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After a trouncing in their first Euro 2024 match, a group of Scottish football fans in Germany faced an accommodation fiasco that first landed them in a bedroom made of cardboard and then a dungeon. Rory Bradley, 28, from Glasgow, posted a thread on X on Sunday explaining the disaster, detailing how Booking.com put his group of friends in an “absolute shambles of a situation”.

Read more: Most Kiwis would book a bach for accommodation, Booking.com study reveals The nightmare started when they showed up at the property they had booked in Dueren, near Cologne, only to find it in complete disarray. They found a bed made out of cardboard and duct tape and a “broken and disgusting” sofa bed they said was not safe to sleep in.



So at around half past 8 yesterday we turned up at the original property we booked through @bookingcom and the place was an absolute mess. One of the beds was made out of cardboard and also held together by duck tape. The 2nd bed was a sofa bed that was broken and disgusting pic.

twitter.com/rgv0KkWLff They spent three hours speaking to three different customer service advisers before Booking.com helped them to find a new place.

They traipsed across the town at midnight, hoping to find a good night’s rest elsewhere. However, the night was far from saved. Bradley described the next place as a “dungeon-like stay” at ”some sort of abandoned medical facility”.

It was filled with hospital beds, industrial equipment, exposed chemicals, cables, pipes.

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