A group of luxury tourists are hijacked by Bella and Omar, who show them the real Gambia with basic lodgings and food. But will it change their holiday habits for good?.
Two quality-seeking couples discover the dark side to The Maldives, one of the world's most popular romantic destinations. Twenty-eight-year-old Ali from Oxfordshire, her father Graham, and their fiancées Stuart and Sally love nothing more than the exclusivity of a super-swanky resort. While both couples have travelled the world in style, they admit to having seen very little of it, choosing instead to spend their time exhausting the facilities available at their all-inclusive resorts. Nestled deep in the Indian Ocean, the Maldives is made up of 1200 tiny islands. Tourism is the country's biggest industry, with 97 resorts welcoming over 600,000 holidaymakers a year. With one hotel per island, tourists flock to the Maldives for its picture-perfect private beaches and tranquil luxury. However, this separation between the locals and the resorts often means that the true Maldivian way of life goes unseen. For one night only Ali, Graham, Stuart and Sally are booked into the Water Villas at the Reethi Beach Resort and Spa, before the tranquility of paradise is shattered as they're hijacked by local couple Zuba and Nazu, who take them to live and work on one of the many service islands that cater for the five-star resorts.
Jenny and her 16-year-old son Dior have been holidaying with Martine and her 15-year-old son Connor for over a decade. But this time their holiday experience will be very different. These best friends from Camberley in Surrey take up to four all-inclusive trips per year. They may be jet-setting globetrotters, but they're happiest when they never leave the resort. The group is whisked off to what they believe will be an all-inclusive trip to Mexico's tourist capital, Cancun, at the five-star Gran Caribe Bay hotel. But their holiday is hijacked by Irving, who takes the Brits to live with him and his family in downtown Cancun, where he puts them to work in menial tourism work.
Jewellery shop owner 49-year-old Tracy from Essex and her three children, 25-year-old Morgan, 22-year-old Joe and 17-year-old Ollie, love to holiday in five-star luxury. The family has travelled to exotic locations around the world but when they're on foreign soil they hardly ever venture further than their hotel pool. When they have their Kenyan holiday hijacked by the Maasai Mara tribespeople they are very upset to leave their luxury lodge for a hut made of cow dung and infested with cockroaches. But after a week experiencing life with this unique tribe and their culture, their own lives are changed for ever.
Pub managers Amanda and Paul are off to Jamaica with friends Catherine, a council housing adviser, and her husband Carl, who is a thatcher. For these five-star fanatics, everything on a holiday has to be perfect. However, when their luxury holiday is hijacked by the Jamaican Green family they get to experience the real country and are shocked by how the local people actually live. After a week of working in the tourist industry and learning the disturbing truth about Jamaica's beaches, their emotional journey ends with tearful goodbyes and changed lives.
The Green family from Jamaica are coming to the UK for their first ever holiday. It is four months since British holidaymakers Amanda, Paul, Carl and Catherine met the Greens while on holiday in Jamaica. The Greens were their host family on the island. Now Nick and Sophie and their two children are about to spend a night in sheer luxury at the world famous Savoy Hotel in London. After braving freezing cold beaches, ice skating and open-top buses, the tourists discover how Amanda's trip to Jamaica changed her life, her career and her relationship with her son for ever.