The proof is in the pudding, as they say across the pond there – just because you might have enough money to take a fancy vacation with a travel agent does not mean you aren’t nearly too stupid to live.
The Toronto Star published a short article listing the twenty most ridiculous travel complaints ever heard, as reported to Thomas Cook and the Association of British Travel Agents in a recent survey of patrons of local agents. We are officially doomed as a species. Officially.
Here are some of the best (yes, ten of the twenty stupidest things count as ‘the best,’ and even that was hard). Do people not read the things they’ve written and then smash their own skulls against a wall or something? I mean… really?
“We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our swimming costumes and towels.”
The water park does not have gambling and strippers, nor do we give away free bikinis with entry. We apologize for not being Vegas.
A woman threatened to call police after claiming that she’d been locked in her hotel room by staff. In fact, she had mistaken the “do not disturb” sign on the back of the door as a warning to remain in the room.
I think this might be the most confusing thing I’ve heard in a very long time. Seriously? I’m desperately resisting the urge to assume that she’s blonde. Be grateful for your anonymity, my dear delicate idiot.
“The beach was too sandy.”
I’ll admit it, I’ve lived on a beach for a month and I know how this feels. Sometimes there’s just too much sand. But maybe some self-censorship would save your reputation with your travel agent, eh?
A guest at a Novotel in Australia complained his soup was too thick and strong. He was inadvertently slurping the gravy at the time.
By this I take it that the restaurant staff, despite there being no language barrier, sat and watched the man drink gravy for his entire stay without mentioning it to him? I guess I just hope he doesn’t have a heart condition to go along with his idiot condition.
“No one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled.”
I just can’t…. I mean really? Even if it weren’t completely incomprehensible that you would not realize that there are things that live in the sea, you’ve really never heard the one about how there are so many “fish in the sea”? Where did you think that came from, exactly?
“It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England, it only took the Americans three hours to get home.”
Damn those Americans for living so close to Jamaica. I hate it too, I know. Planes suck. But, unless your travel agent is also an immigration agent, I don’t think there’s much he can do about it. Sorry.
And the last best:
“I compared the size of our one-bedroom apartment to our friends’ three-bedroom apartment and ours was significantly smaller.”
“The brochure stated: ‘No hairdressers at the accommodation.’ We’re trainee hairdressers — will we be OK staying there?”
“There are too many Spanish people. The receptionist speaks Spanish. The food is Spanish. Too many foreigners now live abroad.”
“I was bitten by a mosquito, no-one said they could bite.”
Now hold on just one tiny second here. They do have mosquitoes in England, right? RIGHT?!? OMG! Whew. Thank you, internet. All is well in the world again.