British behaviour in holiday hotel

Not all AI's are the same, you need to book well in advance but Maxx Royal Kemer Resort in Turkey in unreal.

YABU to be snobby about other people’s holidays.
YANBU about the habits of some people at AI resorts.

'Bear in mind this is not a cheap rubbish tui-blue type place. I dread to think what they are like.'

Because as everyone knows kids who don't come 'elite' backgrounds are practically feral. Imagine them on holiday in a Tui Blue (🤢) resort. I mean perish the thought.

🙄 Aren't you a peach.

YANBU The amount of wasted food is obscene.

It's the same at hotels in the UK, people coughing all over the buffet and leaving stacks of toast behind,

I know it's not, I didn't state it was!

Jesus wept, Sani is NOT cheap!!!

A work colleague is staying AI in Greece at the moment and sent a photo of his dinner plate to the work whatsapp chat yesterday. It was enough food for 4 people not 1 and he later added that he'd not even managed half of it.

As a vegetarian it really offends me to see meat going to waste, that animal died so you could eat.

Why does wanting to go on holiday to somewhere where people have good manners make me poor?

I’ve just booked a TUI holiday for four of us for a week and it’s £5000! Wish it was cheap.

The use of inverted commas to signify tongue in cheek humour or sarcasm where I have used a stereotype.

I don't see what is wrong wanting to go on holiday to somewhere where people are kind, considerate with good manners.

We've only done AI a few times and found the behaviour to be mixed:

SAGA ocean and riverboats - mostly good at the buffet, but a fair amount of drinking (drinks mostly free).
Expedition ships - pretty well behaved (drinks only free at dinner)
Japan tour - courier was arranging where we ate (no free drinks) - first half very good, but second half not. Why? Many of the other travellors (Australians) complained loudly about it mostly being Japanese food, so the courier arranged all 'european' (second rate) meals for the second half. Very disappointing.

No kids on any of the trips.

Pontins abroad. I'll pick up a few string vests for DS and make sure he practices knotting his handkerchief into a hat.

In all seriousness, my last TUI holiday cost well into 5 figures for four of us. The hotel was gorgeous and all the badly-behaved tourists were American. DS and DD were agog.

I stayed at a TUI BLUE place recently and everyone was very well behaved.

Why wouldn’t kids choose their own food?

I used the term "English" as that's the term used in other countries to when referring to English speaking badly behaved tourists. I wasn't making any reference to English being any better or worse than British.

I've been on a few AI holidays now and can say that this kind of behaviour isn't confined to Brits. In fact, I can't think of a single instance where I've seen British families behave like that. I'm off to another cheap, rubbish TUI Blue AI place in a couple of weeks so maybe I'll find them there?

Clearly slumming it !

Agreed

You’ve hit the nail on the head - very wealthy parents often leave their kids to run wild. I can only assume they are used to having a nanny there.

Just thinking about the ‘cheap tui blue’ that would cost me £6k for my family of 5 in school holidays 😂

I’ll never complain about Brit kids again after our last holiday where we had to deal with some mental Russian kids - an 8 year old girl squaring up to me in the pool for being in their part of the pool, never experienced anything like it! That was a very expensive hotel in exotic location as well so not a budget one.

You had me agreeing until the ‘cheap and rubbish TUI blue’ comment. Makes you sound snobby and tone deaf as you must realise that there will be plenty on here who don’t consider them cheap at all. I had a lovely week at one in gran caneria last year. Spending more money doesn’t equate to better people/parenting.

This. ^ 😂

Ime I've found that the 'high end' hotels are worse for this behaviour. I've found the 'cheaper' 3 hotels have less 'entitled' behaviour and friendlier people. We recently stayed in a large beautiful 5 hotel in Greece and vowed never again. Smaller and cheaper from now on, and that's down to the attitudes of most (not all) guests.

Always book villas, self catering or boutique hotels abroad. And actually I actively look for smaller or more off the beaten track places to avoid Brits full stop 😂

I said maybe we should try AI next time so I can really chill out and do nothing but everything described here is the horror I imagine from AI. Would not be my idea of a holiday at all. There must be some that are good (if anyone can recommend one please!)

YANBU @Scarfitwere - you would expect people to have some sort of decency but there you are. Sorry you are experiencing this.

Wasn't there an old advert for one of the holiday companies where the kids all loomed on the horizon, wearing goggles and rubber rings and such, and then ran slow-mo to the pool? I was picturing exactly that 🤣