Pet hates when travelling

Teahfc

Those travellers who have spent the last few hours chatting away on a plane insist on walking snail ace side by side chatting away on the walk from disembarking the plane to getting to passport control.

At hotel buffet breakfasts those greedy fat gits who cannot wait until they get back to their table to eat their food rather than with fingers while queuing. It's called etiquette and manners you low lifers.

opinions4u

1. My family needing things from the hand luggage that we put above our seats three minutes earlier, requiring me to block the next 32 people trying to get to their seats. And expecting me to know exactly where they'd put the item in question.

2. Inadequate supplies of tea, coffee, milk and sugar in a hotel room.

3. Being charged for wi-fi. Sorry chaps, but I'll never use your hotel again if you do this to me.

4. Landing at Heathrow T5 having had by bags searched nine hours earlier and being forced to queue for an hour to have it searched again before I can board my connecting flight which BA have only allowed a 65 minute transfer time on.

5. Being charged to drop-off or collect at the airport.

6. Signing a car hire agreement in a foreign language.

7. Trying to translate foreign parking regulations.

8. Hotels that say they're near a particular landmark when it's a good £8 by taxi to get to said landmark.

9. My wife trying to have a conversation with me as the plane descends and my ears pop nod I've explained I can't hear.

10. Putting on sun cream and getting sand stuck to it.

melanzana

Other people. Full stop.

Must avoid them..hmm any ideas!

Bob_the_Saver

melanzana wrote: »

Other people. Full stop.

Must avoid them..hmm any ideas!

Filled in one of those BA on-board questionnaires a few years ago, in reply to the question (something like) 'What did you most dislike about your flight?' I replied
" some of the other Pax".
3 Flight attendants congratulated me and one shook my hand, albeit with a rather 'weak' wrist.

ferf1223

Doshwaster wrote: »

- no free electric sockets. We all travel with gadgets these days that need recharging. I've often had to unplug the TV or fridge in order to charge my phone

I saw this recently and thought "!!!!!OMGREALLY???!"

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/07/charge-your-usb-gadgets-through-the-tv-in-your-hotel-room-when-travelling/

As for mine - many of those mentioned but I think that shortly ahead of the seat grabbers and the knee crushers has to be the luggage carousel scrum...it drives me completely mad...most airports I have been to there is a line of some sort - maybe tile dots, but something - a couple feet back from the edge of the carousel...if everyone stood behind that line - 3-4x as many people could have a front row view...see their case, step up and make the grab, remove case, retreat and repeat.

but no, instead we'll all cram up against the carousel and huff and puff and tut at those trying to remove their cases from the carousel without causing bodily injury to everyone around them (many times failing).

Delree

There are so many but for me (and I've only experienced this in European hotels) it's showers where the shower head is loose and there is no bracket on the wall meaning you have to hold the shower head at all times or place it somwhere carefully so it won't crash to the floor while you get shampoo. Yeah that really narks me.

Gloomendoom

Baggage carousel scrum and, as I am tall, inconsiderate knee crushing seat recliners for me. The latter cost me money as I end up paying for seats with extra legroom.

DKLS

Those fellow travellers whose wardrobe comes from Sports Direct, yet if they actually attempted a sporting activity other than lifting a pint glass at 5am at Heathrow they would keel over with a coronary.

elisebutt65

Last yr on the way home, a huge rugby player type tried to squeeze into the seat in front. I think he had to travel hunched up most of the way. Why did he not pay for extra leg room?? At 6'4"+ and almost as wide, its pretty obvious that you're going to need an emergency exit seat. Just to save £15!

Hezzawithkids

piglet74 wrote: »

I hate when you get through security and get your tray of personal items back, and your just stood there, with no shoes on, all you holiday money, passports etc, trying to juggle everything and get out of the road before the next family come through...without losing anything!

Oh yes - part of me hates the way you have to practically strip off to get through airport security, the other part of me is grateful that they have so many precautions.