30 Encounters With Tourists From Hell My GF And I Experienced While Working In Iceland’s Tourism Industry (New Pics)
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His Rights
And Bunny definitely exercises her rights!
Load More Replies...What rights? Where are these rights? Where does it say you have the right treat others this way? Or you have the right to not be inconvenienced yourself, or you have the right to inconvenience others just because you want to?!?
Well, to be fair, their rights are real to them as they are completely delusional and unhinged :)
Load More Replies...My least favorite type of person in the world: self-entitled Karens who treat others like scum
Working in customer service doesn't mean they have to listen to you or obey.
I'd just leave him there and close, cameras have the conversation anyways :D
hey tour bunny did you delete my comments or i just can't find them- or MY EYES HAVE FAILED ME AGAIN
Viking
I think the person was born in the wrong period of time. What was the person expecting?
Upstairs
Ironically, a thunderstorm is one of the settings on my sound machine that helps me sleep!
There are a lot of tourists in Florida, especially since I live in South Florida. It was winter once and I went to the beach in a lot of jackets and hats. Then I saw some tourist strutting down the streets in no shirt and trunks
That might be due to acclimatisation. (I'm basing this on Wikipedia, btw) If you are near Key West with average lows of 65F/18C, that's a pleasant warmish spring day over here! Average winter low in Newcastle, UK is 37F/3C, and some people still dont wear jackets and hats.
Load More Replies...Ok this one made me laugh out loud. literally people sometimes don't have limits, and it sometimes is embarrassing if you are witnessing what is happening
The Peaceful One
Have you ever been told you have a very aristocratif-sounding name? I know, it's totally unrelated.
Load More Replies...WTH, just because she is on vacation doesn't mean that everyone has the time to be meandering around
What Should Have Been Said
Aspirin??? thats not gonna help, you need a strong drink to deal with tourists.. a drink that would grow hair on your chest.
Uhhhh. Unsure about this one.
Load More Replies...The tour manager has the patience of a saint. I would have wanted to secretly push them off Skógafoss into the wet, wet water.
Just accidentally push them into Strokkur...
Load More Replies...Waterfall being wet?! What?! This is the first I've heard of this phenomenon! (sarcasm)
The One With A Question
How dare you insult snakes across the globe! Snakes aren’t contributing to the karenhood!
Hey, I do not discriminate. All animals get their spotlight ;)
Load More Replies...Once I was in a store and a customer was holding up the line by ranting at the clerk at the till. I walked up and said "is there a problem?" Suddenly the person turned to me and went on their rant. I patiently listened, and the line moved. When my friend finished his purchase and the lineup cleared, I said "That sound frustrating, but I don't work here, so I can't help. All I asked was if there was a problem", and left.
No Tipping Expected
I hate it when people do this. For one, you're messing with precious nature, and two, it's so unfair to those who work at the parks.
Not to say that if something happens good people have to put their lives on the line to save those jerks.
Load More Replies...Okay but it's the park's fault for putting such a climbable iceberg that nobody can resist climbing... everyone knows you don't put statues, furniture, or anything for people to climb on. just the floor. duh. 🙄
I remember when a bunch of hooligans trespassed on a national park, destroyed a 2,000 years old monument and then tried to sue the park for injuries >:I
people doing a mess in other countries, but when tourists visit their country they get all defensive and mad at everyone
Horns
Yeah, educate yourself. Geez.
Load More Replies...We pay him a bar of gold and two tankards of mead a day.
Load More Replies...And here is your typical tourist, who knows more than the tour guide about everything they're about to see. (Why they even bothered to come, I can't imagine.)
Yeah, what do I know? I'm just a guide working in this museum and living in this country, after all.
"Yeah, go watch Thor or that children's movie where they ride dragons!" >:I
The Wind Whisperer
This jobs should be more recognized like you have to do a lot of things, like predict the weather, explain why waterfalls are wet, and tell a storm to calm down because it is annoying the customers. You never know what to expect at this type of jobs.
Another Grand Idea
It's a glacier in Iceland! It literally means "a thing with ice in it" in "the country with ice in it"!
yeah, why didn't you tell us that it was going to be cold as if we were close to the glacier :^
My horrible parents used this excuse: "They don't like us here so we treat them like sh'*t before they can do it to us." Note: they were in CANADA. smh
The Quiet One
And this is one of the many reasons we all hate old people. That, and the narrow-mindedness, and the fact they ruined our economy, and their entitlement, and their pretentiousness when explain us why they are better than us.
Yes. They said it. The only thing I hate more than this mistake is the "should of" mistake. That makes my blood boil.
Load More Replies...The Funny Ones
Thank you. I sometimes really do need a hug. People are draining.
Load More Replies...I can only imagine the pent up anger.
Load More Replies...One of us is :) She feels the pain of this one a lot.
Load More Replies...My Way Or The Manager Way
s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶o̶u̶t̶ t̶e̶x̶t̶. https://capitalizemytitle.com/strikethrough-text-generator/
Load More Replies...I love when people ask keepers to wake up the animals at the zoo via throwing trash to them for their entertainment :P
wait if their animals does that mean thats a prison in the zoo???????
The Disney Princess
Where did she even?... I think even a little kid would know that dolphins wouldn't.... I'm done.. I respect you
They rape each other and kill babies for fun, don't count on dolphins.
What? Why would the dolphins keep you up? Did this actually happen? That would have been infuriating.
Yes, Ocgale the Nonexistent, that actually has happened. The person legit thought the dolphins were going to float her ass up and she would not have to swim.
Load More Replies...Time Travel
Ah, that's fair. That said, they called to CANCEL not to ask if a refund is possible :) They signed the contract that said "no refunds for no shows under any circumstance". Calling two weeks later to cancel and then having an attitude is the problem here.
Load More Replies...90 Degrees
The One Who Knows
Wait... but? all sites I checked online said no mosquitoes... I don't know what to believe! help!
Haha, they are actually midges of a sort, but we literally called them mosquitos so people would immediately know they were going to get bit. And most international tourists gave me a blank stare when I sad "midges" anyway. So, in truth, Iceland DOES NOT have mosquitoes, but has midges that look almost exactly like mosquitoes and their bites itch exactly like mosquito bites.
Load More Replies...They also plant fleas on their dogs and cockroaches in the trash :O
Crab
Also people who are Not allergic to certain food but Lie without considering the amount of time and effort it takes to make that dish without that specific ingredient >:I
That makes me angry to no end. People in the kitchen go in panic mode when someone mentions they are allergic.
Load More Replies...The Volcanologist
That's why you should let the Volcanologists do their job. Bored-Pand...e068fd.gif
Hey Robert, I don't understand what you're doing with this picture. But I want to. Please explain?
Load More Replies...Hmm. I thought this was a reference to Eyjafjallajökull, the Icelandinc volcano that errupted in 2010 causing travel chaos for a few days, until they rewrote the rules on what was a safe amount of ash to fly a plane through. But that would be E-15 - E followed by 15 letters - a reference to I18N, which in computerspeak is short of Internationalization. I remember the erruption quite well as I was marooned in Denmark for a few days and had to get a bus home - only to find the first planes landing at Heathrow when we eventually arrived! Still I got an extra weekend in Denmark, so it wasn't all that bad. :D
It was a reference to Eyjafjallajökull, by all means. The tourist in question could not remember the oversimplified name, I just never corrected them as the information would obviously just fly over their heads. I did not know about I18N! That is a great tidbit of information right there. I'm glad your Eyjafjallajökull eruption experience was a generally positive one. It was fun in Iceland - the domestic flights were still running because the wind moved all the ash to continental Europe :) In any case, good eye for detail!
Load More Replies...Red
"And here are the awesome lights which are created by the lethal solar radiations traped by the magnetic shield of the planet. Some civilizations thought those marvelous glows were the souls of... -Yeah, whatever, I wanted another colour, so I'm disappointed."
"Nothing special" as he watches a freaking marvel of nature with eyes that process light and send the signals to the brain in order to convert them to thought :I
Kitchen
An egg slicer is a bit like a cheese wire, but with more wires, and an egg-shaped indentation in the bottom part. All I see are knives...
Load More Replies...Rich
Love the "hat" resembling one of those ugly ones worn by some princess at the royal wedding
Hah hah, I just noticed that the entitled customer appears to be wearing Princess Beatrice's avant garde hat (the United Kingdom has an odd fascination with hats).
Cold Dive
Impossible Geographic's
I heard american tourist talking about how the ferry was totally going under the fjord. Yes this open roof ferry is totally a submarine. -Cries in Norwegian-
Oh no. Icelandic tears joining in. Sorry. On a funny note we once had a woman asking if things were a fjord for the duration of a 12 hour tour. Like literally pointing at random things asking if it is a fjord. Then we drove past the actual fjord and informed her it was a fjord. She was unimpressed and asked "what is a fjord exactly?".
Load More Replies...This Escalated Oddly
this kind of logic dosen't make sense... why would someone want to stop you from going on vacation, especially if it's someone you have never met before
PLus, they're the ones earning money from you going on vacation
Load More Replies...Yes, everything is a conspiracy so you don't go to the Everglades Mark! X3
Magic Elevation
If tourist belive Norway have two suns because of what we call midnightsun is something then trust me they will belive this.
Load More Replies...Duuh everyone knows it's: deer -> Reindeer-> Elk. It happens gradually between 1500m and 2500m with a wizard yelling WOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
How To Book A Tour
Cronenberg
"Sup" said the pregnant dog who recently had plastic surgery about to go on a hike
I am 97% certain they meant it separate. But the way it was written made me wonder.
Load More Replies...Elevator
FroggyGirl: Enough with the language! If you can keep it civil, then just don't bother posting.
How about I tie you to this here rope and then I toss you down? >:D
In Darkest Night
Please sue, I'll love to see the face of the lawyer when you reveal your idiocy :D
Shouldn't Iceland be colder than Greenland because Greenland is closer to the equator?
That's not the only factor. New York, for example, is a lot close to the equator than London - still London hardly gets any snow, let alone blizzards. The currents in the northern Atlantic ocean are another factor. The relatively warm water keeps the small landmass of Iceland from getting quite as cold as it might get otherwise - the same currents thaw Greenland's coast, but the landmass is a lot bigger.
Load More Replies...Closed
I apologize for the nice Americans but many are idiots
Load More Replies...Starducks
Twenty years ago they were a legit cafe, now they mostly serve coffee-themed desert.
Load More Replies...After Hours
The EXACT response they got. After the stare.
Load More Replies...Undies
The only pair of underwear they brought for the entire trip is at the laundry service.
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Dirty
The Côte d'Azur sucks, the cicadas make noise and there is sand on the beaches.
Sunny Days
it's probably the same people who imported mosquitos, blame them for the weather!
Flardaargloofoor
Boom! You got it on the first try. :'D
Load More Replies...So it's not a real icelandic location? How could we know, with your all your Eyjiafialakolkuls and stuff...
The Environmentally Concerned One
Damn, can I take you as an official bodyguard to the next glacier tour?
Load More Replies...At least she didn't just dump it on the glacier. She still sucks though.
The Wall
The Historian
The Environmentalist
Hot Horses
A horse riding tour in Iceland is one of my dream holidays....that will never happen
Ruined Holiday
Ain't Nobody Got Time For That
Yeah. Parents were hippies.
Load More Replies...Membership Level Guide
Love this. I worked in the central reservations center for a higher end chain a number of years ago. They were just as bad making the reservation or calling in to complain.
Cold Killers
Fridge
3. eat sandwich in front of them to assert dominance
Load More Replies...The Snowflake One
Yeah! Rain on a tin roof is one of the best sounds ever
Load More Replies...I would like to join the Shiny Buttercup Snowflakes, or make an opposing club, the Dull Cupcake Raindrops
They complain about things not being bad enough?
Load More Replies...It is raining here right now, my window is open and the kids are still sleeping. Bliss
F-Road
Booked Out Schmooked Out
The Interior Designer
Customeradvisor
"Asks if we have 5G towers because the government can use 5G to disable her brain." LMFAOO
Hygiene
Accent
Wait, are there Americans that think that what every country they are in the native people are First Nation Americans?
The Luxurious One
Just seeing the lights would have been a luxury! We spent a week in Iceland & it was cloudy every night...sigh. But we had a blast doing other stuff, downtown Reykjavik is great and the locals were fun to hang out with.
Load More Replies...People who expect things which nobody promised them and who complain when they don't have it are entitled idiots.
Hide And Seek
Flight Choice
Lava Tube
No, bring them to a source of lava and "accidentally" nudge them to hard towards the lava. I mean, they wanted to see lava. 😈😆😈
Load More Replies...going to a place with molten lava is a bad idea because they could be turned into scorched bags of meat
Muffin Tours
Yes they are. Also KIWI BUBBLES! I always try to say words like this as if I was angry. It's fun.
Load More Replies...Cleanup
Are You Completely Sure
Card
No Warning At All
Parking
I once had a book store. "Yeah I can't remember who wrote it or the title but it has a blue cover, why can't you find it?"
Oh, the building with the walls, and the roof, right? I know this one.
The Promise
Elusive Whales
Is It That Cold
The bear does have fur to be honest but he would be sleepy this time of year
Family Vacation
"Our vacation is ruined" yes, because god forbid you should spend time with YOUR OWN OFFSPRING.
Food Antics
Natural Causes
If it exists and you're human, you can probably eat it somewhere. :|
Load More Replies...Great, now I'm curious and I want to know how it tastes... Thank you, really... But not carrion like those two.
Customeradvisor
Douglas showed up on time. Sandra gets mad easily and treats you like a servant. Be like Douglas.
The Perpetuum Tourist
No! Snakes are very tolerant animals! They will sleep wherever they can get it!!!!!
Daaaaaaamn. I have a feeling I stepped on a lot of toes by including snakes as the bad guys in a few comics.
Bears
She came for things she does not want to see, and she did not even know those things are not there... This one blew my mind. Metaphorically.
Cave Decorations
Tf it’s a bunny and there’s fire in his eyes cause he’s mad
Load More Replies...Oh, Dear
Sad fact: all of our comics actually happened :)
Load More Replies...Really
Wind
The Bunnilton
We are waiting in carrot fields for youuuu... 🎵
Load More Replies...The Miserable One
How much is 2 euros to American dollars? I want to see how much they are making a fuss about
Is it just me, or does the third frame look like a blow up doll?
24
I think in the US they call the 24 hour time "Military Time" (Normal here in Germany, too ^^)
Normal everywhere in the word. Four hours after noon, it's 16, not "4 in the afternoon". This country is weird... they use yards, gallons, ounces and stuff...
Load More Replies...The Literate One
Blue
Hoo Could Say That
Maybe they are muslims, jews or catholics and don't support cremation. Please, don't judge people if you don't know them.
Load More Replies...AC
Customeradvisor
There, all you snake lovers can relax now! Also everyone called Alex is amazing. I have a cat called Alexander and he is the best.
Wants another driver because the driver is a woman... I don't even get it. Why?
Whale On Demand
Glacier
At least they were still polite though, or at least more polite than the others
Glacier : from the french word "glace" = "ice". So yes, glaciers are just ice, litteral gigantic rivers of ice which have been here for thousands of years and which slowly eroded entire valleys.
Frequent Customer
Well, his grandfather on father's side was an elk. Otherwise they're deer. But the last name stuck.
Load More Replies...Orange Warning
Scam
Really? I searched it up and found it. (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Laugavegur+202,+Reykjav%C3%ADk,+Iceland/@64.1401786,-21.8961109,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x48d674b8824e42c7:0xc7b9b1e787831181!8m2!3d64.1401763!4d-21.8939222)
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Load More Replies...Christmas
Cruise Cable
I need to be in a naming committee somewhere.
Load More Replies...The Innocent One
Not Actual People
To be fair, you can fit two people in one bed if you want. That's what my parents do at hotels. Mom and Dad take one bed and I take the other
In Europe at least, it is common for the beds to be single size. This wouldn't be comfortable.
Load More Replies...my brothers and I used to lay sideways on a bed when we went on vacation as kids
I know it sounds surprising, but according to recent research of the Yudembass University of Idiotistan, children are people.
The Devil In The Details
Forbidden Lagoon
Private And Exclusive
"You can't treat me normally like any other person, it's discrimination, I demand privileges!"
Glacier Crossing
Hair
This is illegal! Your pun is better than mine! I have to rethink my life now.
Load More Replies...Mud Schmud
Yeah but you can't just trash other people's s**t, and then complain when they need you to pay the damage fees because you were careless with their stuff.
Load More Replies...A Day In The Life Of A Golden Circle Guide
Brochure
It's a yeasty extract that approximately 50% of Brits like and 50% hate with a passion. It's... an acquired taste. And is so divisive that it's a short cut for things that can lead to polarising opinions, e.g. Justin Bieber is a bit Marmite - you either love him or hate him.
Load More Replies...As a non-Brit I honestly think they ought to be ashamed if they DID sell that stuff. It looks like molasses and tastes like a punishment for a triple murder.
HAHAHA thank you for this. I now understand exactly how it tastes.
Load More Replies...The new brochure, with the complete list of things wich don't exist here.
Train
When drawing this I had Thomas the Engine cursed images in my head for the rest of the day.
Load More Replies...There Is An App For That
Blue Ice
Force Of Nature
Tax Free
Night Whales
I love how all these people think the company is refusing them business just to be mean?? Like, no, trust me, we want your money... What you are suggesting makes completely literally no sense *facepalm*
Loud And Obnoxious
Upgrade
The Whaleroras
Aurora Alarm
Power
Please Wait
Karen Mail
Hoho
Disturbed
How Would I Know That
https://www.northbound.is/blog/209/what-are-f-roads-in-iceland
Load More Replies...The Driver
If the bear doesn’t know how the car works, why would he rent a car? He asked to rent a car but didn’t know if it had “reverse” on the shifter.
Load More Replies...Earthquake Season
Smell
I agree with the talking giant testicle. They should tell people their water smells like rotten egg.
Does the water in Iceland smell like farts? Is that the issue?
Master Cartographer
Whale Chow
He's having a blast. Had to fill my pocket with water though.
Load More Replies...Black Sand Beach
The Social Influencer
Online
I understand that people could be difficult, but few of these comics are unreasonable and shows unprofessional behaviour on the service providers part. I mean, how do you not check the fridges after the pax has left? In spite of taking their money, how difficult it’s it to just make a phone call to confirm the arrival in time on a day before?
Wait, how is it their fault they can't return the sandwich customer lost two months ago?
Load More Replies...Anyone who has ever dealt with tourists will recognise all of these.
I know these comics are meant to be funny - but in fact they make me rather sad. I cannot stand people who always think they deserve something better and everybody else is only there to serve them and worship their stupidity! Having to deal with this kind of behaviour each and every day makes work an ordeal. I truly hope that for each single one of these customers from hell there are at least 100 other tourists who return from their tours happy and thankful that they had the opportunity to see the wonders and the beauty of Iceland!
Hey Yoga Kitty! Thank you for this. Yes, for each of these I met so many other beautiful people! It just evens out! Working in tourism was one of the most rewarding experiences in my entire life! I met hundreds of people daily, and made some great friends! So, yes, sometimes these make me sad, but knowing that it was all evened out makes it better. And the cherry on the cake is: most of these people got what they deserved :)
Load More Replies...These are all so funny! Reminds me of Karen for some reason. Anyways, great work!
Thanks! Great to hear! Hit us up on Instagram or Facebook for more!
Load More Replies...Anyone who has ever worked in the hospitality/ service industry has experienced dealing with unreasonable and self-entitled jerks and jerkettes. Where do these people come from? On what planet is it ever okay to treat someone like this? What happened to good manners?
I do not know! But I can tell you what I suspect: There is a hidden world just beneath this one where all of the entitled jerks live. They surface from time to time to haunt the rest of us.
Load More Replies...I absolutely loved these. It was quite genius how you were able to combine humor with the annoying actions/incidents of all the customers. I don't think I've ever enjoyed reading something about this subject this much until I happened across this thread. Thank you for this, it really lifted my day.
Thank you so much! It means the world to know you like it that much :) On the other hand, I rarely chuckle at people's nicknames, and yours, sir, takes the cake. I laughed out loud!
Load More Replies...We have 300 of them here: https://thetourbunny.com/comic-list/
Load More Replies...You are very welcome! Follow us on social media, we post these three times a week, have another comic about cats we just started, and are starting one more in a few weeks (this one will be much darker).
Load More Replies...Anyone who has ever dealt with tourists will recognise all of these.
I know these comics are meant to be funny - but in fact they make me rather sad. I cannot stand people who always think they deserve something better and everybody else is only there to serve them and worship their stupidity! Having to deal with this kind of behaviour each and every day makes work an ordeal. I truly hope that for each single one of these customers from hell there are at least 100 other tourists who return from their tours happy and thankful that they had the opportunity to see the wonders and the beauty of Iceland!
Hey Yoga Kitty! Thank you for this. Yes, for each of these I met so many other beautiful people! It just evens out! Working in tourism was one of the most rewarding experiences in my entire life! I met hundreds of people daily, and made some great friends! So, yes, sometimes these make me sad, but knowing that it was all evened out makes it better. And the cherry on the cake is: most of these people got what they deserved :)
Load More Replies...These are all so funny! Reminds me of Karen for some reason. Anyways, great work!
Thanks! Great to hear! Hit us up on Instagram or Facebook for more!
Load More Replies...Anyone who has ever worked in the hospitality/ service industry has experienced dealing with unreasonable and self-entitled jerks and jerkettes. Where do these people come from? On what planet is it ever okay to treat someone like this? What happened to good manners?
I do not know! But I can tell you what I suspect: There is a hidden world just beneath this one where all of the entitled jerks live. They surface from time to time to haunt the rest of us.
Load More Replies...I absolutely loved these. It was quite genius how you were able to combine humor with the annoying actions/incidents of all the customers. I don't think I've ever enjoyed reading something about this subject this much until I happened across this thread. Thank you for this, it really lifted my day.
Thank you so much! It means the world to know you like it that much :) On the other hand, I rarely chuckle at people's nicknames, and yours, sir, takes the cake. I laughed out loud!
Load More Replies...We have 300 of them here: https://thetourbunny.com/comic-list/
Load More Replies...You are very welcome! Follow us on social media, we post these three times a week, have another comic about cats we just started, and are starting one more in a few weeks (this one will be much darker).
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