Ridiculous holiday complaints: readers' suggestions

Earlier this year we published a list of ridiculous complaints made by holidaymakers to their travel agent. Since then, we have received dozens of emails from readers and tour operators offering their own examples of bizarre complaints they have heard from thoughtless tourists. Here are some of the best...

An angry guest came down to the front desk of a Holland America Line cruise ship demanding a different room. The attendant tried to calm him down and find out why he disliked his cabin so much. He responded: "I paid a lot of money for this cruise and was promised a sea view, the only thing I can see through my window is the damned parking lot!"
We’d not yet left the dock.



We had taken a two-day coach trip from Sousse (in Tunisia) to the Sahara with stops off in various places en route. At Matmarta we pulled into a small hotel for lunch. We were served couscous and were just about to start our meal when a lady sitting at the next table proclaimed in a loud voice "What's the foreign rubbish? I'm not eating that stuff. What do you think you are doing? Bring me some real food, I'll have an omelette, now, and hurry up". I didn't know where to look as I folded up with laughter. By the way the couscous was wonderful.


Take your pick from the following, which are all genuine:

"The disappointment telling the children that the reindeer could not fly was incredible…you must state this clearly in your brochure in future"

"I realise that there is no electricity in the Wilderness Cabins, but there should have been somewhere to recharge my phone"

"I think that it is appalling that you cannot go white water rafting in a stretch of river with no rocks"

"I was shocked to discover on arriving that my Spanish Pesetas were no longer accepted"

"You said that your local Slovenian reps spoke English, but you failed to mention the Slovenian accents"


I had an old chap from Canada when I worked at the Grand in Brighton complaining furiously that it was absolutely disgusting for us not to give out steak knives with the steak. I had to remain professional as possible, but finally had to point out to him that he was having duck...

An American lady tourist visiting the amphitheatre at Epheseus, Turkey, said: “If this had been built in America they would have put an elevator in.”

At a hotel in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, a guest complained bitterly for a week that they had requested a seaview, and could not understand why we could not provide this.

I used to work as a rep and the best ever was: “The sand was too hot. The brochure didn’t tell us this”.

At Machu Picchu I encountered a British tourist arguing with the entrance staff demanding a refund for his entry fee. His complaint, "There are too many clouds around the surrounding mountains".


Both from renters of luxury villas in Florida.

"The leaves of the plants in the front garden are dusty"

"There is somebody living in the attic and he has poisoned the food in the freezer. We want it replaced"


I read in a Norwegian newspaper that an American couple had traveled to the north of Norway to see the midnight sun, but as they stood there they complained that it was the same sun as home in America and wanted their money back!


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