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.

Yes. Learn to reverse using your mirrors.
I have to say tho that many locals cannot do this either

I'm very glad you are all having a wonderful holiday.

I would as that you remember that not everyone you see is on holiday, quite a few of us are working and have places to be at certain times so please please can you drive faster that 10mph and not walk out in the roads randomly without looking.

I live in a touristy place just outside a city, and we get all this inconsiderate behaviour on the first few sunny weekends of the year, when the kids break up after GCSE's etc. Its just as much locals & people from the city and neighbouring towns.
Most tourists (and people generally) are decent people. Some are arseholes and they will also be arseholes where they live as PPs have said.
I've only ever lived in seaside places and apart from anti social behaviour, which should not be tolerated, I think you need to just accept the other stuff like busier roads etc.
On the whole I like that people think where I live is such a nice place they want to visit or holiday here. Please come!

@Worldgonecrazy

Love seeing holiday makers.

But please, for the love of all that is holy, do not walk/sit/camp under the cliffs. Admire their beauty and frequent rock falls from a distance. (Another Jurassic coaster). I feel quite ill when I see families say next to the latest fall, or taking a selfie on a crumbling cliff edge.

Also please check tide times. Lifeboat is called out most weeks to someone who has been cut off.

At West bay last week, the lifeguards were moving people from under the cliffs to sit between the flags, there was a lot of moaning from folk. You can see the fall at seatown further along!

Wow some of these responses! We live in a seaside town (SC) and verry busy ATM.Road gridlocked yesterday .We lived in London as a child, and I am grateful we no longer have to wait until summer holidays to see the sea. Most people are decent and well behaved ,there are always a few who spoil it for everyone (Both locals and tourists TBH) Most seaside towns depend on tourism .Saying things like no one on the beach until a certain time unless they live here is quite clearly idiotic !

don't go tomb stoning/rock jumping if you are drunk or if you don't 100% know that there is the required depth there for saftey, or if it's not high tide.

and please, it's obvious but surprising how many people don't .... take you're rubbish home with you.

@PacifyLulu

Genuine question to those that find the thread rude or unpleasant; which bits of advice do you think are unfair?

The bits that tell us all to fuck off

I have my own one for residents of areas that survive on tourism:
Don't loudly slag off tourists when you run an art gallery that depends on tourists buying your paintings.

Don't assume that because I'm mixed race I don't know where I am. My grandads from St Just and I spent all my summers here as a kid.

Don't moan loudly about me bringing the 2 kids to the supermarket when I'm a single parent and can't exactly leave them in the tent.

Don't pretend that you don't increase prices for tourist season, it's good business sense that you do, but don't lie and pretend that two mr whippys are always £5.80.

I know some tourists are twats and I also side eye anyone who drives into St Ives or moans about the car park being a short pleasant walk to the beach. Please don't think we all act like that.

I also find it hard to listen to complaints about tourists when all of my Cornish relatives have moved to big cities (like mine) to get jobs. You don't hear city folk moaning about all these country folk moving to the city and 'taking their jobs.'

@Claphands

Don’t leave rubbish on the beach and spend money locally

But someone a few posts up has just said don't buy the bread and milk in their local shop and to leave it for the locals.

Most of this stuff is bleeding obvious so probably not what the OP had in mind but the contradiction above where some are saying don't bring things with you but buy locally then another saying they wish tourists wouldn't buy everything up does demonstrate the difficulty for genuine people t try big to do the right thing (not tears that shot on the beach, there's no hope for them).

*not twats that shit on the beach

The road is still a road not a pavement... don't assume I am driving to the resort carpark and pull out in front of me... don't drive or walk in the middle of the road...

The causeway with the helpful notice about tide times and dire warnings that when the tide comes up you'll be trapped? IT ISN'T LYING! When the tide comes up you will be trapped.

And let's take a moment to say god bless our wonderful, wonderful RNLI who will come and rescue you with good humour and no socking great bill, even though you so richly deserve one.

I love seeing people here enjoying themselves on the beach. I don't like it when rubbish is dumped. I wish people would pay attention to the very clear signs telling you how far/when you can go into the sea.

I enjoy seeing holiday makers. The only thing that bothers me is the rubbish, just take it home with you please

I’m not in the UK. I’m in a popular holiday city/beach destination abroad.

The flat upstairs from me is an Airbnb, therefore in line with other comments - wherever you are, please consider that others around you are not on holiday and don’t want to be kept awake by your music on the balcony til 4am on a weekday.

Don’t block the pavement for ages trying to get your perfect Insta photo. Don’t get pissed off when people actually need to get by and don’t want to wait whilst you take 37 shots from various angles - people need to get places without walking into the road. Yeah I’ll wait for a couple of quick snaps without walking through your picture, but be reasonable.

Keep your clothes on. You risk arrest if you don’t. And don’t think you’ll get away with arguing to the police that ‘yeah but whateverhernameis from TOWIE posted pictures wearing less’ - yes, I have actually heard knobheads having that argument.

@NewYearNewTwatName

jesus, all the posters getting upperty because people in tourist areas are asking people not to do certain things😂

Most of the things listed are pretty reasonable requests which I would hope for most are common sense, but as has been experienced by these locals lots don't know or just don't care.

RLNI is mostly volunteers, who put their lifes online to save people. some maybe at work and have to leave their paid job to do rescue when a call comes.

Same with mountain rescue.

Anything mentioned about livestock, fencing, gates or crops, is because damage to any of them could result in a loss of income.

the other advice seems mainly about the safety of the tourists themselves or the safety of the locals by the tourists actions.

litter is just discussing and is a big problem every where at the moment.

shitting in public is 🤢

At the end of the day, if you already know all the above why get all annoyed? its plainly not aimed at you. Can't you just nod in agreement that some people are twats that spoil it for locals and other tourists alike?

6 pages and only few posts that are rude telling people to fuck off. So why class the whole thread as sneery?

I don't live in a tourist area, but I'm not twat when I visit these areas, so I didn't feel victimised and then need to state "well I'm not going there then" or "this is why I don't holiday in the UK" 🙄

^^ I can only assume that those getting arsey think this behaviour is acceptable 😡

Agree with pp that locals can be worse than the tourists. During restrictions it was very noticeable. I was counting down for the wacky warehouses to reopen. Most tourists are respectable, it's just in large numbers there's always idiots.

BUT I would like to add don't feed the seagulls and by the sea it can feel cooler so wear sunscreen to avoid burning.

@HoldontoOneMoreDay

The causeway with the helpful notice about tide times and dire warnings that when the tide comes up you'll be trapped? IT ISN'T LYING! When the tide comes up you will be trapped.

And let's take a moment to say god bless our wonderful, wonderful RNLI who will come and rescue you with good humour and no socking great bill, even though you so richly deserve one.

Yes, and honestly we’re all pleased when idiots or unlucky people get rescued. Because the alternative is that you are dead and every year some people will die because they didn’t bring the right safety kit/went swimming in a storm/stood on a rock with their little girl right under the breaking waves. It’s bloody heartbreaking. Please be careful because we want everyone home safe, and the RNLI crews get very upset when they have to fish your body out of the water.

And for people visiting London... please don’t all stand on Westminster bridge at rush hour. Believe it or not commuters don’t actually want to step out in front of buses because you’re blocking the pavement.( I actually think they should build a viewing platform for the tourists there.) Try going off the main streets or squares to find something to eat, there are lovely local cafes and restaurants that would like to have you in! I know you love your families but please don’t walk 5 abreast because as you may notice some people are coming the other way. And teachers leading school trips from foreign countries, teach your students how to walk in a line rather than milling blindly into the oncoming traffic/pedestrians. I have collided with many teenagers (on foot not in a car) over the years because there is nowhere else for me to go and they don’t swerve!

A lot of the dos and don'ts are surely just common courtesy and civilised behaviour that you would expect from everyone.
If you see litter on the ground, was it 100% left by a tourist or visitor or might there be some unsociable gits actually living in the town..?

I dont live in a touristy town and youd think from some of the replies that I'm not permitted to ever visit a nice place, or go to the coast! Believe it or not there are plenty of entitled people who drive aggressively , park antisocially and leave litter here, and I'm pretty sure most of the live in the town. Only the other day I dropped my DS at a club and some moron had blocked the allocated turning place on a narrow road so I had to drive half a mile away and turn in someones drive. This had nothing to do with being a tourist and everything to do with being a knob. They probably behave like that everywhere (unfortunarely).

However I would imagine most people are respectful, who wouldnt go for a shit wherever they pleased, leave tons of litter, or park in an antisocial manner whether at home or on holiday.

I lived in a popular seaside resort and later, another tourist destination. I can't help but agree with this:

“Most of the things listed are pretty reasonable requests which I would hope for most are common sense, but as has been experienced by these locals lots don't know or just don't care.
RLNI is mostly volunteers, who put their lifes online to save people. some maybe at work and have to leave their paid job to do rescue when a call comes.
Same with mountain rescue.
Anything mentioned about livestock, fencing, gates or crops, is because damage to any of them could result in a loss of income.
The other advice seems mainly about the safety of the tourists themselves or the safety of the locals by the tourists actions.”

Litter has always been a problem in mucky Britain, but it all seems to have got out of hand during the pandemic.
Closing the loos seems to have given people licence to shit and pee anywhere 🤢.

What I would like to see are new public information films on TV about seaside safety, following the country code, fire safety and dropping litter. And also about the new issues, shitting everywhere, dog shit in plastic bags, barbecues and fly tipping your tents, etc.

I'd like to see one where the charming Labrador puppy comes running to the cherubic child with a used sanitary towel in its mouth
Or the shrieking child gets burned by a buried barbie when building a sandcastle.
Or the twinkly eyed white haired pensioner discovering the huge turds in her flower filled front garden, complete with pink loo paper.

Those little dramas had some effect on the general public. Some of them were really hard hitting, like the drink driving ones, and helped make drink driving socially unacceptable.
I think it might help…

The bits that tell us all to fuck off

Yes I'm not sure anywhere in the uk where that is considered polite advice!🤣

I think you’re mainly totally right @Pinuporc that knobheads are knobheads at home or away (I feel a song coming on). But it’s a bit naive to think people in touristy areas might coincidentally suddenly be running out and dropping all the litter themselves the minute the tourists arrive. They’re there all year round so they notice the difference

But I think there are also a small minority who are FINE at home but lose their minds on holiday, almost like it’s not a real place. Visitors who’d never gawp over their neighbour’s wall or in their front window stop and watch the locals in their gardens for instance as if they’re watching Bargain Hunt. People who drive down the middle of a narrow two lane road. As a teenager you’d be amazed how many of the customers I served were astonished to find I was at university... maybe they think we don’t have schools? So I think it’s just a matter of retaining common sense and respect between visitors and locals. They need each other! There’s a lot of talk about needing the tourists but they need the locals to let them accommodation, serve their pints, run the local attractions, clean their hotels and generally keep up a year round economy so it feels like a thriving place you’re visiting and not a rundown shithole.

Are those calling people rude and arrogant assuming that people living in holiday destinations are somehow privileged and living in lovely houses?

I live in a very popular city. A city that has council estates and run down areas all over it and not everyone is posh and superior. People on holiday have a different mindset and it can cause issues.

In our case it's pedestrians treating roads as if they are pavements and meandering everywhere at a snails pace. It is frustrating when you're just trying to get to work.