From our Annals of Apartheid Tourism Bureau
Of course you knew this would happen.
As British tourists affected by the Thomas Cook fiasco return home from Cuba, the British tabloids are picking up their personal horror stories.
O, the outrage! O, the injustice! Superior beings from the United Kingdom were held hostage and threatened with imprisonment by inferior Cubans who demanded they pay their luxury hotels the amount owed to them by the defunct Thomas Cook travel agency.
How dare those Cuban savages ignore the apartheid privileges of superior Europeans! How dare they send gun-toting soldiers to the hotel!
Imagine the horror…. O, the horror, the horror, the absolute indignity of being imprisoned like some lowly Cuban.
Cuba is supposed to be a dream holiday paradise where Brits can enjoy their ontological and metaphysical superiority to darkie Caribbean subhumans.
Totally unacceptable. Bloody Helll….
From The Daily Star
Two sisters have said they were held hostage in Cuba after Thomas Cook went into liquidation.
Julie Whotton, 51, and Joanne Cowan, 44, were holidaying at the luxury Hotel Playa Pesquero when the 178-year-old travel agent dramatically collapsed.Hotel bosses reportedly demanded £1,200 from each sibling, as the government warned tourists not to try and leave the country.
And the siblings were ordered to remain at the hotel until they paid up – or face being arrested, Julie told the Grimsby Telegraph.Julie said: “There was a rumour a few days before, but we were on holiday with a Thomas Cook rep who told us it was rubbish, just gossip.
“But a couple of days later we found out that it had gone bust.
“We never heard anything else, the hotel didn’t know what was happening.
“The morning we were due to fly back, we were all ready to go, and the hotel said the transfer coaches were cancelled and we couldn’t get local taxis because they’d stopped them coming to the hotel.“They said if we had got to the airport on our own we would be arrested.
“They held a meeting in this big hall and said ‘you’ve got to pay £1,200 each or else you’ve got to stay.’
Government officials sent soldiers to marshall hotel guests, with the sisters only granted freedom after British embassy staff came to their aid.
“It was really scary, the army was walking around because if somebody escaped the hotel, they would be arrested,” Julie added.
One member of staff became “upset” as they told guests “this is an official hostage situation”, adding: “All I’m doing is delivering a message from the Cuban government.”
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But Carlos, you speak as if Castro, Inc. were at fault, which is impossible. Try the blockade, or at least climate change.