Spend a few minutes browsing online reviews of hotels, sightseeing attractions and activities and you will notice certain phrases appear more often than others. “Avoid this hotel” is a familiar heading, usually followed by a list of grievances that can run to hundreds of words. “I would give this zero stars if I could,” is another sign that a tourist enterprise has overcharged or under-delivered.
And things definitely are not going well when a reviewer resorts to: “I’m standing in the ticket queue writing this. Two hours so far!!!!!!!” A volley of exclamation marks suggests anger and even disbelief, and is often followed by the immortal words: “I will never come here again.” The following online reviews show travellers at their most disgruntled, although in some instances, still able to find humour in their predicament.
One reviewer was less than impressed: “Ugly clunk of metal ruining the view of the park, looks like it was made by a homeless man.” And here’s a tourist who will not be getting married in the French capital any time soon: “What is wrong with people to think this is romantic? If someone proposed to me at this tower or even in Paris [..
.] I’d RUN a mile and be on the next flight out of the city.” The writer then takes a sinister turn, adding “The feeling and aura was just bad,” before reverting to the role of tedious tour guide: “However there is a convenient [sic] store and it is near the night markets.
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