On Apr 25, 2010, at 1:01 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <salsunsh...@...> wrote: >> >> On Apr 25, 2010, at 12:13 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: >> >> --- In Fair >>> >>> [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: >>>> >>>> However, since I know quite a few hoteliers here in >>>> Sitges, they share the view of Israeli guests you >>>> mention above. I have heard quite a number of remarks >>>> comparing them to Gypsies, which in Spain is an insult >>>> of the highest order. >>> >>> Before anyone gets on their high horse and considers >>> this remark anti-Semitic, I should point out that many >>> of these hotel and B&B owners *are* Jewish. They welcome >>> Jews from other parts of the world, but experience has >>> led them to say that they are "fully booked" when >>> Israelis call or write asking for a reservation. >>> Go figure, eh. >> >> Well it's not very nice, whatever the reason, >> and over here would be--if the hotel were big enough >> and worth the trouble--excellent grounds for a >> lawsuit. > > These are 6-to-12-room hotels, with the owners > barely scraping by in this economy. One of them, > and in fact one of the Jewish ones, lost six > small (20-inch) flat-screen TVs from rooms rented > to a group of Israelis last summer.
So? > He's said he'll > never rent a room to an Israeli again. Then he's an even worse asshole than the guys who stole the TVs. > He also replaced the small, obviously-suitcase- > sized flat screen TVs with old, clunky, cathode- > ray TVs. > > The larger hotels make most of their reservations > over the Internet, or through booking services, > so they often don't have any idea where the guests > are coming from or what their nationality is, only > where the credit card holding the reservation is > from. These guys handle most of their reservations > on the phone or via personal email, so they know.
