Holidays from hell ? how we enjoy the TV programmes which prove how truly awful some people?s holiday experiences are. Most of us have something to gripe about ? hotels not as advertised, poor food, travel disruption to name but a few.
Now Thomas Cook and the Association of British Travel Agents have compiled a list of not so commonly heard of, and extremely funny holiday complaints. Read on!
A woman, alleging that she?d been locked in by staff warned of calling police. She had mistaken the ?do not disturb? sign on the back of the door as an instruction to remain in the room.
A tourist at an African lodge complained that the sight of the visibly aroused elephant spoiled his honeymoon as it made him feel "inadequate".
Some others complained that the 'Ray-Ban' sunglasses they had bought for five euros (?3.50) from a street trader were fake.
Tourists have also complained about reaching their home in England much later than their American counterparts to whom it took only took three hours to get home from Jamaica.
Another tourist said, ?I compared the size of our one-bedroom apartment to our friends' three-bedroom apartment and ours was significantly smaller.?
"There are too many Spanish people in Spain. The receptionist speaks Spanish. The food is Spanish."
"We had to queue outside with no air conditioning."
-One tourist blamed the hotel for her pregnancy arguing that it wouldn?t have happened if she and her fianc? had been provided twin-bedded room instead of a double-bedded one.
One tourist complained that the beach was excessively sandy
"No-one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled...?
"I was bitten by a mosquito ? no-one said they could bite.?
Hilarious!