Tripadvisor reviews: Seven of the funniest

"It was haunted"

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Travel website TripAdvisor has found itself embroiled in controversy after a man’s review was deleted because it was written in the Welsh language.

Emrys Llewelyn tried to upload his thoughts of the Nefyn Maritime Museum, based inside a church on the Llyn Peninsula in north Wales, but was told he had violated the website’s language policy, The Daily Post reported.

TripAdvisor’s rules means that Welsh is not one of the 28 languages available on the website.

A spokesman for the website said it is not able to host reviews writing in all of the world’s languages “in order to maintain the integrity of our site, we have to ensure that every language in which we operate is fully integrated into our moderation and fraud detection tools and processes.”

So while Mr Llewelyn’s Welsh review will not appear on the website, TripAdvisor certainly has its fair share of colourful accounts of hotels, restaurants and destinations across the world - from disappointed sight-seers to jaw-droppingly disgusting lodgings.

“Nature is crap!”

Carved from the earth by the flow Colorado River, the Grand Canyon in the US state of Arizona is known to be one of the most breath-taking sights in the world. But one TripAdvisor reviewer wasn’t convinced.

"I’ve been to a number of so called landmarks in my time - but what the hell was this? Just an overblown sandy ditch.

"Should’ve stay in my hotel and watched DVD instead…"

The Grand Canyon seen from above

"There was a poo in the kettle...”

"Do not stay in this absolute dump of a hotel, and I use the term hotel very loosely,” a reviewer wrote about a hotel Newcastle in a post simply entitled “there was a poo in the kettle…”

“I cannot convey strongly enough how disgusting this place is.blood stained headborads that have clearly been up since the world war (the first one).

"In summary...this place is a complete hole."

“Beach is too sandy.”

One review of the idyllic shores of Tumon Beach in Guam complained that while it had "clean and crystal clear" water which was "very nice for swimming,"” it had, er, too much sand.

The blue waters of Tumon Beach in Guam

“Haunted”

Rating the location highly, a Trip Advisor user who stayed at a hotel in Saudi Arabia complained of an unwanted guest in his room.

"i saw the ghost in my room over my 4 yr boy i screamed and ran out my room.[sic]"

Complaining that the staff didn’t believe the account, the user warned others: "our room# was 303".

“Boring”

Striding into the realm of the offensive, a reviewer of the attic where teenage diarist Anne Frank stayed said: “I dont see the point of this 'attraction'."

“So some girl wrote a diary, who cares?” they wrote of Frank, who was immortalised by her diary written before she was captured and killed by the Nazis during the Second World War.

"Never again"

A guest at a New York hotel had an unexpected and furry visitor when he stayed in the Big Apple, and was showered with water from the room above in the bathroom.

"Water from the top vacationers ran strait through to our shower. And a rat helped us eat our Hershey's chocolates. When we complained about our uninvited guest, the man at the desk simply said : but its night, they come out at night.[sic]"

"I’d rather sleep on the street"

At least the guest in New York was encountering live animals. A visitor to a hotel in Wolverhampton ominously wrote that they'd "rather sleep on the street" after they claimed to have found a cat's paw in their pillowcase.

"Communal toilets with no locks. Our neighbour had TV on all day and nite didn't close the door. It should be named Alcatraz."