Holidaymaker's 'nightmare' Corfu hotel stay where there was 'no English food'
Holidaymaker's 'nightmare' Corfu hotel stay where there was 'no English food'
If she wanted English food why didn't she go to England?
"There was no bacon. For breakfast there was mozzarella and sliced tomatoes. There was no hot bacon or sausage.
Terrible, I am telling you, terrible 😂
Most of her complaints sound pretty stupid and entitled. However I will say that paying an "all-inclusive" price and then still having to pay for fresh water would really grind my gears.
Yeah the title is a little clickbait and unfair on her:
Susan said: "It was all-inclusive, £750 each we paid and there was no food we could eat and we couldn't have anything to drink. I have to be careful because I have ulcerative colitis so there's certain things I can't eat. The all inclusive drinks were wine, lager, ouzo, or brandy. Yes, there were soft drinks, but we had to pay €1.50 for water."
Definitely sounds like a scam, but her complaints about the food aren't doing her any favours.
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They should just fly these people in a circle, land them back at the same airport and send them to a nearby hotel with a cheap restaurant.
Then repeat the process when you "fly" them home.
I'd seen this link and assumed it was an Onion-style site.
Should've made us some chips, simple as
Her descriptions make the hotel and the food sound lovely.
There's definitely some red flags though. Having to pay for water, not being able to get a second room key, unlabelled buffet food, etc.
The water charge did elicit an eyebrow raise from me, but tourism in the Greek isles is a bit different. I haven't been to Corfu, but I know some smaller islands don't have potable water service. Some places will provide filtered pitchers of water, and others will provide bottles on request. Maybe they were offered tap water and insisted on bottled water, resulting in the charge? I know Athenians are particularly proud of their tap water. Maybe they insulted their hosts by suggesting their water wasn't good enough? I'm just spitballing, but I agree that being charged for water is not something I would expect from an all-inclusive hotel.
When it comes to food and hospitality, I would not be surprised at all to just be served a variety of food without explanation, just like Yiayia used to make. If you ask what the food is, they'll happily describe it as long as you aren't like "ew, what's that?" Greeks are big on hospitality, and rejecting or criticizing the food they prepared for you would be deeply offensive.
I mean, anyone would be offended, but Gordon Ramsay would just tell you to fuck off and forget you ever existed. A Greek host would furrow their brow, walk away, and curse the eyes of your grandchildren. Their tombstone would say "Loving wife and matriarch, who made the best rice despite what that one μαλάκας said."
So the unlabeled buffet isn't that weird, and all of the food she described sounds like typical Greek fare. I also know in my family, there are a lot of superstitions about what time you eat certain types of food. Like eating heavy proteins or carbs like bacon and eggs for breakfast will make your chest hair gray or some shit.
The second room key is another weird one. Sounds to me like the hotel is just being cheap, but are they actual keys? Like if it's a fancy three dimensional Mondoshawan style key, maybe they don't have spare copies? If they are key cards, there's zero reason to not simply make two. Again, this makes me think the hosts were being deliberately inhospitable, which supports my μαλάκας theory, but that's still a reasonable complaint.
It just feels like she didn't do her research and had a miserable time, and the legitimate complaints are overshadowed by whinging about things that were her poor choices.
Rookie mistake. She should have worn a football shirt.
Is that spanikopita in that pic? She has no idea what she missed out on.
The food in those pictures looks fucking amazing. What an ignorant troll.
