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The "Idler" Book of Crap Holidays: 50 Tales of Holiday Hell
 
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The "Idler" Book of Crap Holidays: 50 Tales of Holiday Hell (Hardcover)

by Dan Kieran (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Books (17 Oct 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 055381737X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553817379
  • Product Dimensions: 15 x 14.6 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 88,840 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In "Crap Holidays", Dan Kieran highlights 50 of the most disastrous - and hilarious - holidays from hell...From leaky caravans in Wales, to crushingly disappointing luxury hotels in Barbados ...From dysentery in Goa, to bloody awful holiday companions who won't leave you alone ...In fact, from Butlins to Bali, here you'll find stories of crap holiday sex, crime, food, accommodation, and of course, the inevitable family fights! Focusing on the gap between the wonderful promise and the grim reality, "Crap Holidays" takes a step back in time to look at hellish holidays from the past, whilst also examining 21st-century holiday culture - including information on a variety of more serious subjects, such as...The number of 'holiday' deaths that occur each year...The number and type of complaints received by different operators each year...The profits made - and the prices paid for holiday hell holes...Written once again by the Idler's readers and contributors, "Crap Holidays" will be packed with hilarious holiday snaps and, of course, savage cartoons satirising the whole hellish business!

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Following the hugely successful Crap Jobs and Crap Towns comes Crap Holidays – 50 Tales of Hell on Earth that catalogues all the truly terrible things that can happen when we try to make the most of our scarce and precious leisure time.

Here, in all their hideous glory, are tales of leaky caravans in Wales, boggy campsites in Scotland, crushingly disappointing luxury hotels in Barbados and dysentery disasters in Goa. Here, too, are gruesome accounts of crap holiday sex, crime and airport nightmares – plus a look at the profits made and prices paid for some of the very best hellholes around the world.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Funny stuff from the original Crap Merchants., 2 Nov 2005
Everyone wants to do a Crap This and a Crap That these days and most of them are shameless, formula-driven knock-offs. However, the original idea came from the Idler magazine and their Crap Towns and last year's Crap Jobs effectively set the standard by which all the latecomers struggle to match up to. Judged by their own standards, it appears that Dan Kieran and the Idler have hit the mark once again.

Where most book series look decidedly worn out by the third iteration, Crap Holidays takes the format and adds new perspectives among the content you would expect - horrifying, painful but, above all, hilarious accounts of holiday hell. So, not only do you have 50 accounts of personal vacation misery, told with the Crap Books' trademark air of deadpan resignation, but you also get new editorial-style features on the world's 5 top unethical, dangerous and ecologically unsound holidays. This ensures that, although this book is laugh-out-loud funny, it reminds us that more than a bit of playful anarchy is still beating at the heart of the Idler.

All in all, a highly amusing book that you'll dip into for quite some time. Buy it.

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5 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars A book full of lies, 24 Oct 2005
By Rumen Sabev (Sofia, Bulgaria) - See all my reviews
I read the chapter for Bulgaria and can tell you that this is absolutely NOT true and even more - that are nasty lies.
How could you use this cheap and disgusting way to attract readers?
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3.0 out of 5 stars Serves them all right, 29 April 2008
By Richard "Alice Collector" (Blackpool England) - See all my reviews
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First off the disgusting remakes about Blackpool are bordering on the slanderous.This is my town and its the best place on Earth and has no control over the visitors and tourists
However this book is about how people want something for nothing-cheapo cheapo holidays is where it starts.
If all these people had been Beatles fans they could have had a great holiday in Liverpool.
As for Ibiza or whatever people deserve the holidays they get
So what's next in the crap series-crap nights out?
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