British behaviour in holiday hotel

I have Danish family, I literally posted how going on holiday to Spain with them in a five star hotel we didn't stand out at all. The hotel was full of French and Spanish and they struggled the most with their children at dinner time with sorting at the table and screaming. Equally it wasn't really a hotel with any Brits so I know that difficult children are not unique to our nation. Are you Russian?

In my opinion the worst tourists are usually British or American. Both can be Loud, brash and annoying

Yeah I get it you're British, likely English - one of the most common traits is that you are oblivious to how you are received / perceived elsewhere. Good for you.

Surely we all know there are well-behaved people and badly-behaved people in all nationalities? Of course, some nationalities often excel at certain things (I think we are genuinely good at queueing, for example), but some people love to brag of how well-travelled they are only to criticise the Brits as boorish. Have those people not encountered some bad behaviour from the locals in the many countries they’ve visited?

Go on. Tell us which hotel you’re in OP

Of course she is. Ffs. Everyone complains about their own people

Thats really rude about tui blue holidays.
Manners and respect are for everyone, from the people letting their kids run about at dinner to you speaking badly about holiday choices of others. you don't have to be such an twat about other peoples holidays to make your point

Or so she says

I was going to say this. For us it was closer to 5k when I looked so definitely not cheap and from what friends said they had a lovely time!!

bit rude OP

On a recent cruise- was shocked at how South Americans and the Chinese were re smoking/pushing in/lack of queueing/taking piles of the, for eg nice tropical fruit and leaving none for anyone else.

The OP is British herself?

It’s almost like someone (yet again) has taken a ridiculous British stereotype to try and undermine and criticise British people,

I've seen it on all inclusive.

There's an acceptable level of noise by law.

I was driven mad by my neighbour who converted his shed and sang karaoke in the shed every night

Ive been on numerous all inclusive holidays with my children and ive never saw behaviour that your saying. Maybe your not staying in good 5* hotels.

Isn’t the behaviour the issue not the nationality? Nobody can say it’s mainly British people that act this way unless you’ve been to all the hotels in the world and witnessed everyone on holiday!! It’s just a perception based on your experience.. can’t possibly be true of an entire nation.

I've just returned from a week in a mid range all inclusive. Lots of British people, no problems at all. Everyone was very well behaved. The airport was the problem, so many entitled, loud people, mainly British.

Yes, your Tui comment makes you sound like an unreasonable snob however I do agree with the sentiment of this thread.

When ours were small, DH and I used to take one child each and walk around with them. They picked and we put it on their plates.not only are they likely to spill things but it’s dangerous allowing small children to wander round while staff are refilling the hot trays etc.

I don’t think it’s just children or British though. I’ve seen many heaped, untouched plates, food all over the floor, bad table manners etc at these places over the years. More than half the time it is entitled adults.

This. The worst manners I’ve ever seen were in Russians in a 5* hotel.

I let my son (5 now, but started at 4) go up to get things on his own at breakfast...

He loves it, good little bit of independence. He'll go grab a bit of toast, or a few pieces of fruit and come back all excited because he has done something "grown-up"

Poor parenting(or other issues) leads to children causing trouble, not giving them bits of independence.

Oh blimey, yes they really do take the biscuit in sheer piggery and horrible rudeness to staff too. Experienced this in Egypt and Dubai 14 years ago - never been back to either

Link to the Tripadvisor reviews or it didn't happen.

Yes, your opinions are so strong that you continue to deliberately miss the point and twist the conversation into something that nobody is saying.

Great xenophobia there. I’ve witnessed equally atrocious behaviour from plenty of other nations as well as other areas of the UK. As a teacher you really should know better.

We took a Y7 residential trip with 100 kids, and the amount of kids who can't use a knife and fork, don't sit at a table to eat,

We were the first school in out Northern city to have a formal Leavers' Dinner, now morphed into a Prom, and it was amazing how many 16 year olds had never sat at a table to eat and couldn't manage a knife and fork, resorting to just a fork. They were also not allowed alcohol, even before the event, a member of the Senior staff was the human breathalyser before they got on the bus! On Monday morning one n'er do well told me he didn't realise you could have such a good time without a beer.