TripAdvisor: We Are Not Making This Up.

Could all hotels please take photos on cloudy days so as not to disappoint this user? Thanks.

Submitted via our "report a problem" form:

Sunshine is not nice as I saw on their Website.

Ew.

 

When people subscribe to our TripWatch newsletter, we send a welcome e-mail confirming their subscription. Someone sent us this in reply to that message:

u want to see me naked' actually I am.... and the window is open then
people in the bus can see me ha aha ahah

Funny exchange in the Cozumel forum

Starting January 23rd, fish ID cards will no longer be accepted for fish swiming into US waters. They will need 'fishports' (like passports for people traveling into the USA from Cancun & elsewhere) or be denied entrance. Birds will need 'fowlports.'

Read the original post here.

Thanks to tomthetreeman for suggesting this!

"And while you're at it, TA, who is that guy standing next to my cousin in my wedding pictures?"

From an e-mail to TA support:

hello.i sent an email last night about a picture of a place i  had  sent me via email that i would like to visit ,i know its in wales but i dont  know where.if i send the pic to you would you be able to find it for me?this is  a
genuine request and im  desparate to go see this lovely place.yours faithfully .----

Reading this made the Owl's brain hurt.

Submitted via our problem report form:

I ordered a free Jackson, Mississippe, newspaper because the newpaper is free, I need to know the sales tax on each dollar because I have a business on the internet, so when a person in the United States orders a product I must know that sales tax for each dollar, my mailing address ------, my phone --------, best tiime to call is 2:00p.m What is your Jackson, Mississippi phone number?

Don't drink and dial TA support, please.

A message left on our office's general voice-mail:

This call is for "Fart Knocker," I'd like to talk to you about knocking some farts.

Maybe origami?

From an e-mail to support:

It is hard to change Romanian New Leu back to dollars. Banks and Amex shy away from it because it is to volatile they say.  What do I do with 258 New Leu

The Owl would like to report that he has the same problem

Via our Problem Report form:

Hi friends! Sorry for it, but I very need money! :(k

Great hotels for people you hate.

We give out awards in January for the best luxury hotel, most romantic hotel, etc. But you may not know that we also publish a list of the dirtiest hotels. So, if you’re stuck sharing a cubicle with some lovely person who clips their nails at their desk, you might want to recommend they visit one of these gems. We’re also thinking that the staff of this place would fit in really well at any of them, if they’re looking to make a job change.

Here are the top 10 in the U.S.:

1.    Tropicana Resort Hotel
2.    Hotel Carter
3.    Days Inn Downtown / Port
4.    Budget Inn
5.    Red Carpet Inn
6.    New York Inn
7.    Poindexter Ocean Front Resort
8.    Days Inn Lancaster
9.    Ramada Inn Miami Airport North
10.  Sea Club Resort

Have you stayed anywhere that could top one of these places? Send us your horror stories.
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The 2nd TA office space actually WAS painted "terrible mustard," though

From a management response:

I make no apologies for the lilac colour in the room....after all the room is called "The lilac room" so what colour do you expect .... I have checked the paint tin and it definitely says lilac not 'terrible lilac'.

To avoid further disappointments, please note that "The red room" is red and "The coral room" is coral. If you want luminous we suggest you book the 'Mark Rothko room' which is painted in bright orange.