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Also he likes the biscuits.
Once had a short break at Butlins in Skegness. We wrote afterwards to complain about how smokey the indoor areas for children were, how unpleasant we found it and how unsuitable it was for children. They wrote back saying that the majority of their customers preferred to be able to smoke indoors. However, even post smoking ban I haven't bothered with Butlins again!
I post a bit on TripAdvisor. Usually try to put in something that might be helpful to others (lovely tea shop near me, for example, that if you want to find out their opening hours online you'd have to read my review) alongside my experience. I wrote a harsh review of a place in Cannock and had a PM off one of the waitresses calling me a bastard. Not long ago I wrote a 2 * review of a restaurant and the only other review on there was very similar. No response from the owners. About a week later there must have been thirty 5* reviews on there, all basically quoting from the restaurant's publicity and clearly faked. So although it was pretty crap at a glance you'd think it was a highly rated place, so take trip advisor with a good pinch of salt. I digress...
"online review" scores cannot really be relied on unless there are hundreds of customer reviews. There will always be someone with a vested interest in bumping up the score. But that goes for anything really, not just holidays.
Also a lot of websites list their reviews in highest order, so that people browsing only read the best ones. The bad ones are on page 10 somewhere that nobody bothers reading. Its just a marketing thing. People are more willing to buy if they read from "real people" that the product is good.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
I'm always complaining if stuff isn't right. 2 weeks ago, got more than half my hotel bill reduced cos it was noisy. Not unreasonable to expect to be able to sleep in peace and quet, so I kicked off. £170 back to me thanks.
do it.
Also as I think I said a while ago, if you don't tell them at the time they can't fix it. There aren't a lot of places that want you to leave unhappy.
I complain in restaurants if what's served to me isn't what I wanted or expect to receive-again my standards go up the more I'm spending.
Like you say most places want to get it right and want you to leave happy.
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That's my base and I work upwards according to the amount of cash I've paid or the type of establishment it is.
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