:) Funny travel stories

A night porter at the four star Holiday Club Hotel in Are, Sweden, got in trouble for signing over the hotel’s intercom. In an attempt to amuse himself and the cleaning crews, the porter sang songs containing a lot of foul and risque language. Unfortunately, many of the hotel guests also heard him and complained. Some of the guests were so upset they threatened to beat the porter up if they saw him again. The hotel paid guests $5,000 in compensation and offered free stays if they visit the area again.

A Staten Island man faces prison time for allegedly trying to steal the trendy SoHo Grand Hotel by filing phony papers with the city. Kouadio Kouassi tried several times to file paperwork that would have transferred ownership of the hotel to him. But the paperwork itself was one of the things that uncovered the scam and led to Kouassi’s arrest on December 29. “The documents were not filled out in a professional way or not filled out at all,” says Gill Hearn, commissioner of the city’s Department of Investigation. “It was just not the kind of filing you would see if it was a real commercial transaction.”

21 year old German Tobi Gutt thought he was booking a flight to Sydney, Australia and entered the wrong destination on a travel web site, ending up on the wrong continent. When he reached Portland, Oregon, he realized he was headed to Sidney, Montana. “I did wonder, but I didn’t want to say anything,” he explains. “I thought to myself, you can fly to Australia via the United States.” After three days in the Billings airport, he received cash sent by his parent & friends, so he could buy a new ticket to Sydney.