They gave him room and card-board.
Apparently, you don’t must be an Olympian to be cursed with an anti-sex mattress: A Scottish soccer fan who had reserved a lodge on Reserving.com was horrified after discovering that the mattresses had been manufactured from cardboard, as detailed in a thread on X.
“Wait until you see absolutely the shambles of a scenario @bookingcom put us in final evening,” 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 many beds was made out of cardboard and in addition held collectively by duct tape,” Rory described. “The 2nd mattress was a settee mattress that was damaged and disgusting.”
Accompanying images 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 attempting to land a brand new lodge, per a follow-up X submit.
After talking to 3 completely 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 tools mendacity across 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 “deserted medical facility,” was chockablock with “industrial tools, uncovered chemical compounds, uncovered cables and uncovered pipes and to high all of it off an axe that appeared like one thing out of a homicide movie,” per an replace.
If that wasn’t freaky sufficient, the entrance door didn’t lock.
“The entire place had the vibes of a human trafficking horror movie,” mentioned Rory, who determined there was no method they had been sleeping there and tried to e book new digs via Reserving.com.
Sadly, this time round, the corporate reps instructed the Scots that they’d must “pay for a brand new place and bill them” — a transfer that he mentioned would’ve completely torpedoed the group’s funds.
“We’ve got spent over £2000 on lodging via them for this journey and now they anticipate us to pay extra and look ahead to a refund once we don’t have the cash to pay now,” lamented Rory. “We left the residence and booked a lodge for one evening (which is on @bookingcom by the way in which) however we will not afford to remain right here with out assist from @bookingcom.”
In a closing replace posted yesterday, Rory mentioned his gang had managed to e book a spot for a number of days sans the assistance of the reserving website.
The vacationer didn’t specify the areas of both of the hell digs.