Pet hates when travelling

duchy

I love travelling but my two pet hates are....

People getting up or worse walking down the plane grabbing seatbacks as they go ................and hotel receptionists who ask you how your stay was at check out and if you mention something that wasn't quite right - ignore it completely. If you don't want to know -then don't ask -or at least respond with an apology or sound a tiny bit concerned (I got this at CP in Las Vegas after a one night stay-I was due to stay another 4 nights later in the week -and cancelled the reservation and stayed elsewhere -if they didn't care-they weren't getting any more of my business)

Doshwaster

Hezzawithkids wrote: »

Shower curtains that billow inwards while you are showering and wrap themselves around you in a cold, clammy embrace.

And shower screens that fail spectacularly in keeping water inside the shower so you step out into a minor flood on the bathroom floor.

I could go on...

While we are on the subject of showers, why are so many of them over-designed to such an extent that they need a degree in hydro-engineering in order work out how they operate? I'm going to be tired (and probably hungover) and in an unfamiliar bathroom, all I need is a simple on/off and holt/cold. There was one hotel where there were so many knobs and switches that it took me over 10 minutes to get some water to come out of the shower.

Then when I'm out of the shower please provide more than one towel bigger than a hankie.

Yes and the "help us save the planet" notices are annoying too.

Mr_Wang

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

Pet hates when travelling?
Just a thought, most people know some of mine

What are other people's pet hates that really wind them up?
Not the hotel's wardrobe door that falls off or the bag that goes
RTW before you get it back or the rats in the room, but the even
smaller things that really p*ss you off - other than kids in the seat
behind of course which we'll take as read.

Travelling is like driving, normal people just turn into absolute bell ends.
From the idiots who think the queue doesn't apply to them, to fools who think the 'window blinds up etc' doesn't apply to them, right down to airports that charge for luggage trolleys.

I guess, rather than write a billion words I will sum it up into 2 succinct things:

My pet hates when travelling are ignorant people and costs.

Dirk_Gently_2

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

I was parking in a near empty car park once, one other car - Mrs Bob the Saver. We'd met early after work to go the the Theatre.
I had my car open to muck it out, you know the crisp packets etc.
whilst there was a bin handy.
Some pil*ock tried to park next to me and pipped her horn when I wouldn't close my car door. There must have been 200 other spaces!!! You can guess my reaction :eek:

This happens on beaches, too. I was once on a deserted beach in Northumberland with literally miles of clear golden sand and only about 5 or 6 families in total across the whole beach there - when another group appears and plonks themselves down about 5 yards away from us! Why?:mad:

Dirk_Gently_2

Doshwaster wrote: »

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Yes and the "help us save the planet" notices are annoying too.

Agreed, because you know damn well that as far as the hotel is concerned it's 0.01% about saving the environment and 99.9% about them saving money.

And on that subject, being asked how I feel about the hotel/airline/whatever's environmental policy and/or corporate social responsibility policies. Guess what? - I'm on holiday, I don't even want to think about such things!

Dragonista

People rushing to get on the plane when their row hasn't been called. Rows 20-40 does not mean row 10!

On one long haul (13 hour+) flight I was very dehydrated and requested water. I asked if I could have a bottle since I was drinking a lot but they refused, which was fine up until they stopped serving me because I had to use the call button over and over. On the same flight I was in such a seat that I kept being hit by the trolley (near the back, the first row of 3 from the back). The airline I use now has a water cooler and a freely accessible galley.

The Thai government. I seriously can't remember the last time they gave passenger landing cards to short-haul airlines landing in their country. For anyone who's not travelled into Suvarnabhumi airport, immigration can be a nightmare as it is!

Sunday drivers.

Dirty bathrooms.

Hermia

1) Inconsiderate people, especially on planes. I always want to say, "come on, we are all stuck in this small space for 8 hours. Could we all just try and not make anyone else's journey worse than it has to be".

2) Areas where the different transport operators don't seem to speak to other other. For example, I once got a train into a small town (there was only one train a day) only to find that the only bus leaves the train station at pretty much the same time the train comes in.

3) Single travelllers being treated like a lesser species. I don't mind paying a bit more in a hotel if I am genuinely taking up space that could be taken by two people. But, when I pay the same or more and get put in the broom cupboard... Grrr...

LutonGirl

duchy wrote: »

walking down the plane grabbing seatbacks as they go ................

Oh Duchy, I couldn't agree more. That irks the hell out of me on a flight, especially when I've just managed to drop off too.

It also pees me off when folk can't pack an overhead bin properly. As long as their case is in, they don't care it's taking up space for two. As I refuse to stampede at the gate, especially when I have an allocated seat, I'm always gritting my teeth when the bin over my seat is chock full already.

And seat kickers - whether on a flight or at the cinema...grrrr

margaretclare

I don't like coach travel. I don't like assumptions about what I want to do/what entertainment I like based on my age-group. I don't like anywhere that I'm caged in with a whole lot of other people. Coach tours and cruises are therefore out.

One Christmas we thought we'd have a 4-day break in a hotel just outside Coventry. Why Coventry? Well, I wanted to go to the Christmas Eve carol service at the cathedral (we did, it's magical, 1000 people in that new cathedral, fantastic). That was the best of it. Accommodation was cr*p. We couldn't exchange a room because hotel was full. As we stopped the car, 6 coaches full of wrinklies drew up behind us. And we were shouted at all the way through dinner about 'get your bingo tickets'. And that was the whole tone of the 4 days. Couldn't have yogurt for breakfast because 'people don't want it'. What they all wanted was to eat as much full English as possible because they'd paid for it! It was supposed to be friendly, but people were in groups according to which coach they'd come on. And then the one remaining lift broke down on Christmas Day. Never again.

I can live with short distance air travel, 4 hours or so, but mostly, these days we travel independently, go where we want, stay at small B&Bs, do our own thing.

PZH

duchy wrote: »

People getting up or worse walking down the plane grabbing seatbacks as they go ................

And it's usually the.. ahem... "larger" people who then put their full weight on the back...


People who snore... loudly... lol

And people who fart on planes / trains / coaches.... !!!!!! - get up and go to the toilet where there are specific fans to extract the smell....