Some Funny Travel Stories from Around the World. TRAVEL SNOB TRAVEL BLOG
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Every couple of months Adirondack Towels and Scrubs, a national supplier to the hospitality industry, dishes up their pick of funny travel or outrageous stories from the last three months. Here are some of this quarter's selections:
This Sure Doesn't Look Like Sydney
21 year old German Tobi Gutt thought he was booking a flight to Sydney, Australia and entered the wrong destination on a travel web site, ending up on the wrong continent. When he reached Portland, Oregon, he realized he was headed to Sidney, Montana. "I did wonder, but I didn't want to say anything," he explains. "I thought to myself, you can fly to Australia via the United States." After three days in the Billings airport, he received cash sent by his parent & friends, so he could buy a new ticket to Sydney.
Man Busted for Trying to Steal $76 Million Hotel
A Staten Island man faces prison time for allegedly trying to steal the trendy SoHo Grand Hotel by filing phony papers with the city. Kouadio Kouassi tried several times to file paperwork that would have transferred ownership of the hotel to him. But the paperwork itself was one of the things that uncovered the scam and led to Kouassi's arrest on December 29. "The documents were not filled out in a professional way or not filled out at all," says Gill Hearn, commissioner of the city's Department of Investigation. "It was just not the kind of filing you would see if it was a real commercial transaction."
Probably not "American Idol" Material
A night porter at the four star Holiday Club Hotel in Are, Sweden, got in trouble for signing over the hotel's intercom. In an attempt to amuse himself and the cleaning crews, the porter sang songs containing a lot of foul and risqué language. Unfortunately, many of the hotel guests also heard him and complained. Some of the guests were so upset they threatened to beat the porter up if they saw him again. The hotel paid guests $5,000 in compensation and offered free stays if they visit the area again.
Sneaky Hotel Managers
When they arrived for work on February 5, the employees of the Royal Arkansas Hotel and Suites discovered the business was shut down with guests still inside. The office safe was empty with the door left open, one of the restaurant cash drawers had several thousand dollars removed, and employees said managers had ransacked offices, ripped out hard drives, and skipped town after the business closed the night before. Furniture and fixtures had also been removed from several areas of the hotel.
To check out all the stories, go to AdirondackTowelsandScrubs.com.
- The Travel Snob
i randomly read some blogging sites and today a really funny story about spain and this girl's experience with food was posted on shotjot.com it's title is "french-fries and lemonade" and it had me rolling
Posted by: lindsay | July 30, 2008 at 08:39 PM
funny stories! i love traveling stories, things always always always go wrong. hilarious. i've actually been reading a great blog, in case anyone is interested, it's shotjot.com. the girl's hilarious and has been traveling around south america for awhile. laughed out loud.
Posted by: lindsay | May 04, 2009 at 04:11 AM
Hahaha isnt that great that places in the US that nobody would ever want to go are named after huge travel hubs?
Just like Maine: Paris, China and Meixco are all towns.
Posted by: Shibuya | May 21, 2009 at 08:23 AM