British behaviour in holiday hotel

OP isn’t asking for anything more than basic manners and basic considerate behaviour and for parents to realise that little kids can’t get their own food because they will make a mess and make the buffet section unpleasant for other paying guests.

Expecting basic manners from people is not unreasonable or the same as expecting silence in a garden with NDN’s.

Of course, Pinocchio. This absolutely happened exactly as you described. 🤥 🤣🤣🤣

Not all AI are like this. Go adults only.

I think that is pretty standard behaviour in an AI resort, no matter how ‘upmarket’ or expensive.

I’ve only done one AI and I’m not inclined to do it again. Breakfast is a mass buffet designed to feed hundreds of people all with very different levels of hygiene/ etiquette.

Thank you! Hopefully booking this evening!

There’s literally another post trending about similar behaviour in the UK during the bank holiday, so it very much has a consistent pattern, both abroad and in house.

I live near a bus stop that caters to the high school nearby and the place is absolutely fucking filthy every damn day because apparently these kids can’t comprehend the concept of not littering. I’ve never seen it anything like this anywhere else and I’ve lived in small towns and cities in two other countries.

Every country has their problems and bad tourists, but the UK does seem to have a problem with lack of consideration for the space around you, which then just gets exacerbated on holidays.

Nothing wrong with a TUI blue hotel. Problem is MN loves an Ikos hotel and anything else is slumming it.

We went on our first AI holiday last year to a hotel that OP would not touch with a barge pole by the sounds of it. I haven’t experienced any of this behaviour. The children were generally well behaved and we didn’t have problems with people not queuing either. Maybe OP needs to pick a different type of holiday.

I live in a seaside place in Spain. As soon as the summer holidays begin the Brits stand out like a sore thumb , it's so embarrassing. Loud. Drunk no attempt to even say gracias (I'm not expecting fluency on a holiday but common courtesy)
Us and the Americans are dreadful (obviously there are lovely exceptions!

I've done AI 4 times with my family (2 in Greece, 1 Turkey, 1 Mexico) - yes it is the lazy option because you know what, I'm bloody exhausted from working full time and when I go away the last thing I want to do is hunt round local mini marts to cobble together a meal everyone will eat that I'll then have to wash up after. However my experiences have always been fantastic overall - great food and drink, good facilities, super convenient and low stress. I have noticed gluttony - people piling up a plate high with pastries / doughnuts at breakfast then leaving most of them untouched (eyes bigger than bellies) - and that bothers me but it's a minority and certainly not all Brits abroad. The place we stayed in Turkey was 90% Russian guests and it was shortly after the Ukraine invasion so that was the most unpleasant part for me (plus I got a bit fed up of dill on every salad - still not sure if that's Turkish, Russian or both)

This isn't my experience of Sani at all.

So English children are feral and Scottish children are angels? Sorry I’m not buying it and I’m Welsh 😂

The restaurant manager runs the restaurant. He directs staff if guests aren't behaving as they should. I've been on AI and Staff have told adult guests, not to stereotype but it's always been Russians, for the behaviour described, it is the job of the staff to see that hygiene protocols are followed. Especially if it is a decent hotel. Likewise it's always had to be Spanish guests that have been asked to confine were they smoke. The grounds people keep an eye out for H&S breaches, the pool supervisors have their roles. I don't know what type of places you visit were it is a free for all. Although, very often the German guests are built like brick outhouses, so a bit of pushing in the queue is just laughed at.

For people, for whom other people are hell, there are villas. There are even such things as catered villas. There are remote versions of each.

They’re lovely. Beautiful pools, modern clean rooms. Lovely food and nice à la carte options too. Have a lovely time 😊

I need to know where OP is staying. My money is on one of the cheaper IKOS. Maybe Sani.

And there was me feeling happy that I might actually be able to stretch the budget this year and go to a tui blue hotel.

Me either 😪

Bloody wish I could have a “cheap” AI holiday! I’ve not left the country for the last ten years.

I always remember working with a woman who wouldn't speak to me because I was from the rival town of her favourite football club. She talked constantly about an AI she was going to and I remember thinking: this is why I don't AI. She told me she wore her team's shirt all the time, when not at work

😅

Tbh whilst I also wince (and get annoyed) at Russians (and Germans are similar queue pushers 😂) it just cultural. Different societies have different ways of being polite.

and Russia in general has a terrible fairly tragic alcohol problem obviously

plus a lot of the southern European counties hate them post ww2 anyway 🙈

British behaviour? Don't you just mean bad behaviour? You'd be racist if you called something Asian behaviour or Eastern European behaviour right?

These threads ALWAYS bring out the English bashing. 🙄 Nothing about the Scottish, Welsh, or Northern Irish. ONLY the English

EVERY. TIME.

So tedious. It's one a week at the moment.

People need to change the record.

And the 'I'm ashamed to be English' posts are just cringeworthy. 😖 I'm embarrassed for these posters.

i mean ive been on AI - but i must have really gone on the POSH one as ive never ever encountered this behaviour - maybe your AI isnt all that posh OP... sorry 😂 and stop being such a snob while youre at it

I had the misfortune to stay at an AI hotel in Turkey, that was full of mainly Russian guests. I have never seen such awful behaviour! Whilst I was patiently queuing for lunchtime drinks, they would just shout their orders at the bar staff, who immediately served them. They would routinely take huge amounts of food for their tables, and often leave it untouched. Even asking for another bottle of wine, and immediately leaving their table.

It put me off that type of holiday completely.