The worst TripAdvisor reviews: guests complain of nudity, drunks, ghosts and ‘bland food’
- The holiday review site hosts groans and gripes ranging from the outraged, the apoplectic, the humorous and even the supernatural
- And there’s ‘absolutely nothing ladylike’ about the ‘liars and cheats’ at Hong Kong’s Ladies Market, warns one commenter
Trawling through the 760 million-plus reviews listed on TripAdvisor can be both fascinating and highly entertaining.
There’s much talk of toilet paper, or more accurately, a lack of it. Tales of filthy bedding and stained carpets are ubiquitous – as are descriptions of hotel managers who behave in the same rude, incompetent manner as the fictional hotelier Basil Fawlty. Reports of bed bugs, while probably legitimate, could also have come from the jealous owner of the establishment across the street. Ditto accusations of food poisoning. But these are all minor gripes compared to the colourful scenarios outlined below.
Let’s begin in the English seaside town of Blackpool, where bedbugs are apparently the least of a visitor’s problems: “Went to room at 1.45 after a great evening to find a drunken man semi naked in our bed. Not the best ending to our evening.”
Here’s a two-part complaint from Winchester, England, although it’s unclear whether there’s a connection: “We were disgusted to find the manager walking around with his trousers half down and backside hanging out. We also found out the chef had left.”
They found a dead body in a room, so we decided to leave one day early, but they refused to give us our money back!
Inebriated staff are a recurring, and sometimes amusing, TripAdvisor theme – as long as it happens to someone else. In Worthing, England: “The barman informed us that he didn’t really know how to check us in but, due to the receptionist being drunk at the end of the bar, he would definitely be more help than she would be.”