British behaviour in holiday hotel

They usually do, in fact. Why is it that British parents have badly behaved DC - at home or abroad?

It is you who is wrong. Have you ever been skiing, it is most certainly those listed above causing all the obnoxious behaviour. In fact, IME there aren't many Brits that ski compared to other European countries so I know that bad tourist behaviour is not just a Brit thing.

Yeah, chinny reckon

Bollocks. I’m surrounded by quite posh people and they almost all go AI. Usually Ikos and Sani in Europe and then upscale places in the Caribbean, Maldives etc.

The poshest of course have second homes but look around any Ikos and you’ll hear a few plums in mouths

You are quite wrong.

I have Danish family stayed at a five star hotel in Spain with them and most of the guests were French or Spanish. The French children were very highly strung, their manners and ability to quietly sit at a table didn't stand out at all!

Well it isn't about me, but my last break this winter was 3 months in Asia. We don't like flying for much less time because we can't justify the environmental impact.

We do travel in France, Spain and Portugal in autumn most years, we use a tent though, not a caravan and stay in quiet areas. Yes we allow other people to dictate our choices to the extent of on the whole avoiding travelling at peak times and avoiding tourist areas. We are lucky in that we are able to do that.

Re the pyramids - I'm sure you are aware they are on the edge of the city and the experience is not what people expect. Again we avoided the worst by arriving at 5am in January, it was pretty quiet.

We don't do boat trips on grockle boats - we had many years on our own yacht and wouldnt enjoy being around people drinking and preferred swimming off our own boat in the ocean, without other people around, which is a privilege for which I'm still grateful.

So there you are. Some of us are very lucky and privileged to be able to do things without relying on being with other people.

I must admit to frequenting Carrefour when I lived in Spain, but I can't vouch for the Brie. We bought our cheeses mostly in the local market.

This is simply untrue, like others have said how much experience do you have of other nationalities.

French and Spanish people aren’t very big users of holiday resorts. The French tend to holiday in their own country more, and the Spanish sometimes holiday locally more but are also generally poorer than other Europeans to take these big summer hols

I really disagree with it just bring british people. We have stayed st a very expensive all inclusive with multiple a la cartes too. Plenty of different nationalities allowing pile ups of food, one large table of 8 were collecting the display trays of deserts for the table, being stopped by staff. They were middle Eastern. No queuing ever from other nationalities. I think some brits go wrong with the alcohol but no worse than ither kids with food concerns

It is quite noticeable in some resorts that British kids don’t necessarily know how to sit at a table and eat. Constantly jumping up and down, running back for more food. I do think French and Spanish kids understand the concept of dining tables and table manners much more.

Have you seen what happens when a non-parent tries to correct the behaviour of someone else's kid? I tried it once - in our last house all the neighbourhood kids started using my front garden as a hanging out/meeting point for some reason - I don't even have kids with my partner - they'd literally sit on my grass, climb on our little wall, throw sweet wrappers, bounce the ball against my windows, you name it. It was so odd. I asked them to stop once. I was polite.

OMG the reaction of one of the mothers. Came round all guns blazing, threatened to knock me and my partner out. Then her husband came round later and threatened the exact same. Yes we called the police but we really would rather have avoided that kind of aggro. All she had to do was apologise and tell her kid not to do it again, but of course with some people, their kids can do no wrong. She was a nosy moo who didn't work, and she made sure all her little cronies in the area made our lives there a misery.

Oh god yes so true- I forgot about our northern friends- the Swedish are mad too 😂🙈

British behaviour? Have you never encountered people from other countries abroad? Trust me, it's not just Brits that are rude/entitled/messy.

I do 😁

I think unfortunately this is true. I do also think people in general have just got really entitled and inconsiderate lately, particularly when it comes to lazy / gentle parenting (puts hard hat on…..).

In my experience the Finns !! Make the Russians/Brits/Irish look like teetotallers !!

Posh people don't go on AI holidays almost by definition.

This.
They should be supervised until they can be trusted so they aren't spilling things, putting spoons back in the wrong place, taking things and leaving them, reaching ups too high and pulling things over or touching things and then not eating them.

Last time I went to Menorca I had a similar experience. The parents were as bad as the children, eating off their plates whilst walking around the buffet loading their plates up. Children running riot. Throwing rubbish all over the floor. The British were kept in a separate block from other nationalities where there was a different restaurant. There’s loads of complaints on Tripadvisor about it but I can totally understand why other nationalities would not want to dine with us.

Hmm very interesting that you interpreted that post in that way without even an ounce of self awareness. I think you are overdue a little reflection time. Damn.

This is such a bizarre way to make life choices. How many other things would you allow the other people who attend it to dictate whether you do?

What about when you’re visiting the pyramids standing next to some AI dweller, on a boat trip on a Greek island, seeing the acropolis, Machu Picchu say? Dismiss them all in case you happen to be near a AI dweller in the gift shop?

I bet you’re one of the France caravan site insecure types whose adventure begins and ends at carrefour

@Scarfitwere Is this Sani or an Ikos?

I say the same about people with second homes. Not the sort of people I’d ever want to fraternise with.

Common people like me probably