

i remember being on holiday in Cyprus and on the table behind us my husband and i heard these two old ladies complaining about the traffic, "dont they know they are driving on the wrong side of the road, only the English drive this way round" its just not right when you come to these countries the least they could do is drive like foreigners !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!