Weird people you meet on holiday.

[Diddumz]

1988 - went to Majorca with my family. There was a woman who kept pretending she was drowning in the pool.

Have you met any oddballs on holiday?

Ooooh we went on a family holiday circa 87/88 to Portugal and the woman sitting next to my mother informed her she had brought a SUITCASE of bundy burger buns as her husband and sons ate nothing else. They were staying in the same complex as us and every day without fail they were poolside with them. Over thirty years later we still wonder what happened the Bundys 😂😂😂😂

We've had other couples attach themselves a few times, which we've then had to escape from.

We once stayed in a small hotel in Greece where the owner became quite obsessed with DS1 as he looked like her son who had unfortunately died many years earlier but G the same age DS was when we went. It became very uncomfortable and we used to stay out until really late and try to sneak in without her seeing us.

Cough! Cough!

I remember another one - on honeymoon, another couple kept hinting, heavily, that they were swingers and that they might offer the perfect way to spice up our newlywed fun.

Another couple took their cat with them and it had its own lounger. A dead cat. Stuffed.

We had a lad always talking to us a few years ago in Greece. Thought it was nice at first, fun to make holiday friends. But it was a non stop monologue of his life story. No interest in what we had to say.
Once he appeared at a restaurant from behind some bushes. He must have been staking it our in the hope we'd appear. Being polite my stepdad offered him a drink, he asked for the most expensive cocktail on the menu! Still laugh about him now. Well my stepdad doesn't lol.
It's always the people that make a memorable holiday

American Mike who was totally obsessed with guns and insisting that we wouldn't have crime in the UK if everybody had guns because then you could "take them down" if anyone looked criminal for any reason.

Me and ex stayed in Pitlochry once and this old geezer was trying to tap us up for a 3 some. Very bizarre.

In Sorrento with my mate and her ex's mum and dad were staying in the same hotel as us, very awkward for the whole week. The mother in law had a leopard print suitcase and everything. She ditched the boyfriend I. E Their son, because he had gonorrhoea!

These are brilliant! I knew MN wouldn't disappoint!

My friend met her step-siblings who she didn't even know about on holiday! She was about 13 at the time and they were in their 20s. Turns out her family's favourite holiday destination was also where her dad took his first family (who he then largely abandoned when he started having an affair with friend's mum, who was his secretary). I think the stepbrother and sister knew my friend existed, but my friend didn't even know her dad had been married before he met her mum. They only worked out who the other was because the brother and sister got talking to her and asked where she was from, and when she said, they were like, oh that's where our deadbeat dad lives!

Not an attachment story but we were staying a family members timeshare which we had stayed at a few times before and were familiar with the other families who came out on the same weeks. Some we are good friends with.

There also were a few families there who had rented from other owners and were new to the site. This one woman who had been renting was very friendly but obviously hadn't grasped the concept of how timeshare worked and spend the entire time gasping in awe at how everyone just seemed to know each other and telling us weird it was and what were the odds of it happening anywhere else. Countless people tried explaining it to her but the penny never dropped.

My sister and me went on a girls holiday to Ibiza, this lone older English man staying in the same small hotel took a liking to my sister & we had to keep avoiding him... it got so bad that she wouldn't come with me to breakfast.

I've become more assertive recently & take no shit so now would tell him straight, please leave us alone.

We actively avoid engaging with people but my friend and her husband seek out new friends and she thinks we’re odd just wanting to be left to our own devices.

Yep new year a young man kept staring at us on our holiday in majorca and on our last night he actually followed us. We stopped to check the coach times for the next day and he pretended to be reading other notices. We had decided as it was our last night to walk around and take some photos and go for a nice dinner. All along our meandering route this guy followed us. It gave me the creeps.

Some of these are so funny!!

An American couple plonked themselves down next to us at the Oistins fish fry in Barbados, saying how relieved they were to find some white people. We told them they’d made a bad decision coming to a country owned by black people and asked them to move.

Can’t think of any others, I tend to be quite tolerant of weird foibles on holiday and just wander off if someone is boring.

Went on our first all inclusive holiday when the kids were only small and we met another family there with two teenaged twin daughters. They would holiday and stay in the same hotel every year, been doing it for years apparently.

Well at the time as our youngest DC was so small I spent most of my time in the shallow end chatting to the mum, while DH and the dad were in the deep end of the pool with our eldest DC (who could swim) and the twin girls playing games. However one of the twins took a liking to my DH and used to follow him and our DC around everywhere. She absolutely hate me but I couldn’t ever tell the twins apart so if they were stood on their own getting a drink or something I’d either get a hi or a look of disgust. Got so awkward that we started sneaking out of the hotel to go to a water park instead or the beach. They were most upset when they asked us if we’d be coming back next year and we said no.

We were probably the oddballs. The last all inclusive we went to was a cheapie in Tunisia. England were playing Tunisia in the football that week, so lots of England flags drapped from hotel balconies. We got wind of the British group as soon as we arrived- they were hanging about in a very loud group, mopping up other Brits, being rude to staff. We pretended to be French when they were around and befriended the rather lovely staff, who thought we were hysterical in pretending to be French. The staff treated my dh and I like royalty the last night, much to the raised eyebrows of the other guests.

I once had a man follow me around Venice for three days. He kept popping up wherever I was and striking up conversations, offering to take me out, etc. Would not take no for an answer. I swear he was watching the hotel. I found this increasingly irritating as I did not go to Italy looking for a partner!

Anyway I had issues with the hotel as it was very noisy and kept waking me up at 6 am. Not what you want on holiday. I swapped to another hotel a few minutes walk away and that got rid of the stalker. I wonder how long he continued to watch the original hotel waiting for me to come out.

These are brilliant! Some sinister stalking stories, though.

Ooh I've been dying to tell my story.
On a flight to Corfu, drunk couple had a fight, really noisy and violent sounding especially when the crew cut off their alcohol, got to Corfu airport and they were fighting as we waited to go through passport control, an armed police officer walked over to them and clicked open the popper on his gun holster (I thought he was going to seriously draw his weapon) they calmed down, OH & I got on our coach and they sat behind us and she lit up a cig! Another passenger told them you weren't allowed to smoke on the coach and they kicked off at the other passenger, then it turned out they were staying at the same apartments as us.
They spent the whole holiday annoying other quests, sitting on the end of other guests sunbeds and starting drunken conversations that no one else wanted to have.
Turned out that she was a psychiatric nurse, told us all about her job one morning over breakfast, that little window of opportunity when she wasn't drunk. She was actually lovely when sober, I'll never forget her

Nice campsite in France, invited (ordered) for coffee and cake at a French family's caravan. Every day.
Quite intimidating tbh.

We used to hide behind tress passing their van if we had been that day for fear of another invite!! They spoke little English and we spoke zero French!!

The manager of the hotel in turkey took a liking to me and wouldn't leave me alone. He would come up to the hotel room several times a day, he would sit with me at the pool, he would bring me cocktails not in the all inclusive list, he would sit with myself and husband (then DP) at dinner 4 nights out of the 7 we were there.

He brought handbags and clothes up to the room and told me they were for free and he wanted to shower me with gifts and he wanted to marry me, etc. He wouldn't listen to the word no, my husband and I put the chairs against the bedroom door so he couldn't get in while we were asleep incase he tried that.

I was so relieved when we got on the bus to the airport. I've never been back since.

Greek island, 1997, on my first couples holiday ages 18. We were staying in a very small apartment complex, so no avoidinf the same people round the pool each day. There was a couple in their thirties staying there. She always turned her sun lounger away from the pool, looking across scrubland instead. Really stood out because everyone else’s face the pool. She didn’t speak to anyone, just read her book. Absolutely fine, she obviously just wanted to relax. It stood our more though because of her husband, who was like an overgrown toddler, talking to anyone he could all the time. But he would tell us stories of his wife being a spy, working for the government, lots of outlandish stories. They got more and more ridiculous. Pretty sure she could hear it all and occasionally we would see her look and raise an eyebrow. Very odd couple! Kept us entertained.