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kevo

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Mar 8, 2008
9,772
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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Birdie Boy

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Jun 17, 2011
4,338
2 stars! 😀 I was wondering why he didn't have a go back until the last bit about pensioners! 😯
 




Weststander

Well-known member
Aug 25, 2011
68,998
Withdean area
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 :lolol: :
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

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Nov 15, 2006
4,155
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 :lolol:
 
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Bodian

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May 3, 2012
14,063
Cumbria
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 :lolol: :
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

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Mar 8, 2008
9,772
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.
 
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Weststander

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Aug 25, 2011
68,998
Withdean area
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

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Mar 10, 2013
13,602
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
 








pigmanovich

Good Old Sausage by the Sea
Mar 16, 2024
1,376
London
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

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Jul 30, 2011
30,188
On the Border
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 :lolol: :
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

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Apr 19, 2018
2,122
I like this review of the historically important Lewes Castle and the excellent museum alongside it.

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

 




A1X

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Sep 1, 2017
20,397
Deepest, darkest Sussex
A review of the (now closed) Genesis Expo creationist museum in Portsmouth

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Guinness Boy

Tofu eating wokerati
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Jul 23, 2003
37,212
Up and Coming Sunny Portslade
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.

 


Bodian

Well-known member
May 3, 2012
14,063
Cumbria
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.

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


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