A British family of four are sharing two camp beds in a hotel conference room in Rhodes after being evacuated in the wildfires, saying British Airways told them there were no flights home until August ClaireGilbodyD reports
Upon landing, they boarded a minivan to their hotel, the Mitsis Rodos Maris Resort & Spa, in the south. Halfway through the drive, a hotel representative told passengers they would need to stop because of the wildfires.
The next day, more people arrived, meaning she was sleeping “head to head with people you have never met”. A video captured by Ms Wales shows children splashing in the pool before the camera pans 180 degrees to show beds set up beside it. “They are all around the pools, any spare space is taken up with beds,” Ms Wales said.
Ms Wales said while the hotel has no room to accommodate them, it is keeping them fed and watered and doing everything to support the holidaymakers Ms Wales said if anyone is to be held accountable for the chaos it is the airlines, who she claimed carried on flying people out despite knowing wildfires were spreading in the popular tourist destination.
She said the failure to suspend flights brought “so many people on the island who are now wanting to get off the island… We are quite cross that they kept flying people out”.
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