All inclusive holiday irritations....

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On holiday and in the restaurant......there is a huge block of butter put out each session with a knife to help yourself with.

I am getting more and more irritated by the people who insist on scraping a bit of butter off with this knife and then back to the butter to repeat before putting the knife down.

JUST PUT SOME ON YOUR PLATE.

Anything else I should be looking out for to annoy me

(I'm actually having a fab time and am very relaxed 😎)

All the AI offers in all the hotels and resorts and cruise ships in the world. All naff.

Yep, they are.

Fucking toast sodding machine.

So if all AI holidays are naff, I guess safaris are out then?

Jesus yes. Totes brexit gammon

The food waste can be astonishing.

One of the things that annoys me is the fact that some people insist on sitting at the same table when eating from the buffet, sitting round the pool, on the coach, watching the evening entertainment and will not just glare at people who dare to sit in the seats but will loudly and aggressively tell them that they're in their seats!

Twats

Its a fecking buffet lunch, there are no reservations, just help yourself to food and sit down ANYWHERE.

There is a general snobbery about these types of holidays compared to villa or self catering etc but each have their own appeal.

We went to holiday camps in the UK when I was a kid and they also had bad reputations but my parents didn't have a car and they just liked having everything in one place and we could go by train or coach easily enough.

I had all the sneering from friends whose parents took them abroad or to a holiday let/ cottage , but their parents had cars to ferry them about! I'd have loved a A I holiday or Eurocamp type place as a kid instead of Pontins , but not to be. My parents never took us abroad.

@matahairyy 🤣🤣 yes it's absolutely hideous. I mean who wants all that variety. I'd rather stick to the same thing each meal.

@EatenByDinosaurs The most amazing food I've ever had was on safari. Out of this world amazing. I was not expecting that.

@userxx I mean who wants all that variety. I'd rather stick to the same thing each meal.

Do you think that people who actually go out to eat on holiday eat 'the same thing each meal'?

Or are you laughing at the fact that they're not eating e.g. 'Chinese' food in Greece, 'Indian' food in Turkey, or 'Mexican' food in Spain?

Blueskies agree on Club Med ski AI, fabulous. Easiest way to do it, IMO.

This is what puts me off All inclusive. Part of my holiday is finding a local Restaurant or Taverna for a lovely meal with my family. Dining in the same place each night wouldn't be for me .

Dh has an aversion to being around Other People and worse their kids on holiday so camping and AI closed to us. To be fair he does the majority shopping and cooking as a novelty for him

I've been to some amazing AI hotels! Fresh seafood, sushi, ceviche etc

What i don't like are the arseholes who big beds from god knows what time in the morning but don't actually use them till the afternoon. And I've also encountered people absolutely clearing an entire serving plate of a dish (such as the above example of sushi) and not leaving any for anyone else rather than taking a little and going back for more.

AIs with buffets , other than breakfast but even then I want my eggs cooked to order. I will only go to AIs with a la carte restaurants. Also wristbands, I refuse to go to a hotel that's going to treat me like a funfair attendee. We rarely go AI because we're out and about too much to enjoy it but when we do it's got to be excellent.

Jsmith99

British people whose instinct to form a queue wherever possible overrides all common sense. If you want an item on the buffet which nobody else is serving themselves with, just walk round people and get it. You don’t have to form a random queue!
That what what I thought was logical too! I was greeted with death stares and loud tutting!

@HotSauceCommittee my friend is a rep out there, so far it’s been her favourite placement (and the pictures she posts when she is asked to eat in look amazing!)

Mainly buffet irritations: poor hygiene standards from other guests, e.g. tasting/sniffing food and putting it back, picking one's butt and then picking up food and spoons etc 🤢
Also rude, selfish guests who lean over you to get their food, guests who queue jump or suddenly stop, guests who have no clue who's around them, guests who stare at you.
Food left uncovered so birds and flies get at it.

I have been on lots of holidays (either AI or half-board) where the evening food is served buffet-style, but I have never, ever witnessed any of the above.

May I suggest, @Schwibble, that if you ever see someone, for example, "picking one's butt and then picking up food and spoons etc", you immediately call them out on it?

I did AI as a poorest student in Malta in my early 20s. £250 each AI for a week. It was grim. Didn’t eat there once.

Not all AIs are created equal. Google the Ikos resorts in Greece and tell me they don’t look nice.

Ps I’ve just killed a mozzie on my iPad screen and it’s left a dirty mark. Yuk.

You’d probably get your head shoved into the potato salad, Princess. Could you image that conversation? Not sure many would brave it!

I can't do AI.

Buffet style eating with the great unwashed brings me out in cold sweats especially if there are children involved.

In particular the following:

• People talking over the food, little bits of spittle landing on open dishes

• Children with snotty/grubby fingers helping themselves to things

• Children picking things up, deciding they don't want it and putting it back (have seen this!)

Grim.

Yes me too @userxx, tbh even if it was another boiled rice job I wouldn't care, I love safaris, especially the evenings and all the sounds of the bush

@EatenByDinosaurs

You can go on a safari without the vile AI style buffets!

The place we went last year was AI (obviously) but had amazing cooked to order food.

It's the buffets that are out.

@wheresmymojo sorry, not what I meant . I was referring to the posters who said that all AI's everywhere in the world are naff.
By their nature safaris are AI, but one of the furthest things from naff I've ever experienced.

And no, a buffet on a safari seems like a truly shit idea for many reasons!!
Not sure any safaris have buffets though? None I've been on do.

Snobby! I have 5 children and we always go all inclusive. We go out maybe twice in a week for dinner. And lunch depending on what we are doing. As long as there is something my children will eat at meal times, I'm happy. Pricing up drinks and ice creams etc, we probably couldnt afford to go self catering. I've never seen a feral child, or kids licking puddings, or pushing and shoving. Yes the food isnt the best, but a holiday is what you make it! My children are certainly not feral, or rude.