Thickos on TripAdvisor

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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?

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.'

I may have just weed a little.

An OK little hotel in downtown Cancun. Not expensive at all. Lots of restaurants and shoppes nearby. Nothing much else, though. One thing I found annoying was the male prostitutes hanging out along the street and tending to congregate across the street from the entrance to the hotel. Some were quite lewd and aggressive. That's OK is someone needs to do that sort of thing to make a living, I guess, but in this location it was more of an annoyance than an amusement.

ok then

"We explained we wanted to patronize the bar"

[weeps]

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"

"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."

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.

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""

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.

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.

Oh Dear God this thread is wonderful!

pmsl @ "I thought Thickos was a Greek Island"

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

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 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

'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.

''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...

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.'

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.

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

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

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)."

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.

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

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?

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

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

does no one think of the tourists?