They gave him room and card-board.
Apparently, you don’t should be an Olympian to be cursed with an anti-sex mattress: A Scottish soccer fan who had reserved a resort on Reserving.com was horrified after discovering that the mattresses had been manufactured from cardboard, as detailed in a thread on X.
“Wait till you see the absolute shambles of a situation @bookingcom put us in last night,” consumer RoryB96 mentioned whereas describing the digs, which they’d booked over the weekend whereas watching Scotland play on the UEFA European Championship in Germany.
The Submit reached out to Reserving.com for remark.
They turned as much as discover that the place was an “absolute mess.”
“One of the beds was made out of cardboard and also held together by duct tape,” Rory described. “The 2nd bed was a sofa bed that was broken and disgusting.”
Accompanying photographs present the aforementioned slumber pads, which evoked one thing out of a tent metropolis.
Hoping to rectify the hell digs, the soccer fanatics reportedly phoned Reserving.com, and spent three hours making an attempt to land a brand new resort, per a follow-up X put up.
After talking to 3 totally different advisors, Rory mentioned that the reservation agency lastly agreed to foot the invoice for a brand new rental, which they checked into at effectively after midnight.
Sadly, it was out of the frying pan and into the hearth for the crew, who ended up in a “dungeon” with “hospital beds and industrial equipment lying around the entrance,” as seen within the spine-tingling clip seemingly ripped from a discovered footage horror movie.
The brand new digs, which Rory surmised was an “abandoned medical facility,” was chockablock with “industrial equipment, exposed chemicals, exposed cables and exposed pipes and to top it all off an axe that looked like something out of a murder film,” per an replace.
If that wasn’t freaky sufficient, the entrance door didn’t lock.
“The whole place had the vibes of a human trafficking horror film,” mentioned Rory, who determined there was no approach they had been sleeping there and tried to guide new digs by means of Reserving.com.
Sadly, this time round, the corporate reps informed the Scots that they’d should “pay for a new place and invoice them” — a transfer that he mentioned would’ve completely torpedoed the group’s funds.
“We have spent over £2000 on accommodation through them for this trip and now they expect us to pay more and wait for a refund when we don’t have the money to pay now,” lamented Rory. “We left the apartment and booked a hotel for one night (which is on @bookingcom by the way) but we can no longer afford to stay here without help from @bookingcom.”
In a closing replace posted yesterday, Rory mentioned his gang had managed to guide a spot for a number of days sans the assistance of the reserving web site.
The vacationer didn’t specify the areas of both of the hell digs.
