A COUPLE who discovered their Spanish hotel was an old folk's home star in a "holiday from hell" TV documentary tonight.

In August, the BEN exclusively revealed how Bolton's Philip Rowlands and girlfriend Louise Sutton booked a late getaway deal to Majorca -- but ended up in a residential home "hotel" complete with walking frames, geriatrics and white-coated orderlies.

The young couple, who forked out £718 for a deal with holiday giant First Choice, also looked on in horror as a coffin passed through the "reception" during their week-long nightmare.

But tonight the pair tell their story again in an ITV "Holidays from Hell" show exposing a series of disasters which have hit Britons abroad.

Today Philip, 25, of Chorley New Road, Heaton, told the BEN: "We wanted as many people as possible to know about the problems so no one suffers as we did."

Holiday "highlights" for the couple at Residencia Fabiola, Portals Nous, included being greeted by white-coated orderlies dishing out drugs to senile old folk over breakfast.

And on another occasion an incontinent old man wet himself as the pair attempted to eat a "disgusting" evening meal.

The couple are still seeking full compensation and an apology from First Choice bosses who have so far offered £450 -- a 60 per cent refund.

Mr Rowlands said: "It was such a nightmare we want all our money back."

A spokesman for First Choice, which stopped sending holidaymakers to the "hotel" following the BEN's story, said today: "We will always endeavour to resolve customers' complaints to their satisfaction."

Holidays from Hell is on at 9pm on ITV tonight.

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