Here are some of the most ridiculous complaints made by holidaymakers to their travel agent, taken from research by Thomas Cook and ABTA.
- A tourist at a top African game lodge overlooking a waterhole, who spotted a visibly aroused elephant, complained that the sight of this rampant beast ruined his honeymoon by making him feel “inadequate.”
- “The beach was too sandy.”
- A guest at a Novotel in Australia complained his soup was too thick and strong. He was inadvertently slurping the gravy at the time.
- “Topless sunbathing on the beach should be banned. The holiday was ruined as my husband spent all day looking at other women.”
- “No one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled.”
- “It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England, but it only took the Americans three hours to get home.”
- “My fiance and I booked a room with twin-beds, but we were placed in a double bedded room. We now hold you responsible for the fact that I find myself pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked.”
- “I compared the size of our one-bedroom apartment, to our friends’ three-bedroom apartment, and ours was significantly smaller.”
- “The brochure says: ‘No hairdressers here at the accommodation’. We’re trainee hairdressers – will we be okay staying here?”
- “Our trip to Spain was a complete disaster. There were too many Spanish people. The receptionist spoke Spanish. The food was Spanish. Entirely too many foreigners.”
- “We had to queue outside with no air conditioning.”
- “We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as yellow but it was white.”
- “We bought ‘Ray-Ban’ sunglasses from a street trader, only to find out they were fake.”
- “I was bitten by a mosquito – no one said they could bite.”
- “It’s lazy of the local shopkeepers to close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during ’siesta’ time – this should be banned.”
- “On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don’t like spicy food at all.”
- “We booked an excursion to a water park, but no one told us that we had to bring our swimsuits and towels.”
