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To think the hotel did the right thing

46 replies

Berthatydfil · 13/09/2015 10:54

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/gran-canaria-hotel-holiday-nightmare-10043809

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IMurderedStampyLongnose · 13/09/2015 10:59

Yep,they were clearly causing mayhem.The hotel probably should've given them their stuff though.

Pantone363 · 13/09/2015 11:03

God yes

Sirzy · 13/09/2015 11:05

I don't understand why they had their suitcases but nothing else?

Either way it sounds like the hotel were right to ask them to leave. I would hope their travel insurance would have told their where to go even if they had been able to contact them!

teeththief · 13/09/2015 11:08

If what the report says is true, they sound like a nightmare!! It does say they had their cases though so I don't know why they didn't have their phones/money as well. And they're not even home yet are they? So have contacted the papers whilst on holiday which seems a bit of an odd thing to do

WorraLiberty · 13/09/2015 11:09

I don??t ever want another birthday again after this

Errr....

AssembleTheMinions · 13/09/2015 11:15

Idioits! It's always someone else's fault isn't? Not theirs of course. Why on earth shouldn't they be allowed to scream and shout at 3am? They are on holiday after all. Hmm

I'm a bit confused that they managed to collect their suitcases but not phones, passports or money. That wouldn't make quite such a dramatic sorting when they went running the the press mind you.

I think asking for a refund may be optimistic Grin

Berthatydfil · 13/09/2015 11:17

I wondered a) why they would go to the press and b) why the press would think this was worth publishing.
I can only think its to garner public support for some compensation claim against the hotel or tne travel company. Personally I hope they fail as I have much more sympathy with the other guests in the hotel and can only imagine what is now happening in the place they have been moved to.

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notquitehuman · 13/09/2015 11:17

Yeah I don't get it. Their son could send them money for food, but nobody could send them anything else? They couldn't call their travel insurance provider because details were on their phone, but they must have known the company name and could have looked up the number. They wouldn't have needed many details.

Also, their drunk teenagers were apparently in the pool at 3AM shouting, so fuck that. I'm not surprised they were chucked out.

WhoTheFuckIsSimon · 13/09/2015 11:19

I wish more hotels would take such a tough line. I got punched by a similar group of delightful holidaymakers in Egypt. Must admit I didn't bother telling the Rep or hotel staff - although the pool staff and bar staff saw the fight. All the other holidaymakers told me after the fight that this family had been causing problems all week - shouting at other guests, being noisy late at night, rude to waiting staff, really drunk and lairy all the time.

Birdsgottafly · 13/09/2015 11:20

I agree that they should of been asked to leave the hotel.

However the Police (who were called by the Hotel), should of retrieved their Money and more importantly, their Passports.

They got help from the British Consul, who should be asking questions about the withholding of the Passports.

RubbishRobotFromTheDawnOfTime · 13/09/2015 11:22

"I don't ever want another birthday again after this."

Grin I think your fellow guests might be with you on that one.

Mind boggling that they think they have been wronged somehow.

they do look quite rough

AmIthatbloodywet · 13/09/2015 11:29

God, they sound awful

I agree with pps that the story doesn't add up. They had suitcases, but no phones, etc

I think the hotel were absolutely right.

Hygge · 13/09/2015 12:15

The hotel did the right thing.

We spent the night in a hotel in York for my fortieth birthday at the beginning of the year, and from 12:30pm to about 3am we were listening to a family like this one scream and shout and argue and slam doors.

It took two calls to the night manager, DH going to their room to complain, and a final warning from the night manager that he would turn them out on the street there and then if they didn't stop to finally shut them up.

DH said when he went to complain the woman who came to the door was apologetic, while her son in the background was shouting "Don't they know who I am, I'm a fuckin' gangsta, I know people, fucking gangsta" which was actually quite funny because he looked to be about seventeen and was streak of piss skinny, but it was also very late and they were keeping half the hotel awake, including our six year old.

We were not the only people complaining that night.

The family in this article were not the only people at the resort to spend thousands of pounds on a special holiday.

Yet they were the only people who were asked to leave.

They have to take responsibility for their own actions. They were warned three times. If they feel they have wasted £1,300 on one night in a hotel then perhaps they need to look at why, and not get pissed, start fights, or scream in the pool until 3am. Behaviour has consequences and perhaps paying over a thousand pounds to find that out is a good way for them to learn that lesson.

I hope they don't get any compensation, they don't deserve it.

So I'm another one thinking the hotel did the right thing in kicking them out.

DoreenLethal · 13/09/2015 12:23

If they didn't have wallets/purses - then how did they get the money out the next day/once the wages had been paid?

MaddyinaPaddy · 13/09/2015 12:28

They sound like the holidaymakers from hell! The hotel was within its right to ask them to leave, but not in confiscating their bags, money and valuables.I think they deserve, and will get ,compensation for that

KurriKurri · 13/09/2015 12:59

Tough if they feel they have wasted £1300 - I imagine the other guests who had spent the same money and had their holidays ruined by them feel pretty aggrieved too.

Bejeena · 13/09/2015 13:10

Haha that is a funny story and to the OP I love your username!

I think it is probably a but fabricated but it has given me a chuckle.

Savagebeauty · 13/09/2015 13:19

What a scummy family. Taking no responsibility for their anti social behaviour.

SurlyCue · 13/09/2015 13:27

"I don't ever want another birthday again after this"

She does realise the birthday didnt cause the problem, doesnt she! Hmm i mean this didnt happen because it was her birthday, its not as if it will happen every birthday because she's got a curse on her.

Its because you're a bunch of dickheads love!

ohbollocks2u · 13/09/2015 13:29

They should learn to behave then

riverboat1 · 13/09/2015 13:32

It's not a very coherent story, how on earth could it be that they had the time and means to take their suitcases with them when they left, but not the bag that had their travel documents, money and phones in it?

Lolimax · 13/09/2015 13:35

I read it earlier. Just wish they weren't Welsh!!! They sound like the family from Hell tbh and I think after warnings the hotel did the right thing.

Fluffyears · 13/09/2015 14:34

Oh yeah they are 'that family' you see them the first day and avoid them but see them regularly in resort at the centre of any hassle.

Hissy · 13/09/2015 14:37

You'd think that people this poorly mannered would be embarrassed to draw attention to their shit, but then again if there was a single brain cell among them, they would not have got into this mess, would they?

Love how this sorry lot makes it the fault of everyone else rather than their own inability to behave themselves and take responsibility for their own children. They should have their passports taken off them tbh.

travellinglighter · 13/09/2015 14:50

This is why I don??t really like all inclusive hotels or Brits abroad. Went to a wedding abroad this year. The wedding was lovely the guests were well behaved and it was all fine. The next day a large group came in for a wedding the day after I was due to leave. My apologies to anyone who doesn??t conform to the Essex stereotype but this group did. Loud, aggressive and foul mouthed. Apparently the words ??YOU WANKA,?? are a standard greeting and the cause of much hilarity even if you are carrying a small child. My kids aren??t small but I couldn??t let them go and get drinks because the bar was taken over by tattooed half wits talking about ??Respec?? and the words ??Gonna smack him?? seemed to be stuck on a loop tape.

I went home and asked the bride and groom how the essex wedding went and apparently it was ??Blood and teeth all over the place.?? I know it sounds like I??ve got my judgey pants on but bear in mind half my ex??s family are from Essex and they??re lovely. It??s just this group were particularly bad,