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To brighten your day
« on: June 17, 2023, 12:28:44 AM »
These might give you a laugh:

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."

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Re: To brighten your day
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2023, 01:29:28 AM »
Hilarious Pat  :laugh: You couldn't make it up!
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Re: To brighten your day
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2023, 06:50:28 AM »
Truly made my day!

The injustice of “Americans” getting home faster cracked a loud smile….

But I think my favorite complaint was the lack of an egg slicer.

What horrors travelers may endure,

Thank god for us stay at homes.

I have spatulas galore!

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Re: To brighten your day
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2023, 09:06:54 AM »
These remind me of an ad campaign (decades ago) for American Express credit card with a slogan of 'Don't leave home without it!' — except these complainers only need the first three words.

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Re: To brighten your day
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2023, 12:05:05 PM »
Visiting another country and then complaining about "foreigners" really does mark one out as "special" ...
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