To think they way some British people are abroad gives us a bad name

[LittleAnnie1971]

Just returned from holiday, we stayed in a hotel in a popular resort area. We usually go for something else but I didn't have dh with me this year as he couldn't take the time off so I had to go somewhere simple which didn't need driving.

1. 95% of restaurants were British Food
   
2. Everyone was British
   
3. Felt like a British town with hot weather
   

I can't understand why on earth you would bother going somewhere so similar to home. I know weather in uk is poor but who really likes going on holiday somewhere so similar to home.

Not only was this place a British enclave, but it was full of brits complaining about signs being in Spanish (in Spain). The British were the most drunk. The most overweight and greedy when it came to buffet.

I can see the reason why people with children prefer something with familiar food because they can be fussy.

Aibu to think this is a bad trait we have

[Piggywaspushed]

That should have said quiet Grr to autocorrect!

[IHateUncleJamie]

Oh and years ago, DH and I went to Jamaica. The staff there took a huge (and for a while, mysterious) liking to us, saying they "loved British people". Turned out we were "so polite, like The Queen" because we treated the staff with respect, and said "please" and "thank you". Apparently most of the holidaymakers at that time were from the US and just clicked their fingers/barked orders . We witnessed that a lot and sadly, still do on cruises.

I can't get my head around rudeness and refusing to treat waiters with basic respect and manners. It's certainly not exclusive to Americans, btw, but from the Jamaican staff's POV back then it was something that they didn't experience from Brits. ☺️

[Piggywaspushed]

Things may have changed but when I went to Turkey , they too loved the Brits.

They spent the whole time instructing us to hate the Greeks and had pictures of the Queen in their bars.

Last year I went to Greece where all the bar owners also loved the Brits. This is not true in Malia etc where attitudes are a bit more ambivalent tis true.

[Ginorchoc]

I second the person who said Russians for some reasons I seem to have ended up in a couple of places frequented by mainly Russians, from those experiences rude, aggressive, entitled, no concept of please and thank you or queing. Clicking their fingers at staff. I've never been to Spainish Brit dominated resorts though.

[itstoolateforthisbollox]

I can't understand why on earth you would bother going somewhere so similar to home

Well you did. Why do people go to these epic shitholes, full of the worst type of stereotype?

[itstoolateforthisbollox]

I think it's English people abroad that give us a bad name rather than British people

Rubbish. Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish people can be JUST as awful

Northern Irish people are not British!

[AmysTiara]

Disneyland Paris has a reputation for pushy Spaniards.

Carribean cruises have a rep for rude Americans.

I went to Greece last year and there was a crowd of Scottish people who were awful.

Does this mean every Spaniard, American and Scot is an awful person? Nah

[SarahJonesS]

Thanks polly that's my evening entertainment sorted. I was recently looking at a review for Menorca and someone didn't like the beach because there were fish in the sea

[PoppyPopcorn]

British people are LOUD. It's very noticeable compared to groups of say other Europeans

Having just returned from Florida, I would say that groups of Latin American teenage girls are the noisiest, rudest and most awful people on the planet.

As for Northern Irish people not being "British" - well I see your point as we live in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but there is no such word as "United Kingdom-ish". And NI people can have a British passport.

[CaoNiMartacus]

I've travelled the earth and the seven seas, and I can always always spot a Brit. Something about the stance and the clothes; hunched shoulders, angry sunburn - slouching from the guilt of empire, heavy upon their brows.

[ZaraW]

Cao seriously?! Who the hell has the guilt of an empire heavy on their brows... We are not in a Merchant Ivory production.

[Puggsville]

Don't get me started on the Luxembourgers ...

[MsHarry]

Yes but CaeN maybe you are spotting the stereotype because the other chic Brits are being mistaken for other Europeans? I have made this mistake before.

[MsHarry]

We were once sitting outside a lovely restaurant in Fornells, Menorca waiting for our lunch to arrive, when a group of 4 Americans took a table next to us. Well, we knew all about their travels and had to strain to hear each other speak. Being quiet, non confrontational Brits, we didn't ask to move. More fool us!

[Chillyegg]

God I wish I could afford a holiday...

[BarbaraofSeville]

I'm impressed at the ability of the average Spanish waiter to guess your nationality before you speak to them, I think, They usually get it right, but I am the classic English rose pear shaped combined with slightly podgy and tattooed, so fairly easy I guess. DP is quite Mediterraen skinned, tattooed, built like a house side with a belly so gives them more of a challenge. But we're never sunburnt, very careful about that.

Sometimes they try German? if we don't agree to English straight away or once in Tenerife, they guessed Russian. I'm not sure if that's a complement or an insult based on this thread, but a lot of Russian women are considerably more glamourous than I ever will be. Perhaps I fit in better with the stereotype of poor, ex communist with bad clothes and teeth?

[KERALA1]

I have found Italians the LOUDEST tbh. Luckily their language sounds nice and I don't understand it so doesn't bother me so much.

[val4]

I'm Irish and holiday extensively in Spain, France and U.S. We always get mistaken for English and when we inform them we're Irish ,we always get a warm approval and are told" We LOVE the Irish"!!! ( not so much the English)..... This happens ALL the time

[TheNightmanCometh]

Northern Irish people are not British!

Erm, some of them do feel quite strongly that they are. And wouldn't be impressed to hear you say that. You'd not redeem yourself by pointing out that the name of this country is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, either.

[Crunchymum]

YABU op, you can't use not driving as an excuse. I don't drive and have never, ever been on a AI / popular European resort holiday as it's not my thing.

You chose the holiday, maybe you should have picked somewhere more suited to your tastes?

[greendale17]

I always avoid resort type holidays and especially anywhere where Brits would frequent. I want to get away for a new experience not be surrounded by chavtastic Brits lying around the pool stuffing their faces with the all you can eat buffet

[StillStayingClassySanDiego]

chavtastic brits stuffing their faces with all you can eat buffet

This is the first time we've done AI, it's a revelation! I haven't seen anybody,British or other, overdo the free food and drink although I've seen a few knock back the sparkling wine at breakfast.

[hollyisalovelyname]

val4 you are brave.

[ZaraW]

I wonder if other nationalities are so disdainful of their fellow countrymen....

[FreyaJade]

I've just returned from holiday on a Spanish island. We rented an air b'n'b apartment in a mainly Spanish complex and well, it seems the Spanish can be just as noisy on holiday as us Brits! But they are maybe a bit friendlier towards other nationalities- they all said Hola whereas other Brits ignored us.

I do like it when there are other British & Irish tourists around though purely because I look fair & pale so I blend in with them! Sad of me I know.