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British behaviour in holiday hotel

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Scarfitwere · 26/05/2026 10:52

We are staying at a good all inclusive resort (yes, I know all inclusive is not high end, but this is about as good a one as you can get). I am just shocked and ashamed at fellow british people at breakfast time. Letting their kids make a huge mess by allowing them to get their own food. Huge amounts of wasted food. Multiple untouched plates left on tables. Total disregard for others barging round, blocking walkways etc. When did this become ok?? AIBU with expectations? Bear in mind this is not a cheap rubbish tui-blue type place. I dread to think what they are like!

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Goldenbear · 26/05/2026 22:07

Scarlettjune · 26/05/2026 22:03

Show me where on mumsnet it says that we are not allowed to reply to posts directed at another poster.

Oh yes, you made that up too

Oh sorry, thought you were the same person.

Goldenbear · 26/05/2026 22:06

Scarlettjune · 26/05/2026 22:02

Ah how you like speaking for other people! You are very arrogant!

If you had asked me, I did know it was another language. I didnt know what it meant and I asked you what it meant. You didn't reply. I presume, from your overall behaviour, that it's an insult

You speak for all apparently, all of the world who collectively dislikes the Brits. Hilarious when you don't even recognise languages that aren't English.

Scarlettjune · 26/05/2026 22:03

Goldenbear · 26/05/2026 22:02

Why do you keep responding to my posts directed at the other poster- are you sock puppeting as that's not allowed?

Show me where on mumsnet it says that we are not allowed to reply to posts directed at another poster.

Oh yes, you made that up too

Goldenbear · 26/05/2026 22:02

Scarlettjune · 26/05/2026 21:57

Sigh.

Why do you keep responding to my posts directed at the other poster- are you sock puppeting as that's not allowed?

Scarlettjune · 26/05/2026 22:02

Goldenbear · 26/05/2026 22:00

It's amazing that you seem to know most Europeans or the world think of Brits as the worst tourists ever but were almost offended and didn't know that I was using another language to you on a few posts back so unaware of any other languages other than English- how ironic.

Also why are you repeating yourself again and again. It's weird behaviour

Scarlettjune · 26/05/2026 22:02

Goldenbear · 26/05/2026 22:00

It's amazing that you seem to know most Europeans or the world think of Brits as the worst tourists ever but were almost offended and didn't know that I was using another language to you on a few posts back so unaware of any other languages other than English- how ironic.

Ah how you like speaking for other people! You are very arrogant!

If you had asked me, I did know it was another language. I didnt know what it meant and I asked you what it meant. You didn't reply. I presume, from your overall behaviour, that it's an insult

hahabahbag · 26/05/2026 22:01

It’s worse at more expensive hotels in my experience. I’ve stayed at those Tui Blue hotels you mentioned negatively and it was lovely.

TheHateIsNotGood · 26/05/2026 22:00

Not personally a fan of the AI holiday whilst also being fully conversant with the negative 'Brit broad' behaviours and fully supportive of any local community that wants to get rid of it.

I do challenge the concept that it's only The Brits whose behaviour is shocking as I've seen people of many nationalities behave just as disrespectfully, if not worse.

Goldenbear · 26/05/2026 22:00

Scarlettjune · 26/05/2026 21:52

No one said they hate Britons. We said we don't like the drunk, loud Britain abroad type.

It's amazing how many British people on here can't take an ounce of criticism!

It's amazing that you seem to know most Europeans or the world think of Brits as the worst tourists ever but were almost offended and didn't know that I was using another language to you on a few posts back so unaware of any other languages other than English- how ironic.

Mingou · 26/05/2026 21:58

Scarlettjune · 26/05/2026 21:57

Hahah you went at that time to avoid them?

Not specifically, but it was a factor 😄

Scarlettjune · 26/05/2026 21:57

Mingou · 26/05/2026 21:53

YABU to think AI cannot be high end. I'm in one right now, it's absolutely unreal. There are very few British people here (we are not British either) because it's the wrong season for the influx. Which is why we are here now 😆

Hahah you went at that time to avoid them?

Scarlettjune · 26/05/2026 21:57

Goldenbear · 26/05/2026 21:55

Also, I am not 100% British so how does that work, I thought the clue was in my goodbyes to the other prejudice poster. It is quite funny that your prejudices are so embedded into your mindset that you are erroneous in your judgements.

Sigh.

Goldenbear · 26/05/2026 21:55

Goditsmemargaret · 26/05/2026 21:37

I'm likely wrong that I've hated two AI inclusive holidays because of the obnoxiously British guests at them to the point I refuse point blank to book anywhere that has an AI option?

No I'm not wrong about that as it's my own lived experience.

I have no issue with British people generally and am married to one. However I find it interesting that they are almost without exception oblivious to the fact that they are not collectively popular in certain places.

You are a prime example of this.

It's like if the Irish were unaware that they have a reputation for being big drinkers.

Also, I am not 100% British so how does that work, I thought the clue was in my goodbyes to the other prejudice poster. It is quite funny that your prejudices are so embedded into your mindset that you are erroneous in your judgements.

Mingou · 26/05/2026 21:53

YABU to think AI cannot be high end. I'm in one right now, it's absolutely unreal. There are very few British people here (we are not British either) because it's the wrong season for the influx. Which is why we are here now 😆

Scarlettjune · 26/05/2026 21:52

user281262 · 26/05/2026 21:49

I am British. I am well behaved as are my family and friends. I don’t care if other nationalities hate Britons. They can slate me and my fellow countrymen off all they like. Water off a duck’s back. Says more about them.

No one said they hate Britons. We said we don't like the drunk, loud Britain abroad type.

It's amazing how many British people on here can't take an ounce of criticism!

FunMustard · 26/05/2026 21:52

Bear in mind this is not a cheap rubbish tui-blue type place.

Sounds like it's just the people you associate with OP. I went to a 5 star Tui blue place a couple of years ago and didn't experience this at all.

Aside from the snidey comment, YANBU.

Goldenbear · 26/05/2026 21:50

Goditsmemargaret · 26/05/2026 21:37

I'm likely wrong that I've hated two AI inclusive holidays because of the obnoxiously British guests at them to the point I refuse point blank to book anywhere that has an AI option?

No I'm not wrong about that as it's my own lived experience.

I have no issue with British people generally and am married to one. However I find it interesting that they are almost without exception oblivious to the fact that they are not collectively popular in certain places.

You are a prime example of this.

It's like if the Irish were unaware that they have a reputation for being big drinkers.

There you go again with your xenophobic certainties- Brits are not collectively liked, blah, blah, blah. The Irish drink blah, blah, blah. In your lived experience which seems quite limited frankly as that's just not a thing across the whole of Europe and the world. It's just your prejudices coming through loud and clear. Not everyone thinks in these narrow, devisive terms.

user281262 · 26/05/2026 21:49

I am British. I am well behaved as are my family and friends. I don’t care if other nationalities hate Britons. They can slate me and my fellow countrymen off all they like. Water off a duck’s back. Says more about them.

Scarlettjune · 26/05/2026 21:43

Goditsmemargaret · 26/05/2026 21:37

I'm likely wrong that I've hated two AI inclusive holidays because of the obnoxiously British guests at them to the point I refuse point blank to book anywhere that has an AI option?

No I'm not wrong about that as it's my own lived experience.

I have no issue with British people generally and am married to one. However I find it interesting that they are almost without exception oblivious to the fact that they are not collectively popular in certain places.

You are a prime example of this.

It's like if the Irish were unaware that they have a reputation for being big drinkers.

Yes it's a strange one!

Everyone except some British people on here know that British tourists are thought of as being rude, loud, drunk ad obnoxious. We all know that stereotype. It doesn't mean that ALL British people are like that.

The same as we all know that the stereotype of the Irish is that they drink a lot. It doesn't mean that every Irish person drinks a lot.

Goditsmemargaret · 26/05/2026 21:37

Goldenbear · 26/05/2026 21:28

Not really a "fabrication" if you are demonstrably a massive xenophobe! Again, perhaps have a look at your prejudice certainties about people from certain countries as you may well realise that you are likely wrong about them.

I'm likely wrong that I've hated two AI inclusive holidays because of the obnoxiously British guests at them to the point I refuse point blank to book anywhere that has an AI option?

No I'm not wrong about that as it's my own lived experience.

I have no issue with British people generally and am married to one. However I find it interesting that they are almost without exception oblivious to the fact that they are not collectively popular in certain places.

You are a prime example of this.

It's like if the Irish were unaware that they have a reputation for being big drinkers.

Noodles1234 · 26/05/2026 21:36

We stopped holidaying in the UK as of the Brits (not all, just too many each time), letting dogs mess in beaches around other peoples kids, I had one wee in a shallow pool where my kids were playing and not a peepe from the owners looking, then there’s the portable speakers (bane of my life).
so went to Europe and they’re blooming there as well, having late night drinking sessions on a family caravan site (all teens and adults), squawking past 11pm. Yep all Brits were the oroblem that week, I don’t doubt other countries have their issues but it’s less of a % than us.
I actually apologised to the site team the next day who looked utterly fed up, I explained we are not all like it.
One UK site was so awful where the feral kids ran loose until the club bar shut at 3am when drunk parents came out, men fist fought on the paths, kids ran along still screaming. We lasted 2 nights out of 7.
I just see a lot more fed up, tired and stressed parents / or ones just interested in getting drunk from breakfast onwards or plain lazy letting their kids do what they want and it’s not wealth driven. I do wonder if we are all driving ourselves into the ground trying to be able to afford to live we have lost our way.
I hear Portugal have banned portable speakers on beaches, so I’m off there next year. Wish they’d ban them here or at the last offer beaches where they are banned so people can choose.

Scarlettjune · 26/05/2026 21:36

Goldenbear · 26/05/2026 21:31

Sorry, what a confusing position you take, so unacceptable to make that remark but absolutely fine to lambast all British and American tourists as "obnoxious"? Eh?

Yes you have said the same thing ten times now

Goldenbear · 26/05/2026 21:31

Goditsmemargaret · 26/05/2026 21:13

I thought that was weird myself.

Sorry, what a confusing position you take, so unacceptable to make that remark but absolutely fine to lambast all British and American tourists as "obnoxious"? Eh?

Scarlettjune · 26/05/2026 21:29

Goldenbear · 26/05/2026 21:23

Vi snakkes

What the hell is that

Goldenbear · 26/05/2026 21:28

Goditsmemargaret · 26/05/2026 19:59

So so true. Both nationalities with such a high proportion of tourists seemingly oblivious to how obnoxious they are.

Not really a "fabrication" if you are demonstrably a massive xenophobe! Again, perhaps have a look at your prejudice certainties about people from certain countries as you may well realise that you are likely wrong about them.