Thickos on TripAdvisor

PIL run a beautiful country house hotel in Scotland. Someone complained on TripAdvisor that there was a tree blocking the Loch view which should be cut down. Said tree is an oak over 200 years old. Morons.

"As mentioned in other reviews below, we too were awoken in the early hours on the 7th October by a lot of screaming and shouting from the balconies to be told someone had fallen from a top balcony. This was really upsetting, and had we not of been checking out that morning, it would of ruined the rest of our holiday."

Obviously the same hotel as before.

Note the use of would of, especially for MN pedants.

that was meant to be

Seriously [anger] churches in cities, calls to prayer in Muslim countries ...

does no one think of the tourists?

Firstly, there was spit on the walls outside our room. Not just small blobs of spit, but actual green chunks of snot.

We selected this hotel based on the reviews here and the fact that they had availability. It was overall a dissapointing experience. The only good thing about the hotel is the great views of the city. But beware of the big church right in front. It blocks some of the view.

Why oh why don't the hotel just move it?

How bloody selfish can you get - committing suicide and ruining other people's holidays, not to mention their karma. FFS.

It's not just the not being able to make tea MmeLindt. I think it's the thought that another world might exist where there is not a constant possibility of a cup of tea. It throws them into an existential crisis.

A review for a Hotel in Bendidorm.

?A DIAMOND IN THE CENTRE OF A COW-PAT?

Followed by uber-justification:

"Through circumstances beyond our control we found ourselves having to come to Benidorm (we are Cote D? Azure people not Costa Blanca)."

"GREAT HOTEL NICE FOOD BUT SUICIDE JUMP SPOILT THE KARMA?

FellatioNelson

That's service for you. Most places just blindfold you and shove you in the general direction of the lifts, shouting - 'just keep trying doors until you find it you English Bitch.'

Stop it please, please, my sides have blinkin split now!

Also I am supposed to be doing some work

I love it when Brits go abroad and complain that there was no kettle and tea bags in the room - what do they call it? A hospitality tray?

It is a peculiar invention of the Brits. We don't do them on the continent unless we are catering specifically for Brits.

On the other hand some people wont let anything get them down and are very English about waiting for things like receptacles for tea...

'The front door lock was a bit dodgy so we wedged a chair under it at night as we were on the main road and access would have been too easy for anyone to break in.

The electrician came within hours to fix the hot water but we waited 2 days to get cups for our tea!

Our only worry was that we had to leave our passports with reception staff for 24 hours and assumed they would be locked in a safe, but when we collected them they were just in a pigeon hole behind the desk.

It is so worth a visit, so do try it and I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.'

''We have rocks in Canada Karen!!! Lots of laughs.''

Oh good grief! Sounds like a riot! Poor Karen. Imagine meeting him on holiday. Your heart would sink every time you saw him coming...

'The only vegetarian food available was plain pasta. All the sauces were meat and even the rice or salad dishes all had meat or fish in them. I asked if they could provide anything that was suitable for vegetarians and they said No, they did not cater for vegetarians at all, and I should have known, as they did not advertise as having a vegetarian restaurant.'

Quite right too. they should have had her thrown out onto the street, the audacious, ungrateful pasty-faced weirdo.

i love tripadvisor you sometimes wonder if these people are staying at the same hotel as the other people, we have booked for buggiba in malta for october at the topaz hotel and people either love it or absolutely hate it, we have paid £43 for a week there self catering, and as long as ive got a bed to sleep in, a kettle for making a brew and a shower that works thats all i want, and i cant wait to try some of the maltese food

I carefully read all the reviews on trip advisor and booked this hotel for my husband's birthday. We arrived on 01 August and tried to book into our superior with a view room, to be met by a surly rude gentleman eating chinese food and completely uninterested.
He gave me the key to a room that was absolutely not superior in any way shape or form. No aircon, twin beds, dark and dingy and no view.
On querying this with reception, he shrugged, "it's all i have, take it or leave it.."
We left there and then and had to find alternative acoomodation on a warm friday evening, carrying luggage. This ruined our vacation.
Hideous place.

We were there at the same time. Fabulous location in tree lined square in Montmartre. Would go again in a heartbeat

I am 40 weeks pregnant today and my bladder cannot handle this.

Oh Dear God this thread is wonderful!

pmsl @ "I thought Thickos was a Greek Island"

I'm starting to feel deprived as the hotels I've stayed in have definitely been lacking in the obvious prostitute department. Amusing or otherwise.

LtEve at least our Liverpudlian friend thought the Moroccan theam (sic) restaurant was the best of the bunch. On his Moroccan holiday. I thought that was rather sweet.

My eyes are watering from this, particularly
"Don't go to Los Dalmatas hotel in Benidorm during the International Chicken Farmers' Conference, as this poor guy did:

"people using fowl language round the pool""

Now I'm at it look grr...This from fuerteventura:

The reception staff cannot smile and the bar man practically threw my drink at me because I dared to ask for pineapple with my Malibu. Pineapple is for breakfast only!! The etertainment is a complete shambles. If you win the quiz you are the entertainment, ie, you are forced to play musical chairs. It was so painful to watch we had to leave. The pool when we arrived was filthy, the sun loungers are mostly not fit to lie on and don't dare ask for more than one hot dog from the snack bar as you are restricted to one. You can have icecream but when I asked for a spoon I was told that they had none.

"Twice a fiend attended the public bar toilet to find someone had lost all inhibitions and had caused carnage of the bowel kind in the toilet, vile. Is it any woder the british abroad are give a bad name. You will enjoy this hotel if you too live like a character from Shameless, you will hate this hotelclientele if you have the slightest bit of self-pride and dignity."

This thread is hilarious.

Don't go to Los Dalmatas hotel in Benidorm during the International Chicken Farmers' Conference, as this poor guy did:

"people using fowl language round the pool"