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?

Remember when ( pre covid ) you could book lastminute holidays ? Years ago a friend and I went to Bulgaria skiing when it has just opened up for the season and were the only guests in the hotel and only one staff member.
Same friend booked a break in Portugal in Feb in what must have has a pensioners deal for the winter. We were early 20s and everyone else 70 +.
Old codgers tried to get us drinking and playing cards .
Different friend and I booked a cheapo hotel in Thailand which was clearly a brothel. Fortunately only there two nights passing through a lobby bar of men which had ladies lined up on seats with numbers on their wrists.

We were on a safari in Kenya us another nice normal English couple and an older American couple. They seemed to be under the impression that because we were on an organised tour we had a forcefield of protection around us. We were in a remote poor area and our driver told us not to attract attention to ourselves. They were yelling waving their camera around and even got out wads of cash to buy stuff 🙄. The driver was panicking and the crowd around our minibus was getting larger and agitated. In the end Dh told them firmly to get back in the bus they were putting us all in danger. The atmosphere was frosty after that.

Dh also fought off a monkey that attacked us and the other couple. He was quite a hero on that holiday! We got engaged on our return!

Love this thread, need to read it all.

When the DCs were young went on a week holiday with a friend and her kids, 4 kids and us two.

There was this family, Mum, Dad and two daughters. They talked about how much they loved swimming and how they'd be in the pool all the time.

Every one of them did breaststroke up and down the pool.

Whilst walking all the way up the pool and back again.

No swimming 😂🤣😂

"One one trip back there was a sizeable delay to the return flight so the passengers were given vouchers for an airport restaurant. They saw a fellow passenger put some of the chips from their meal in her bra and then duly fish them out to share with her family on their flight back."

That's incredible! YUK!

Roussette Do you think they thought that's what swimming was? Bizarre.

Our honeymoon to Cuba lol. Met a couple and the husband watched me and my other half for a few days, to the point I felt uncomfortable. He then come up to us one evening about 4 nights in and explained why. When he goes on Holiday's he writes stories about the people he encounters and makes up life stories about them. Husband was 007 obviously as we were British lol 😂

Do you think they thought that's what swimming was? Bizarre

I know!

They were a strange family! They did that day in day out. Up and down, like I used to do in a swimming exercise class.
But they called it swimming

@FeatheredHope

Another one curious about the mystery MNer ;)

She's really not that interesting and all her posts have gone

18-30 holiday about 40 years ago.
So bonkers... went on a coach trip up to the mountain top ... the 18-30 rep did flame breathing or whatever you call it... up and down the coach, swallowing petrol, lighting it, breathing out towards the driver on hairpin bends. Seats were singed, I was cowering!

Terrifying!

Unbelievable!!!

Once we was on a flight to one of the Canaries , just a budget flight nothing extravagant . And I alway book an aisle seat so this couple get on and say I’m in the blokes seat (Cus he’s disabled ) I was like no sorry I paid extra for this seat, it wasn’t his seat full stop , so there was a feeling of tension after that.

Anyway half way in the flight she’s in the loo for quite sometime and we’re right up front by the toilets , he gets out of his seat (with no problems or hesitation ) and gets down on one knee , he must of been down there about 20 mins …. And when she burst through the curtains (after probably having a private poop) he proposed ….. I mean who said romance is dead .

I think they just did it for the free prosecco 🤣

@illuyankas

For me, it's more weird to still remember something that happened 33 years ago and start the thread.

Not as weird as counting the years, then making a post expressly to claim that remembering weirdness is weirder than the remembered weird behaviour ...

Still trying to fathom what your point is illuyankas!

@Yorkshiretolondon

Every European holiday we have ever been on at least one person has shouted accross the pool /reception area ‘hey Bob’ at my husband then fallen around laughing. My husband takes in form, smiles and waves, it is however a tad bit annoying when it happens again and again. Just to add my husband is black and has long dreads but looks nothing like Bob Marley and is not from Jamaica …..

What idiots, @Yorkshiretolondon

I'm angry on your behalf 🤬

@feb2022

I went to Crete a few years ago (pre children) And there was some woman with the biggest boobs I've ever seen in my life and she instead on going topless... I mean fair play! But she was about 70 But every single time I got in the pool she would float really REALLY close to me and her boobs would be flapping about in my face! It was grim to say the least!

I went to Croatia with my daughter and one day we were sunbathing, as you do, on a sun deck with loungers in rows very close together. DD rolled onto her front and came virtually nose to labia with a stark naked woman lying flat on her back, legs akimbo. Revolting.

We got into a lift up to a castle in Austria & there were some English people talking among themselves. After a bit I said something to my husband & the English people turned to us in amazement & expressed astonishment & relief that we were English because, "Everybody here talks a foreign language!".

Well, yes. It's Austria.

When I was a teenager, my parents went on holiday somewhere on their own & must've met an Australian woman & said, "If you're ever in the UK look us up," because she turned up on the doorstep one night & bored me rigid all evening.

Sorry I should have mentioned … he wasn’t actually disabled . She just thought that would make me move seats ……

In la with my friend in 2008 and this guy comes up trying to sell us jewelry that he made. he tells me he 'turns trash into treasure ". We chat with him for a little while when I tell him I'm from Ireland he then goes on to tell me that he actually wrote a very famous Irish folk song (I didn't recognize the name of the song) and that "they " stole it from him. He was lovely but rather odd. Another one I have while travelling with the same friend is when we went to Fiji, we went into a shop looking for souvenirs on our first day there and ended up sitting cross legged on the floor in the shop with the guys that owned it while they did a chant and then they gave us kava (turns out this is a regular thing in Fiji but I didn't have a clue so me and my friend were kind of like wtf) the two men then tried to get us to go on the beach and drink beer with them. We politely declined.

We were dining in a lovely, chic bistro in Amsterdam one night when a huge party of Germans came in & took over the tables next to us & started shouting ("Kartoffeln!" etc) at the waiting staff who looked well pissed off with it but remained polite. This was back in the 1980s when it was well known that Dutch people could still be a bit frosty about German people.

We had a delicious meal & the staff were charming to us. When we came to pay & leave, the Germans started telling me where I could & couldn't go, near their tables, & I was polite to them but thought it was all a bit much. When we got back to our hotel we found the bistro had comped us our desserts & coffees, presumably out of sympathy.

@Od130990

Went to Majorca- Cala minor with just my 3 kids in 2007 and met another lady holidaying with just her 2 kids although her 2 dc were late teens, mine were 5 & twins 7 at the time. One night after the children had all gone to sleep she stayed & we had a few drinks on my balcony. She starts talking about this book she's been reading about an older woman kills a younger woman she's befriended & drinks her blood for youthfulness 😬 needless to say I made my excuses for her to leave and avoided her for the rest of the holiday.

That's sick!

Go backpacking and stay in the cheapest accommodation and hostels....you meet some very ‘different’ people....!

Barry from Evesham who was on holiday in Majorca. He talked non stop and his wife just said nothing but smiled a lot. I can't remember her name but he introduced himself to me and my then bf on the first or second night as "I'm Barry from Evesham" and the name just stuck. He used to loudly and fondly greet us at breakfast time, it didn't matter what time we went to eat, Barry from Evesham and his silent wife were always there. It was a long week.

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