Holiday Hijack
Season 1
Unsuspecting tourists are taken from their luxury resorts to experience the realities of life behind the glossy travel brochure.
Where to Watch Holiday Hijack • Season 1
6 Episodes
- The MaldivesE2
The MaldivesTwo 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. - MexicoE3
MexicoJenny 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. - KenyaE4
KenyaJewellery 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. - JamaicaE5
JamaicaPub 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.