VOCABULARY OVERVIEW Complete the text with the correct words. The first letters have been given.
I'd read some very positive reviews of Marvel Holidays on this site, so I decided to (1) b_
one of their holidays
in Barbados online, The (2)
company sent us (3) b
and information about local events and
in Barbados for the time of our holiday. We printed out our boarding (5) p. and tickets, and my
sister and I took the train from our local station to the airport (6)
early in the morning. We (7)
in our luggage easily - no long queues - and relaxed in the departure (8)
until we boarded the plane. We had
a good (9) f
but when we landed, unfortunately, our troubles began. There was no (10)
of
the company to meet us at the airport and no (11)
to take us to the hotel. We had to wait for an hour and a half
in the scorching (12)
When we finally got to the hotel, we found that my sister and I had to (13)
a room while we had booked two (14)
rooms. There was no (15)
bathroom and the five-star
hotel was really two-star, and it looked completely different from that on the website. We were there for two weeks and there
was only one (16) e
organised by the company. It was a sightseeing (17)
along the west coast.
But we had no (18) g
to tell us anything. We just drove for two hours, only stopping once for an ice cream.
The brochure had promised scuba (19) d.
and boat (20)
but there was no one to help us book
them. Coming home was a very bad experience too. There was a crash involving two luggage vans on the (21)
and the planes couldn't move. We waited five hours and because it was night time, we had nothing to eat or drink. No help
from Marvel Holidays! I shall never travel with this company again.
