If you live in a holiday destination....

[SamprasTheRabbit]

Inspired by the seaside thread. So many people are opting for U.K. based holidays this year, I don't think I realised how many have an annual abroad holiday until now!

If you live in a holiday destination (seaside, city or country) what would you want visitors to know?

I'll start with... disposable BBQs are dangerous if buried under the sand. They'll stay red hot and burn or cut some poor unsuspecting person's foot if trodden on. Pop them NEXT to the bins on the promenade and everyone else on top in a stack. They can go in the bins when cooled properly by the next morning.

Last weekend a bunch of local ‘youths’ (male, obvs) climbed on top of the beach huts and smashed glass bottles onto the prom below. Three posts into the Facebook rant someone said it was tourists 🤷‍♀️

Oh and then there was the obscene graffiti on the prom. Also not tourists.

@ItsJustTheOneSwanActually ditto for Moose, Elk, Wolves and Cougars. Seriously what possesses people to get out of their vehicles. We’re not a zoo!

They’re not just snobs, many of them are insular.

The argument about owning holiday lets, for example. Not second homes (which I agree about to some extent) but businesses trading as holiday let accommodation.

I hear many local people calling for this to be banned. So those holiday properties can be returned to them in order that more local people have a place to live.

And even if they halved in price, once the tourists had left, leading to the closure of most businesses, ruining the local economy - how would anyone local person get a mortgage if their employment had ceased due to lack of tourism?

Tourism employs SO many people and it’s not all seasonal, local tradespeople do very well and charge some astronomical rates. And where it IS seasonal, again, some rates are double what they would be elsewhere (cleaner at home, 5 bed house, £50 - cleaner in holiday property, 2 bedrooms, £115).

Most people on here who live in holiday destinations welcome tourists, it's been repeatedly said so many times (not talking about the comments telling people to fuck off, that's just plain rude obviously).

The posters telling us we're being miserable gits must be the type of people who condone shitting on beaches and leaving rubbish everywhere (either that or they can't read).

I too live in a rural area and the locals regularly park and block the farmers gate. Contrary to popular belief not all country dwellers are rosy cheeked pillars of the community.
They also drop litter and drive too fast. Who do I complain to please?

Exactly (I made a similar point - I dont even live in a tourist area but a minority of people still behave antisocially) ignorant twats are gonna be ignorant twats whether at home or away. Every town or village (even nice ones!!) surely has a % of morons who behave however they wish and have no regard for others or their surroundings.
It's just that it's more noticeable in holiday season when more of other towns morons turn up and behave antisocially!

I stayed in a holiday cottage last summer where I was regularly woken at 2-3am by local kids marauding around with music blaring from speakers. I get it - it was warm, summer holidays etc. I’ve got teenagers, too.

And yes, definitely local kids - lots of them, local accents, no parents.

I’m not supposed to be angry about this because I’m staying in their town. If I didn’t know better, I’d think they were doing it on purpose. It was quite relentless.

Are they right to behave this way? Was it a protest against ‘incomers?’

Or were they just little shits behaving badly because they’ve been brought up without manners and consideration? My teenagers regularly pick litter on the beaches of said town, they are quiet and respectful.

Would the same teenagers complain if kept awake half the night on a holiday elsewhere?

@HeddaGarbled

Last weekend a bunch of local ‘youths’ (male, obvs) climbed on top of the beach huts and smashed glass bottles onto the prom below. Three posts into the Facebook rant someone said it was tourists 🤷‍♀️

You're either very close to me or there's little shits doing that all over the country. Sadly I suspect it's the latter.

Perhaps they should be forced to drink Frosty Jacks like we did. At least the bottles are plastic.

They're not just snobs, many of them are insular
Oh, give over. Many, many rural people have lived in towns or cities at some point in their lives. For uni, when starting a career, or even before they ever moved to the countryside. I have personally helped out plenty of confused tourists. I don't mind them at all. I mind the knobs.

We look down on knobs. The knobs amongst us, and the knobs who visit.

Lots of very insular people in my opinion. I’m on local fb groups where tourists are clearly despised

I should add its customary around here when out walking in the countryside to nod or say hello to others...

From reading some of the posts on here I’m surprised any tourists dare open their mouth.

Many locals seem to think tourists are cluttering up ’their’ roads, beaches, towns. Don’t see why the coastal paths are any different. Might get a mouthful!

If you behave like a basically decent, considerate human being then you’ll be made very welcome

Behave like a twat then expect to be treated like one. This applies to locals too btw!

Arf at “insular” honestly we don’t walk round in dungarees chewing on a bit of straw. .

@Malteser71

Lots of very insular people in my opinion. I’m on local fb groups where tourists are clearly despised

1. FB groups are not everyone local
2. Sure it wasn't just the knobs they were having a go at? Or maybe the sheer pressure of numbers?

Someone on our local FB has decided to have a go at the poor bloody landowner for 'not doing something' about the antics of the knobs who pitch camp next to the footpath on his field for the day, and leave heaps of litter, shit etc in their wake. The landowner has had to put stock down, had stock terrified, had his fences cut and been verbally abused but, according to local knob, it's all his fault.

Yesterday I encountered a small group of elderly tourists trying to find the isolated local beach. I showed them the way, had a nice chat and carried on with the dogs. They were lovely visitors. No issue with them at all.

@FeatheredHope

PICK UP YOUR FUCKING RUBBISH

Sorry for shouting but apparently people don’t know.

Yes. This gets me so bloody angry. If the bin is full (or you're in a rural area without bins) don't create a pile to be blown away next to it. Just carry it home again. You managed to carry that bottle when it was full of coke so you can carry it home again empty.

I also do think it's tourists more than locals who leave rubbish, not necessarily because locals are better people but because there's definitely social pressure not to behave like a twat when you're around people who know you (and will definitely judge youfor leave your crips packets lying around).

If you can’t find a parking space do not abandon your car anywhere. Especially do not abandon your car in front of the gates the mountain rescue team will use for vehicular access to casualties….enjoy the extra 15 mile walk after your hill climb to civilisation as your car will not be there when you get back!

I think it’s because people imagine the gate into a field is a “lay-by”. It really isn’t! It’s like the gate to your front door. Farmers/landowners aren’t being arses when they object to you blocking their premises, they aren’t expecting access to inconvenience you, they need to use their entrance.

The free blowing rubbish is almost entirely produced when the tourists are here.

If you’re here for a few days please try to flush less (eg if it’s yellow etc) because our water bills support the frankly terrifying increase in demand and every little helps.

@GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman

They're not just snobs, many of them are insular Oh, give over. Many, many rural people have lived in towns or cities at some point in their lives. For uni, when starting a career, or even before they ever moved to the countryside. I have personally helped out plenty of confused tourists. I don't mind them at all. I mind the knobs.

We look down on knobs. The knobs amongst us, and the knobs who visit.

Ha exactly. When a tourist map wrongly suggested you could get past our house to the sea my parents regularly drove confused and knackered visitors (eg when it wasn’t getting dark or if they had tiny kids) to where they were trying to go. Taken lost backpackers to the campsite. Redirected people who get to a dead end. Given out great advice. Put water out for their dogs etc etc. It’s not all about waving a pitchfork at them (that’s just at the solstice )