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

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Happyaslarry22 · 21/02/2026 19:13

Just come back from a one week cruise, unfortunately due to my job I can only travel during school holidays. Some of the things I saw made me go urghh:
-Woman changing her baby on a chair in a public area- no changing mat, baby room a few steps away. Never sat in that area during the rest of the cruise.
-People not washing their hands or using hand sanitizer before eating in the buffet
-Parents letting their little darlings run around the buffet and ship/put their feet on chairs/walk across chairs/sit on tables! Why?
-Letting children sit with a tablet on full volume
-Facetime conversations you can't help but overhear
-Constant bleeps and blings when people send/receive mobile messages especially when trying to listen to a guide.
-Seeing families sat together all looking at their mobiles.
I will say there were some lovely people on the cruise.

Had a lovely holiday but where has consideration for other travellers or people gone?

OP posts:
B1anche · 21/02/2026 19:25

A thing that made me go urggh was when I was enjoying a lovely lunch on a Greek Island, and two cats decided to have sex about a metre from our table. It was revolting.

WhyamIinahandcartandwherearewegoing · 21/02/2026 19:24

Benidorm…

Cherrysoup · 21/02/2026 19:23

Bloke wandering round Miami with a bloody great albino python round his neck. I swear, everywhere we went, there was he! Obviously he follows the tourist spots. My husband has a phobia of snakes.

YourGreenCat · 21/02/2026 19:22

OP, nothing in your post is holiday-related.

People are rude and obnoxious, sadly, but they are rude and obnoxious anywhere.

YourGreenCat · 21/02/2026 19:21

Evaka · 21/02/2026 19:16

Babe, I don't think you're cut out for being around others.

don't tell us, you are on holiday right now, stuck to your phone with the sound blasting on? 😂

SpainToday · 21/02/2026 19:20

Happyaslarry22 · 21/02/2026 19:13

Just come back from a one week cruise, unfortunately due to my job I can only travel during school holidays. Some of the things I saw made me go urghh:
-Woman changing her baby on a chair in a public area- no changing mat, baby room a few steps away. Never sat in that area during the rest of the cruise.
-People not washing their hands or using hand sanitizer before eating in the buffet
-Parents letting their little darlings run around the buffet and ship/put their feet on chairs/walk across chairs/sit on tables! Why?
-Letting children sit with a tablet on full volume
-Facetime conversations you can't help but overhear
-Constant bleeps and blings when people send/receive mobile messages especially when trying to listen to a guide.
-Seeing families sat together all looking at their mobiles.
I will say there were some lovely people on the cruise.

Had a lovely holiday but where has consideration for other travellers or people gone?

All of the issues you list could be experienced in a hotel (or anywhere with people) so it’s not a cruise-specific problem

Breadandbutta · 21/02/2026 19:18
  • A woman whose vomitting child was laying all over the tables in the cafe, while she was jovially telling the staff at the reception desk that he'd been up all night vomitting

  • People who just stop walking in front of you and don't have any awareness that they need to move to the side so as to not block your path

  • Holidaymakers without kids, that lay within inches of the shallow end of the pool to sunbathe, who then complain when the children are splashing them 🙄

  • "brits abroad" families

Edited to add: I think some people just genuinely really lack awareness of others!

FreshInks · 21/02/2026 19:17

I hate threads that are created to encourage posters to make nasty comments about other people

Evaka · 21/02/2026 19:16

Babe, I don't think you're cut out for being around others.

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