What the tourists we sometimes have the ideas a little confused about the destination chosen for the holidays is understandable, but that a couple in Bermuda and flip flops arrives in Valle d’Aosta and ask where the beach is, perhaps it is exaggerated.
Hotels. Community, leader in the online booking hotel, which has an offer of more than 110,000 facilities worldwide, has collected the more unlikely questions directed by tourists to hotel concierges and tourist offices in various countries. The result? Not to believe.
Italy, for example, has always been one of the favorite destinations of travellers all over the world, but they have proved to be quite confused about the history of our monuments. So some tourists, curious to see live the activities for which the Colosseum was originally used, asked for information about the time when to be able to witness the gladiatorial fights and to the race of the bighes, leaving totoniti the information. If we think that a tourist, visiting Rome, hoped to give himself a treatment of sludge at the Baths of Caracalla, you can't really be surprised at anything.
The Italian cultural heritage, according to the survey Hotels. Community, of an interest that could be defined at least unusual: just think that some tourists traveling in Sicily have asked if it was possible sleep in the catacombs; try to imagine instead the expression of a guide to the Egyptian Museum of Turin which has been asked: "Sorry, but this mummy died just like that? "
Even the green Ireland has been the subject of just as many misunderstandings. Hotels.com has found that visiting foreigners are surprised that Irish people are so evolved to use mobile phones and speak English! Moreover some seem to have taken too seriously the legends on the Lepricauni, the gnomes that according to mythology lived the island before the Celts, so much to ask where is the forest in which they live!
For their part, the English also have a good deal to do to respond to requests like: "Why was Windsor Castle built on Heathrow's flight trajectory?" or: "Are the English used to do do dorking?" a tourist's question to consult the tourist guide of Dorking, Surrey.
The improbable curiosity of tourists has no limits: someone, who arrived in the French capital and perhaps believed to have returned to the medieval period, asked "The sewers of Paris are underground?", while some art lover has rightly informed about where it was possible to find the "Lord with the smile", referring to the Mona Lisa.
Ideas confused also with regard to Portugal, so much so that the tourist offices of the Algarve had to explain where it was "the pretty town called Algarve" and how far Lisboa was from Lisbon!
Hotels. Community It reveals that even the geography of Spain is not clear to travelers: some believe to find the sea in Madrid and inform themselves how far from the hotel, except to fold on a visit to the Puerta del Sol, of which they would like to know the opening times to the public not to risk being closed!
