What cheeses me off

[jastel]

Had a similar 2 hour "general" tour in a European city recently, tour started at fish market, describing EVERY bloody fish and how to catch it and how to cook it, then moved next door to a Bakery and same with every cake on the shelf. Me and a few other men just walked outside and sat down but the old ladies loved it, and they were the majority of the group.
Then there was 15 minutes left for the "rest" of the city...

I guess not everybody likes the same things...she didnt get a tip from me.

 

[Quickstatus]

Had a ghost tour of Charleston SC.

The tour guide told stories that were not in official records. Likely all made up to fit in with the vibe.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Had a ghost tour of Charleston SC.

The tour guide told stories that were not in official records. Likely all made up to fit in with the vibe.

Tour Guides- Never let fact or truth get in the way of a good historical story!

 

[MARTINE]

Had a ghost tour of Charleston SC.

The tour guide told stories that were not in official records. Likely all made up to fit in with the vibe.

There is a famous Inspector Morse episode on Cambridge where that happened. The guide was murdered!!

 

[SuePa]

There is a famous Inspector Morse episode on Cambridge where that happened. The guide was murdered!!

Well, that's a bit extreme! Surely withholding the tip is a more appropriate response.

 

[drron]

We had the most incredible guide in Valencia on a cruise ship excursion. He was just filling in for a friend. He was a curator at the Modern Art Museum but his primary qualification was in architecture. He really knew his stuff. in the old Town he knew the history of each building. It was one excursion where no one was critical of the guide for continuing talking. Also no complaints of the tour going over time. He was as well a really nice fellow. I think he did very well with the tips.

 

[RooFlyer]

I'm cheesed off - but would like some advice as to how to respond.

thanks for the replies. I’m going to email them, directed to the Tour manager.

When complaining about a service, I rarely actually complain about the server. I usually regard it as a failure of management to provide adequate training.

But again, as it’s a volunteer organisation, I’ll play it lightly but make the point.

 

[n7of9]

Tour Guides- Never let fact or truth get in the way of a good historical story!

Had a guide on a walking tour in Prague tell the group that Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia early because he loved Bohemia and it's people.

 

[SYD]

Had a guide on a walking tour in Prague tell the group that Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia early because he loved Bohemia and it's people.

and their Gold reserves…

 

[Cossie]

I was taught that was all about Lebensraum and protecting ethnic Germans living in Sudetenland, sound familiar to something happing now?

Anyway what really cheeses me off is smoking in restaurants. Tonight in Sofia, two women and two very young children, guessing 4 and 6, sitting next to us and one of the women was smoking….

Can’t believe that in Europe today, so many people choose to smoke, Serbia was bad, ashtrays on every table and Bulgaria seems to be no better.

 

[Flashback]

I was taught that was all about Lebensraum and protecting ethnic Germans living in Sudetenland, sound familiar to something happing now?

Anyway what really cheeses me off is smoking in restaurants. Tonight in Sofia, two women and two very young children, guessing 4 and 6, sitting next to us and one of the women was smoking….

Can’t believe that in Europe today, so many people choose to smoke, Serbia was bad, ashtrays on every table and Bulgaria seems to be no better.

Serbia was far worse than Bulgaria, in our experiences.

 

[JohnM]

AFF posters who do not put the toilet seat/lid down when posting photos of hotel rooms...

 

[MEL_Traveller]

WCMO… bottle farmers!!

Recently installed bottle recycling machines at some major shopping centres here in Sydney.

Which was great!

Until bottle farmers - the folk who go through entire apartment complex’s rubbish bins to take out all the bottles and cans - got involved and now each regularly turn up with 500+ bottles at a time. Each bottle has to be put into the machine separately.

It means wait times for us ordinary folk have ballooned out to 30 mins or more in some cases.

The other day no line to drop off bottles… but… ‘machine full’!! These bottle farmers are ruining it for everyone

WCMO even more? Mother with her 6 year old kid and a large hessian sack of mixed plastic and glass bottles. Not too many… maybe 20?

But here’s the kicker… mother to kid ‘very good, now, would you like to find another plastic bottle?’

Kid rummages around in bag, finds a bottle, shows it to mum ‘very good! now, what do we do with the bottle? Yaaaayyy, it goes into the machine’

Kid reaches up on tippy toes to put bottle in. ‘Yaaaayyy, the machine ate the bottle mummy’

‘Very good! Now… shall we see if we can find another plastic bottle?… … … … … very good try darling, but that’s a GLASS bottle. Put it back in and see if you can find another PLASTIC bottle’

All this while the queue is growing longer and longer.

Strangely i DON’T feel better after this rant!

 

[blackcat20]

WCMO… bottle farmers!!

Recently installed bottle recycling machines at some major shopping centres here in Sydney.

Which was great!

Until bottle farmers - the folk who go through entire apartment complex’s rubbish bins to take out all the bottles and cans - got involved and now each regularly turn up with 500+ bottles at a time. Each bottle has to be put into the machine separately.

It means wait times for us ordinary folk have ballooned out to 30 mins or more in some cases.

The other day no line to drop off bottles… but… ‘machine full’!! These bottle farmers are ruining it for everyone

WCMO even more? Mother with her 6 year old kid and a large hessian sack of mixed plastic and glass bottles. Not too many… maybe 20?

But here’s the kicker… mother to kid ‘very good, now, would you like to find another plastic bottle?’

Kid rummages around in bag, finds a bottle, shows it to mum ‘very good! now, what do we do with the bottle? Yaaaayyy, it goes into the machine’

Kid reaches up on tippy toes to put bottle in. ‘Yaaaayyy, the machine ate the bottle mummy’

‘Very good! Now… shall we see if we can find another plastic bottle?… … … … … very good try darling, but that’s a GLASS bottle. Put it back in and see if you can find another PLASTIC bottle’

All this while the queue is growing longer and longer.

Strangely i DON’T feel better after this rant!

I take my kids to the big warehouse drop off facility, much easier for them to help me pile all the bottles in, and we dont hold other people up. Our one experience with those machines is out of order, the other one full for glass, scanner wouldnt work and it ended up depositing my cash in someone elses account. So we wont do that again.