Holiday Complaints

[AndyVale]

My friend has just sent me a link to 20 real complaints that holiday makers have made. Some of the best examples include:

-A tourist at a top African game lodge overlooking a waterhole, who spotted a visibly aroused elephant, complained that the sight of this rampant beast ruined his honeymoon by making him feel "inadequate".

-"Topless sunbathing on the beach should be banned. The holiday was ruined as my husband spent all day looking at other women."

-"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."

-"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."

What was the worst thing to happen to you on holiday? I'm just wondering.

Once on holiday, when I was 6, I thought I'd worked out how to fly. It involved jumping

 

[Arrers]

Funniest thing I've seen today.

 

[nolph fooz]

Don't go on holiday... problem solved
stay at home and play WoW like all of china

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

Any holiday that would involve interacting with that kind of person would be a ruined holiday.
Crikey, people are dumb.

 

[nolph fooz]

Having to hitch hike from the middel of french all the way back to the freaking netherlands. having no money,no phone.

Dont ask me what i hade to do for food (joking)

 

[090907]

Apart from almost drowning as a kid, nothing except major sunburn on my honeymoon, but then again, I got my wife to rub in after sun gel, so it wasn't all bad

 

[MarsProbe]

When one holiday...somewhere (I think it was Madeira) some locals raided the apartment we were staying in. It wasn't until I was getting ready in the morning that I was having a little bit of trouble finding my shaving stuff. Then I noticed my jacket was also missing, which happened to have all my keys for back home in it. Some thugs had busted in and nabbed some of my stuff.

That was the first time I actually had anything stolen from me, and certainly didn't expect it to happen on holiday. Was a bit of a downer, but I did at least get an interesting trip to the local police station to file the report out of it.

 

[AndyVale]

While it wasn't exactly a 'holiday' my friend did have an awful time at last years UK Student Radio Conference.

On the final day we were given a tour round GWR, which is one of the biggest radio stations in all of the UK. Unfortunately some prawns disagreed with him and made their valiant exit from his body about 5 metres before he reached the toilet. BAM! Chunder all down the main corridor of one of the most important buildings in UK Radio. Somewhat embarrasing.

Then when we got back to the car, that had been broken into and someone had taken his laptop, CD's and medicine! He'd left them out on the backseat, whereas all my stuff was locked away in the boot. Then to make matters worse we realised that the town of Bath has the worst car-park security on the planet, with almost no CCTV whatsoever and to make matters worse we had already paid to use the car park. We finally found a security guard, who was the only man in the whole town employed to patrol the car parks. That's one guy on foot[b/] patrolling an area with a 3 mile radius. He was most sympathetic, but it underlined just how hopeless our cause was.

Then on the way back he couldn't drive the whole way due to still being really ill, so I had to take the wheel. He told me it didn't go over 50mph. Let's just say I took it above that while he was sleeping. It was as if he'd said to me "my girlfriend doesn't believe in sex before marriage." Only for her to pop round my house and have a most energetic meat-ride. I still give his car a cheeky wink, she misses me.

Most of my holidays used to involve arcades. In fact it was a pre-requisite for my parents as they knew I wouldn't shut up otherwise.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

I got a weird mouth infection that made it feel like the top of my mouth was an open wound. Lasted 3 weeks. Eating was seriously painful, I was actually bleeding from the mouth occasionally, which led to hunger cramps and other dietary related pains and symptoms. But i got to play xbox in the hotel room since I was too sick to leave/would occasionally bleed on my shirt so it wasn't that bad.

Edit: on another holiday I got so sunburned so bad that the sunscreen/after sun crap started bubbling on my back. Or so I am told, I just remember my back stinging like a *****.

 

[Gooble]

A short while back there was a story about an English family complaining to their travel agents because there were too many Germans at their resort.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Well, on holiday in the Alps last year my Sister came to visit.

Bearing in mind she knew I was mountain biking between Les Gets, Morzine and Champery.
Her complaints were:

Too hot,
Too cold,
Too high,
Too steep,


Two days of this, then I put her on a bus back to England.

What was the worst thing to happen to you on holiday? I'm just wondering.

Not me as such, but my Dad decided the middle of the night on Crete would be a good time for a heart attack.
Luckily Greek hospitals are actually very good.

 

[AndyVale]

a Phsycho Tuk Tuk driver in thiland, escaping from him involved $100, a desprete run through an anti government rally in an autoritarian state (BAD idea!) a background appearence on the national news, police, army, and a bright pink taxi...

You sound fun. We should travel some time.

 

[Bat Vader]

My friend has just sent me a link to 20 real complaints that holiday makers have made. Some of the best examples include:

-A tourist at a top African game lodge overlooking a waterhole, who spotted a visibly aroused elephant, complained that the sight of this rampant beast ruined his honeymoon by making him feel "inadequate".

-"Topless sunbathing on the beach should be banned. The holiday was ruined as my husband spent all day looking at other women."

-"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."

-"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."

What was the worst thing to happen to you on holiday? I'm just wondering.

Once on holiday, when I was 6, I thought I'd worked out how to fly. It involved jumping

You have to post the link. I need to see it.

 

[Abedeus]

Montenegro.

40'C during the day (in the shade - I wouldn't exaggerate if I said it was 50'C+ in the sun), 25 in the night. Loud techno/pop music coming from a nightclub 50 meters down (the house I was staying in was on a top of a hill, down below was a beach and few nightclubs) from 7pm to 3am, to 5am during the weekend.

Then my mom twisted her ankle and we had to go back to Poland. We almost were happy, if not for the fact that it's a 2 day trip in a car. No matter how good the car is, it wasn't a nice return, even if we didn't have to suffer for another week.

If not for the fact that we are going to Spain this summer, I wouldn't go. I mean, I will finally get a chance to practice my language with some natives.

 

[AndyVale]

You have to post the link. I need to see it.

I thought there were rules against that. I heard someone got probation or something for advertising another site.

But since it's been requested:
...

Just looked, can't find it now. Will post later if I do.

 

[Cylem]

A few Christmases ago, my mom and I checked our suitcases into the Seattle airport and got about half my video games and my and my cousins' christmas presents stolen. I was emo for over a week 'cos my memory card for my year-old Animal Crossing was in one of the stolen boxes...

On the bright side, it prompted me to finish Tales of Symphonia and Super Smash Bros. Melee made it out okay. They only stole the rated E games, oddly enough. Giving a child stolen merchandise for Christmas seems kind of... off.