People come across all sorts of unfamiliar things when traveling, some of which may result in some amount of discomfort, so a group of U.S. tourist bureaus asked its members for the most ridiculous questions they'd received from prospective visitors, according to USA Today.
One of the favorites was, "When do they turn on the Northern Lights?" A close second was, "Is there a bridge to Hawaii?"
An Australian website conducted a similar survey, the results of which were also published in USA Today. For that survey, Thomas Cook Vacations and Novotel hotel group, among others, were asked for their most ridiculous queries.
Some of the best-submitted results are below:
"It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England," one traveler said. "It took the Americans only three hours to get home. This seems unfair."
"There were too many Spanish people there," a visitor to Spain said. "The receptionist spoke Spanish, the food was Spanish, no one told us there would be so many foreigners."
"No one told us there would be fish in the water," another traveler said. "The children were scared."
Some additional humorous complaints by guests who may not have been at the top of their class, published by The Star include:
"I compared the size of our one-bedroom apartment to our friends' three-bedroom apartment and ours was significantly smaller," one traveler reported.
"The brochure stated: 'No hairdressers at the accommodation.' We're trainee hairdressers - will we be okay staying there?" asked a traveler who apparently misunderstood the brochure.
Some additional complaints came from a guest at a Novotel in Australia who complained his soup was too thick and strong as he ate his gravy, and a woman who threatened to call the police for being locked in her hotel room by the staff, when in actuality, she had mistaken the 'Do Not Disturb' sign on her door as a warning not to exit the room.
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