Holidaymaker discovers she’s been done over after hiring what she thought was a room with a stunning beach view only to find it was a poster.
At first glance, influencer Sonja Dennig, 28, thought the hotel room in Westerland, on Germany’s North Sea island Sylt, for her weekend getaway.
But when she looked closer she realised that the breathtaking view was just a large seaside poster hung over the window of the basement room.
Video footage shows Sonja walking towards what looks like a perfect shoreline.
But as the camera pans up it shows a grim looking metal grill and an industrial light that’s there to fake the sunshine.
Sonja, who boasts more than 924,000 followers on Instagram and another 479,000 on TikTok, said: “We were screwed so hard.”
She added: “We thought, ‘Wow, what a great view we have,’ but look, it’s just a photo. We’re just in the basement.”
Sonja joked: “You’re in bed, it’s midnight, but you think it’s either evening or morning sun. It’s pretty amazing.”
The video quickly clocked up more than 3.6 million views on TikTok, triggering an avalanche of reactions from social media users.
TikTok user ‘Princess’ said: “The most amazing thing is that the picture looks totally real.”
Then user ‘Mustard’ commented: “Well, you have to let them be creative.”
And ‘Cynical 114’ added: “But it must be stated somewhere in the description that it is in the basement.”
The incident mirrors a similar case in Italy when Argentine influencer Clarisa Murgia had paid extra for the room because of the spectacular coastal views in the advert as part of a holiday of a lifetime across Europe.
She filmed the video showing the moment that she found she had paid through the nose for a hotel room with a stunning sea view and realises she had been conned with a giant poster.
As she filmed the scene, Clarisa showed how from one angle the poster looked just like the real thing.
But as she pans to the side the footage shows it is just a huge picture on the other side of a dingy alley.
The real view is a crumbling white wall and rows of barred windows.
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Story By: Georgina Jedikovska, Sub-Editor: Georgina Jedikovska, Agency: Newsflash
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