Incredible but true. These are actual complaints received at "Thomas Cook Holidays".

Extinction can't happen soon enough.

 

1. “On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don’t like spicy food.”

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

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 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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Reply #1 Top

OMG!!! Talk about the stupidity of a lot of the human race! These are perfect examples!  :rofl:

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I am......by belief.......an extinctionist (of course that means others and not me! O:) )

 

The matrix (I believe) put it best......we humans are the virus.  We need to be eradicated.  Someday AI (while not choosing to kill us) will likely choose to not save us.  The end result will be the same, and the world can go on it's merry way surviving the human race! 

 

This day cannot come soon enough!

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No one told us that there would be so many foreigners.”
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Yeah, it's bloody awful, booking an overseas trip and discovering that your destination is full of foreigners.  It's even worse when they don't speak your language and you've got to pay extra for a book to translate.  Another thing that pisses me off about travelling abroad is all the foreign money, it should be like ours.

:grin:

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I hate it when you go somewhere and it's full of foreigners. Everyone should be made to speak English.

I especially hate not being able to find a fish and chip shop. Barbarians...

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Quoting Fuzzy, reply 4

I especially hate not being able to find a fish and chip shop. Barbarians...
End of Fuzzy's quote

No worries here in Oz... fish n' chip shop on every second corner and some down the street as well.

Another thing I hate about foreigners is when they don't understand what you're saying, and when you do a little charade thingy to try explain it in living form, they look at you like you're some kind of escaped looney or something.

I mean, who do they think they are? :grin: :-" ;P

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Quoting starkers, reply 5

No worries here in Oz... fish n' chip shop on every second corner and some down the street as well.
End of starkers's quote

Unfortunately, he also specified:

Quoting Fuzzy, reply 4

Everyone should be made to speak English.
End of Fuzzy's quote

:grin:

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Quoting Fuzzy, reply 4

I hate it when you go somewhere and it's full of foreigners. Everyone should be made to speak English.
End of Fuzzy's quote

Everyone DOES.....

It's a little ploy they pull [using foreign languages] to make the place feel 'exotic'...;)

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What I don't like is the fact that they don't have a Jewish deli on the corner. They make the best roast beef sandwiches.

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Quoting Jafo, reply 7

Everyone DOES.....
End of Jafo's quote

Nah. They're all "barbie-arians". ;)

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Quoting Jafo, reply 7

It's a little ploy they pull [using foreign languages] to make the place feel 'exotic'..
End of Jafo's quote

And it's a way the locals can insult the tourists cluttering up their streets, etc, without suffering harsh consequences.

When I was a lad, and lived on the English Riviera, we used to call tourists/holidaymakers 'Grockles'  We didn't like them cos they cluttered up our streets, towns and beaches.... not to mention the buses.  I can't recall how many times we had to wait for the next bus or the one after cos they were full of Grockles.  And the fechen long queues because every Grockle and his dog wanted what we were having... or what we would have had if we hadn't been standing in fechen line waiting.

Yup, we wished all the Grockles stayed at home where they belonged... unless they were around 15/16, pretty and nicely filled out a bikini in all the right places.

:grin:

Reply #11 Top

Good grief...o_O

12 is my favourite...

but 14 is unfrigginbelievable!!

 

Some must have been made up..surely...

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Quoting sydneysiders, reply 11

but 14 is unfrigginbelievable!!
End of sydneysiders's quote

There just isn't enough tinfoil to deal with these pine cones.

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Quoting DrJBHL, reply 12


Quoting sydneysiders,

but 14 is unfrigginbelievable!!



There just isn't enough tinfoil to deal with these pine cones.

End of DrJBHL's quote

Nope!  However, that's when you resort to using aluminium cooking pots instead.  They're thicker and offer better protection when pine cones start falling from the heavens in unprecedented numbers.  Personally, though, I prefer stainless steel pots if/when I'm going out in public.  Yeah, they just look so much classier than those cheaply made aluminium ones when out and about.

:grin:

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Quoting starkers, reply 13

Personally, though, I prefer stainless steel pots if/when I'm going out in public.  Yeah, they just look so much classier than those cheaply made aluminium ones when out and about.
End of starkers's quote

non stick...surely...  :|

easier to remove after a long day out in the world...

Reply #15 Top

Quoting sydneysiders, reply 14


Quoting starkers,

Personally, though, I prefer stainless steel pots if/when I'm going out in public.  Yeah, they just look so much classier than those cheaply made aluminium ones when out and about.



non stick...surely...  :|

easier to remove after a long day out in the world...

End of sydneysiders's quote

Yup!  Stainless steel outside, non-stick inside.  Learnt a valuable lesson from my younger sister, who as a kid got her head stuck in a saucepan.  I wasn't having any of that, head firmly wedged in a saucepan like tat, so it's non-stick for me every time. 

Not to mention the extra smear of Brylcreem to be sure, to be sure. :grin:

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Quoting starkers, reply 15

Not to mention the extra smear of Brylcreem
End of starkers's quote

a little dab'll do ya..  ;)

Reply #17 Top

Quoting sydneysiders, reply 16

a little dab'll do ya..
End of sydneysiders's quote

Ever get a saucepan stuck on yer head?

Well neither have I, thanks to the extra bit o' Brylcreem.

So let me be the judge of just how much I need... cos I don't want there to be a first time.

:-" ;P :grin:

BTW, and wasn't it waaaay past your bed time when you posted that? ;P

Reply #18 Top

Oh and another thing I hate about foreigners is when you ask them to take a photo of you in front of a famous landmark, they always get your worst side and the pic does you absolutely no justice whatsoever.

And while I'm at it!  I hate going overseas and getting lost cos the street signs are all foreign.

:grin: ;P :-"

Reply #19 Top

I hate it when I drive abroad. The silly twats are all on the wrong side of the road - creates some right chaos...

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And another thing, what's with all the foreigners opening restaurants in my home town and all the menus are in Greek, Italian, French or something.  They should be in English so's I know whether I'm eating cat or something else 'exotic'.

:grin: :-"  ;)  

 

Reply #21 Top

And what's with being called a foreigner when I'm abroad?

Everybody back home knows I'm not. :-"  

However, what really irked me was travelling from New Zealand back to Australia early one morning, and landing in Brisbane the same time as I took off from Christchurch.  Damned travel agent didn't warn me that would happen, otherwise I could have stayed in bed 4 hours longer and still got home on time.

Reply #22 Top

Or when you go to an English pub and nobody speaks English.

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E' by gum, lad, that's not a nice thing t' say 'bout our hops establishments.:-"  

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Bruce Tepper, who works as a travel industry consultant in California, says one of his clients had a traveller wanting to fly from Minneapolis to Tokyo on a flight that went "as far north as possible".

When quizzed on his request, the man said he was pressed for time and needed to go around the International Date Line rather than over it, as he couldn't afford to lose a day.

"An assurance that he would get it back on his return was insufficient," Tepper says.

"I was told by a ranger at Yosemite that one visitor asked "what time do they turn off the falls?" she says.

In case you're wondering if that could possibly be true, Deb Hickok of the Fairbanks visitor bureau in Alaska says she has been asked what time they turn on the northern lights.

The customer service centre at Wotif.com says a lady booking a two-bedroom apartment for her family asked to have the second room changed from a twin to a double because her children were not twins.

 

 Bottom line: It's just not safe to travel anywhere!

 

Reply #25 Top

That's like the traveler who asked a council beach attendant to hold the incoming tide for an hour so he could dig for bait worms.

And there was the woman who asked a park ranger if bears really stole picnic baskets... and when was the best time to see Yogi.

:grin: :-"  ;P