The hotel was translating the names of dishes at the buffet into English (Picture: Twitter)

Lets face it, most hotels do their best to cater for their guests.

Whether that be by offering late check out, providing a free upgrade or even helping with your luggage.

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But one in particular, the Erbil International Hotel in Iraq, attempted to go that little bit further – by translating the names of dishes at the buffet into English.

Sadly, that did not go quite to plan.


And instead of writing ‘meatballs’ over one dish, they printed ‘Paul is dead’ (poor Paul).

Best translation fail. The arabic spells out a transliteration of 'meat ball' in English – which sounds like 'mayit baul', or Dead Paul. pic.twitter.com/zReTm93Gg8 — Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) August 28, 2017

Sharing an image of the ‘translation fail’ on Twitter, hotel guest Hend Amry explained her thoughts behind the error.



She said: ‘The arabic spells out a transliteration of ‘meat ball’ in English – which sounds like ‘mayit baul’, or Dead Paul.’

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Well that makes sense.

After posing the hilarious sign online, Amry was inundated with replies from other commenters.

One said: ‘Honestly so hungry I could ear a half dozen Paul is Dead.’

Another added: ‘Lol try a Paul is Dead sandwich. With cheese.’

Since being uploaded, the tweet has been shared more than 16,700 times.

RIP Paul.