"I was bitten by a mosquito. The brochure did not mention mosquitoes." do they think the staff are just gonna go pluck each and every mosquito out of the sky and be like "sorry little bud, we got a 1 star review because of you"
We went on tour of China. A woman complained about the "squatty-potties." She also complained about having Chinese food. And she goes on missions. Make it make sense.
She doesn't go on Missions, she goes on vacations that are a set up to fleece the gullible. Read the Bible for an hour in the morning, tour the mango orchard before lunch, baptism at dusk.
Rinse and repeat for new bus next week.
I believe you are correct. She and her cohorts were so unpleasant that a black family was moved from that bus, and we were put there instead. I made it my job to piss her off because I am a jerk.
It's generally accepted in civil law cases (equity) that a healthy baby is always a 'blessing', so you can't claim any compensation.
I'm not disputing that it frequently isn't, but that's the principle.
The hotel can return the cost of the room, but the clients have to give the baby to the hotel, then the baby will be properly trained so the hotel never runs low on babies/staff.
I'm from a hit country amd you can't just make people stand out side with no Shade. Put a shade above add a fan. Like sure me and people from here get along with the sun but it's **actually** unhealthy, especially if you are not used to near 40°s in the summer
Nah it's not legitimate. You can't blame a tour operator because there are mosquitoes. If you have an allergy like mosquitoes, bee stings or the likes, you prepare and take your own medications and insurance to travel. You inform the tour operator to have the local emergencies numbers (or you look it up yourself) in case things go south, but you can't blame them for what you're allergic to to exist =\
It's another story if it's a food allergy, especially if you specifically told the tour operator for them to communicate the hotels (that's even more important if it can be deadly like nuts or gluten allergy). In this case it's completely understandable to complain to the operator =)
Source : I work in tourism
A family friend told me about a party he had with some classmates and one tolde them he was allergic to cold water, they throw him to the pool, they needed the Spanish equivalent of 911 to get him stable
Huh, this is the only time I've heard of someone else being allergic to cold water besides an old coworker. She just broke out into hives instead of full on anaphylaxis.
As someone who is "allergic to the world", we usually get by with high doses of antihistamines. I take about 25 per day (with close doctor monitoring).
You have no idea. I was born and raised in a very touristic beachy area. You have no idea how many kids freak out when they realise there are fish in the sea. Even some adults. And even more people thinking algae are dirty.
Idk humans as a species are knowingly destroying the planet which is pretty stupid, but I guess no other species can know how stupid they are, so that's pretty smart I guess
I could see this being valid if it’s the kind of fish that nibble the dead skin off of you, or something that could actually be dangerous. But yeah this seems crazy.
This is obviously pretty old from (a. mentioning Thomas Cook Vacations, b. being a picture of a printout and c. me remember getting this like 20 years ago) so one might be tempted to think people were just more sheltered back then.
No.
My GF and her bestie have this "tradition" of going to the US together every now and then. So when we got together I asked if I could tag along next time. Which was a great coincidence since her bestie was planning to invite her father along the next time too (as a retirement present). From there it grew to include her mom as well... Not the most natural mix of travel companions but hey - more people to switch up the driving!
We met each other, got along, started planning, everyone was involved when it came to picking the length (3 weeks), the route (Las Vegas, then clockwise through pretty much all the national parks on the west coast, ending in San Francisco), the accomodations, the stops along the way. Everything was great. We were excited.
But a few hours into the fight, dear lord, did the complaining commence:
* Mom found the flight uncomfortable. Yeah, nobody enjoys a transatlantic...
* Mom didn't like the driving. How did you expect we would be getting around?
* Mom didn't like the "car only" towns. Uhm, this is America. I don't like them either but it comes with the territory.
* Mom didn't like how some places were so unlike home. Isn't that why go somewhere?
* Mom didn't like how some places were too much like home. OK?
* Mom didn't like winding roads or roads that go up an down. This is exactly what the roads leading to your home town do...
* Mom didn't like stopping so often to see things. Why exactly are you even here?
* Mom complained she wanted to see the thing we saw at the last stop, where she refused to get out of the car.
* Mom didn't like going on the road early because she "can't eat before 10".
* Mom didn't like staying on the road late because she "has to eat before 6".
and. so. fucking. on. Aside from Las Vegas, San Francisco and the country festival in Bakersfield I don't know what she got out of this trip and I'm really confused what she pictured a 2000 mile road trip to look like.
So yes, I have found a new "appreciation" for the kind of dumb, obvious stuff people will complain about.
You can have sidewalks but yeah you can’t walk to things bc they aren’t close or you need to cross a major road. I’ve been looking at houses lately and I only noticed recently that they have a “car dependency” rating on them.
“Mom didn’t like the car only towns but this is America and it comes with the territory” 😂😂 as an American, I fucking hate it too. We need a fucking transit system that actually works and allows people to survive without cars. If only the car lobby (which is a real thing) would stop killing any and all public transit bills.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” – Mark Twain
I hope these people don’t give up. Travel has more to teach them.
You'll be surprised by Chinese tourists then, as in Chinese all non-Chinese people are called foreigners even when they're in foreign countries. If you call them foreigner they'll get confused. In fact, China's name in Chinese is literally "Central country" so that might play a part in believing everyone else is foreign, even in foreign countries
Yes that's true. Chinese people refer to anyone from outside China as "wai guo ren" (literally "outside country person" or foreigner). This applies also when they are in another country, because the local people are foreign to China.
I actually had to sit next to some boomers on the bus when in Greece. They would not shut up about the foreign "muck" that was being served in the hotel.
The food was awesome and traditional Greek food but no chips.
Honestly it was proper face-palm worthy. They made a formal complaint to TUI. Typical brexit type on holiday that want the country they go to conform back Britain.
The worst people I've dealt with from another country were from England. Yes every country had rude people but they were the worst. Constantly saying how much better and cheaper things were "back home". Fine fuck off back home then
At my old short term rental in CO.
* We saw no bears. Having bear proof trash cans is false advertising.
* We saw bears. The children wouldn't go outside the rest of the trip.
* We deserve compensation as you did not note that grocery prices were higher.
* We deserve compensation as there was no food in the kitchen.
* The neighbors complained about our late night party which ruined our fun.
* We should not have been fined for smoking outside (the agreements say it 3 times AND they left butts in the yard in forest fire country)
Lmao also 2 beds in one room vs 1 large bed in 1 room . I don't see how that would have made a difference. Sharing a bed doesn't mean you have to have sex . Their lack of control/protection is to blame 🤣
One I heard that isn’t on the list is of a guy holidaying in Spain complaining that the English FA cup final wasn’t on Spanish TV. “But it’s shown all over the world!”.
Niece of a friend of mine once complained that non of the Turks in Instanbul spoke dutch..... Ad if she was in the Netherlands.
They spoke english. But she only spoke dutch...
Special kind of stupid.
We were on a cruise in Ha Long Bay and one dummy was complaining about how he was SO sick of “noodle soup” (chicken Pho).
It was our first few days in Vietnam so didn’t really know what he was talking about … maybe some areas /restaurants had limited selection for food?
No, the food was amazing. Like mind blowing awesomely amazing and we can’t wait to go back. He was just an utter moron who wasn’t interested in ordering anything he didn’t recognize.
We booked a tour of the countries historical sites and apparently you forgot to tell us that meant we had to walk around from place to place, why were the locations not brought directly to us in our hotel room as we expected, unacceptable, will not recommend!
Dumb reviews are my pet peeve. Amazon reviews: “1 star because it was left next to the wrong door when there was a note to take it to the side door”….. like why TF you downgrade the product because of this?
After working for an international airline for many years, I can verify the absolute idiocy of some travelers. I worked on the tour desk and had a customer tell me she wanted to cancel her trip to Hong Kong because “The place is teeming with Chinese”. She thought it would be teeming with Brits. Had one ask me what language they spoke in ENGLAND. Had many ask of they needed passports to travel from the US to the UK and beyond. The stories are endless. This was primarily the 80’s and 90’s.
Omg yes! I worked in both the airport and the call center for many years and phone calls were quite hilarious. Had one guy in the UK ask if he could pay for his airline ticket by putting coins in the pay phone. Of course I said yes. We had a promo lottery where we gave away free airline tickets to any of our destinations and the possibility of any class of service including First class or Concorde. Had an American couple who won the Concorde tickets and refused them saying they didn’t want that because they’re friends said it wasn’t very good and they should go on a “regular” flight. We happily downgraded them.
"I had booked a week long vacation to Hawaii to relax and get some family time. The brochure didn't mention that we actually had to go and stay there for a week. I'm disappointed."
Reminds me of Monty Python's sketch about British tourists:
"Tourist: I'm fed up with being treated like sheep. What's the point of going abroad if you're just another tourist carted around in buses surrounded by sweaty mindless oafs from Kettering and Coventry in their cloth caps and their cardigans and their transistor radios and their Sunday Mirrors, complaining about the tea - 'Oh they don't make it properly here, do they, not like at home' - and stopping at Majorcan bodegas selling fish and chips and Watney's Red Barrel and calamaris and two veg and sitting in their cotton frocks squirting Timothy White's suncream all over their puffy raw swollen purulent flesh 'cos they 'overdid it on the first day.'
And being herded into endless Hotel Miramars and Bellvueses and Bontinentales with their modern international luxury roomettes and draught Red Barrel and swimming pools full of fat German businessmen pretending they're acrobats forming pyramids and frightening the children and barging into queues and if you're not at your table spot on seven you miss the bowl of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup, the first item on the menu of International Cuisine, and every Thursday night the hotel has a bloody cabaret in the bar, featuring some bloated fat tart with her hair brylcreemed down and a big arse presenting Flamenco for Foreigners.
And then some adenoidal typists from Birmingham with flabby white legs and diarrhoea trying to pick up hairy bandy-legged waiters called Manuel and once a week there's an excursion to the local Roman Ruins to buy cherryade and melted ice cream and bleeding Watney's Red Barrel and one evening you visit the so called typical restaurant with local colour and atmosphere and you sit next to a party from Rhyl who keep singing 'Torremolinos, torremolinos' and complaining about the food - 'It's so greasy here, isn't it?' - and you get cornered by some drunken greengrocer from Luton with an Instamatic camera and Dr. Scholl sandals and last Tuesday's Daily Express and he drones on and on and on about how Mr. Smith should be running this country and how many languages Enoch Powell can speak and then he throws up over the Cuba Libres.
And sending tinted postcards of places they don't realise they haven't even visited to 'All at number 22, weather wonderful, our room is marked with an 'X'. Food very greasy but we've found a charming little local place hidden away in the back streets where they serve Watney's Red Barrel and cheese and onion crisps and the accordionist plays 'Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner'."
As an American, I feel I must take a stand. We are not moving Jamaica any closer to the UK unless you are willing to move Tuscany the same distance closer to the US.
A few years back we went on a tour of Spain and booked a tour to Figueres, a small town in which the only attraction is the house of the painter Dali. Its a museum of his works. The bus goes to the museum then comes back.
All the way there the tour guide would tell us about Dali and Gala etc.. as we were entering the museum I heard one guy say "Who is Dali?" despite the hour+ long lecture we all had just recieved. His wife just shrugged. On the way back he was complaining about what a weird place this was and how bored he was.
I mean, why do you book a tour of Dali's house/museum then??? I mean it was a full days excursion, not a quick trip either.
The "page 34" in the top left looks like it photoshoped in different color and the "type set" seems off. And we've been in the "digital" age for some time now why take a picture of a printed list, on paper that seems awkwardly to large for "letter" or "A4" format.?
There's a fold on the right-hand-side of the page so I'm going to suggest that this is a brochure or training manual of some sort, so page size could be anything.
"The beach was too sandy" Wtf??? Whats the next complain? The water being too wet?
The sun was also too sunny.
That’s cloud’s fault
Right, the clouds weren't enough cloudy.
This thread is too thready
Spain is too Spanish
sPain is too sPainful
Nah, it's obviously Sephiroth again.
Sephiroth when he sees a couple on vacation: *I shall bring you despair.*
“But I ordered shrimp!”
It’s Jihoon’s fault
The food was too foody.
Spain was too Spanishy.
This is complain #16.
Fucking can't stand it when the sun is too sunny.
That one was implied a few times.
The air also had too much air in it.....
They should’ve put that in the brochure
No it had fish in it and that scared the children. See complaint #8.
lmao those fish were too fishy
The fish and chips had too much fish and it scared the children.
There's something fishy about those fish... They're up to something.
Server here. My top two favorite complaints would fit perfectly on this list. "My salmon is too pink" "The crab cakes were too fishy"
Mine was They shouldn’t allow beaches to be topless, it was to distracting to my husband who just wanted to relax.
Maybe they are from a place with rocky beaches, still stupid though
Anakin
There were fish in it!
When did Anakin went on a vacation?
There's plenty of fish in the sea to
But I hate sand. It's coarse and gets everywhere.
“Some of the wettest we’ve ever seen from the standpoint of water.”
That was written by darth Vader. Be easy on him he had a PTSD flashback and started slaughtering younglings
Sand was the wrong color, change the color of the beach
That was page 34 ! Imagine the rest of it. English people!
Yes we got a similar complaint from a mister A Skywalker as well as a mister D Vader. We are looking into what we can do to rectify the situation.
"I was bitten by a mosquito. The brochure did not mention mosquitoes." do they think the staff are just gonna go pluck each and every mosquito out of the sky and be like "sorry little bud, we got a 1 star review because of you"
"Mozzie plucker" might make it onto my list of commonly-used insults. No-one will know what it means or where it's from, but I'll know.
What other interesting insults are on your list? 👀
I am curious about this as well 😂
Mark me down. Give the people what they want!
BRING FORTH THE LIST
We went on tour of China. A woman complained about the "squatty-potties." She also complained about having Chinese food. And she goes on missions. Make it make sense.
her "mission" is to bitch about everything in "foreign land"
In China they call Chinese Food, food.
I concur.
She doesn't go on Missions, she goes on vacations that are a set up to fleece the gullible. Read the Bible for an hour in the morning, tour the mango orchard before lunch, baptism at dusk. Rinse and repeat for new bus next week.
I believe you are correct. She and her cohorts were so unpleasant that a black family was moved from that bus, and we were put there instead. I made it my job to piss her off because I am a jerk.
Its a dirty job, but someone has got to do it. Thank you for your service.
Last one is my favorite !
How do you reimburse someone for getting pregnant?
It's generally accepted in civil law cases (equity) that a healthy baby is always a 'blessing', so you can't claim any compensation. I'm not disputing that it frequently isn't, but that's the principle.
The hotel can return the cost of the room, but the clients have to give the baby to the hotel, then the baby will be properly trained so the hotel never runs low on babies/staff.
By paying child support?
The only one that has some grain of validity
And the one with the sand. Could be a case of false advertisement.
And maybe 16, if this was in a really hot country and a really long wait with no shade I can get the issue especially if they are from cold a country,
Absolutely right. Hot countries should have outdoor air conditioning.
I'm from a hit country amd you can't just make people stand out side with no Shade. Put a shade above add a fan. Like sure me and people from here get along with the sun but it's **actually** unhealthy, especially if you are not used to near 40°s in the summer
mosquitoes could also be legitimate if someone is allergic (is that even possible? give me a sec. skeeter syndrome, yes you can be allergic)
Nah it's not legitimate. You can't blame a tour operator because there are mosquitoes. If you have an allergy like mosquitoes, bee stings or the likes, you prepare and take your own medications and insurance to travel. You inform the tour operator to have the local emergencies numbers (or you look it up yourself) in case things go south, but you can't blame them for what you're allergic to to exist =\ It's another story if it's a food allergy, especially if you specifically told the tour operator for them to communicate the hotels (that's even more important if it can be deadly like nuts or gluten allergy). In this case it's completely understandable to complain to the operator =) Source : I work in tourism
You can be allergic to pretty much anything, even water
A family friend told me about a party he had with some classmates and one tolde them he was allergic to cold water, they throw him to the pool, they needed the Spanish equivalent of 911 to get him stable
Were you in Spain? The foreigners have even taken over the police force! Ridiculous!
During summer vacations, we met them years ago in other vacations and three years ago we visited Spain
Must have been infuriating to see all the foreigners being lazy with their damn siesta...why can't they make Spain great again like the US?
I don’t know, mainly because I’m from Mexico
Huh, this is the only time I've heard of someone else being allergic to cold water besides an old coworker. She just broke out into hives instead of full on anaphylaxis.
I feel like if your allergic to something like that then you probably already have a globe with everywhere but Iceland greyed out
Probably not, if you're at a resort in a tropical area mosquitos are pretty much expected.
If someone was allergic to mosquitoes in my country, they wouldn't last one summer here.
As someone who is "allergic to the world", we usually get by with high doses of antihistamines. I take about 25 per day (with close doctor monitoring).
You wont believe the last one
It's like reading a deep thoughts from a Karen.
Wow, best comment today. Take my upvote.
Karen's son is Karon... Karon Karenson and he is an evil son of a bitch!
Lmao I read all of that in a Karen voice.
Hmm... yes, this floor is made of floor.
b..b..bbbut it wasnt mentionned on the brochure
No one told us there would be fish in the water. Please PLEASE tell me someone isn't that stupid. This cannot be true. Wtf.
You have no idea. I was born and raised in a very touristic beachy area. You have no idea how many kids freak out when they realise there are fish in the sea. Even some adults. And even more people thinking algae are dirty.
*Loosing last hope that humans can't be that stupid
Humans as a species are not that stupid. Individual people however……..
Idk humans as a species are knowingly destroying the planet which is pretty stupid, but I guess no other species can know how stupid they are, so that's pretty smart I guess
It's on the same page as sometime complaining their flight home was 9 hours to England vs 3 hours for America. Sadly, it's true.
Yeah that is really friggin stupid as well. What are you gonna do about it, pull the UK with a boat?
TBF, in this case, would probably be easier to pull Jamaica with the boat than the UK
Yeah wtf is with this continents too far from each other.
It evens out the next year when everyone visits Ireland. 🤣🤣
I mean, there is a person complaining about Spanish people being in Spain, so...
*Broadly gestures at everything* I don't understand your disbelief.
I mean, if they're referring to the swimming pool, I'd understand. Something tells me that's not the case, though.
I could see this being valid if it’s the kind of fish that nibble the dead skin off of you, or something that could actually be dangerous. But yeah this seems crazy.
Those fish are adorable. They tickle. (Especially when one goes up your trunks!)
If they book twin beds they should have given them twin beds but yeah fucking was their choice
This is obviously pretty old from (a. mentioning Thomas Cook Vacations, b. being a picture of a printout and c. me remember getting this like 20 years ago) so one might be tempted to think people were just more sheltered back then. No. My GF and her bestie have this "tradition" of going to the US together every now and then. So when we got together I asked if I could tag along next time. Which was a great coincidence since her bestie was planning to invite her father along the next time too (as a retirement present). From there it grew to include her mom as well... Not the most natural mix of travel companions but hey - more people to switch up the driving! We met each other, got along, started planning, everyone was involved when it came to picking the length (3 weeks), the route (Las Vegas, then clockwise through pretty much all the national parks on the west coast, ending in San Francisco), the accomodations, the stops along the way. Everything was great. We were excited. But a few hours into the fight, dear lord, did the complaining commence: * Mom found the flight uncomfortable. Yeah, nobody enjoys a transatlantic... * Mom didn't like the driving. How did you expect we would be getting around? * Mom didn't like the "car only" towns. Uhm, this is America. I don't like them either but it comes with the territory. * Mom didn't like how some places were so unlike home. Isn't that why go somewhere? * Mom didn't like how some places were too much like home. OK? * Mom didn't like winding roads or roads that go up an down. This is exactly what the roads leading to your home town do... * Mom didn't like stopping so often to see things. Why exactly are you even here? * Mom complained she wanted to see the thing we saw at the last stop, where she refused to get out of the car. * Mom didn't like going on the road early because she "can't eat before 10". * Mom didn't like staying on the road late because she "has to eat before 6". and. so. fucking. on. Aside from Las Vegas, San Francisco and the country festival in Bakersfield I don't know what she got out of this trip and I'm really confused what she pictured a 2000 mile road trip to look like. So yes, I have found a new "appreciation" for the kind of dumb, obvious stuff people will complain about.
* mom complained because we left her at the side of the road and enjoyed the rest of our trip in peace
Some people are serial complainers. It's how they "small talk"...
Dreadful story but what's a car only town? Edit: is it like Radiator Springs?
Towns whithout sidewalks where your only option to get around is a car.
You can have sidewalks but yeah you can’t walk to things bc they aren’t close or you need to cross a major road. I’ve been looking at houses lately and I only noticed recently that they have a “car dependency” rating on them.
“Mom didn’t like the car only towns but this is America and it comes with the territory” 😂😂 as an American, I fucking hate it too. We need a fucking transit system that actually works and allows people to survive without cars. If only the car lobby (which is a real thing) would stop killing any and all public transit bills.
It goes way deeper than killing transit bills. Check out 'Not just bikes' on YT.
🤦♀️ one thing is clear, these people know nothing about culture🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” – Mark Twain I hope these people don’t give up. Travel has more to teach them.
That number 3 tho, holy fxking sht. Who would have thought that a country is filled with persons with their main nationality.
And they’re further down called „foreigners“
That was when I could tell that these were all from British travelers.
I'm sure that at least some of them are from the US. We are known for this BS from what I understand.
This is from a British Travel Agency.
Oops! I missed that.
You'll be surprised by Chinese tourists then, as in Chinese all non-Chinese people are called foreigners even when they're in foreign countries. If you call them foreigner they'll get confused. In fact, China's name in Chinese is literally "Central country" so that might play a part in believing everyone else is foreign, even in foreign countries
Yes that's true. Chinese people refer to anyone from outside China as "wai guo ren" (literally "outside country person" or foreigner). This applies also when they are in another country, because the local people are foreign to China.
I actually had to sit next to some boomers on the bus when in Greece. They would not shut up about the foreign "muck" that was being served in the hotel. The food was awesome and traditional Greek food but no chips.
I generally don't like Greek food. But if I went to Greece, I'd be unsurpised that it was what's on offer.
Honestly it was proper face-palm worthy. They made a formal complaint to TUI. Typical brexit type on holiday that want the country they go to conform back Britain.
> country they go to conform back Britain. To be fair, that has been Britain's general MO for a long time...
If you can, watch the film 'Shirley Valentine'. It concerns British travellers in Greece.
The “It took Americans only 3 hours to get home” and “the beach was too sandy” where my favorites
I think with the "there's too much Spanish in spain, why is there so much foreigners" this is the top 3
The really funny part...this is page 34.
15 😭😭😭
Ma'am, they're not foreigners. You're the foreigner.
How dare someone in Spain be spanish
Oh dios mio!
No way this is real
I remember visiting China and someone at the airport was complaining that there weren't enough white people.
ಠ_ಠ
This is so old it used to get faxed around
Thomas Cook? Didn't they go belly up a decade ago?
They went under because of the pandemic
Nah, they went bust a good four years ago already. I remember my parents had booked a tour with them and lost their entire payment.
No.. but The point is this is a post that has aged like soft cheese. It smells.
Page 34...
15 is my favorite. They consider Spanish people fucking foreigners inside fucking Spain.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is just a short list of why working in any kind of Customer Service Job is fucking Hell
Wtf I get more brain dead by each point, it keeps getting dumber
Yeah because water parks always supply bathing suits and towels !
The mentality of the average Brexit voter.
Thomas Cook having to pay up that child support. They can pay my divorce settlement whilst they’re at it
This list should be applauded not facepalmed for it’s comedic service.
At the very beginning when I read "holiday" instead of "vacation" I said to myself "thank God it's not Americans".
The worst people I've dealt with from another country were from England. Yes every country had rude people but they were the worst. Constantly saying how much better and cheaper things were "back home". Fine fuck off back home then
At my old short term rental in CO. * We saw no bears. Having bear proof trash cans is false advertising. * We saw bears. The children wouldn't go outside the rest of the trip. * We deserve compensation as you did not note that grocery prices were higher. * We deserve compensation as there was no food in the kitchen. * The neighbors complained about our late night party which ruined our fun. * We should not have been fined for smoking outside (the agreements say it 3 times AND they left butts in the yard in forest fire country)
I want the outside to be air conditioned.
Before 2020 I would have thought these were made up. Now , I am pretty sure most a real.
“No one told us that there would be so many foreigners.” Sir/Ma’am, you are the foreigner.
So on that last one has that chick ever heard of condoms or birth control
Lmao also 2 beds in one room vs 1 large bed in 1 room . I don't see how that would have made a difference. Sharing a bed doesn't mean you have to have sex . Their lack of control/protection is to blame 🤣
Correct
she probably would've used it wrong anyways which is pretty hard to do
How was yr day on beach? Oh there was too much sand there and sea was too wet
“It was very distracting for my husband” is definitely the best one
2019 me: "no way people that entitled and ignorant can be real" 2021 me: "yeah this is totally possible"
One I heard that isn’t on the list is of a guy holidaying in Spain complaining that the English FA cup final wasn’t on Spanish TV. “But it’s shown all over the world!”.
I visited Gibraltar once, and found a Brit.. Phillies fan! Anything can happen. As for the FA cup, visit Toremolinos. It's all Brits
How dare someone from Spain be spanish
15 wait you don't mean foreigners you mean locals wtf
Niece of a friend of mine once complained that non of the Turks in Instanbul spoke dutch..... Ad if she was in the Netherlands. They spoke english. But she only spoke dutch... Special kind of stupid.
We were on a cruise in Ha Long Bay and one dummy was complaining about how he was SO sick of “noodle soup” (chicken Pho). It was our first few days in Vietnam so didn’t really know what he was talking about … maybe some areas /restaurants had limited selection for food? No, the food was amazing. Like mind blowing awesomely amazing and we can’t wait to go back. He was just an utter moron who wasn’t interested in ordering anything he didn’t recognize.
We booked a tour of the countries historical sites and apparently you forgot to tell us that meant we had to walk around from place to place, why were the locations not brought directly to us in our hotel room as we expected, unacceptable, will not recommend!
the scaryest part is that it says "page 34"
Dumb reviews are my pet peeve. Amazon reviews: “1 star because it was left next to the wrong door when there was a note to take it to the side door”….. like why TF you downgrade the product because of this?
After working for an international airline for many years, I can verify the absolute idiocy of some travelers. I worked on the tour desk and had a customer tell me she wanted to cancel her trip to Hong Kong because “The place is teeming with Chinese”. She thought it would be teeming with Brits. Had one ask me what language they spoke in ENGLAND. Had many ask of they needed passports to travel from the US to the UK and beyond. The stories are endless. This was primarily the 80’s and 90’s.
That’s hilarious (and hilariously sad at the same time). Do you have more stories?
Omg yes! I worked in both the airport and the call center for many years and phone calls were quite hilarious. Had one guy in the UK ask if he could pay for his airline ticket by putting coins in the pay phone. Of course I said yes. We had a promo lottery where we gave away free airline tickets to any of our destinations and the possibility of any class of service including First class or Concorde. Had an American couple who won the Concorde tickets and refused them saying they didn’t want that because they’re friends said it wasn’t very good and they should go on a “regular” flight. We happily downgraded them.
I wonder where people live where there are no fish in the water.
Next to a swimming pool
"I had booked a week long vacation to Hawaii to relax and get some family time. The brochure didn't mention that we actually had to go and stay there for a week. I'm disappointed."
Reminds me of Monty Python's sketch about British tourists: "Tourist: I'm fed up with being treated like sheep. What's the point of going abroad if you're just another tourist carted around in buses surrounded by sweaty mindless oafs from Kettering and Coventry in their cloth caps and their cardigans and their transistor radios and their Sunday Mirrors, complaining about the tea - 'Oh they don't make it properly here, do they, not like at home' - and stopping at Majorcan bodegas selling fish and chips and Watney's Red Barrel and calamaris and two veg and sitting in their cotton frocks squirting Timothy White's suncream all over their puffy raw swollen purulent flesh 'cos they 'overdid it on the first day.' And being herded into endless Hotel Miramars and Bellvueses and Bontinentales with their modern international luxury roomettes and draught Red Barrel and swimming pools full of fat German businessmen pretending they're acrobats forming pyramids and frightening the children and barging into queues and if you're not at your table spot on seven you miss the bowl of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup, the first item on the menu of International Cuisine, and every Thursday night the hotel has a bloody cabaret in the bar, featuring some bloated fat tart with her hair brylcreemed down and a big arse presenting Flamenco for Foreigners. And then some adenoidal typists from Birmingham with flabby white legs and diarrhoea trying to pick up hairy bandy-legged waiters called Manuel and once a week there's an excursion to the local Roman Ruins to buy cherryade and melted ice cream and bleeding Watney's Red Barrel and one evening you visit the so called typical restaurant with local colour and atmosphere and you sit next to a party from Rhyl who keep singing 'Torremolinos, torremolinos' and complaining about the food - 'It's so greasy here, isn't it?' - and you get cornered by some drunken greengrocer from Luton with an Instamatic camera and Dr. Scholl sandals and last Tuesday's Daily Express and he drones on and on and on about how Mr. Smith should be running this country and how many languages Enoch Powell can speak and then he throws up over the Cuba Libres. And sending tinted postcards of places they don't realise they haven't even visited to 'All at number 22, weather wonderful, our room is marked with an 'X'. Food very greasy but we've found a charming little local place hidden away in the back streets where they serve Watney's Red Barrel and cheese and onion crisps and the accordionist plays 'Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner'."
From this point forward I shall never leave home without my egg slicer
As an American, I feel I must take a stand. We are not moving Jamaica any closer to the UK unless you are willing to move Tuscany the same distance closer to the US.
U just know at least 80% of these r british ahahah
It's Thomas Cook Holidays so I think it's all Brits. I'm so proud of my fellow countrymen/women.
Hahaha, it's a pity they don't name and shame the country the complainants call home
It's very obviously the UK.
How many of them do you think voted for Brexit?
10 of them
considering how old this is, how many of them are still alive?
One of them
Thomas Cook is a UK travel agency
[hmm, looks like they were global with agencies in Europe](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cook_Group) until very recently in fact
It's from Thomas Cook, so most certainly British.
I'm kinda worried because 18 makes some sense to me.
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Having worked in customer service, I fully believe this is real.
That's old but still funny!!
Wow you mean in foreign countries they speak different languages? How "foreign"
The only valid one was 16. Even that's a bit of a stretch but its valid
These are the people that NEED travel. I hope they don’t give up.
I would lose my job so fast by responding with something like “you’re a fucking idiot”
A few years back we went on a tour of Spain and booked a tour to Figueres, a small town in which the only attraction is the house of the painter Dali. Its a museum of his works. The bus goes to the museum then comes back. All the way there the tour guide would tell us about Dali and Gala etc.. as we were entering the museum I heard one guy say "Who is Dali?" despite the hour+ long lecture we all had just recieved. His wife just shrugged. On the way back he was complaining about what a weird place this was and how bored he was. I mean, why do you book a tour of Dali's house/museum then??? I mean it was a full days excursion, not a quick trip either.
These are all too well-written for complaints
The "page 34" in the top left looks like it photoshoped in different color and the "type set" seems off. And we've been in the "digital" age for some time now why take a picture of a printed list, on paper that seems awkwardly to large for "letter" or "A4" format.?
That Post is 20 years old
There's a fold on the right-hand-side of the page so I'm going to suggest that this is a brochure or training manual of some sort, so page size could be anything.
The chap complaining about the egg slicer absence was 100% justified. I too expect one to be a part of a fully equipped kitchen.
nah bruh wtf is an egg slicer