The things I hate most about tour group hotels are (in order);
1) The bloody awful rooms you get. They always give the worst rooms to people who book packages. Why do they have such varying levels of cleanliness, quality and even size within what they claim to be the same category of room?
2) The bloody awful food and service that you get. So called luxury hotels with self service buffet breakfasts including those grotty "links" sausages clearly made out of the least savory parts of whatever animal they put in them, orange juice is that is only orange in colour and coffee / tea that goes in weaker than it comes out.
3) Bloody German and Austrian package tourists who get up early to reserve certain loungers with their towels, then shower, then go to breakfast, then go back to their room for whatever purpose and then finally turn up at the pool at 11am before leaving it (still reserved) at noon for a long lunch.
4) Bloody Japanese and Chinese package tourists who take photos of everyone and everything including the toilet to the point they do not know where they have been until they get home and have their pictures developed. Smoking and drinking scotch (yes they do) at the breakfast table and leering at everything in a skirt.
5) Stupid unenforceable rules like "corkage" on drinks you bring back to your room because the beer in the badly operating minibar costs 10 times what is does in the local shop.
6) A petulance for the insipid and generic cultural shows with as much authenticity (in the context of things) as a MacDonalds.

It never ceases to amaze me how hotels pander to this ridiculous star system claiming to be this number of stars or that in order to try and profess quality levels. The hotel star rating system has NOTHING to do with the quality of a hotel, it is a simple check list of facilities which do not even have to work in order to be ticked. I have stayed at many 3 star hotels who tell me they deliberately engineered their star rating survey in order to avoid paying the higher tax levels levied on a 4 or 5 star hotel, so more of what you pay one of these accommodation marketing crocks is tax! I have stayed at 5 star hotels that are as about as luxurious and comfortable as an Indian fakir’s bed. If a hotel’s first line of marketing is “We are 5 star” RUN, it is an overpriced tour group hotel!

Thank you.
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