Susan Edwards, who aired her frustration that Lido Corfu Solar Resort on the Greek island did not serve English meals, stated she is going to by no means e-book a vacation with TUI once more
Prospects at a Corfu resort slammed by one British vacationer for not serving sufficient English meals have rallied to their defence.
Lido Corfu Solar Resort, on the Greek island’s east coast, was thrust into the highlight this week after 69 year-old Susan Edwards spoke out about her ‘nightmare’ vacation, booked via TUI.
Susan stated there was ‘no meals we may eat.’ She stated there weren’t sufficient chips, and she or he grew to become ‘sick to loss of life of taking a look at rice.’
Since then, the resort boss has defended the menu, describing the choices as ‘beneficiant and various’ and stated ‘recent salads, fruits, cold and warm dishes’ are served every day.
Numerous common company have additionally taken to Tripadvisor and Google Critiques for the reason that spat to defend their beloved resort, insisting Ms Edwards’ criticism is unfair, the Mirror stories.
One grew to become so enraged they left their first-ever Tripadvisor overview to model different company as ‘pathetic chavs.’ The account, created solely this month seemingly in response to the row, rated Lido Corfu Solar Resort as 5 stars out of 5.
The overview reads: “Do not hearken to pathetic chavvy Brits and Poles who purchased the most affordable ‘all Inclusive’ bundle in existence and demanded kind of service solely essentially the most entitled and uncouth would. It is a positive, charming little place.
“Near water, good meals and clear amenities. Fortunately, no British meals!”
One other reviewer additionally left a delicate dig at Ms Edwards’ complain, insisting the Greek meals is scrumptious. They, seemingly tongue in cheek, praised the choices for Scottish company within the critique, left hours after Ms Edwards’ story emerged.
The vacationer wrote: “Phenomenal resort, very comfy and nicely positioned for a calming vacation, we’re common guests. Wonderful all inclusive foods and drinks bundle, they actually exit their option to cater for Scottish guests.
“We loved draught Tennant’s lager, Irn Bru was on faucet (weight loss program and full fats), sq. sausage on a roll at breakfast, scotch pies and bridies at lunchtime, and there was at all times a alternative of haggis or mince ‘n tatties at dinner.
“Tunnock’s tea desserts and shortbread have been obtainable all day, together with Scottish Mix tea. The workers are pretty and can’t do sufficient for you. The Greek dishes are additionally immense, which is a bonus, as Corfu is in Greece.”
And the vast majority of company on Google Critiques rated Lido Corfu Solar Resort as 5 stars out of 5. Loads of these high evaluations have been printed in the previous few days within the wake of the criticism.
One reads: “The meals is scrumptious. The service is nice. We arrived at 4am and at 8am we obtained a room and wristbands and we may use all the things. On the day of departure after including the important thing to the switch itself we may use all of the amenities and meals. We sincerely suggest.”
It jars vastly with Ms Edwards’ expertise because the gran, from Westerhope, Newcastle, stated her vacation was ‘horrendous’ from the minute she, her two cousins, her second cousin and her daughter arrived.
Ms Edwards stated she suffers from ulcerative colitis and must be ‘very cautious’ about she eats.
“On a morning you possibly can have toast, a tough boiled egg, or one thing in sauce,” she stated.
“There was no bacon. For breakfast there was mozzarella and sliced tomatoes. There was no sizzling bacon or sausage.
“We obtained chips in the future. At some point out of the whole thing. There was fish, sardines and rice – I used to be sick to loss of life of taking a look at rice. There was pasta and salads, none of this was marked (labelled). One evening there was a Greek evening and so they had kebabs, I could not eat that. It is the worst vacation I’ve ever been on.”
TUI provided the company £100 in vacation vouchers, with a spokesperson saying they have been ‘sorry to listen to’ about her expertise.
They stated: “Our precedence is to make sure prospects have the very best vacation expertise, so we’re sorry to listen to that Ms Edwards felt dissatisfied together with her vacation. We’ve been in contact immediately with Ms Edwards to come back to a decision.”
