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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsTake a break: THESE ARE ACTUAL COMPLAINTS RECEIVED BY "THOMAS COOK VACATIONS" FROM DISSATISFIED CUSTOMERS (Enjoy!)
WHOO BOY!!
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."
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 reimbursed for the fact that I became pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked."

yorkster
(3,207 posts)there's no bloody Watney's!
Berlin Expat
(958 posts)Imagine, going to Spain - and being shocked there's Spanish people there, speaking Spanish!
OldBaldy1701E
(8,146 posts)Namely, the 'lighter' the person, the more idiotic and egotistical they are.
These are not the first stories I have heard about such brain dead, entitled behavior.
They are not even the first one hundred.
The Madcap
(1,241 posts)It didn't say "speaking Mexican" instead.
AllaN01Bear
(25,845 posts)AZ8theist
(6,759 posts)NOBODY is that stupid.
But then again, as an American I can believe this idiocy from my fellow citizens.
Raven123
(6,784 posts)GB_RN
(3,388 posts)That stupid. Evidence:
1) People voted for Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent. Not just once, but THREE times.
2) See # 1.
😂
twodogsbarking
(14,138 posts)GB_RN
(3,388 posts)The common clay of the new West
Funniest movie. Ever.
mwooldri
(10,645 posts)I remember seeing this list of complaints to a local council housing department... My dad used to work for Chichester District Council in the housing department and brought this list home one day in the late 1980s... Of course it's been plastered all over the Internet in many places so yeah I have done a copy-paste job here ... But enjoy...
"I want some repairs done to my cooker as it has backfired and burnt my knob off."
"I wish to complain that my father hurt his ankle very badly when he put his foot in the hole in his back passage."
"Their 18 year old son is continuously banging his balls against my fence."
"I wish to report that tiles are missing from the roof of the outside toilet and I think it was bad wind the other night that blew them off."
"The lavatory seat is cracked, where do I stand?"
"I am writing on behalf of my sink which is coming away from the wall."
"Will you please send someone to mend the garden path. My wife tripped and fell on it yesterday and now she is pregnant."
"I request your permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen."
"Can you please tell me when the repairs will be done as my wife is about to become an expectant mother."
"I am still having trouble with smoke in my built in drawers."
"The toilet is blocked and we cannot bath the children until it is cleared."
"Will you please send a man to look at my water, it is a funny colour and not fit to drink."
"Our lavatory seat is broken in half and now it is in three pieces."
"Would you please send a man to repair my sprout. I am an old age pensioner and need it straight away."
"I want to complain about the farmer across the road; every morning at 6am his cock wakes me up and it's getting too much."
"The man next door has a large erection in the back garden, which is unsightly and dangerous."
"Our kitchen floor is damp. We have two children and would like a third so will you please send someone around to do something about it."
"I am a single woman living in a downstairs flat and would be pleased if you could do something about the noise made by the man I have on top of me every night."
"Please send a man with clean tools to finish the job and satisfy the wife."
"I have had the Clerk of the Works down on the floor six times, but still have no satisfaction."
"We are getting married in September and would like it in the garden before we move into the house."
"This is to let you know that our lavatory seat is broken and we can't get BBC2."
malaise
(285,750 posts)That is all
Gum Logger
(126 posts)CaptainTruth
(7,717 posts)mwmisses4289
(1,350 posts)U.s. and u.k. tourists. Some variation of 3 and 15 have been around for a long time. 2 and 10, though...smh.
milestogo
(21,000 posts)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.