snooty tourists

[vacation_rentals_suck]

Me: Thank you for calling us, this is Dave, how may I help you?

Guest: Dave, this is my forth call and if you cant answer my questions, I am gonna go ballistic. All I want is for someone to tell me about Morgan Creek Grill since I made a reservation there.

Me: well what would you like to know?

Guest: I just want someone to tell me how spectacular it is

Me: well I have heard it is great

Guest: you heard? Well that's not good enough

Me: I'm sorry ma'am

Guest: you know I want to cry right now. I only get one week a year to go on vacation and I come down here and nobody can tell me anything about the restaurants.

Me: Ma'am if you tell me what you want to know I will see what I can find out for you

Guest: You live and work here, why dont you just know these things? You should be ready to provide qualified advice whenever someone asks for it. Isnt that you job?

Me: We have a concierge who unfortanately has a sick child today so I am trying to help you the best I can

Guest: well you're doing a pretty shitty job

Me: I'm sorry

Guest: well I'm sorry too, Dave. Sorry I ever made my vacation plans with you people. This is just.......you know what, just forget it. I guess I am on my own here. Thanks for nothing......CLICK

[tropicsgoddess]

Whenever my family and I went on vacations, there's always the AAA tourist guide book in the hotel. If not, there's a ton of websites to go on and get reviews, recommendations for restaurants and such. I just don't see how and why that lady got her panties all in a bunch over something like that.

[Evil Queen]

Start lying.

"OMG! It is the BEST/WORST/BABYCAKES! place I've ever been to!"

When I'm asked about a restaurant, I tell them I've either never been or go into great detail about where I HAVE been. If I've never been, I'll generally suggest a place that I HAVE been to. How far it is, what the price point is, ect.

But, hey, I'm crazy. *shhhhhhh* (Yes, my co-workers and hiring manager knows I'm crazy)

[Evil Queen]

Whenever my family and I went on vacations, there's always the AAA tourist guide book in the hotel. If not, there's a ton of websites to go on and get reviews, recommendations for restaurants and such. I just don't see how and why that lady got her panties all in a bunch over something like that.

B4-U-eat.com is a great place for restaurants.

[depechemodefan]

She was mental. I go all the time on vacation and I don't worry about eating. Once I get there I'll ask around.

[auntiem]

Seriously, if the worst thing that happens to you on vacation is that no one can tell you about the restaurants count your blessings lady.
I get this often - people want me to recommend restaurants for their trip. I refuse even if I know the town like the back of my hand because a) a place I like might not be to their taste at all b)I have no idea if the same chef / waitstaff is still there and c) it would come back to bite me in the rear if they got food poisoning or something at a place I recommended because of course that would be all my fault.

eta - the best restaurant recommendations I've ever gotten were from fellow passengers on the plane on the way to the destination when they found out we hadn't been there before (about half the passengers were returning visitors). It turned into quite a lively (friendly) debate.

[friendofjimmyk]

Holy be-jeebus! When I go on vacation - the only thing I plan is where I'm going and how I'll get there. Once there, I play it by ear and pick and choose things based on my personal tastes NOT on what someone else thinks is good or bad. True, if I ask and a local makes a suggestion for whatever I'm looking for - that's great - but I will determine my choices on what others tell me.

For pete's sake people - doesn't anyone think on thier own anymore???

[Tito]

For pete's sake people - doesn't anyone think on thier own anymore???

Of course not! She sounds like one of those people who like everyone else to do their thinking for them, so then if anything goes wrong, she can blame someone else. I work with a lady like that. Gets to be pretty annoying after awhile.

[Bright_Star]

She could go there & find out for herself what it's like. Jeez, isn't that what vacations are all about?

[Antisocial_Worker]

What's also fun is when you're hosting a tourist from some big city or from some other place that thinks very highly of itself (I'm looking at you, California. And Florida. And Illinois. And New Jersey.) who stomps up to the front desk of your hotel and say something along the lines of...

"I know you don't have any good (insert international cuisine here) around here, so what's the best you can do anyway?"

If you're feeling charitable, you send them to the Mexican restaurant run by the man who was born in a little town in Mexico with a bunch of x's and z's in its name, who learned how to cook in Los Angeles. Or you send them to the Indian restaurant run by the Hindustani man who caters all the events for the local Indian-American Association. Or to the Chinese restaurant run by the guy who moved down here from New York's Chinatown.

Or if you're not feeling charitable, you grin a witless grin, hyuck and admit, "Nope, nothing good around here, but we gots us a fancy new McDonald's!" and send them there.

You don't even send them to the honest-to-God fancy new McDonald's with the working fireplace and grand piano, housed in a building meant to blend in with the surrounding snooty historic district. You send them to the concrete block McDonald's by the interstate.

I did both during my years spent incarcerated behind a hotel front desk.

[Shards]

Of course not! She sounds like one of those people who like everyone else to do their thinking for them, so then if anything goes wrong, she can blame someone else. I work with a lady like that. Gets to be pretty annoying after awhile.

You only have to work with? Lucky. I actually have to work for two ladies like that. I get the feeling most of the rest of the people here do, too.

[AriRashkae]

If you're feeling charitable, you send them to the Mexican restaurant run by the man who was born in a little town in Mexico with a bunch of x's and z's in its name, who learned how to cook in Los Angeles. Or you send them to the Indian restaurant run by the Hindustani man who caters all the events for the local Indian-American Association. Or to the Chinese restaurant run by the guy who moved down here from New York's Chinatown.

If I didn't know better, I'd swear you lived in the Berkshires.

Yeah, we've got one of those Mexican restaurants. Can't pronounce the name, but IIRC it means "Grandmother" since that's who got the owner/head chef started in cooking.

My favorites are the ones who will sail past the line at the pharmacy, dressed to the nines, and expect the pharmacist to fill their Rx ahead of the 5 people who were there first. (I see those most, since I usually only go out for groceries and my Grandma's meds )

[Tito]

You only have to work with? Lucky. I actually have to work for two ladies like that. I get the feeling most of the rest of the people here do, too.

What I've started doing when she does it, is I tell her to see what the supervisor thinks. I figure that'd be the best way to handle it. It's not up to me to tell others how they should do things.

[Leopardmadcat]

Not my place to say madam. Our legal department has made it expressly clear that we do not vette other establishments. If you want an opinion regarding a restaurant I recommend you call the local paper food critic or call the place yourself.

[donruss]

Guest: I guess I am on my own here. Thanks for nothing......CLICK

You're welcome!