COMPLAINTS MADE TO TOUR OPERATORS BY HOLIDAYMAKERS.....

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."


BE AWARE ...
THEY WALK AMONG US and THEY VOTE!

No.2 is a peach!!!!

Bu***r me! to miss quote Einstein only Human stupidity is infinite!

my comments are:

1) can you damn well believe those dastardly Indians selling Indian food like curry in their "native" restaurants! what ever next?

2) can we have your comments on the quality of the near naked men so as not to be sexist?

3) I bet every one was driving on the wrong (not left) side of the road too!

4) But the real question is did you read the small-print? minimum IQ requirement of more than 80.

5) You can always go to Monte-carlo they have used crushed marble instead of sand on some of their beaches.

6) The excess "yellowness" of the sand was probably caused because you did not book the optional "permanent pale sunlight" option and used the normally only at dawn "pale sunlight" option in the standard package. We would we recommend less drink and getting up really early like the rest of us if you want that picture.

7) Due to the fact that Puerto Vallartato is in MEXICO, many of the residents will be following Mexican social norms like a 'siesta' You can try it too!

8) Where else are the fish supposed to live?

9) what ever next, I bet they expected you to use a knife?

10) This is Because you did not book the "little Britain" option where local shops are only for local people, selling local stuff with local branding.

11) May I be so bold as to suggest some forward planning.... Like reading the local guild book before you travel.... There is another option of travel "audio books" which are immune to "road judder".

12) Due to the fact that you live much further away from Jamaica than some parts of mainland America it will take longer to get there as nearly all modern passenger planes travel at a similar cruising speed of about 885 km/hr (550 mph) to maximise fuel economy. To achieve these shorter travel times you must live closer to your destination.

13) There is no gentle way of explaining this, but I will try. If you have any fiends that are either "filthy rich" or an oligarch. They can and often do spend a lot more than "normal" people on there holiday accommodation so get a lot more.

14) Could it be possible that you missed a trick here? If you had the gumption to set-up a small "pop up" business and fill a gap in the market, the other holidaymakers would have been so grateful you would not have been persecuted. You could have also gained valuable hairdressing experience too!

15) After doing a little "research" into population demographics I can confirm that it is normal for locals to be the majority in a given population. Therefore there will be more Spanish people in Spain than any other group. To solve the problem of "so many foreigners" holiday in your own country.

16) There is no solution at present to "no air-conditioning" out side at the moment scientists are working on solving this and and human stupidity too!

17) Regarding the "noisy or unruly guests" we can only assume that these guests failed to fill in the correct form before going away. Fancy some people getting "noisy / unruly / drunk" while on holiday. monastery vacations are also available....

18) Did the brochure mention gravity? You had the benefits of gravity on your holiday instead of being thrown into space by the centrifugal forces of the earth spinning. The brochure can not mention everything good or bad, again common sense is required!

19) Self control is some times required or birth control.... Perhaps a vacation in a state where 24 hour chaperoning is mandatory if you are not married would have been better?

1. Then don't feckin go to India
2. I'm sure your husband was devastated
3. Just point on a map and keep quiet next time
4. You assumed wrong
5. A beach with sand....how inconsiderate
6. You were wearing the wrong coloured sunglasses mate
7. Yip, I agree, let's change the culture of a nation just to suit you.
8. You need to toughen your kids up.
9. Did you tell them you were planning to eat eggs
10. Maybe you should stay at home next time
11. I think you deserve a full refund and free holidays for the next 10 years
12. Terribly unfair. You need to complain more about that or it'll never change
13. No shit Sherlock!
14. They always follow you for a week before you arrive just to check what job you have.
15. In their country YOU are the foreigner
16. Shame on them
17. Yeah right
18. It didn't mention drugs, prostitutes or foreigners, but they were all there
19. And it wouldn't have happened if you'd kept your knickers on either, you loose huzzy

I hope you people realize that these ' true complaints ' were already kind of old back in 2013 when they first appeared on my Facebook feed , right ?

*edit : not that it should cast any doubt as to their authenticity , if something was on Facebook then it must be true, as everyone knows..


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Were some of these complaints made by the posters in the EU In/Out thread?

Most of them probably.........some of those folk probably posted more than one!

No Custard Creams!!!!

I got into the habit of taking creme eggs to Germany for various mates who then got suitably addicted. The last time it was sixty of the things! Do you realise what a mess that can make in a pannier.

And, I've eaten custard cremes just past the North Cape. A simple case of rationing out ones supply, as was done with the Jamesons on the same trip.

Andy

I don't ever "facebook" but the jokes above have gone around the internet joke circuit for many years.

Here's more that I received today:

‘Won’t you join our Common Market?’ said the spider to the fly,
‘It really is a winner and the cost is not too high’
‘I know De Gaulle said ’’ Non’’, but he hadn’t got a clue,
‘We want you in, my friends and I, for we have plans for you.
‘You’ll have to pay a little more than we do, just for now,
‘As Herr Kohl said, and I agree, we need a new milch cow,
‘It’s just a continental term, believe me , mon ami,
‘Like ‘’Vive la France’’ or ‘’Mad Anglais’’ or even ‘’E.E.C.’’.
‘As to the rules, don’t worry friend, there’s really but a few
‘You’ll find that we ignore them - but they all apply to you.
‘Give and share between us, that’s what it’s all about,
‘You do all the giving, and we all share it out.
‘It’s very British, is it not, to help a friend in need?
‘You’ve done it twice in two World Wars, a fact we must concede,
‘So climb aboard the Market Train, don’t sit there on the side,
‘Your continental cousins want to take you for a ride’

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I didn't claim they were new. I saw them myself some time ago.

Did you happen to miss the Yellowstone tourists who loaded up a bison calf in their SUV cause they thought it was cold?

Having worked in the service industry I am here to say the above quotes likely have some truth to them.

A guest at a Novotel in Australia complained his soup was too thick and strong. He was inadvertently slurping the gravy at the time.

"We bought 'Ray-Ban' sunglasses for five Euros from a street trader, only to find out they were fake."

A tourist at a top African Game Lodge over looking 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 by staff. When in fact, she had mistaken the "do not disturb" sign on the back of the door as a warning to remain in the room.

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We make fun of them, but it worries me more that those people believe they are right.

And they shop at Walmart
- you have to receive those emails to understand fully.

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