A nightmare holidaymaker who realised she could have paid £200 less, unleashed carnage in retaliation, ripping her hired caravan to shreds and destroying its contents.
Rob Smith, director of holiday caravan rental company Jars Holidays, rented the vehicle at Lyons Robin Hood Holiday Park in Rhyl, Wales, out to a woman and her partner between July 14 and 21.
However, the 38-year-old claims the holidaymakers were a nightmare from the start, calling for the boiler to be fixed at 1 am in the morning and badgering for money off despite being in the caravan already.
When Mr Smith pointed out that it was all already paid and refused any reimbursement, the renter turned hostile and trashed the caravan and fled in the night, just four days into their holiday.
The company director was shocked when he stepped inside the abandoned van the next morning to discover that it had been torn to shreds by the guests.
Shocking images shared on Facebook reveal the state of the two-bedroom caravan, with torn-up bedding, curtains and a smart flatscreen TV.
The whole home appeared to be clad in dog food, rubbish and what seemed to be flour emptied all over the stove, whilst uprooted sofa cushions and broken kitchen utensils covered the floors.
Mr Smith claims that the destructive tenant had even left the shower on full blast, with the head dangling out the bathroom window.
Mr Smith, who rents out privately owned caravans to backpackers looking for seaside town getaways, claims that it took the Jar Holiday team six hours to clean up the carnage.
The caravan rental company had to replace everything in sight, including forking out about £1,000 for a replacement flatscreen TV.
Mr Smith, from Toxteth, Liverpool, said that obviously, they’d rented out to somebody who hadn’t been a good renter.
He said that security had walked past the caravan between one and three o’clock in the morning and it was all smashed up, but that they only got the call in the morning.
He said that it was disgusting and that in all the years they’d been there, they’d never seen this happen before, and that she was a nightmare during the stay and after.
He added that she booked through a third-party company and that she privately messaged them halfway through the holiday saying she could have paid £200 less elsewhere through a different third-party company for the holiday and that she wanted her money back.
This is criminal damage and the person that caused this trashing should be taken to court.
Unfortunately, things like this occur and Mr Smith should have been insured for this kind of thing, and he will more than likely get his money back for the destruction of the caravan, and if he was not insured, then he should have been.
The police probably won’t pursue this as they’re out pursuing ‘woke’ issues, but Mr Smith would have been given an incident number for his insurance company to investigate and eventually pay out.
This woman should be made to pay every penny for the damages, but you’ve got to find her first, and taking her to small claims court would likely end up costing Mr Smith more money in the long run, and no doubt the woman is on benefits or a meagre income and would only be ordered to pay back a small amount at a time. There’s a vast difference between winning in court and actually getting the money.
This is why there needs to be a register of bad tenants so that they won’t do it to others in the future.
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