Tripadvisor Reviews unbelievable.

[Paulus]

Any food that requires ketchup, by default, is bad.

The food didn't require it, but the customer did.

 

[matticus]

I view these sites as the perfect platform for crowd-sourced humour. Stuff like Ben Nevis "lacking fine dining", and the
(always hilarious) stories of guys taking someone "Up the Oxo Tower".

Are they supposed to be useful?

 

[Wookee]

Appreciate these aren't from TA, but if you've never read them before this link takes you to the Amazon review page for Bic Pens for Ladies and they are worth a read on a rainy afternoon!

 

[Dirk]

I can understand that but a review eg steak was tough, service terrible etc........but salt too fine etc ???

I can't abide find salt.
Don't even start me on ground pepper.......

 

[AndyRM]

Joe Lycett pretty comfortably destroyed Trip Advisor recently.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Any food that requires ketchup, by default, is bad.

A bacon sandwich can never be bad.

 

[matticus]

Appreciate these aren't from TA, but if you've never read them before this link takes you to the Amazon review page for Bic Pens for Ladies and they are worth a read on a rainy afternoon!

DAT's wad I'm talkin about!

 

[G3CWI]

If you want a laugh, look up the reviews for the Norbreck Castle Hotel. It’s a great reason to own a motor home.

 

[Milkfloat]

A bacon sandwich can never be bad.

Pleeeeeeaaaase, if the bacon is that bad that you need to disguise the taste then at least use brown sauce, although I am partial to a dab of sweet chilli on occasion.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Pleeeeeeaaaase, if the bacon is that bad that you need to disguise the taste then at least use brown sauce, although I am partial to a dab of sweet chilli on occasion.

There's classy! You'll be having avocado sandwiches next.

Brown sauce is for a fried egg sandwich.

Either sauce is suitable for a bacon and egg roll.

Themz the roolz!

 

[pawl]

A few years back my local pub got a bad review, not because the food and service was bad, but because the customer had problems opening a ketchup sachet, which was a Heinz one.

If I posted a negative review every time a couldn’t open one of those announcers sachets I’d have repetitive strain injury ✍️✍️✍️

 

[Juan Kog]

I just check TA for amusement. The sight I do check before using any cafe , coffee shop ,takeaway etc is scores on the doors . Two of our club run 11's stops have low scores a 1 and 2 , one has no nearby alternative so I go out on my own . The second a small independent coffee shop only rates a 1 but it has a costa (5) next door . I just tell my club mates I prefer Costa . While I sit in Costa usually on my own ,I think of the Billy Connolly joke about calling Hughy and Ralph down the big white telephone.

 

[Globalti]

The Fox hotel in Wolverhampton was the worst on TA until it was demolished.

 

[NorthernDave]

There is some comedy gold on TA.
A guest house in Blackpool was famous some years ago when it had basically half glowing reviews of 5 blobs, and then the other half were 1 blob assassinations.
The one blobs were SO telling... people stating that you had to leave your car and keys with Bob the car park man and it stayed blocked in for the duration of the stay. A 9 course dinner included a thimble of grapefruit juice and a roll and butter as two separate "courses". The main meal was Birds Eye frozen beef slices in gravy with tinned mixed veg. The hotel was cash only as the "machine was broken" and seemed to have been for 3 years. The owners sarcastic, snide replies to these reviews were hilarious and would put you off on their own. "All my 5 star reviews prove you are a liar!" he would say.
It turned out he was bribing quiet old henpecked OAPs to say something nice on a review DURING the stay or they'd be thrown out. He would literally stand over them in the lounge and tell them what to say! 😄
Unfortunately it was shut down a couple of years ago by health inspectors.

If you want to read some great reviews check out the Fawlty Towers guesthouse in Great Yarmouth. At least the name hints at how disastrous a stay will be, you can't say you weren't warned.

Remember this Blackpool hotel that was charging guests who left bad reviews £100?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...e-bad-hotel-review-charged-blackpool-broadway

 

[Drago]

Here's my review...

"We stopped for lunch at Dave7's lad's pub, the Bat and Virus. Excellent service, delicious food, a fine selection of Guinnness beverages. However, the evening was ruined when we discovered that my Wife had fallen pregnant and 2 years later she gave birth to a baby boy. Coincidence? I think not."