British behaviour in holiday hotel

@Dollymylove

Funny isnt it how people are only allowed to criticise the British, well specifically English. Call out any other nationality and you are immediately slammed as being racist. I find the French particularly obnoxious but just give them a wide berth.
Despite the fact everyone seems to hate British people, including our current government, every fucker and his dog wants to be here!!

Literally took the words out of my mouth

@Dollymylove

Funny isnt it how people are only allowed to criticise the British, well specifically English. Call out any other nationality and you are immediately slammed as being racist. I find the French particularly obnoxious but just give them a wide berth.
Despite the fact everyone seems to hate British people, including our current government, every fucker and his dog wants to be here!!

Literally took the words out of my mouth

Unreasonable waste is wrong.

There is nothing wrong with a child getting their own food. There is something very wrong if a parent fails to parent them IF they get so much as too waste.

I think we all know the difference

I assume that was not the Flamingo Oasis then, I stayed there around 15 years ago and still grimace when I think about the place!

I think OP's point is that it's Brits. It's usually Brits, and it's down to poor parenting. We used to have a holiday chalet in France in a place not generally frequented by Brits. It was lovely and relaxed, civilised and quiet, even with lots of French, Dutch and German families around. I remember one day, at the Centre Nautique in the town, there was a rowdy bunch playing a stereo and trampling the flowers. The behavior was so out of character for the place and drew lots of attention. I was so ashamed when it became obvious they were English. We are, sadly, as a society, shameless and proud.

“Foreign’ and ‘English”?..please ,please just stay at home for the sake of us oiks.

You were either in a tui.hotel or not surely you know who you booked with?

The whole point of going AI is to be lazy. No thinking. No effort. Just trooping backwards and forwards between the pool and the dining hall.

So probably not surprising that a load of slackers turn up.

How long have you got?

I am an even bigger snob. Wouldn’t go AI if it was free. Genuinely.

In Malta, Russians were increasingly getting that reputation a few years ago.

Would never again go on AI. It was full of drunks.

Perhaps you’ve never experienced German, French or Italian hotel guests at breakfast. Or increasingly Russians.

Money doesn't buy class, OP.
Read into that what you will.

We go to a ‘Tui blue place’ that is adults only and really quite lovely. But we go adults only because we can and because when we didn’t we were on the receiving end of badly behaved children and parents who paid no attention to their children.

I can’t help remembering a very nice hotel in Prague, where two well dressed and affluent looking couples at a nearby table were taking a mass of food from the extensive breakfast buffet, and surreptitiously slipping it into bags - while looking around to make sure no staff were watching. Fruit, yogurts, rolls that they’d just filled with ham or cheese, croissants, you name it.

And no, they weren’t Brits! I couldn’t definitely make out the language, but it certainly wasn’t English or French.

And shortly before the Brexit referendum, we were staying with dd, SiL, and baby Gdd at a very nice, family-friendly beach hotel in Crete. The manager told us he was very concerned that if we voted to leave the EU, his British guests would stop coming, since in his opinion they were usually the best behaved - and gave staff the least trouble.

And I’ve certainly heard of at least one hotel in Greece where they stopped providing buffet meals, because guests of a certain nationality (not Brits) were routinely taking a mass of food that they then left uneaten - to be thrown away.

Never done AI and never will. We have done cheaper holidays but never all-inclusive because of this uncivilised behaviour. No thanks.

This^ I’ve saved for 2 years to take my kids away and this is what we are going to.

Having money doesn’t mean you have good manners and vice versa.

I agree with the sentiment here, there is a perception amongst some families that if it's all been paid for then it doesn't need treating with respect.

The food uneaten/touched could have been enjoyed by someone else, any mess made makes life more difficult for the workers at the hotel. It's just common courtesy.

It's not the type of holiday that's the issue, it's the mindset of what you hope would be the minority which makes things worse for the majority.

In my experience British people are not as you describe.

Oh you might have been in the same Lanzarote hotel as me! ! We are not English so didn't realise it was English half term it was an eye opener 😳

Nothing, as long as they only take what they’re going to eat, and don’t make a mess with it!

This behaviour is universal. I’ve never had an AI holiday in my life but I’ve seen plenty of it.

Funny isnt it how people are only allowed to criticise the British, well specifically English. Call out any other nationality and you are immediately slammed as being racist. I find the French particularly obnoxious but just give them a wide berth.
Despite the fact everyone seems to hate British people, including our current government, every fucker and his dog wants to be here!!