I had a terrible holiday in Spain in the 90s. We all found it quite funny tbh. The best part was the pool looked huge on the brochures. We got there and it was the size of a bath.
Thank you so much for uploading this. We holidayed here in 1993 and it really was the holiday from hell. I was talking to my parents about it and I said that it had featured on this programme and I would try and find out when. I had no idea I’d find the episode here on RU-vid. So I am very very grateful to you for uploading this. Whilst holidaying here, we saw frogs in the pool, algae and poo in the pool. There was a wild horse running wild in the tennis courts (that had no nets). Ants and cockroaches in the room and double doors that led out to a forest of nettles. Never again.
I had a terrible holiday two years ago in Tenerife where sewage kept leaking out of the plug holes and my apartment nearly got flooded at one point. Did you ever confront the staff in the hotel?
Louis Smith unbelievably, we didn’t. The country was so poor and when you book blind with just three photos in a brochure and you’ve never been abroad before we were very naive.
Bulgaria had been independent from the USSR for 8-9 years at this point. These guys can’t expect it to be totally rosey. I for one like ex soviet countries and their quirks
I remember the days when ITV would show these kinds of programmes. They were very interesting. Now all they show is soaps and z-list celebrity and reality crap :-(
Cannot agree more. ITV used to be good with proper investigate documentaries like World In Action and The Cook Report. Now it's unadulterated trash. And the sad thing is it's what the public wants. They want these brainless talent contests because they don't have to think.
I can remember the days when you went into a travel agent and show them the holiday you want then they had to ring up somewhere to book it and hoping you could get it.
Lois Austin, A cow is a female. She doesn't have a hose pipe so how do you think she could pee in the pool. Maybe she sat on her bottom or stood on her hind legs. See pees from between her legs not from the rear end. So as she can not pee backwards how could she get her rear mid section over the pool side with out falling in? Lol. Sorry but I couldn't help laughing trying to see how such would be possible.
I agree but thank god we live in a era where you can look everything up on the internet. The Bulgaria resort was worse than a cheap motel 6 for $90 down the road
Don't give Bulgaria a bad name. I've stayed in wonderful and cheap resorts in Bulgaria and some not so nice ones in Greece. Both places have their good and bad. :)
I live in the tropics and rule number one, food must be protected and put into a fridge otherwise it goes bad or worse, insects, insects, insects everywhere.
I took a vacation to cali last month and watched people taking a crap on side walks, shooting up drugs everywhere and home less every where and police chases.. so glad to get the hell out of cali and be back home
As Captain Peacock answered to Mrs Slocombe when she asked him "What exactly is a one-star hotel ?"..."Well, let me put it this way...there is no such thing as a no-star hotel"...but rather bucolic holidays, I would say...
There probably weren't any other hotels to easily have moved to, plus they very likely couldn't have just charged a substantial amount of money on top of what they'd already paid for the package.
I love the way that these lovely people made the best of it and were able to inject some humour into the situation! The place was an utter dump! Oh, and curry for breakfast sounds great to me 😃
I born and grew up in south London. I can tell you now seeing as I'm on holiday in Bulgaria. It is a wonderful place, the women are beautiful and the guys are cool. Although be careful with the taxis, they are run by the mafia and are generally an embarrassment to the country
The term "Whinging Pom" was coined by the Aussies and Kiwis during WWII. Conditions were often appalling but soldiers did their best to cope by making sleeping areas comfortable and gathering better food. The Brits just sat around whinging, was how my grandfather told it. While Kiwis, Aussies, Canadians etc just mucked in and improved their lot. Whinging Poms.
Those countries didn't have compulsory conscription for overseas service whereas there very much was so for Brits, so maybe the fact that some were forced to do it made some of them complain more about their predicament than men who had volunteered. You are kind of insulting the memory of the many Poms who suffered & died alongside their Aussie & Kiwi comrades in the Japanese prisoner of war camps & building the Burma railway though.
The worst holiday experiences... I had a few rooms that sucked, I missed a flight home and had to pay for another ticket, I had a night in a hostel with a snoring bunk mate, some bad weather and your regular scam artists trying. But all in all nothing quite this bad and I actually had a lot of great memories on vacation. I find I do get bored with any new place after about 3 days which is ok since it means I can pack a lot more fun into a few weeks.
Luckily for me, TripAdvisor and Google earth were created in 2000/2001, so Before spending thousands of £s on ANY holiday I always do research before giving the grinning travel agents my hard earned cash . I went Dominican republic, avoided hurricane season and researched the area with Google earth, had a great time. Long live the internet 👍🏻
jesus, those frogs looked terrified , that hideous woman might get in their pond with them......it must have been late September , most resorts are shutting down by then ...
Holidays or townhalls from hell,San fulgencio Spain ....there you find how the will treat your paperwork ,houses,streets,people HUMANS etc San fulgencio Spain.
+Brenda R I have been to Cuba many times starting in the 80's. I have travelled the Carribean extensively, but Cuba is my love. The one place I truly loved was Club Bucanero, sadly it was destroyed by a hurricane. Will go again in November but I am so worried the US will muck it up with their Burger King's and all sorts of other fast food places. I gave my view on Cuba before I saw what happened to the tourists. I have never seen any part of Havana looking like that honestly. I would be pissed as well. When you pay for an all inclusive trip and you think it is a 5 star it is usually a 3. All inclusive includes air fare, room and board and all you can drink. Those that drink do just that drink from sun up to sundown. Ask around before you go on ANY all inclusive. Cockroaches - I saw 2 while I was in Cuba. Cockroaches are the norm in Key Largo, Florida, Bermuda, Bahamas, they do not discriminate they will set up house in any warm country. As for being prettied up, that video is not at all representative of the whole of Cuba. You will find a few hotels that are 250US a night that cater to deep sea divers from all over the world. Too bad they only showed a down side one.
You don't want Cuba to be mucked up by US fast food joints butyou say you've travelled throughout the West Indies. So, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Barbados, Jamaica, andmost of the other islands are terribly 'mucked?'I don't follow your myopic view. What wrong with fast food joints?I don't patronize them but so many people do. I am sure many many Cuban people would like to have a variety offood choices. Don't you?Oh I forgot, recently I was in Oranjestad and I did eat at a McDonalds.The culture and loveliness of the city hadn't dimmed and the Arubansseemed to be just as Aruban before and after I ate there.Not bad food. I promise, I only ate there ONCE!
Iwent to Spain once ,i dont like spanish food ,i said can i have english food .they said yes we have pizza and chinese and kebbabs , i stayed another week .
First look the date of the footage. This is back in the 90's when almost everything in Bulgaria was in ruins. Today the resorts are totally different and many of the old hotels are demolished and new stand on their place. So don't be ignorant yourself and check the current situations next time.
Strange. I spent a month in Bulgaria a couple of years back and never had a bad day. All over the place and never a dull moment. Mind you, I booked a hotel in Sofia online, then referred to the map and got on a bus or a train. Mountains, forests, rivers, and avoided anything with a pool! Keep moving and do a Goldilocks. Lovely place, nice people, cheapo. If I had wanted Butlins I would’ve stayed in the UK. (70-year-old lone trekker 😈🇬🇧)
Been to Cuba twice , friendly people , great beaches. just wish I had money for a vacation , I be back to Rancho Luna like a shot. I'm a Limey myself , living in Canada now, but these Brits just want to whine , no wonder the Ausies call us whinging Poms.
@@Harriemes I've eaten chocolate you know. Made with 'Cow's milk'. Actually I ate quite a lot of chocolate since quitting veganism in the nineties. More Vegan choc (choc = cacao with out the latte). than dairy product chocolate. But at least it supports the dairy industry. Wow a pint of cool fresh milk sounds good right now. All that delicious calcium and lactose.
I had a horse trek from hell with bullying, harrassment, et c. in Iceland in 2001, and another bad one in Western Turkey in 2010, with bullying, harrassment, and EXTORTION. Of course I complained for both, politely, concisely, for both registered mail, and there were no resolutions. In both cases, also, other vacationers scapegoated me and nothing was done to defend me when I asked. My spouse saw the first one and certainly did speak up but to no avail.
That was back in the 90's and definitely not in every hotel. Today is much better. There are many new hotels with proper conditions, and the old ones are either renovated or demolished, because no one wants to go there.
My friend went to Bulgaria a few years ago for a holiday in July 2017 and she said the holiday was awful from start to finish. She said the weather was freezing and cold! I guess you get what you pay for I suppose. Everyone has different opinions towards a different holiday destination. I rather pay more money to travel to travel to Greece, Cyprus or Turkey because they're decent and brilliant holidays to go on. Spain and Canary Islands are alright but not the best though. I heard Tunisia is supposed to be good but I've never been to Tunisia before. I heard their beaches are beautiful and sandy! I love to try Tunisia next for a holiday. All places throughout the world have good and bad points about it.
Do not go to Tunisia its the worst holiday I've ever been on . If you go all inclusive then stay in your resort . If you leave the hotel for a wonder about the locals will be all over you like a rash and wont leave you alone without getting money off you. Go to Turkey or Greece instead
These folks took their misfortune remarkably well. Remarkably well. I guess they didn't want to complain too much in Bulgaria because they didn't want to get put in Bulgarian prison only to never be heard from again lol.
What's funny is my holiday from hell was in London. My father dragged me there in late December and I was fully aware of how brutal British winters can be. I F-F-FROZE so badly that I wanted to die. I took a lot of pictures but thanks to the constantly gloomy British weather, my holiday pics looked just as gloomy too! Oh, well, the locals were friendly and at least I got to see some historical sites such as the Tower of London and saw the changing of the guard at the palace. My holiday was cut short when I caught the flu so it was back home, stuck in bed for a week! I think if the hotel manager had been a real life Basil Fawlty that would have been the final straw and I would have thrown myself from the nearest bridge, praying the Thames would make my death quick...
