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30 Encounters With Tourists From Hell Me And My GF Experienced While Working In Iceland’s Tourism
My girlfriend and I have been working in the tourism industry in Iceland for well over three years now. After hearing the same silly questions for the millionth time, we decided to put our customer service experience out for everyone to see. Meet The Tour Bunny, a fuzzy creature that tackles tourism-related issues.
How it all started: Our glorious drawer, Bun A, had a headache preventing him from going to sleep one night, while Bun V, his girlfriend, was studying abroad. He decided to sketch the funny comic "Do You Sell Tours?" and proceeded to send it to V, who read it and thought it was insanely cute and funny.
They then showed the cute drawings around in their circle of friends and colleagues, who all lit up after seeing it and demanded more. So, Bun A and V went to work and came up with stories that they encountered while having worked at a tourist information and booking center in Iceland. Oh, boy, were there a lot of stories for new webcomics.
For a while, this was circulating in private messages only, but we kept getting encouragement, and people said we should put these relatable comics online for everyone's viewing pleasure, which we did after a while.
Nowadays, we get submissions from all walks of life in Iceland (even tourists who found us and had some stories of their own!), and we are looking to get further input from outside Iceland as well to broaden our viewership.
If you find the comics funny and you have some stories of your own, please feel free to submit them on our Facebook page, Instagram, via email, or on the website (the last one is completely anonymous). If you do share, please let us know which country the story happened in!
We hope you enjoy our little project!
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I says send'em out... let nature take care of them..."The tour shall continue, but it is self-serve. Have a nice day"
I think every year we need one day where we could say what we really want to without repercussion. Like a verbal purge
I had a colleague once tell me she went for a hike through the rainforest on honeymoon in indonesia in high heels, because she couldn't wear anything else as it made her feet hurt!
I once was on a Tour in east Germany, not so long after the re-unification. The Lines were marking minefields thad hadnt been cleaned yet. Nobody crossed them. Long story short: We all need mor landmines for nature preservation
closer than Antarctica in the Argentine patagonia. We have large colonies of penguins. You can send this people there😋
My tongue gets bitten nearly in half several times a day from trying to politely reply to these people.
Well, do you sell any tours? :P it reminds me the Duck song with lemonade and grapes...
summer 2017: "I can't beleive the part about the new island of 1963 had a whole minute in BLACK AND WHITE!"
One of our customers sat on our desk once and wouldn’t move even when asked to. Well. Our desks are adjustable in height :)
This is very accurate, I as a tourist generally like places with few tourists.
I think i did that too. But is just to start conversation .I'm an introvert unfortunately
Names. please? Dancer, Dasher, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, and Blitzen... oh yeah....and, Rudolph. Better make that for 9. Can we order ahead? We may be a little rushed.
That's the snarkiest site ever created. And I thank the creator for that.
"can i get some call girls"people seriously ask that at a tourist info :) :)
If you can, hand the keyboard to the customer for things like that - prevents arguements like „You mistyped my email address and thus it’s your fault that I didn’t get this very important mail from you!“ (Not meant as customer bashing here - this would actually be a case where the customer is at least partly right.)
Pupper Mchamsterface, lol! I so need a hamster now just so i can call it that!
At least it is not Bulgaria. Beautiful beaches and mountains, 1000s yeas of history etc. etc... and (most of) the toursist are hordes of young people who are interested only of the cheap alcohol and spend their entire time totally drunk in the hotel.
I don't work in the tourism industry, but I do work with the public...and these are spot on. lol
I work in hospitality and these are all my life!!! Thank you for good laughs
If you think it's any different here in America..it isn't. I love the service customers that ask for the impossible. "Can you give my dog a puppy cut?" (There's no such thing as a puppy cut.) "Can you just brush my dog out?" (From what I can see with the matts..it's because a brush rarely touches this dog at home, right.) "Can I sit and watch you groom my dog?" (Oh yes..because it's so much easier to groom a dog that's flailing around on the table because you're sitting 5 feet away and it thinks you're taking it home.) "Why is my dogs haircut so much more expensive than mine." (Because I doubt you bite your hair stylist, try to run from your hair stylist or that you squat and take a dump on the hair stylists chair.) People want champagne dreams at bargain beer prices. And they get so whiny when you tell them "no." Lovely that there's a whole generation of young kids now going through schools where teachers have been told that they can't say "no" to the kids. SMH
I've been to Island with my elderly mom and hence an organisedgroup tour. Some of the people on that trip.... -_- Seriously, I'd charge everybody 50€ a day in tax just for stepping on that island. The sense of entitlement that people have and this expectation that an almost empty, giant coutnry has the infrastructure, service and convenience of Disneyland is absolutely infuriating. Just stay at home adn watch a documentary, if you need a fancy toilet every hald hour! Fuckssake!
Yep...when people are on vacation and spending money like crazy they sometimes get a little stooopid! When you're jet-lagged and so many things are confusing and you know you have one chance to do this trip, and you want it be perfect, sometimes you become a bit ugly. Happens. Thank goodness for people who will help and keep a sense of humor. We recently returned from a fantastic trip to Iceland. Met some wonderful people. Beautiful country!
Norway knows you pain Iceland. Stavanger currently have problems with tourist entering the old treehouses by the sea, we are talking walking into yards and houses to take pictures. Thankfully been dead in my town. Let them never hear about the tunnel thats being made up through the mountain where the family cabins are, place is to pretty to be ruined.
Visiting and spending some time in Iceland is my FIRST 'bucket list' dream. Not only for the Aurora Borealis, but for the awesome culture and amazing landscapes. I'll definitely travel to Iceland, someday. <3
I helped for a while to sell t-shirts at a very touristic Christmas market. Our place was full of shirts. Shirts on hangers, on the shelves, on the counter. And I had everyday couple of customers that asked: WHAT DO YOU SELL HERE? Thank God, I am a polite person.
I laughed at most of them and almost cried - I spent 6 years working at a travel agency and nr. 2. was almost every day on my mind. I used to think if only one day, just one day every year I could call like top ten moron clients and tell them directly that they were idiots, I could do this job for much longer.. I don't work there anymore and it's been a relief, to be honest.
After essentially up voting all the entries in this post I'm now following The Tour Bunny on FB. <3
Two warnings I give potential visitors about Iceland: Do not jump in the lake, you might end up as tourist soup; Just because the cliff doesn't have a "Danger" sign, doesn't mean it's safe to stand on the edge.
Back in 1973 when I was working at the Grand Canyon here in the USA, we had one person ask, "When do they turn the lights on over the Canyon?" Answer: "The moon comes up about 10 pm. Another woman had found the foot/mule path on her map and insisted that she be shown how to get to that "road down to the bottom of the Canyon." She refused to believe that her car would not be allowed.
People are like this everywhere. Working at a tattoo shop, actively tattooing someone when a group of people come in. Their first question, “Do you guys do tattoos?” I once said that we didn’t and they stood there for a few minutes looking around while I continued to tattoo only to hear, “So like, um, you do tattoos here?” sigh.....
I work in the tourism and hospitality industry also. These are sooo funny 😆 cause they’re soo true!! Thanks for sharing 🤣
LOL as an Alaskan.. I feel these so hard substitute "I wanna see Denali/Homer/Barrow/Seward for the travel all over iceland one. Or "can't you turn out the lights outside" in June from hotel visitors... yea I feel this
Loved them. You could probably have this sort of thing made for every public engaged company or business. Really good.
I really want to go to Iceland someday, but I like to think I'm a good tourist (having worked in travel I know nothing is ever perfect), I've even learned a few words, even if just to make the locals laugh at how badly I mispronounce it :D
Worked 10 years on Panama City Beach sooooooo yeah. This is pretty spot on.
I can sympathize as I've seen this many times during travels. I'm kind of sorry of havingI laughed a lot but the drawings are so accurate and funny. Thank you to the author for this moment.
I'm a corporate travel agent and these are hilarious! I left the leisure industry 10 years ago but these still ring true, only now it's businessmen! My flight has been cancelled! I need to be there even though there is a hurricane coming and every airport is closed....I must get to my meeting!!
I hope to come back to Iceland soon. Such a beautiful country, and I like winter, so the weather didn't bother or faze me. But I'll never go to the Blue Lagoon again. I expected a good number of people there, of course, but I didn't realize just how very crowded it would be. I only stayed an hour.
We went on a diving trip to see a mana ray cleaning station which was one of my most amazing experiences I have ever seen but it got ruined by another tourist diver group which made themselves feeling comfortable sitting on the still living corals like they where benches made for them!!! The tour guide didn‘t do anything to not loose their tip money as people are stupid to blame tour guides for not having a comfortable sitting opportunity presented even under water but we chased the all off and gave them a nice angry „get your a**e off“ under water :D There are such ignorant people out there unbelievable just because they paid some money they thing the ocean belongs to them!
I LOVED Iceland. Everyone was super nice. So glad we didn't ask any of these questions :)
Every one of these cartoons is a reason that stupid people shouldn't breed.
A good friend of mine works in a pop culture store in the Melbourne CBD here in Australia. I reckon he’d have a lot of stories to tell! I don’t ask how work is for him any more..he has enough to deal with as it is 😋
xD I enjoyed all of those! Thanks! <3 (Also sorry people are the dumb)
I don't work in the tourism industry, but I do work with the public...and these are spot on. lol
I work in hospitality and these are all my life!!! Thank you for good laughs
If you think it's any different here in America..it isn't. I love the service customers that ask for the impossible. "Can you give my dog a puppy cut?" (There's no such thing as a puppy cut.) "Can you just brush my dog out?" (From what I can see with the matts..it's because a brush rarely touches this dog at home, right.) "Can I sit and watch you groom my dog?" (Oh yes..because it's so much easier to groom a dog that's flailing around on the table because you're sitting 5 feet away and it thinks you're taking it home.) "Why is my dogs haircut so much more expensive than mine." (Because I doubt you bite your hair stylist, try to run from your hair stylist or that you squat and take a dump on the hair stylists chair.) People want champagne dreams at bargain beer prices. And they get so whiny when you tell them "no." Lovely that there's a whole generation of young kids now going through schools where teachers have been told that they can't say "no" to the kids. SMH
I've been to Island with my elderly mom and hence an organisedgroup tour. Some of the people on that trip.... -_- Seriously, I'd charge everybody 50€ a day in tax just for stepping on that island. The sense of entitlement that people have and this expectation that an almost empty, giant coutnry has the infrastructure, service and convenience of Disneyland is absolutely infuriating. Just stay at home adn watch a documentary, if you need a fancy toilet every hald hour! Fuckssake!
Yep...when people are on vacation and spending money like crazy they sometimes get a little stooopid! When you're jet-lagged and so many things are confusing and you know you have one chance to do this trip, and you want it be perfect, sometimes you become a bit ugly. Happens. Thank goodness for people who will help and keep a sense of humor. We recently returned from a fantastic trip to Iceland. Met some wonderful people. Beautiful country!
Norway knows you pain Iceland. Stavanger currently have problems with tourist entering the old treehouses by the sea, we are talking walking into yards and houses to take pictures. Thankfully been dead in my town. Let them never hear about the tunnel thats being made up through the mountain where the family cabins are, place is to pretty to be ruined.
Visiting and spending some time in Iceland is my FIRST 'bucket list' dream. Not only for the Aurora Borealis, but for the awesome culture and amazing landscapes. I'll definitely travel to Iceland, someday. <3
I helped for a while to sell t-shirts at a very touristic Christmas market. Our place was full of shirts. Shirts on hangers, on the shelves, on the counter. And I had everyday couple of customers that asked: WHAT DO YOU SELL HERE? Thank God, I am a polite person.
I laughed at most of them and almost cried - I spent 6 years working at a travel agency and nr. 2. was almost every day on my mind. I used to think if only one day, just one day every year I could call like top ten moron clients and tell them directly that they were idiots, I could do this job for much longer.. I don't work there anymore and it's been a relief, to be honest.
After essentially up voting all the entries in this post I'm now following The Tour Bunny on FB. <3
Two warnings I give potential visitors about Iceland: Do not jump in the lake, you might end up as tourist soup; Just because the cliff doesn't have a "Danger" sign, doesn't mean it's safe to stand on the edge.
Back in 1973 when I was working at the Grand Canyon here in the USA, we had one person ask, "When do they turn the lights on over the Canyon?" Answer: "The moon comes up about 10 pm. Another woman had found the foot/mule path on her map and insisted that she be shown how to get to that "road down to the bottom of the Canyon." She refused to believe that her car would not be allowed.
People are like this everywhere. Working at a tattoo shop, actively tattooing someone when a group of people come in. Their first question, “Do you guys do tattoos?” I once said that we didn’t and they stood there for a few minutes looking around while I continued to tattoo only to hear, “So like, um, you do tattoos here?” sigh.....
I work in the tourism and hospitality industry also. These are sooo funny 😆 cause they’re soo true!! Thanks for sharing 🤣
LOL as an Alaskan.. I feel these so hard substitute "I wanna see Denali/Homer/Barrow/Seward for the travel all over iceland one. Or "can't you turn out the lights outside" in June from hotel visitors... yea I feel this
Loved them. You could probably have this sort of thing made for every public engaged company or business. Really good.
I really want to go to Iceland someday, but I like to think I'm a good tourist (having worked in travel I know nothing is ever perfect), I've even learned a few words, even if just to make the locals laugh at how badly I mispronounce it :D
Worked 10 years on Panama City Beach sooooooo yeah. This is pretty spot on.
I can sympathize as I've seen this many times during travels. I'm kind of sorry of havingI laughed a lot but the drawings are so accurate and funny. Thank you to the author for this moment.
I'm a corporate travel agent and these are hilarious! I left the leisure industry 10 years ago but these still ring true, only now it's businessmen! My flight has been cancelled! I need to be there even though there is a hurricane coming and every airport is closed....I must get to my meeting!!
I hope to come back to Iceland soon. Such a beautiful country, and I like winter, so the weather didn't bother or faze me. But I'll never go to the Blue Lagoon again. I expected a good number of people there, of course, but I didn't realize just how very crowded it would be. I only stayed an hour.
We went on a diving trip to see a mana ray cleaning station which was one of my most amazing experiences I have ever seen but it got ruined by another tourist diver group which made themselves feeling comfortable sitting on the still living corals like they where benches made for them!!! The tour guide didn‘t do anything to not loose their tip money as people are stupid to blame tour guides for not having a comfortable sitting opportunity presented even under water but we chased the all off and gave them a nice angry „get your a**e off“ under water :D There are such ignorant people out there unbelievable just because they paid some money they thing the ocean belongs to them!
I LOVED Iceland. Everyone was super nice. So glad we didn't ask any of these questions :)
Every one of these cartoons is a reason that stupid people shouldn't breed.
A good friend of mine works in a pop culture store in the Melbourne CBD here in Australia. I reckon he’d have a lot of stories to tell! I don’t ask how work is for him any more..he has enough to deal with as it is 😋
xD I enjoyed all of those! Thanks! <3 (Also sorry people are the dumb)