British behaviour in holiday hotel

I've said in my post pretty much. People who don't give a shit about the environment or financial consequences for the area. Ecologically they are disastrous.

God why would anyone go to an AI?? Hideous

Are you in an Ikos?

No one behaved like that when I went.

What sort of people book an AI holiday?

The type of people who book an AI holiday are not the sort of people I want to mix with or be around. You are being unreasonable for booking a holiday that is an environmental and financial disaster for the tourism in the area and for the ecology of the region and thinking it's OK.

We book clean and small independent hotels with their own pools. Then eat in local restaurants. I also double check that companies like Tui and Jet2 don’t use them. We have amazing holidays at a fraction of the cost of these AI horrors. No regrets at all.

Damn I bet you were itching to slide in some racism, I hope that made you feel better

You can cringe all you want, I’m not the one with an established bad rep as a tourist lol

That’s a real rib tickler that. And totally explains away the generalisations you made. Pointing out those quotation marks around “well trained” really changes the tone of your post, and the contempt you show towards English people magically disintegrates.

And just to reassure you, nobody thinks there’s an issue with wanting to be around kind considerate people with good manners. The issue is when you attempt to equate poor behaviour to a particular ethnicity, rather than understanding that it’s a sad fact that humans from all walks of life have the capacity to be rude, inconsiderate, ignorant and display all manner of negative behaviours. I hope that clears things up for you.

And just FYI, making generalisations based upon ethnicity is impolite.

Yes, I'm always surprised how many people labour under the delusion poor behaviour abroad is a British specific trait. Perhaps some of us have just seen a bit more than others!

No you didn’t 🤥. You clearly have strong opinions, why don’t you at least stand by your own words? How embarrassing.

”I’d be mortified to be English” — “I mEaNt pEOpLe wHo sPeAk tHe EnGLiSh lAnGUaGe” yeah right 🤣

It’s odd to not expect some food waste at a buffet tbh…

Haha yes!
I can picture it now, all the refined, cultured people enjoying a quiet, civilised cocktail beside the pool when all of a sudden - “Argh the English are descending!”

I completely agree that often there are excellent meat (and fish) and salad options but wanting people to supervise their children and have an awareness that cross-contamination is a very real hazard is not being 'fussy'*. I have coeliac disease and watch with horror as children and adults use salad tongs to help themselves to pasta and put the tongs back in the salad or help themselves to red snapper with a bread roll in their hand, putting even more limitations on an already incredibly limited diet.

Ant plus one for the 'Russians are mental guests' - in one resort I saw a man ask for a 12-egg omelette, a woman take an entire gateau for herself and nearby tables used by Russian families covered in overflowing plates of uneaten food along with zero conception of allowing people to exit a lift before getting into it!

*Using your term as an opportunity to highlight the above, not have a go at you @Metromayhem 🙂

Seeing as you’re so keen to point out that you’ve paid a lot (and so imagined you’d be safe from the hoi polloi), I must comment that it’s always the poshos who have the worst behaved kids in my experience. We stayed at a very expensive resort last year with a load of ‘baby led weaning’ crunchy mamas who were letting their incapable kids make a mess all over the tables and floor for the staff to clean up, much to the disgust of me and my beautifully non messy common family.

I've enjoyed staying at Sani (and IKOS and Tui Blue!), I am just speculating as to where this person thinks has accidentally let the riff raff in.

“Although the getting drunk as early as possible does seem to be British”

really not. See Russians, Dutch, Irish

Actually I do find Brits are ‘more’ prone to a total lack of giving a shit about other guests , although I’ve witnessed the odd feral Spanish and German family too- hence why the minute I could I hit the adult only places and with kids preferred villas and apartments.

its the same way people who can’t afford flights pack up their car to go to a caravan site in France and bang on endlessly about how terrible for the environment flying is and how they SIMPLY LOVE being in the French equivalent of hoeseasons and eating generic Brie from the carrefouR

its not because you can’t afford better- it’s because you’re SUPERIOR.

“but the UK does seem to have a problem with lack of consideration for the space around you”

this is utterly cringe self obsessed Brit wank. You sound really lacking in diversity

Cheap rubbish Tui Blu place? I’ve never seen this sort of behaviour in one of those hotels tbh ? If you choose to visit cheap all inclusive hotels maybe that’s what you get!

I've stayed at a few internationally catered AIs and the food wastage, ignorant pathway blocking and kids running riot is certainly not just a British trait. I think its peoples attitudes towards AI in general. Although the getting drunk as early as possible does seem to be British. Who wants to supetvise their kids in a pool while tipsy? I do not get it.

Yep. The snobbery in OP’s post is awful.

I’ll never forget one holiday where the dad filled his pocket up with butter sachets each morning. It was 36 degree heat, it must have been sliding down his leg before he’d made it too far!