THESE ARE ACTUAL COMPLAINTS RECEIVED BY "THOMAS COOK VACATIONS" FROM DISSATISFIED CUSTOMERS:
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. "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 fiancee 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!!!!
Posted by James Donahue (Member # 3624) on :
"...and THEY VOTE!!!" That we can agree on. I'll take it a step further: they vote in both major parties. I love the one about the long flight back to England; I think they're obviously from ______ party. But I'll leave them alone and go politically "closer to home" with the hairdressers; they're obviously from the conspiracy theory subculture. "And another thing! I expected a designer tin foil hat!" If you Google tin foil hat, you'll probably see an image of the guy that was kind enough to make an additional one for his cat. Good stuff. Posted by Dale Feicke (Member # 767) on :
It's kinda like when we lived in Florida. The natives used to get so mad..."those damn Yankees move down here to get away from the busy, busy, rush, rush of the big cities up north......then they bitch cause things down here aren't like they were up north." A common bumper sticker we saw said "Welcome...Have a Nice Visit....Go Home"
People on some of the travel shows my wife watches bitch and whine about accomodations in Europe or South America or....."Not like the ones we stayed in back home."
Well then, stay the hell home, folks!
[ January 13, 2015, 03:28 PM: Message edited by: Dale Feicke ]
Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on :
I think some people need to stay in school their entire lives because they sure get stupid once they are out for a while.
