I find it a commendable and sometimes brave practice to use the anonymity of this website to air bad experiences of FTO's. Most thrive on silence given the implications a grievance has on the bearer so don't shoot each other down for speaking up. Lawd knows you are all spending enough money on this trip so it's foolish not to read what people already involved here have to say. Sometimes we don't want to hear things which may upset us but to accuse someone of "sour grapes" when they start a thread like this is childish and extremely patronising. Nobody can catagorically state whether anything here is fact or fiction, that part is down to your own intellect when reading. My advice is to count up the good posts versus the bad posts when assessing a potential FTO.
VFE.