Sounds like she had some valid criticism for the hotel as well. All inclusive package, but pay extra for water? Wtf.
But honestly, I have no idea why she would expect English food in Greece. Spain only does it because of all the English tourists, it’s not an international standard to serve English food or something.
It reads like she didn’t check ahead of booking, if you have some sort of allergy, she she appears to, its essential to check ahead.
It also reads like excluding tax, they paid about £600 for flights, transfers, hotel and all inclusive, each. I am not surprised that the food and drink would be closer to the budget end for that price.
I went to the UK recently and my only food allergy is lactose intolerance. JFK I had a hard time finding food that wasn’t full of some type of cream. It was a the worst part of a otherwise wonderful trip.
If you really insensitive to lactose then yeah its going to be very painful, milk is in just about everything baked or with most sauces that isn’t stamped vegan. At least most reputable places will take it seriously and have a proper allergen book.
I am Coeliac, and its like me going to Japan, just about everything has wheat added to it. Soy sauce? Gluten. Miso? Gluten. Whats annoying is that traditional Japanese recipes for Miso and Soy do not use wheat, it was added later after the American occupation. You can buy both soy and miso gluten free outside of Japan very easily, but in Japan, even though they made by Japanese companies? Ha good luck.
The worst part is that nobody in Japan takes it seriously as there been like two people in the last five years who were diagnosed with a gluten intolerance let alone Coeliac, so even if you take a Japanese speaker along and they explain it politely to the chef, you still get gluten.
It was probably bottled water they’d been buying as they didn’t want to drink the stuff out the tap.
Didn’t want to risk getting ill with her condition I’m presuming.
She was looking for bacon, sausages and fries, pretty sure greasy food is worse for her condition.
Yeah but if alcoholic beverages are included in the all-inclusive, why not bottled water? Or at least sell it at a sane price.
£1.50 doesn’t seem too bad for a bottle of water, if I’m being honest. Especially by hotel/resort standards.
It was an all-inclusive trip. It should be free, anything else is a scam.
Tap water is free and included
That’s not in the article. It only says that water was £1.50. And the tap water on most of the islands is pretty bad.
I don’t need an article to tell me that resorts have tap water. You see I have a brain.
Most resorts give one bottle per person in the mini fridge during service. If you aren’t an asshole to staff you can get more readily.
To provide some context: Corfu received strong British influence in the past and was under the crowns reign for a few decades. It has remained a frequented destination for upper-class British tourism into the early 20th century as I have heard.
Good on them abandoning the dreadful culinary influence of the Brits. A culture so captivated by spices, but one that never thought to get high on their own supply. No no, just keep boiling things
Brits are to spices like dragons are to gold: they only hoard with no way to use it themselves.
We’re in the 21st century.
“I have to be careful because I have ulcerative colitis so there’s certain things I can’t eat.”
“There was no bacon. For breakfast there was mozzarella and sliced tomatoes. There was no hot bacon or sausage.”
Isn’t “English food” just an amalgamation of foods from cultures they subjugated in the past, and beef?
With the seasonings removed
Hey now, that’s reducing English food to an extremely narrow stereotype… You forgot to mention that they also boil their meats, or turn everything into pies.
There’s 3 sort of sections to British food.
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Old staples, things like stews, pies, roasts etc. We exported most of these, with the empire. They are also shared a lot with Europe, making them even more ubiquitous.
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Local specialities. Local traditional dishes, e.g. Yorkshire puddings, Cornish pasties, or Eccles cakes. These were town or region specific. Some have spread, others are still hyper local.
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Imported. Mostly from the empire days. We tended to “discover” spices and flavours. When they came back, they were often reimagined. E.g. the curry was a Scottish invention, using Indian spices. We mostly dump all the related dishes under a label of the country we stole the flavours from. E.g. Chinese food tastes nothing like what they eat in China.
Basically, there is a lot of really good British food about. We also set the baseline for a lot of the comparisons, making us look bland by comparison. The London restaurant industry also does a complete number on tourists, making us look even worse.
Chicken Tikka Masala was invented in Scotland, by a Scottish chef of Indian descent, in the 1970s. Cleopatra ate curry.
You forgot the fourth section: yellow / brown with beans.
- fish fingers and beans
- beans on toast
- fry up (beans essential)
- everything in Wetherspoon’s
Only taking the piss of course.
Scotch egg is peak for me. Incredible invention. 99% sure that’s British? Introduced to me by an English man anyway.
Used to love smoked kippers as a child. Different English man introduced me to them. They strike me as a very British thing also.
Never quite got the Yorkshire with a roast thing myself but my sister lives over there and is fully converted on them. I mean they’re good like but I’d happily live without them.
Got gifted an Eccles cake by a lovely Scouser I know last year. Also delish with a mug of tea.
I do love a good pastie too (is that Greggs or am I mixing up?).
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How could they not have English food like pizza, curry, or kebabs??
The article says they had kebobs but claimed she couldn’t eat them yet wanted sausages and bacon for breakfast.
I read somewhere that England eats like they’re still hiding out from the Blitz. Seemed accurate.
You joke, but yes the limited food availability before (WW1, Great Depression), during, and after World War 2 has had a lasting and profound effect on England’s cuisine in particular.
It was never as well respected internationally as other European cuisines, consisting mainly of hearty soups, stews, savory pies, puddings, and roasts, but it’s identity shifted dramatically during that time, often incorporating more international flavors and giving up on most of the needed longer (and less fuel efficient) cooking times.
Funnily enough many of those traditions were maintained more cohesively in some of the further-a-field colonies like Australia.
I wasn’t really joking lol
Fair!
There was no English food at a Greek island resort?
You don’t say.
Just kebabs, rice, salads, and mozzarella. I imagine there was even hummus. Basically inedible.
And pasta.
Unlabelled pasta, the horror.
Has anybody ever been on an all-inclusive, agency organized group trip that wasn’t mid at best?
These are all about penny-fucking, and ripping off tourists. I look at the pictures in the article and get PTSD from memories of some childhood trip to Bulgaria. At least we had the excuse of being a working family from a poor ex-socialist country, and any beach and hotel was fancy to us. But somebody from a developed country in 2025 pays for something like this, I don’t know what to say to them.
They could open their browser and book a cheaper trip, staying in an apartment on some Greek or Italian beach, and eating the best local foods. But these old British boomers are lazy and also probably incapable of grilling a salmon steak if their life depended on it. Or at least lift up their asses and walk 200 meters to a restaurant nearby, with edible food.
I would rather keep working in the office during a hot summer week, than go on a trip like this with half a dozen relatives.
Has anybody ever been on an all-inclusive, agency organized group trip that wasn’t mid at best?
I used to be a store manager for a telecommunications dealer. This was the old days, the cowboy days before smartphones were even a thing (early 2000s). We were still a pretty small company with 12 locations only in two cities, and we were really just the “testing ground” for the parent company who were developing P.O.S. software FOR telecom dealers. So we were kind of their guinea pigs, but were super successful as well.
Anyway, the owners were early thirties brothers with money to burn, so our “manager’s conference” was a seven day all-inclusive as a group. We would have one morning of meetings to make it a “tax writeoff” and then be drunk for the rest.
First year I managed for them was the Dominican Republic. Our resort was a six-star flanked on each side by a four star. Our 6-star wrist band got us access to the other two as well. I remember little of most nights except our group inventing a drink that ended up becoming popular with complete strangers, and wanting to go to the other resorts after the golf cart service shut down, so just…borrowing…one.
The next year was Cancun. Not as much fun. Not as memorable. But still pretty fun with it’s share of stories.
So i guess in answer to your question. Yes. Absolutely. The two years that I managed for them were the best time I’ve ever had. No company has ever truly recaptured that for me.
Sounds like a pretty typically stupid tourist. I mean who goes somewhere foreign to eat foreign food? Oh wait, anyone who wants to try out new stuff. If you only want to eat the same things you always do, then stay home.
That’s what I do. I (American) stay local and eat what I like. I don’t fly to a foreign country and get mad that the food is weird and nobody speaks English. Unlike so many other entitled, stupid people.
Pretty dumb of her to not travel with a can of beans and a jar of mayonnaise
That sounds a little spicy for a typical Brit.
We got chips one day. One day out of the whole lot.
This will be the biggest nail in the coffin of the Lido Corfu Sun Hotel management in their crimes against humanity trial.
NEVER FORGET!
She should have chosen a better hotel for her situation. There are hotels in more central locations and hotels that you don’t have to walk downhill to the beach.
But that hotel is too dinky to be called all inclusive. And using TUI is not gonna guarantee a good value.
Hotel food always sucks. I was in Corfu last summer. There were plenty of great local restaurants.
