Holidays - What have you seen to make you go urghh!

You have no way of knowing whether people have washed their hands before coming to the buffet.

My husband and I quite often look at our phones whilst sitting together. We've been sitting together for the best part of 28 years. We used to read different bits of the paper whilst sitting together. Now we browse our phones. We chat when we feel the urge.

Lovely romantic meal at an outdoor restaurant in Rome.
I felt something furry brush against my foot under the table, looked down expecting to see a cat. No - massive rat!

A cruise is not my personal choice of holiday. I think maybe you might prefer something else too.

This is a daft one but I remember a hotel welcome meeting where a large family (I assume) turned up and were giggling insincerely at the rep's Dad jokes. When it came to splitting into groups, they had a friendly but lively debate about which places they were going. Thankfully it wasn't too loud, but was rather distracting seeing them debating in the background.

At an all inclusive Greek hotel. There was a guy at the pool on his own every day ( who I don’t think was a hotel guest) using the facilities. He tried to take one of our beach mats so I would keep an eye on him.

one day he went into the pool shower middle of the day, stripped off naked bs proceeded to shower. The cubicle was set up so immediately approaching you couldn’t see inside but from the opposite side of the pool could see everything. I saw two women in their early twenties about to use the shower and was too far away to warn them. They were mortified when they saw him. This was a family resort and completely inappropriate.

At one hotel, I saw someone holding their child above a bin and it was peeing all over it. I vowed to go adult only after that.

Pool evacuated because a child had pooed in there. Staff came with a net to fish it out !

Please can I win this with the tale of the manky pants?

We often stay in a small villa. There is a single steep track down to it with a very tight shared turning circle (with a steep drop on one side!) next to a lovely one bedroom AirBNB cottage. So you drive down and then have to reverse up 30 odd yards to do a multi point turn to get back to the road.

In front of the cottage there’s a washing line on the turning circle. It’s a good sightline to use in the manoeuvres.

A couple rented the cottage and the man had clearly had quite an awful accident in his white y-fronts. Some failed attempt seems to have been made to clean them and they were hung on the line. For 10 fucking days! Literally flapping their explosive shittiness at our windscreen every time we used the car. Even stranger, the very nice couple would smile and wave at us from their garden chairs entirely nonplussed by the public display of cacky no-way-will-they-be-white-again pants.

My son was at peak disgusting boy humour age and my husband is a big child. Despite going to many lovely places, they still love the memory of screaming about whether the poo pants would touch the windscreen or whether we’d drive off the mountain.

This. Cruise ships are dreadful for the environment and shit for the places they visit. About one road gets financial benefit but everyone else suffers.

OP you did something antisocial, and you’re complaining about the people who did it with you being antisocial. <shrug>

I went on a girls holiday to Benidorm, picked on the basis that it was in the quieter old-town but a cheap break.

Hotel was nice.

One loud Dad was outraged he couldn't send his 14yo boy to the bar to buy a drink or fags for him.

Another family supplied their toddlers in high chairs with cans of pepsi out of the vending machines at breakfast.

When you get on a (international) holiday cruise you could be with literally anyone though? You can’t control it.

I was at a carvery place in my own town yesterday.. A couple on loud speaker discussing challenging a will. Very bloody disrespectful to the dead imo. Wonder if the woman on the other end knew how many people could hear her clawing her way to someone's dead fortune?

This would make me cry. I swear to God, I couldn’t go anywhere I’d see that as my holiday would be instantly ruined. When it comes to animals, I simply cannot get things out of my head.
I am overweight (albeit 5 1/2 stone lighter than I was! 🥳) and I would never go on a donkey. Why are some people so deluded and selfish? Doesn’t it occur to them that they’re making an animal suffer? I’d like to ride them like a fucking donkey, see how they like it.
One thing I hate is mess. Again, don’t people think of those who are expected to clean it up? Doesn’t it make them sad?

I saw the same in Memphis a few years ago, thankfully I was in a bar and he was across the street.

God knows what I would have been.like if I'd been in the street!

Sounds like cruises that allow children in the school summer holidays are not the best bet for you! Try a nice quiet villa next time then you'll have all the peace you want.

I do agree with you pretty much though especially with the ipads and electronics on full volume - drives me mad when they're on in public, especially restaurants.

Don’t see it much so when I do it really stands out, and not a holiday thing but more noticeable in summer - people who let their toddlers walk around with saggy full nappies.

Women in a minuscule thong bikini sitting with no towel under her on a wooden barstool. Her entire naked arse and most of her vag was on that seat. Grim. Not to mention, surely uncomfortable?

Cruise ships spoiling my view.

Not joking either, they’re ugly and mega polluting, and bring little revenue into ports, other than the fees they pay to dock.

I had national trust places. Always full of wankers who can’t park.

My current bugbear is parents who don’t supervise their children in hotel pools, particularly small pools where there are rules about not running/jumping/diving. I understand children like to do those things but if my 6 year old can understand that it’s not safe and inherently selfish to ruin other people’s time in the pool, I don’t see why they can’t.

When I was a kid, and I don't think you see it anymore, when on holiday by a beach in Europe there always seemed to be at least one family with a pre-schooler/toddler walking around naked except for a bucket hat, and always with a snot-encrusted nose it seemed. But maybe that phenomenon was unique to the 80s!

Donkeys struggling to carry (often overweight) people up steep hills to see a sunset or something.