Pete, you and Chelle are the most honest people I have followed on blogs. Not a nice thing to be accused of taking the towels. You have done the right thing to make people aware and be alert to scams. So glad you refused to pay and stood your ground. After you had had a great time there this must leave a bitter taste. Enjoy your next holiday,wherever that maybe.
Thank you tricia. Thank you for your lovely words about what we do. This was a good 👍 and bad 👎 experience. The undercover filming was necessary to educate others to the scams. If it happens to us again we will vlog it. Hope it doesn't but you never know
Good for you for standing your ground and exposing these scammers. We are going to Sharm in May and will definitely avoid this hotel. Thank you - keep up the good work!
Thank you Pauline. Most of the time travelling is fine but if and when we come across things like this or similar we will try our best to vlog it and advise other travellers. Thanks again Pauline 👍
I have watched until 28 minutes so far and I just had to comment , I feel so sorry for you both , totally unecessary over some towels that “ magically went missing “ , did not like the fact he had recordings on his phone 🙈 will continue to watch after work , it’s awful how something like that can kind of ruin a holiday 😢
Yeah Vicki just watch it at your own pace. Definitely a attempted scam. We actually offered them to search our travel cases but they weren't bothered about that. The guy on reception with his pathetic attempt to nail us with his pathetic phone footage he said was evidence that we had took the towels was just embarrassing for him and the hotel but we won't spoil the movie for you and tell you how it ends 😉 😜 but it's an experience we won't forget in a hurry nor a one we wanted to turn out the way it did , what got us was the footage he had didn’t realy show anything altho it took all week to present to us ,, and literally the final hour as we were checking out ,, anyway il let u see the rest of the vlog when u can and you will see for yourself what happens
Good info guys helps fellow travellers.One of the reasons we won’t be back in Egypt most of the people are genuine but there are plenty that are rip off merchants.
Well this is what we like to do Give as much information for the next travellers We don't like to do the bad things tho but if it raises awareness on the situation and be prepared and how to handle it so be it Such a shame realy as the hotel overall was good with lovely staff food and facilities
It puts a real bad taste P n C after what was an enjoyable holiday.Do they really think that paying the money to go there etc that you would pinch a couple of dollar towels.Scamming bar stewards
If we had taken them Off the premises and left them at the beach fair enough, but they went missing while we were in the hotel , may it be the patio or the room , originally I thought did we leave them on the sunbed ,but he said he had us on camera ,,, ok but that was us heading back to our room which was on the pool side
The whole situation was premeditated, a total scam I hope this video opens peoples eyes to what can go wrong in such countries great vlog Pete & chelle 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Watched from beginning & could see the scam as soon as you said the young lad asked for where your towels were The treatment you got was just awful to say the least but you were both great under the circumstances & for giving the warning to other tourists who may book there in the future Well done for highlighting this scam 👍👍xx
Thanks AME , we sort of was prepared for it but didn't expect it to go as it did , it's not what we wanted from our channel tbh but it's not all bells and whistles when travelling x
Hello, love the channel. Stayed in Caleta de Fuste Calisto bungalos in January (FV), and Bella Vista Hotel in Hurghada in December. Egypt was very dodgy!!! The staff in the hotel were good, but it was advertised as 4* but was 2.5* Outside the hotel was very rough and very polluted due to the main Sherriton road being like the M25, traffic in 3 lanes both directions. The people i delt with outside the hotel mainly want to scam you or pickpocket you. Wasn't prepaired for all the poverty but it was very cheap. Also awesome scuba diving.
We didn't realy have any issue out side the hotel but we're not as nieve as we used to be , do a bit homework and knowledge urself a bit and keep ur wits about u is the key
Hi pete & Chelle Good vidio and informative. Think i would have been checking no other stuff gone from youre room. Maybe better to sort it out before the check out day as well and then you could have looked at some footage from corridor to see whos snooping about.
We tried to get it sorted for 4 days , we kept asking for the footage and they waited till the time we checked out to all of a sudden produce a bit footage of us at the pool but wouldn't produce any other ,,, We have our views on what had happened and funny how the lady even said maybe the house keeper picked them up
@mickotoole333 definitely a scam mick ran by the 2 management staff in the main thumbnail and the young house keeping lad .they weren't investigating anything like CCTV footage from the cameras outside our room from either side. Even on checkout day they still kept deflecting from the conversation but attempts to charge us for theft based upon pathetic footage was laughable. definitely an internal scam running for sure. Thanks for your comment 👍 mick
omg you looked like you had a lovely holiday it was so sad when shell said you have spoilt my holiday i so felt for her i hope you can move on and forget about this and remember the good times you had there
She wasn't happy about it more so that the situation pushed her to the point it did Fortunate for us we stood our ground with them and once we showed the footage we had they were a bit shocked
So sorry to hear of this issue 😞.. poor chelle .. but im glad you stuck by your guns . I've been to Egypt 3 times , and each time I've had to be very mindful.. Thank you both so much for posting this as it helps others to be careful of what can and does go on .. Total scam ..they will try anything
It was strange as it was the same morning we realised they had gone missing but he hadn't been in to service the room nor had we reported them at that point He just knocked and asked where they were ,,,
The young girl was there from the start ,, she actually was siding with the hotel management at first ,, until she realised we were not backing down and had our own camera footage, then she was all on our side ,,, bless her tho it was her first day in the job
Thank you Simon for joining our channel and for your lovely message. We will be returning to caleta de fuste at some point in the future to film another series
same thing happen when we went to crete they put you in a room above the bar so you would pay more to move to another room that was not so noisy but we did not move and the manager said is you room ok we said yes its fine its all a scam so watch out people
That doesn't realy bother us tbh once we've had a few beers and we're in bed , noise and music doesn't really bother us , It's the been accused of something that got us
yes it's not a great thing to happen or experience Philip but it's the reality of travelling. Probably not a common thing to happen but hey its the stuff you don't read about in glossy travel brochures. mosquitoes we're horrendous and the WiFi was rubbish but the rest of the trip was enjoyable. Can't really fault the food and apart from those scamming idiots the rest of the staff were brilliant. Thanks again for your comment 👍
The majority of the staff were amazing right thru but looking back , the little house keeper lad was a bit shifty from the start and same as the man in reception The other reception man was ok but he wasn't there when we checked out ,, What we found strange we were asking for the footage showing what we were accused of they kept bypassing and saying we need to pay but soon as I got my phone out and showed them my photos and filming with the time on they all of a sudden changed their attitude
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Pete, you and Chelle are the most honest people I have followed on blogs. Not a nice thing to be accused of taking the towels. You have done the right thing to make people aware and be alert to scams. So glad you refused to pay and stood your ground. After you had had a great time there this must leave a bitter taste. Enjoy your next holiday,wherever that maybe.
Thank you tricia. Thank you for your lovely words about what we do. This was a good 👍 and bad 👎 experience. The undercover filming was necessary to educate others to the scams. If it happens to us again we will vlog it. Hope it doesn't but you never know
Good for you for standing your ground and exposing these scammers. We are going to Sharm in May and will definitely avoid this hotel. Thank you - keep up the good work!
Thank you Pauline. Most of the time travelling is fine but if and when we come across things like this or similar we will try our best to vlog it and advise other travellers. Thanks again Pauline 👍
I have watched until 28 minutes so far and I just had to comment , I feel so sorry for you both , totally unecessary over some towels that “ magically went missing “ , did not like the fact he had recordings on his phone 🙈 will continue to watch after work , it’s awful how something like that can kind of ruin a holiday 😢
Yeah Vicki just watch it at your own pace. Definitely a attempted scam. We actually offered them to search our travel cases but they weren't bothered about that. The guy on reception with his pathetic attempt to nail us with his pathetic phone footage he said was evidence that we had took the towels was just embarrassing for him and the hotel but we won't spoil the movie for you and tell you how it ends 😉 😜 but it's an experience we won't forget in a hurry nor a one we wanted to turn out the way it did , what got us was the footage he had didn’t realy show anything altho it took all week to present to us ,, and literally the final hour as we were checking out ,, anyway il let u see the rest of the vlog when u can and you will see for yourself what happens
Good info guys helps fellow travellers.One of the reasons we won’t be back in Egypt most of the people are genuine but there are plenty that are rip off merchants.
Well this is what we like to do
Give as much information for the next travellers
We don't like to do the bad things tho but if it raises awareness on the situation and be prepared and how to handle it so be it
Such a shame realy as the hotel overall was good with lovely staff food and facilities
It puts a real bad taste P n C after what was an enjoyable holiday.Do they really think that paying the money to go there etc that you would pinch a couple of dollar towels.Scamming bar stewards
If we had taken them
Off the premises and left them at the beach fair enough, but they went missing while we were in the hotel , may it be the patio or the room , originally I thought did we leave them on the sunbed ,but he said he had us on camera ,,, ok but that was us heading back to our room which was on the pool side
The whole situation was premeditated, a total scam I hope this video opens peoples eyes to what can go wrong in such countries great vlog Pete & chelle 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you Dean. The ones involved knew what they were doing. Got to be aware of every possible scam when travelling
Watched from beginning & could see the scam as soon as you said the young lad asked for where your towels were The treatment you got was just awful to say the least but you were both great under the circumstances & for giving the warning to other tourists who may book there in the future
Well done for highlighting this scam 👍👍xx
Thanks AME , we sort of was prepared for it but didn't expect it to go as it did , it's not what we wanted from our channel tbh but it's not all bells and whistles when travelling x
Hello, love the channel. Stayed in Caleta de Fuste Calisto bungalos in January (FV), and Bella Vista Hotel in Hurghada in December. Egypt was very dodgy!!! The staff in the hotel were good, but it was advertised as 4* but was 2.5* Outside the hotel was very rough and very polluted due to the main Sherriton road being like the M25, traffic in 3 lanes both directions. The people i delt with outside the hotel mainly want to scam you or pickpocket you. Wasn't prepaired for all the poverty but it was very cheap. Also awesome scuba diving.
We didn't realy have any issue out side the hotel but we're not as nieve as we used to be , do a bit homework and knowledge urself a bit and keep ur wits about u is the key
Hi pete & Chelle Good vidio and informative. Think i would have been checking no other stuff gone from youre room. Maybe better to sort it out before the check out day as well and then you could have looked at some footage from corridor to see whos snooping about.
We tried to get it sorted for 4 days , we kept asking for the footage and they waited till the time we checked out to all of a sudden produce a bit footage of us at the pool but wouldn't produce any other ,,,
We have our views on what had happened and funny how the lady even said maybe the house keeper picked them up
That housekeeper definitely involved by asking you about them before you even reported them missing.
@mickotoole333 definitely a scam mick ran by the 2 management staff in the main thumbnail and the young house keeping lad .they weren't investigating anything like CCTV footage from the cameras outside our room from either side. Even on checkout day they still kept deflecting from the conversation but attempts to charge us for theft based upon pathetic footage was laughable. definitely an internal scam running for sure. Thanks for your comment 👍 mick
Leave them a review on trip adviser,shocking towels will be cheap enough out there .i agree the young lad asking where your towels were seemed dodgy
omg you looked like you had a lovely holiday it was so sad when shell said you have spoilt my holiday i so felt for her i hope you can move on and forget about this and remember the good times you had there
She wasn't happy about it more so that the situation pushed her to the point it did
Fortunate for us we stood our ground with them and once we showed the footage we had they were a bit shocked
It should be the tour operators who investigating and made aware ..good but long winded 😞
We make our own travel arrangements but will be making relevant companies know
So sorry to hear of this issue 😞.. poor chelle .. but im glad you stuck by your guns .
I've been to Egypt 3 times , and each time I've had to be very mindful..
Thank you both so much for posting this as it helps others to be careful of what can and does go on .. Total scam ..they will try anything
Yes Linda it wasn't good and if our RUclips videos help others to be aware of these things then that makes us feel good 👍
Strange that he asked for the towels, usually you leave them in the room. Were they recording you around the hotel?
It was strange as it was the same morning we realised they had gone missing but he hadn't been in to service the room nor had we reported them at that point
He just knocked and asked where they were ,,,
@petenchelleuk very wired. I would have said look in my bag. If it's not in the bag where is it ? 🤔
At 55.42 they had enough and wanted to cover their transparentness , fair play to the young girl who they sent in to calm things down
The young girl was there from the start ,, she actually was siding with the hotel management at first ,, until she realised we were not backing down and had our own camera footage, then she was all on our side ,,, bless her tho it was her first day in the job
Good informative video thanks,and have subscribed as reallly liked your caleta vlogs
Thank you Simon for joining our channel and for your lovely message. We will be returning to caleta de fuste at some point in the future to film another series
you should write a review pete to warn other people.
Written reviews don’t show the real thing tho , anyone can write a written review -about anything
Was a shame as we realy rated the hotel all he staff highly but deffo a under cover scam going on between these 3
same thing happen when we went to crete they put you in a room above the bar so you would pay more to move to another room that was not so noisy but we did not move and the manager said is you room ok we said yes its fine its all a scam so watch out people
That doesn't realy bother us tbh once we've had a few beers and we're in bed , noise and music doesn't really bother us ,
It's the been accused of something that got us
Chelle i wudnt of been so calm
She said she had to be careful and keep control
Mind they got a shock when she flipped
report this to your travel agency, with the video, they should do something with the info
It's all been sorted Wayne apparently. We always say if anyone is staying in this hotel after our experience then we love to hear about any feedback
Wow that is absolutely disgusting x
It was Tracey x
So glad you stuck to your guns and didnt pay ! Definitely a scam . Love the video's.
Thank you artisan. Definitely a tricky situation to be in at the time but we handled it correctly and so glad we filmed it for others to see
Im 3 mugs of yorkshite tea investted .im hooked 🧐its like miss Marple Mystery
Thanks , enjoy the vlog and more so enjoy ur tea ☕️ 😊
I had to stay calm
It's sad that happened to you to spoil what was a brilliant holiday.
yes it's not a great thing to happen or experience Philip but it's the reality of travelling. Probably not a common thing to happen but hey its the stuff you don't read about in glossy travel brochures. mosquitoes we're horrendous and the WiFi was rubbish but the rest of the trip was enjoyable. Can't really fault the food and apart from those scamming idiots the rest of the staff were brilliant. Thanks again for your comment 👍
Well done for highlighting this SCAM It doesn't paint the Neama Heights hotel or its staff in good light.
The majority of the staff were amazing right thru but looking back , the little house keeper lad was a bit shifty from the start and same as the man in reception
The other reception man was ok but he wasn't there when we checked out ,,
What we found strange we were asking for the footage showing what we were accused of they kept bypassing and saying we need to pay but soon as I got my phone out and showed them my photos and filming with the time on they all of a sudden changed their attitude