Sunkisstravel.net Sunkiss Travel Sun Kiss Working Holidays Disgusting apartments - False information on website - Kicked out and robbed - No Pay - No Refund London E14 5DY Internet

Where do I start? I had a funny feeling about Sunkiss Travel before I even signed up for their "working holiday" in Marbella.

I thought there was no way they could be a legit business with their poor communication and grammer skills... I exchanged probably 100 emails with them asking them questions they were so reluctant to answer or could not help me with. Being told I had to pay first before they could give me more details should have made me run away, but I found no bad reviews for them online so I took the chance - hey, I was hopeful for a cheap holiday in Marbella!

They sent me photos of what looked like a luxury apartment, telling me I would be sharing with "4 or 5 people" and all apartments have "aircon, TV, and WIFI'. To knock this out, when I arrived, I was put in an apartment with no aircon, dirty, filthy, roaches, and sharing with 7 people! Yep, that was 4 beds in my room at one point and no one was happy. When I complained to the "mananger" he told me I should feel lucky because the other apartments have 10 or more people and my apartment is the only one with WIFI. 

So I guess I should feel "lucky" and stop complaining but the nightmare doesn't end there... 

The people in charge never gave me info on what time to go to the bars or how to prepare. When I asked questions, they told me to ask the other people in my apartment... Maybe that works sometimes but when we are all new and clueless, please, take some time to give us directions. 

When we made it to work we were all put on the streets to sell tickets into the bars (this was the only work they had available and I wouldn't expect anything but this job if you're going there). The nightmare continues - if you're a girl like me, expect to get more offers from men on the street to go to their hotel room than offers to buy tickets into the bars. The managers will watch you and yell at you for not approaching people even if they were already approached by another girl to sell to them.

Their reasoning - "They may say no to that girl, but they may like you and want to buy your tickets." Yeah, seriously. After 3 nights of this work and being violated by too many drunk guys, I decided to quit and just take the option to just enjoy a vacation without working. After all the Sunkiss website clearly says you don't have to work and many people choose not to.

Wrong! After me and the other girls told them we won't be working, they told us we can't stay in the apartment. The other girls got scared and quickly left, one booking a flight out that evening. But I was pissed, seeing that it was clearly an option on the Sunkiss website to stay without working... I contacted Sunkiss and they told me it's only true for some resorts but not Marbella - good to know!

I asked for a day to find a place to go because I had planned on staying a whole month - flights are expensive the same day and I had no idea where to go. When I got back to the apartment all my stuff was gone! The bar manager had taken everything and told me I needed to leave NOW. 

Luckily my boyfriend came to get me and helped me get my stuff back... if he wasn't there I'm afraid for what could have happened. It was a fight to get my luggage back and I never even got paid for the tickets I did sell.

What I learned - Sunkiss Travel has A LOT of misleading and flat out BS information on their website. When I asked for a refund they suddenly disappeared. What a joke and waste of time and money. I would not recommend this scam to anyone.