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    19 Idiotic (But Real) Travel Complaints

    AJ posted this on FB...you guys post some good stuff there, y'all need to bring it to the forum more! ;)


    These are actual complaints received from dissatisfied customers by Thomas Cook Vacations (based on a Thomas Cook/ABTA survey):

    1. "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."

    2. "It's lazy of the local shopkeepers in Puerto Vallarta 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."

    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. "They should not allow topless sunbathing on the beach. It was very distracting for my husband who just wanted to relax."

    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. "We went on holiday to Spain and had a problem with the taxi drivers as they were all Spanish."

    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. "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 fiance 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."

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    3 and 7 are not so bad. I know from experience that foods served in India can be spicy to the point of being inedible. Comfortable to eat is a completely different category than merely survivable. Drinking something to flush down the spices doesnt help at all, a lot of the time.

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    Those are hilarious. I would bet most of them were written by entitled Americans.

    Colonel...were I to go to India I would be expecting spicy food. ESPECIALLY curry!

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    Yes but not necessarily 100 times as spicy as what you are used to. An Indian restaurant here in Oslo has five levels of spices : mild, medium, strong, north indian and south indian. Only the three first are available to Westerners unless you beg.

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    Indian restaurants in the west learn that to keep their customers, they need to offer milder levels of spiciness. But Indian restaurants in India shouldn't have to do so, unless they are specifically designed to appeal to foreign travelers.

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    Mild Indian curry may cause death for those who have never experienced actual spicy food previously. South Indian spicy curry may cause spinal damage when it burns a hole through your lower back.
    I just returned from a visit to South Africa and I think I'd like to add a complaint. The leopards are too shy. I found it impossible to spot one. They should be more brightly colored and should cross the road occasionally.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tehilah Ba'Aretz View Post
    ...I just returned from a visit to South Africa and I think I'd like to add a complaint. The leopards are too shy. I found it impossible to spot one. They should be more brightly colored and should cross the road occasionally.
    I forgot what thread I was on and for a moment I thought you were serious!

    Hey Tom, with all your travel guide experience, got any good ones you can add to the list?

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    We had a leopard follow us around when we walked around the Kruger park in 2004, the ranger found his paw prints inside my footprints when we returned. He ran across the road ahead of us when we approached the start for our walk. I also saw Nkwe, as he is called in Zulu, when I first visited in 2001, he was lying on a rock up on a cliff, squinting at the morning sun at about 6 am. I think that was in Pilanesberg though. So I got all the big five twice. Life and elusive leopards arent always fair, including to poor Tom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    We had a leopard follow us around when we walked around the Kruger park in 2004, the ranger found his paw prints inside my footprints when we returned. He ran across the road ahead of us when we approached the start for our walk. I also saw Nkwe, as he is called in Zulu, when I first visited in 2001, he was lying on a rock up on a cliff, squinting at the morning sun at about 6 am. I think that was in Pilanesberg though. So I got all the big five twice. Life and elusive leopards arent always fair, including to poor Tom.
    Wretch! How dare you see a leopard when I haven't yet seen one? I hereby withdraw my offer of $100 to the person who shows me a living wild leopard if that person is the Colonel. In fact, I'll raise the reward to $200!

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    I wrote some spiritual short stories here in 05-06 that were inspired by those leopards, involving the tribe priest Nkwe wearing a leopard loin cloth and doing things like pouring gasoline over white travellers then handing them a torch with a big grin. Recently some dude called Todd White has been telling people to do the same, to become human torches. So I'm wondering if he was here reading those short stories and now he's stealing my concepts. In Pentecalidrama style I should file a complaint with the admins here and have them deal with the issue. Maybe I can get at least 200 dollars out of mr. White for that and then Tom wouldnt need to pay me.

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