Duck_Pond

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Last night, settled down to watch the Holiday prog on the Beeb, hoping to see some of sights of Tuscany, which is where my folks travelled out to last summer.

Having seen their photos of the region, I was expecting to see the beautiful views, landscapes and various scenes from the gorgeous towns round there.

So the piece starts promisingly in Siena, with comments about traffic, not the thing you really go to see...

Then some of the usual fast-zoom shots of buildings, that make your eyes go all funny, followed by the currently trendy spinning footage of the main square there (causing nausea and dizziness)... and that's it. A whole 20 secs on the fabulous views of the place.

They then concentrate the rest of the piece on some villa where some bloke and his missus are staying, followed by a cooking school, a chianti merchant, and another smaller villa, that looked like an old coal shed.

Jeez! When I go on holiday, I don't really give a toss about the decor of the hotel or flat, because I'm out and about, enjoying the new place, the new sights and sounds. Why the hell do these programmes always spend 90% of the time discussing the bloody hotels or the food???

Same last year - there was a show with a piece on Cornwall. The presenter is in one of England's most glorious regions for beaches, cliff-walks and sea-scapes... so what do they choose to talk about for most of the time? Yes! The flats. Great, we're staying in a flat near a lighthouse... here's the bedroom, and here's the bathroom. Really nice eh? Worth me coming down here to show you a bathroom isn't it?

One can only assume that the producers of these shows are fat, lazy, semi-blind morons who can't be assed to ever leave their hotels and explore, other than finding some place to stuff their fat faces with local cuisine.

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Nimbus

I maybe wrong, but could it be that the managers of the hotel in question give the TV company the room for free providing they show it on the programme?

Duck_Pond

Probably right. Nothing would surprise me.

They should change the name of the show to Holiday Accommodation 2004 instead. TBH, you see more of the places that these teams of DIY specialists travel to, on their shows!

Baaah!

Gordo

very true - and it doesn't help when the growler's trying to convince you to go somewhere merely because she's seen some 5 star bloody hotel on the TV - with no idea what the place is really like......