The world's most ridiculous travel complaints, ranked
Too hard to please

35. The women were too pretty

34. There was no milk in the tea

33. My husband got distracted

32. I was forced to drink cocktails

31. Stonehenge was a bunch of rocks

30. The hotel got me pregnant

29. The Great Wall of China is just a wall

28. My kids weren’t catered for

27. The Grand Canyon is just rocks

26. The Mona Lisa was too small

25. An elephant made me feel inadequate

24. There was a queue at the Uffizi

23. The Queen is too greedy

22. I couldn't call reception

21. The Eiffel Tower is really ugly

20. We were not told to bring swimsuits to a water park

19. There were too many tourists

18. Machu Picchu is too high

17. Our €5 Ray-Bans were fake

16. We had to ski on a ski holiday

15. The hot air balloon went too high

14. No one told us there would be fish in the sea

13. There was no beach in London

12. We didn't put on any weight

11. The guide was too ugly

10. We didn’t know it rained in Spain

9. Hairdressers were discriminated against

8. The animals should be trained to smile

7. I didn’t like the shape of the towels

6. No one warned me about the sun

5. The beach was too sandy

4. Why can't Spanish people go elsewhere on holiday?

3. The flight time was unfair

One British traveller was annoyed at the disparity between flights to the UK and to the USA, moaning: "It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England… it only took the Americans three hours to get home." Another was appalled at a seat mix up on the plane, complaining: "I booked the window seat for myself and the middle seat for my wife but the tickets put us in the opposite ones."
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2. They spoke Spanish in Spain

A visitor to Spain was unimpressed with the amount of Spanish people in the country, writing: "The receptionist speaks Spanish. The food is Spanish. Too many foreigners now live abroad." Another complained: "Why doesn’t everyone speak English? We went to Spain and no one understood English. We will never go back there again."
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1. There was curry in India

A picky holidaymaker hated the food on his trip to India, moaning: "On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don’t like spicy food at all." Another tourist was disappointed by the Greek food on offer, writing: "Food in the Greek hotel was too Greek. We had to eat in the nearby fast food place."
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