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Tourist Trap
Not everyone who arranges and provides our means of travel has our best interests at heart, as these tales amply demonstrate. Equally, demanding, clueless passengers can make even the best travel agent's life hell.
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Railway
apology
letter is marred by attached instructions to send customer the standard grovel.
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List of howlers proves members of
Congress
are hopelessly lost when it comes to geography.
Some people have eschewed retirement homes in favor of living on
cruise ships
.
A Florida company offers "
euthanasia cruises
" on which terminally ill and suicidal passengers end their lives by jumping overboard.
Travelers mistake hotel room safes for
microwave
ovens.
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