‘Only visitors in Los Angeles care about that sign in the hills’: People reveal the things ‘only tourists do’ in their cities An internet thread has revealed that there are countless ways to spot a tourist The discussion was on a U.S site, but the examples came from all over the world One user said … Read more
An outraged tourist decided to check out of his ‘dreadful’ Tui hotel just two hours into his stay, disgusted at finding exposed wiring and cracked tiling in his ‘filthy’ bedroom. Lee Parker, from Beccles, Suffolk, checked into the Catalonia Punta Del Rey in Las Caletillas, Tenerife, expecting a four-star hotel. However, he claims that when … Read more
One in 20 labour ward mothers are ‘health tourists’: Figures from NHS’s biggest hospital trust are a clue to the real cost of maternity care for visitors Health tourism is bigger problem than thought at Britain’s largest health trust Barts NHS Trust, London likely to be due nearly £4.5 million by maternity tourists New figures … Read more
None of the remaining 700-plus guests at a hotel in Spain’s Canary Islands on lockdown over the coronavirus have shown any symptoms of the virus and 130 of them have been cleared to leave the building, a spokesman for the regional government said on Thursday. The guests at Tenerife’s H10 Costa Adeje Palace Hotel have … Read more
Some guests chose to stay in their rooms. Others put on their face masks and decided to relax by the hotel’s swimming pool. The two approaches were just one sign of the confusion and frustration facing a group of British holidaymakers being contained in a Tenerife hotel for two weeks. Frustrated guests pleaded with Boris … Read more
The typically-bustling streets of Milan have been left empty as Italy struggles with the spread of the deadly coronavirus. The country went from six cases to more than 400 with 12 dead since last Friday, becoming Europe’s worst-affected region. Now Milan’s once-packed roads have been left empty as the country battles with being the continent’s … Read more
Quarantined tourists lounged by a swimming pool and sipped on free champagne at a Tenerife hotel today as they settled in for a two-week lockdown. Hundreds of guests will be locked in the H10 Costa Adeje Palace for 14 days to stop the spread of coronavirus, Spanish authorities confirmed today. The trapped tourists include around 160 … Read more
Hundreds of Britons are feared to be trapped in a Tenerife hotel that has been placed in lockdown due to a coronavirus outbreak. Roughly 700 guests were confined to their bedrooms at the four-star H10 Costa Adeje Palace Hotel in a desperate attempt to stop the virus from spreading. British guests described how their trips … Read more