[Misc] Bad reviews

[kevo]

Came across this customer review for The Lamb in Ripe a few years ago, when trying to find out if it was still open (now - thankfully it seems - permanently closed).

What would have to happen for him to give one star?!

 

[Birdie Boy]

2 stars! I was wondering why he didn't have a go back until the last bit about pensioners!

 

[Guinness Boy]

2 out of 5 stars eh....

 

[Weststander]

I've added interest when we visited somewhere and I love TripAdvisor reviews. We were once stung by these shysters, it gives me comfort/laughs to see other people have a go at them too. Click on the terrible reviews only :
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Resta...846-Reviews-El_Toro_Negro-Prague_Bohemia.html

I love quips such as "At least Dick Turpin wore a mask" as the reviewers title.

There's also an Amsterdam hotel with astonishing photos of mice and cockroaches. But we didn't stay there.

 

[Flounce]

I went to a restaurant in Grenada where the food was pretty good but the Owner/chef used to come from the kitchen with a machete in hand and ask diners how their meals had been. Famous for it locally. We told him it was “fantastic thanks very much!”

He did chase a member of the kitchen staff out with it just before we left though

 

[Bodian]

I've added interest when we visited somewhere and I love TripAdvisor reviews. We were once stung by these shysters, it gives me comfort/laughs to see other people have a go at them too. Click on the terrible reviews only :
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Resta...846-Reviews-El_Toro_Negro-Prague_Bohemia.html

I love quips such as "At least Dick Turpin wore a mask" as the reviewers title.

There's also an Amsterdam hotel with astonishing photos of mice and cockroaches. But we didn't stay there.

Iva is doing their best to respond aren't they! How dispiriting - a long way from my experiences of Prague many yeras ago.

 

[kevo]

Iva is doing their best to respond aren't they! How dispiriting - a long way from my experiences of Prague many yeras ago.

I stayed in an awful place in Prague when I visited in the late 80s/early 90s. It was a B&B in a block on a typically Eastern European concrete development on the outskirts of the city, which felt dangerous. The rooms stank and were full of damp, while the landlord hated the English and was aggressive and rude. But actually the worst thing about it was the fact that when you got the tram back from the city centre at night it deposited you on the other side of the motorway. The only way to get back to the B&B was to go under a long subway, which had absolutely no lighting. It was totally, pitch black - so when you got to your accommodation it was actually a relief, even though it was hideous.

 

[Weststander]

Iva is doing their best to respond aren't they! How dispiriting - a long way from my experiences of Prague many yeras ago.

We had an amazing holiday, including a very special restaurant around the corner the next evening. Prague is great.

El Toro ... I blame Mrs.W as she was tired and cold, insisting we walked into the first place.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Came across this customer review for The Lamb in Ripe a few years ago, when trying to find out if it was still open (now - thankfully it seems - permanently closed).

What would have to happen for him to give one star?!
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The Gent's toilet was fabulous though

 

[BN9 BHA]

Spotted this when I was looking for their phone number, love the reply

 

[Bozza]

The responses can be better than the reviews themselves...

 

[pigmanovich]

I can't remember the name now but I once came across the Booking.com page of a hotel in Italy whose manager absolutely violated every unhappy reviewer.

Think: "I didn't know there were only stairs, this was really inconvenient." "Hopefully you are less fat the next time you visit us."

 

[studio150]

I've added interest when we visited somewhere and I love TripAdvisor reviews. We were once stung by these shysters, it gives me comfort/laughs to see other people have a go at them too. Click on the terrible reviews only :
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Resta...846-Reviews-El_Toro_Negro-Prague_Bohemia.html

I love quips such as "At least Dick Turpin wore a mask" as the reviewers title.

There's also an Amsterdam hotel with astonishing photos of mice and cockroaches. But we didn't stay there.

Reviews Basil Fawlty would be pleased to receive

 

[Happy Exile]

I like this review of the historically important Lewes Castle and the excellent museum alongside it.

In another review the same guy gets very angry about being served a cup of tea not to his liking too:

Dont order tea - Wickle, Lewes Traveller Reviews - Tripadvisor

Wickle: Dont order tea - See 63 traveller reviews, 5 candid photos, and great deals for Lewes, UK, at Tripadvisor.

www.tripadvisor.co.uk

 

[A1X]

A review of the (now closed) Genesis Expo creationist museum in Portsmouth

 

[Bakero]

Spotted this when I was looking for their phone number, love the reply

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Should've gone to Specsavers

 

[BN9 BHA]

Should've gone to Specsavers

Easy tap in there

 

[Weststander]

The Hotel Croydon, Amsterdam (wonderful marketing) …. these guests only deducted two dots for vermin!

 

[Guinness Boy]

I normally only leave positive reviews (my TA average is a four or five) but I made an exception for The Mayson, a Dublin hotel who charged me (ok my company) 250 euro for a night in a broom cupboard stuffed full of wanky hipster toys.

A triumph of style over substance. - Review of The Mayson, Dublin - Tripadvisor

The Mayson: A triumph of style over substance. - See 356 traveller reviews, 320 candid photos, and great deals for The Mayson at Tripadvisor.

www.tripadvisor.co.uk

 

[Bodian]

I normally only leave positive reviews (my TA average is a four or five) but I made an exception for The Mayson, a Dublin hotel who charged me (ok my company) 250 euro for a night in a broom cupboard stuffed full of wanky hipster toys.

A triumph of style over substance. - Review of The Mayson, Dublin - Tripadvisor

The Mayson: A triumph of style over substance. - See 356 traveller reviews, 320 candid photos, and great deals for The Mayson at Tripadvisor.

www.tripadvisor.co.uk

And did you enjoy the Sales Manager post review "reaching out to you". Should have taken another star off for that alone!