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?

Years ago we were in the bar of a family hotel in Jersey when a fat middle aged ‘Elvis’ walked in wearing that famous white jumpsuit.

We assumed that he was an ‘act’ that we weren’t aware of, although it wasn’t one of those types of hotels .

But no, he was just a guest!

He walked to the bar and when he ordered his drink he said ‘ Hi, I’m back. I was here last year . Do you remember me?’
The bartender was flabbergasted and looked really embarrassed as he replied no .

I went on a club 18-30 type holiday around the Greek Islands. I opted to share a room with a single girl that the Tour organised to save money. They put me with an 18 year old and I was 29 so although she was lovely she was naive and a bit wild, which meant I felt a bit like her Mum. One night, quite early on, she went off with a local guy on his moped after clubbing and still hadn’t returned by the time we were meant to go on the excursion the next day. I was really worried about her but the rep told me to relax and that the tourists did stuff like this all the time. And she was right, my room mate was back, v hungover but fine, the next evening. As we moved to different islands, she had a whale of a time going off and sleeping with various local men. I tried to stop worrying about her until she came to me on the penultimate day distraught because she had an STD. I spent the last day of my holiday taking her to a clinic where she received some very painful treatment. She also had to go to a follow up appointment on the mainland where she was meeting her parents so was going to have to tell them and was devastated. It was a sad end to her holiday. I had a good time over all but it was a bit weird having more or less been given responsibility for girl who seemed too young to take responsibility for herself!

Not quite the same but I knew someone who regularly took their dead dog’s ashes on holiday with them, in the suitcase. We often thought she would end up in jail abroad somewhere, accused of drug trafficking!

On holiday in Greece (over 15 years ago) and a very drunk Belgian man told me I was the spitting image of Miss Belgium and asked to take a photo of me. I said yes thinking he wanted a photo together, but he then made me stand in the middle of the bar and pose for the photo. He was so drunk that he took the photo with the camera facing backward and the flash went off straight into his eye. He fell backwards like he'd just been punched in the face, taking out a table full of drinks on the way down.

@PeapodBurgundy Not at the time!

They probably became a Bundy!

A colleague spent a couple of weeks in Spain .... came back to the office and we all asked how beer holiday had been .... “not great really it was all a bit Spanish”

Her holiday!

Going to Cuba with my boyfriend (mid twenties), we spotted an old man in a wheelchair. He had a briefcase for luggage, travelled alone (airport staff wheeled him around) and was wearing a dark blue suit. He seemed an unlikely candidate for an all inclusive week in Cuba. He got rat arsed on the plane, harassing young women and behaving inappropriately.

Off the plane and onto the bus to the hotels, we were praying he wouldn’t be staying at our hotel and he wasn’t. A week later, at the airport in Varadero, we see him being wheeled around by security. They checked his briefcase and inside are about 5 half empty bottles of rum. That’s it. He’s wearing the same suit, except now he has a ‘I love Cuba’ tshirt covered in vomit.

A girl who stayed at the same hotel as him told us how he was wheeled to the pool everyday and left there whilst he got pissed. He didn’t change his clothes and his tshirt was gifted by fellow guests who were repulsed by the state of his previous shirt.

I mean, how did this raging alcoholic get out or in any country? Who paid for his trip etc. It was so fucking weird.

On holiday in the quiet part of Ibiza a couple of years ago. Was our last day and we were waiting outside the hotel for our coach to take us to the airport. This little boy about 3/4 came running past crying. I asked him if he okay and where was his mummy. He stared at me and ran away back up to where the sun loungers were. Next thing this Scottish woman came down shouting and screaming at me that I said she was a bad mother and she is more than capable of looking after her son. How dare I insinuate any other, she would knock me out right now and I was a stupid c**t!!!
I was gob smacked, explained what had happened and I was just being kind to her son etc. She was livid. Could tell she was squaring up to hitting me! I was terrified. Never been so happy to get on a coach.

These are great!

A bloke of about 50 latched on to us when we were on holiday in Austria one year. He was a nightmare - spent the whole time coming out with anti-Catholic stuff (so not great to go to Austria if you can't stand Catholicism) and got worse when he found out I was a Catholic.
I asked the waiter in the hotel to move us to another part of the restaurant to get away from him which he did.
However, the funniest part of it all was that the bloke claimed to be into mountain running and would jog out of the hotel straight after breakfast and back in again at about 4 pm in time for the free tea and cakes. He'd always have some tall story to tell about where he had been etc. I knew if had to be utter bullshit as the places he claimed he was running you couldn't run up and one day I'd done a hike, came back in covered to the knees in mud due to the condition of the trail. He came in to the hotel after his "run" and started bragging about having run this trail but he was completely clean. .I called him out on it and he was speechless. He had no answer to "How are you so clean when I've done the same trail today and look at me!"

The following year he was back again the same week as us and tried to latch on to us until one of my friends (big Scottish guy) went up to him and told him to get tae fuck.

At a holiday camp in the 90s. I was a single mum, one dc aged 3 or 4.
My child made friends with siblings and their parents asked if I'd like to join them during the entertainment one evening. Lovely I thought.
Nope.... they discussed in great detail how when their children (oldest probably 9 or 10, youngest 4 or 5) had asked about how babies were made, decided to SHOW THEM by having SEX in front of them 😱
I was young, totally freaked out and disgusted.
My kid did not play with their kids again and I avoided them like the plague..

A holiday in North Africa, encountered a guy selling stuff on the beach. My friend interacted with him, I wasn't interested in buying anything.
He was though. Me apparently. I am worth 50 white camels 🤣🤣
I have no idea to whom he was giving these camels as as far as I'm aware I don't actually belong to anyone 🤔🤣🤣
I declined politely and avoided him for the rest of the week.

Went on holiday to Egypt 5/6 years ago. Beautiful hotel, all inclusive. Lovely staff who couldn’t do enough for their guests. Hotel room nice. Great food. Then around 3am we heard loud screaming and shouting from the room a few doors down. The woman then started running up and down the corridor screaming and crying. Lots of banging of doors. Then hotel security and staff turning up to calm them down and loads of racial abuse being used by the couple. They eventually passed out and shut up. The next evening the same thing happened again and we were abruptly woken about 4am by an almighty row! During the next day I found the woman locked out of her room in tears. I asked if she was ok and she nodded and slumped on the floor by the door. I then saw her BF and he tried to chat me up in drunk stuper. He was grim. After that we asked to move rooms. The hotel staff were really apologetic and sweet but we told them it wasn’t their fault at all. We saw them at the airport and the woman has been denied boarding as she was too drunk. Her BF was trying to calm her down and was looking embarrassed but it was all an act because he was worse than her!

I love this thread! I live in a holiday destination (English speaking).

Picture the scene. Was sitting outside with the family at one of the bars in the square , at the next table was an older very smartly dressed gentleman having a few brandies or similar with his friend.

Suddenly a brightly dressed tourist wandered up, and by bright I mean head to toe in canary yellow shirt and shorts, wearing a very very large hat and carrying what could only be described as some kind of kids wooden sword oh and a bus timetable.

CONVINCED this smartly dressed gentleman was Roger Moore. Wouldnt hear otherwise. 5-7 minutes of us stifling our laughter when this strange conversation was going on beside us. Even the gentleman’s friend was struggling not to laugh.

Eventually the tourist got bored and wandered off to catch presumably a bus but not before telling the entire outdoor seating area covid was “coming down from the sky on us” .

Absolutely bizarre.

I’m sure I have more I need to think!

The couple we befriended in Cuba. Had a few drinks / meals with them over the holiday, and chatted every day by the pool etc. On our last day, which was the day before theirs, they asked us to take some wooden statues home that they’d bought over there. Obviously we said lol no, and they went mental, shouting that they’d been nice to us all week and for nothing. I wonder why those statues were so important that they couldn’t take them home themselves

Love this thread! Can’t think of any stories of my own but my parents went to Tunisia I think in the 70’s and a man offered my dad 20 camels or something for my mum!

On a flight to Greece - got on plane to find couple in front (in their 50s) being helped by crew member to fasten seat belt. Thought oh maybe they haven't flown before.. crew member comes back 10 mins later to have a word with them.. I then pick up that they are drunk and she says she's had a word with captain and if they promise to behave they can stay on flight!!! FFS they couldn't even fasten their seat belts! They assure her they will behave and won't touch their duty free they have with them as they will not be served any more alcoholic drinks! As if they ain't gonna drink their duty free as soon as her back was turned!! As it was a midnight flight, meals, drinks etc were served quickly then the lights dimmed. Said good behaviour couple crack open the duty free.. then follows laughing, singing, banging the seats, arguing, actual bodily harm fighting when they were punching the shit out of each other.. cabin crew were called several times but nothing was done, drink wasn't confiscated etc. Everything goes quiet then a woman across the aisle from me shouted in alarm.. yep drunk couple were now in the amorous zone with the woman giving him a blow job in full view of other passengers! By the time plane landed in morning, they could hardly walk . Was convinced they were gonna fall down plane steps.. last I seen of them they were wandering outside terminal building going fuck knows where while we were in passport queue lol..could see them through windows not knowing where the fuck they were!

We are an elderly couple. One year we decided to do a Saga UK Christmas hotel holiday, staying in South Wales. First evening was ‘getting to know everyone’, we noticed an elderly gentleman on his own, so invited him to join us. Big mistake - within 30 secs we knew all about his recent three week spell in our local hospital with serial Diarrhea! Fortunately, he fell in love and we were soon discarded.

Met a family on holiday who had taken a small suitcase full of pink panther biscuits. Always seemed a bit random and a poor snack choice

Referring to Diddumz post about the stuffed cat.
Watched a series about Jane MacDonald cruising and one of the regular cruisers took a teddy bear EVERYWHERE. It had its own chair at the table and a cushion to bring it up to height to eat the full adult sized meal ordered by her (according to teddy's wishes after it perused the menu) and presented to it by a very courteous waiter who 'broke' the napkin before tucking it around the bear's neck.
Dessert followed. None eaten but 'Teddy says it was delicious, thank you'.
Her husband let her get on with it and was ignored.
It had its own full sized bed too which was turned down every evening.
Some people....

I remember going on a family trip to Siam Park when I was around 8. My sister and I decided to brave the massive water slide (the one with the demonic-looking fellow peering into the whirlpool) without our dad, who wanted to recover in the shade for half an hour.

So we were paired up with an adult man who looked like he would rather be anywhere than with two excitable children. Throughout the entire experience, while we squealed and clung to each other in terrified delight, he had a face like complete thunder Didn't crack a smile once, just gripped the handles for dear life!

The very minute the ride came to a stop he got up onto his knees, shook his head at both of us in stern disapproval, and commando rolled off the dinghy and into the pool. We could only watch in stunned silence as he swam briskly away!

@FlorrieLindley

On a road trip in the USA, we checked into a motel somewhere in Nevada. The receptionist asked us where we were from and when I said: "Scotland", she replied: "Oh yeah, where the kangaroos come from, right?" I didn't know what to say to that so kind of just stared for a moment.

On another road trip, this time we stopped off at a small town in Illinois and saw a tourist information office, so we went in to ask for recommendtions on where to stay that night. We followed their advice and directions and checked in to a motel, where the owner and his wife asked us to have a drink with them in their quarters, as they didn't get many overseas guests. The man had been a German prisoner-of-war in England during WW2. He was reminiscing about the POW camp and the food etc., then got very heated and said:\ "But they would not let us celebrate Hitler's birthday. I thought it was disgraceful we could not celebrate our Fuhrer's birth."

When we've said to Aomericans that we were from Northern England we have had people say Oh, you mean Scortland!
Trying to explain the differences between the UK, Great Britain and the British Isles can be entertaining too.

On a tour of India one man, from Portsmouth as he never stopped telling us, decided on day 3 that we had been 'cheated' and we should all demand to go home and be given our money back, no-one had told us it would be so hot and dusty, we would see so much poverty and it would smell, presumably different than Portsmouth! He was transferred to the last hotel on the itinerary along with his long suffering wife who had had the job of standing next to him recording every photo's details, camera settings, weather conditions, subject, this was pre-digital. Poor woman when we met up 12 days later she looked ready to kill him.