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Thickos on TripAdvisor

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bupcakesandcunting · 18/03/2011 09:03

I usually check reviews about places on Trip Advisor before booking a holiday. I've been having a snoop round this morning for a holiday and went onto Trip Advisor to read the reviews and honestly, some of them look like they've been written by a bear mashing his paws into the keyboard and hitting "send"...

AIBU to disregard reviews by people who moan that "nobode understand ENGLISH" "no chips/salad just greek food" "wayter rude" or should I be giving them the same attention as the others?

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Ponders · 21/03/2011 21:21

discusting

mamalino · 21/03/2011 21:22

Having a gob on = grumpy twat.

I love this thread.

jaggythistle · 21/03/2011 21:32

Well it's not great but does have talking food and an elevevator! Ooh hotel stuff... a revie typo fest.

"I have just returned from a night's stay at Caravel hotel in Limassol. I don't usually write reviews about hotels I stay at, but I felt strongly that I should mention my experience.

The hotel stuff were quite friendly and helpful. However the hotel's condition is dreadful. The bed sheets seemed clean but I still have doubts about their condition as there were female hair on the bed cover and on the bottom bed sheet. A couble of hairs also on the bathroom floor. The bathroom sink was very old and rusted and the bath was so slimy that I doubt if it was scrubbed once these last 12 months.

The elevevator is very small (max 3 persons). Inside there were anouncements: "unfortunatelly the swimming pool is out of order" and "talking food or drink items outside of the breakfast area is prohibited. Violators will be fined EUR3,42" (!!!)

I paid EUR30 for one night which is dirt cheap but even for that kind of money I think travellers should be treated with more respect. I wouldn't recomend this hotel, even to my enemies"

jaggythistle · 21/03/2011 21:33

How did htey know the hairs were female? Did they bring CSI kit Hmm

yonker · 22/03/2011 00:19

I take it back about all inclusive guests - there are some who will draw the line - revies from Turkey

?turkes slop?
'just got back from the simba hotel last night.So i just have to tell people who are going there !think twice about going half board all inclusive? first time we have gone have board and its put me off for life. the slop they served us was disgusting! There was me my mum and my 9 year old daughter!! So with me going half board and payed £960.00 for 2 weeks i exspecteded more than powderd orange!and waterd down milk! Tap water at that! I could handle the for breakfast. the the food on a night i would,nt give my dog.WE only had three meals at night there and that was enough!We could,nt eat any more so told our rep EMMA! she was great and gave me my money back for our last week back! Better than nothing? All other guest staying there also did the same. The staff was and not very friendly! Can say our room and view was great! Would have been nice to have our bed changed in the 2 weeks we was there? Can say we met some fab people and hope they keep in touch? If you have got cast iron stomack then get to the SIMBA HOTEL! and enjoy the '

At least EMMA! was of some help - but money back for the last (second?) week was only 57 pounds, the first week was therefore 903 pounds? No idea - however I really do have a cast iron stomack so would probably suit me

goodasgold · 22/03/2011 20:35

Great thread.

Oxo Tower Restaurant review by rachel
When my boyfriend told me he wanted to take me up the Oxo Tower for my birthday, I was a bit hesitant at first because I didn't really think it was my scene. How wrong I was! I mean, yeah, so it's a bit of a strain on the old back pocket, and I admit I did feel a bit uncomfortable initially. But a couple of cocktails helped me relax and soon I was really getting into it - we carried on well into the night. It was a great experience and I really loved it - so much so that I won't let my boyfriend take me anywhere else now! So if anyone ever wants to take you up the Oxo Tower, just throw caution to the wind and go for it!

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Overall rating
Food 5 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 5

bupcakesandcunting · 22/03/2011 20:47

Oh God. The OXO Tower review is a joke and I know who wrote it!

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goodasgold · 22/03/2011 20:58

This is a great time waster Grin

The Hoff

Portofino · 22/03/2011 21:33

The Oxo Tower review must surely be someone from this thread! Not me though Grin

FellatioNelson · 22/03/2011 22:19

Oxo Tower revie please. Hmm

Get with the programme ladies.

Hullygully · 23/03/2011 08:37

revie revie revie

here comes johnny revie revie

or something

jaggythistle · 23/03/2011 09:26

Just using it for sleeping and bringing people back, Shock nice!

?Honest review MUST READ (2011 not 2010)?

Date of review: Jul 14, 2010
We read all the bad reviews and thought nothing of it, we just presumed people were moaning because they were expecting more than they paid for because after all it is a cheap hotel. We was wrong.

The moment we arrived you can see outside that the hotel is substandard, from the dirty walls and exterior to the prison shacks for balconies, at reception we were greeted by someone who can only be described as a cow(cant swear), honeslty one of the most ignorant people ive ever met in my life, snatching passports and thorwing keys at us, but so far we wasnt bothered cos all we was going to use the hotel for is sleep and bringing people back, so didnt care about what it looked like or the staff...

when we got to the rooms, to be fair theyre ok for what you pay for, except the fact each room is so hot you feel like youre in a mass orgy of sweat, the fans slow down if people have lights or use other appliances, one room didnt even have a fan or window so we named it the 'sweatbox' because you litterally woke up in a pool of sweat there.

we had guests over the counter, constant supply of ants, aso because the hotel is facing a type of forest youll wake up every morning covered in bites, in 10 days i was bitten 8 times and theyre BIG bites, and in england i dont get bit at all (and i used insect whipes before bed :( )

movng on, after our first night out we came back and the most happy security man youll ever see dragged us to the reception desk claiming we wasnt at the hotel and then insisted on searchin for our names, our names where there but he searched each one of us, this basically means unless you can sneak past the security guard, pulling someone in this hotel is a no no, unless you aim to do the cleaners,

later that night we was awoken to someone knockng on the door (3 of us came back at about 2 because we drank too much too fst so had to go home early) we shouted who is it , no reply and when we looked they were gone, later at about 4 am another knock when we answered this massive lad was stood there in shock asking if we'd seen anyone, basically half the hotel rooms had been kicked in and robbed, next door to us was robbed 800, he was robbed 500 and there were plenty more, everyone started acusing each other in the hotel and fights broke out on every floor, the big hard security guard was probably in the toilet, and when i rang reception to get the police he just said "ok bye byee" in the most sarcastic voice youve ever heard.

What doesnt make sense tho is the security guard vets everyone in the hotel but there are break ins every year so i doubt there is one theif that returns every year to do rooms in, also if youre going to go in a group of lads be prepared to pay 30 euro deposit each, because we went in a mixed group we didnt, but they will target you, and suspiciously it was the group of lads who had to pay 30 euros deposit that got broken into and because the door was broken they lost their deposits and had to ay 150 euos for a new door, just seems strange.

rest of the holiday there were no breakins just noise continues till 6 am and starts again at 9 am which is sort of to be expected if you leave the doors open but if you shut them youll die of sweating all water supply out of your body.

basically, stay away, just pay a little extra for the other fiesta hotels they are so much nicer, literally leaps and bounds nicer and theyre safers, this hotel every year has bad reviews then one or two good reviews but when youre on holiday do you want to worry that while youre out youre going to get broken into and the only way you can pull someone is in either their hotel or on the beach with people watching (might be into it duno)

STAY AWAY FOR MAGAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR
oh and theyll charge you for anything, they give us two keys, claimed it was 3 when we was leaving and charges us 20 euros :/

SoupDragon · 23/03/2011 11:57

"we had guests over the counter"

[weeps]
[wheeze]

jaggythistle · 23/03/2011 13:13

if you are bored there are a few choice revies of this establishment, sounds like a peach...

yonker · 23/03/2011 13:30

What do you think? Wind up revie? Nutter? Drunk? True?

'This Hotel is Haunted!!!

I have waited so long to post this but I swear to God I will never forget this moment or what happened to me.

On one of the nights we went to bed and I woke up at about 3.30am in the morning and seen what looked like some girl crawling out of my husbands side of the bed. We where away on a wedding holiday but i will never forget this moment. I tried to wake him up ASKING him why this woman was crawling out of his side of the bed but he said to me that i was mad and to go asleep. Ok normally I might of but I hid my head and counted to 10 a number of times b ut everytime I looked that woman stod at the side of the bed with her hands crossed hair curly and her looking directly at me. I have never been so afraid in all my life. Plus even when I woke up she was still there. Did not sleep much that night so I decided to email the Hotel about it. Guess what happened ? they never ever even replied to me. Typical European ignorance!!! was not impressed as this really frightened me!!!'

jaggythistle · 23/03/2011 17:51

Nutter+Drunk I vote.

FellatioNelson · 23/03/2011 22:14

Ah yes, those typical Europeans. Hmm

To be fair to the other bloke, he sounds like he had a nightmare. All of those hotels that take groups of lary British 18-30 types must hate us with a passion and do whatever they can to make the experience as unpleasant and intimidating as possible.

NunOnTheRun · 23/03/2011 23:21

@JaggyT
"...this basically means unless you can sneak past the security guard, pulling someone in this hotel is a no no, unless you aim to do the cleaners.."

hahahaha - pure class Grin

jaggythistle · 24/03/2011 04:05

if i wasn't on my phone again I'd be away back for more.

there was another revie of the same place that was whining about security staff complaining about noise after midnight, apparently this was unreasonable because "it's Magaluf, what do they expect?" Shock

yes, the whole town just exists for you to go out on the piss. Hmm

SoupDragon · 24/03/2011 07:21

"yes, the whole town just exists for you to go out on the piss."

Well, to be fair, it probably does now as that's the direction they went in. Bars, bars and more bars.

FellatioNelson · 24/03/2011 08:10

That's true actually - I bet they make more money being the Lager Lout Centre from Hell than if they reverted to taking families who buy the odd ice cream and OAPs who sip half a shandy all night long.

If I die and go to hell it will be Magaluf.

jaggythistle · 24/03/2011 09:22

i suppose so. doesn't mean you can do what you want though.

similar to Agia Napa though. I've not stayed there, but on visiting it seemed to be mostly bars and takeaways with a nice beach...

FellatioNelson · 24/03/2011 10:05

god no - I agree. Atrocious behaviour. They are a total embarrassment and our National Shame. I just don't understand why these places cater for them though, if they hate it so much. I suppose it happens slowly over years, and once somewhere has a reputaion for being lary it's very hard to wipe the slate clean and go back to being wholesome and family orientated - if people are too scared to book there. Shock

My son who is nearly 16 keep sgoing on about how he is going to go to Magaluf with some of his more revolting friends. Hmm Over my dead body will he.

jaggythistle · 24/03/2011 10:30

sounds awful eh!

bupcakesandcunting · 24/03/2011 10:37

?The hotel was devastaiting we couldnt wait to LEAVE...?

Date of review: 13 Oct 2010
Well what can i say the hotel supposedly a family hotel that can cater for all haha well we must of gone to the wrong place... Me and my family went in a large group around 40 of us all staying in the Montebell Hotel was physically devestated it wasnt the even close to being a reasonable hotel unless you like the staff always asking for extra money and tips without even remotely showing the correct manners or even common courtesy to fullfill there job description which is ensuring that all guest young or old have the best possible stay even when we gave them more money they then came out with the excuse that there isnt any change in the till so we were always essential robbed for our change for a simple drink. Also another mayjor dissapointment that let the hotel down mayjorly was that there was two dogs roaming the premises un supervised and always trying to beg for food when me and my family were trying to have a meal. One incident that really upset alot of my family members was that a stray dog walked into the hotel looking for food un stopped and then was viciously attacked by the other two dogs until they were seperated by one of my family member and NOT THE STAFF... After this one of the dogs came back round to the table and begged yet again with blood and parts of the stray dog in its mouth in which we instantly made a complaint and then was actually moaned at by the staff for use of bad language purely to the shock and horror for what he has seen. Another mayjor fault is that around the so called pool (which was more like a puddle) our children and grand children couldnt even laugh to loudly, splash eachother in the pool or genorally have fun. I can understand that large parties may be quite noisy at times but not threatening to others and if not for our family there wouldnt of actually been anything going on in the hotel as there was no entertainment what so ever apart from a film at the bar at night and even then you wasnt allowed to laugh or talk to loudly. So overall the hotel was the worst we have ever stayed in, the staff were extremely rude and the clenleness of the hotel was disgusting i strongley recommend that all stear clear of The Montebell Hotel."

Why is it that the people who begin their revies with "Well what can I say" go on to say fucking LOADS? And forty of you staying? Really? Hmm

And people who moan that there was "no enteitainmernt in teh evenning" GO OUT OF THE FUCKING HOTEL! Go EXPLORE! Sitting on your fat, sunburned arse, waiting to be amused, like some Jeremy Kyle-style Greek demigod waiting for the peasants to do something funny just for you. Get a life.

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