I'm having the worst holiday aibu ?

[seaandsandy]

Me and my boyfriend of 5 months have came on holiday on Wednesday.
We are in Tunisia.
We got a cheap deal £286 each all inclusive,I thought amazing.
It's grim
The bar is open 10am to midnight and every day/night he has been drinking,to a point he keeps falling over.
He starts drinking after breakfast.
We haven't left the hotel.
He says why pay for all inclusive to leave the hotel.
Aibu to think this is the Pitts ?
Weather is hot

space surely no way could you be in the pub from 10am to closing in the UK and only spend £300. His AI is proving bargainous re volume of booze consumed.

Really have a google and find a local guide.
They’ll be really cheap and you can choose from foodie tours , architecture, etc.
There are sometimes female tour guides who tend to be older ladies that know everyone in the local community and take no shit.
Even an hour tour breaks up the day.
Good luck op

I'd go on an organised excursion. I've been on my own in Morocco but in a group trip and it was fine.

www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attractions-g297943-Activities-Hammamet_Nabeul_Governorate.html

Are there any trips being run you could join? So you're exploring but not alone.

Are there any all female groups staying at the resort? Maybe make friends and go out with them?

Ask around for recommendations..... how did you book? Was there a rep anywhere ( soz if you answered this already) that you could get suggestions from? Is it possible to hire a private tour guide?

Apart from that, treat it as a solo holiday- read books, top up your tan, and work on your exit speech. His drinking isn't just behaviour, its possibly who he is.

Also Hammamet has an interesting history, the haunt of Schiaparelli , Klee etc.
Don’t waste the opportunity to enjoy it for this drunken loser

I found Morocco safer/less uncomfortable than Tunisia!

Is there anyone else in the hotel that you can pal up with and go out with, leaving your boyfriend with the companionship of his bottle?

But yes @seaandsandy you should be able to book a couple of excursions through the nicer hotels!

Is there a reception or something?
So you can ask if they can arrange a Medina tour with a female guide?

Feel really sorry for you but second what everyone else has said about finding some excursions to book and going off without him. I enjoy drinking with friends on nights out and have overdone it at events with free bars but there is no way I would go on holiday and just drink all day. I think that is a really weird thing to do. Definitely finish with him when you get back.

Ah yes that’s a brilliant idea about tagging on to an excursion with a big hotel.
Also lots of the fancier hotels will let you buy a pass to use the spa/ hammam /therapy rooms etc at a low cost

You should 'lean in' to the drama of it. Film him drunk, edit it into a great montage, share it on social media.

What is he like when you’re home? What are his drinking habits? How often do you see each other?

It sounds insufferably boring - just getting legless all day, every day. A slurring infantilised version of himself with no short term memory. A waste.

Seaandsandy - get on to the travel agents pronto and go home! Sounds like misery to me and your boyfriend is an arse. I'd seriously consider ditching someone so selfish.

Other than that you can probably find safe places to go on your own and presumably there is a swimming pool - but I'd leave him to it, frankly. He doesn't deserve to have a girlfriend, he's mean and inconsiderate in the extreme.

Quite honestly I'd be concerned about going out with someone who drank that much 'because he can' straight after breakfast.
Someone like that isn't going to be reliable long term.

He's not an alcoholic because he's drinking all day on holiday !

I always have a beer at 10am whilst on an all inclusive holiday. I keep myself topped up through the day. It doesn't make me alcoholic for those two weeks a year

I don’t get this mentality at all. You’re on holiday to have fun, but why is it (some of) the British abroad think fun and drinking yourself stupid are the same thing? It’d be alcoholism if done on a daily basis at home but on a holiday abroad it magically isn’t.

I've never been to Tunisia or Hammamet, but most tourist resorts have offices on the main drag that advertise excursions running from there, don't they? You might have to actually set foot outside the hotel, but as a PP said, if you have your shoulders and knees covered, you're already reducing the harassment risk. Also, I found that the only time I got harassed in Morocco was when I let my long hair hang loose, rather than tied back.

Read a book by the pool, go on a trip. The zoo sounds fun. Make the most of your last few days. Speak to the hotel staff for recommendations. Don't worry too much about the food in the hotel. As long as it's well cooked and hot it'll be fine.
Forget him. Don't even speak to him anymore. You .ca still have fun.

This is partly your own fault too, doing zero research on the hotel or how you'd do any excursions from this place (with it without him) or even discussing what sort of holiday you'd have.
We have done all inclusive on a cruise and I did drink most of the day to get the value, and I am mainly tea total. But ot was more a drink every few hours instead of a soft drink when at the pool.

OP I don't go on holiday but my family are experts!

tbh from what you describe and the price, this sounds predictable.

they do tell me that all inclusive means "loads of people drunk all day" and they try to avoid that. Though I admit they aren't expecting one of their group to be hammered all day.

do you like the heat or have you done that thing where you were persuaded by the image?

hope the time goes very quickly!

Well obviously your boyfriend is a boring knob, but there's no reason why you should be cooped up watching him spill drinks all over himself for the next 4 days.

Google for organised tours in the area and book one. The tour operator will come and collect you from the hotel so you don't have to walk around alone and then you can actually see some of the country, before being dropped off again. You could look up local spas and ask the hotel reception to book you a trusted taxi company to take you there.

If he's bladdered when you're leaving for the airport and is denied entry onto the flight then please just leave him there. Don't feel some misplaced sense of loyalty and stay so he's not alone. He's an adult, and a man, so much safer than you are in Tunisia.

Good luck! Please update with all the fun stuff you do!

Try and go to the amphitheatre at el Jem. It's amazing! I found Tunisia really nice and welcoming and less harassment than Egypt and Morocco. Try and organise to get on a group trip. Also dump the idiot x

Find out if the hotel organises group excursions and get booked on one. Ask if you can be in a separate room to him or be transferred to another local hotel.. Split up. Enjoy the rest of your hols alone.