Travel Tip: Don’t Write a foul Online Review of the Hotel You’re Currently Staying In [Travel]

Once you’re staying in a miserable hotel, you’re entitled to post a nasty review of it. But as a British couple recently learned, remember to probably wait until you’re checked out to write down it. Or they’ll check you out forcefully.

Adrian Healey and girlfriend Sherrie Andrews, both 33, were taking a vacation to resort town Blackpool, England, where they booked a room at the Golden Beach Hotel. It was Andrews’ first vacation since having been diagnosed with cancer some 18 months earlier.

On their first night there, Healey recounted to a neighborhood paper, they were denied access to their room because it was being re-carpeted. They say they didn’t complain, though they did ask for an additional towel.

On the second night, the executive stormed into their room, accused them of writing a negative review on the travel site TripAdvisor.com , and threatened to call the police. The police soon arrived, and the couple was asked to depart the property. The police encouraged them to go looking into getting a reimbursement, but the hotel doesn’t comply.

What’s unclear from USA Today’s report of the incident is if Healey and Andrews did indeed write the review inside the first place. Or why the chief suspected they’d penned it. Perhaps a reference the aforementioned re-carpeting inconvenience? an odd tale, to make certain, but one who can serve as a parable: Always talk shit behind establishments’ backs. [ USA Today ]

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