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 😎)

@IsobelRae23 oh that's easy!! As long as the foods don't touch I can have a mixture of different foods on my plate. I do also like unusual combinations of food so last night I thought nothing of having a cereal sandwich!! Dried krave squashed inside bread and butter!! 😋

Never done AI but many years ago in a b&b hotel in Spain I was serving myself from the buffet (after standing in a queue nicely) a very large and sweaty lady barged in, reached across me and the sleeve of her t shirt dragged across my plate of food. I felt so sick I abandoned my plate 🤢

I haven't done AI or even a proper hotel holiday before - always SC or pensione or whatever. Can I just ask - what would happen if you neatly folded the towels and stuff belonging to the bastards that get up early and bags the sunbeds and go back to bed till midday, and then moved the beds? Has anyone ever done this?

I knew someone who took the towels back to the Receptionist and demanded to see the manager and made him speak to the ones bagging the lounges!
Don't know if it worked , but she gave it a go.
I would not have the bottle!

@VitreousHumour yes I do this all the time. Nothing happens because they have idea which was theirs.

When I was waiting for the coach at 11pm to go home on my one and only AI holiday a cocky English bloke passed us in reception with his towels ready to put them on the sunbeds.
He had arrived that day and wanted to ' get that job out the way before the missus gets me up at six to bag them' he announced cheerfully before going to find some.

( hope that someone moved them that night or threw them in the pool! )
It should be stopped.
I bet he hogged all the croissants too at breakfast!

I have never stayed in a hotel with a pool (or one that wasn't a Premier Inn) so this might be a stupid question but - if there are such dramas over sunbeds why don't they just make sure there are enough sunbeds for all the guests?

My Ai was fine with food and no upset stomach

Also plenty of sun beds and those posh cabana beds

@VitreousHumour Yep: I've moved them before. Snooze and you lose. They can't prove it, bollocks to them I say.

That they don't provide Rennies. You have to bring your own!

I'm on a wonderful AI holiday in Palma Nova at the moment. Get this... there is a sunbed for each guest! No one has to suffer the indignity of the sunbed scramble. You can legitimately put your towel down and bugger off!
Its really tranquil and not at all rowdy. The food is nice but the waste is making me quite angry. Hasn't anyone heard of second helpings?

Blimey, enough sunbeds!
That is good to hear.
Maybe the hotels are realising it's the best thing to stop the rows!

Ooh I’m now a total convert to AI after being a bit snobby about them alll these years (and worried about all the stuff already mentioned)

Well, I’m at a five star hotel in Tenerife just now and I never ever want to go back to self-catering! The food is just amazing. I mean, really good! No piling up of plates or getting 3 drinks in per person at a time, no fighting over sunbeds, no rowdy guests, there is plenty to do during the day but the entertainment people aren’t in your face, there is no pool “hotel Spanish Costa music” blaring out all the time, there is evening entertainment and it’s actually quite good! Lovely location, never been to the Canary Islands before but already I want to come back as there is clearly more to them than the 80s style jam packed holiday resorts I thought were the only option.

To be fair, we have paid for it. I think I would rather go to a nice self-catering place if I couldn’t afford go to this standard of AI.

All AI is different, choosing a cheap AI in Egypt and you get a cheap buffet very repetitive, dodgy hygiene. Choose a 5* AI in the better Turkish locations and you get a cracking buffet, utterly out of this world spoilt for choice (yet some go beige).

@KeepHimJolene (great username btw!) honestly people have said this 100 times on this thread but several posters just wont have it. According to some ALL AI is shit food, drunk guests and going on them is akin to going to prison. It's quite bizarre how entrenched MN is on this one. No number of 'lobster on the beach cooked by a Michelin starred chef' will change their minds! It's such snobbery and I find it really really weird. But then I dont judge people on the type of holiday they choose to go on!

Landing in Cuba to find the AI hotel your booked into is closed. Your transfer is not there and no one is willing to help

Landing in Cuba to find the AI hotel your booked into is closed

YABU for going AI in Cuba.

We had some fabulous meals out in local restaurants in Havana.

Landing in Cuba to find the AI hotel your booked into is closed

YABU for going AI in Cuba.

We had some fabulous meals out in local restaurants in Havana.

You could say that about pretty much anywhere there are AI resorts though. Not just Cuba. So why single it out? Every third post on this thread could have been saying the same thing.

It really does depend what type of
Hotel you go to surely? I’ve been to a few - never come across rude people or Russians that take all the dessert, children who poke the desserts, and drinkers who drink at 7am. Where the hell do you have to go to in order to find people like this?!?

I've never been on an AI holiday before, but I am going to one in the Maldives soon, it's a buffet style one, but at least it's an adults only resort, and their menu changes every day, we also have the option of using their other restaurant which is table service if we want.

I did it once with a friend. There were 2 portions of a chocolate pudding thing left, each with one piped dollop of cream on. The woman in front of me took one slice, and also skimmed the dollop of cream off the remaining slice!! Greedy bitch.

AI sounds like an utter nightmare. How about go on a real holiday and eat local.

Too right Whostolet. I don't see why having kids means you need to go AI.
Our 2 year old loved going to local restaurants, the staff made such a fuss of her and we made sure we took books, toys etc to keep her occupied. There's always little shops selling bits as well that will keep them amused. Plus ice cream!
Going SC doesn't mean you have to do jobs you do at home, but at least you aren't restricted to your resort to eat.

Late to thread but I experienced 5 star AI in Morocco a few years ago. First few days were ok - it was in term time so no kids - but pretty quickly got bored of the buffet breakfasts, and the buffets in the evening were vile, in a soulless canteen. The a la carte restaurant was closed that week . Anyway it would have been ok as a whole but on the penultimate day a coach load of package Brits turned up and the stereo by the pool was cranked up to the max and the hotel staff were clearly told to encourage them to do drinking games around the pool all day. It was like Gomorrah and I couldn’t get out of there quick enough.

^and it felt uneasy to me knowing it was Ramadan during our stay and so the staff were likely starving while all the guests were boozing and stuffing their faces around them^

However I would consider one but would need to check it out v carefully beforehand.