To ask for your worst behaviour witnessed on holiday? **MNHQ editing to note that this is not, as it turns out, a light-hearted thread so do be aware**

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Mine is a father throwing a drink in his daughter's face. She was about six and had knocked it over after he had queued to get it.

Recent one, in the UK. Not quite as dark as some previously, but pretty sad all the same.

Was there with partner and DD and DS and a few times we ended up in the same place as, late 30s, maybe early 40s woman with her son who was about 10 I’d guess.

Every single time we saw them she would be stood in some photo friendly location whilst the poor kid stood there with the phone camera. She’d make him take a dozen shots with sunglasses on, then swap the sunglasses for normal glasses for a load more and then a few without glasses. Then stop, take the phone off him, spend 3 mins looking at and deleting the pics, make some other adjustment (unzip coat, remove coat, add hat) then hand him the camera back and take another load in the same spot and check them. Once she was finally happy she had her shot of her perfect she would take one photo of him and then move onto the next location for more pics and repeat the charade. Often just 20 yards down the road from the last.

Every now and again she’d bring him in for a selfie of the pair of them. On all three days I saw them she had a different outfit (not unusual in itself) but every single time the boys outfit was either identical or complementary to hers and they were going through exactly the same process.

Poor kid looked bored out of his mind and utterly sick of it whilst dozens of kids his age were running around on the beach having fun, he seemed to just be there to document her vacuous and vain existence on social media.

@nonsenceagain in my opinion it sounds like this group of people could possibly be travelers as they were acting in a way that is very similar to how I have seen travelers act both at home but more so when they are abroad.

Better?

Egypt some years ago. There was a little square with shops and all the shopkeepers stood outside trying to get you to go in. Running around the square was a tiny puppy. One of the shopkeepers kicked it clean across the square. It was crying loudly. I was absolutely furious.

When the shopkeeper started his 'come in! come in!' spiel I told him exactly why I, and none of my family would be coming in his shop. He shouted and swore at me a lot and it caused a bit of a crowd to gather, unfortunately for him the crowd was also English and when I'd told them why I wasn't buying his shit they all walked away too.

Didn't see any English in his shop all the time we were there so can only hope he was down in trade for a while at least.

In a very obscure and remote location we were in a bar, recognised a mid level celebrity. Was weird in itself because of the weird location (not your average tourist destination). As the night went on we watched him finding which of the ladies of the night he wanted to go back to the hotel with. He's happily married according to google and we saw him on tv not long after with his wife.

Another time at a geothermal mud pool saw a guy with very curly hair dive under the water and came up with a used tampon in his hair.

After a horrifically long flight to Mexico next to a couple and their son (dad was verbally abusive to both, and he and mum were clearly under the influence of drugs). We arrived at our hotel to find they were also staying there, in the next room.

Throughout the fortnight they managed to lose their son who was still crawling twice, both times by the pool/beach. Neither was ever sober and we could hear them fist fighting at night. In the end we moved rooms and would move from the pool to the beach or the other way around if they appeared.
On departure day the had to be found by the rep as they'd left their child with her and gone back to the beach. I then had to put up with them rowing and fighting on the coach to the airport and the 5 hour delay.

When we boarded the plane they were once again sat next to me, I asked to be moved but was denied, they started fighting, the wife was moved to the back of the plane, but the husband stayed next to me and started covering himself and baby with a blanket. I figured out pretty quickly he as snorting something and pulled the blanket off him. All hell broke lose, he ended up hog tied in the aisle while passengers were moved around to give him his own row of seats.
When we landed in London the police and social services were waiting for them and came onto the plane to remove them. I had to provide a statement and was summoned to give evidence. I received a partial refund from the travel agent too after I lodged a case due to my repeated complaints while away and their lack of action and then being assaulted on the plane.

in my opinion it sounds like this group of people could possibly be travelers as they were acting in a way that is very similar to how I have seen travelers act both at home but more so when they are abroad.

Better?
I KNEW someone would take umbrage with that statement, but strangely enough not with the previous one that mentioned a group of people that were “Irish”. I also thought the same, that it would be travellers, even though we know they aren’t all like that we also know that that kind of behaviour, would almost certainly not be just a group of ordinary Irish people. and I think you did right to point it out. Why shouldn’t you.

A few years back we were at a UK holiday park, quite a big one. Me, DH and 2dc had been to the evening entertainment, and were on our way back to our accommodation when we spotted a little girl about 2-3yrs wandering around by herself.
There was a little play area near the exit and she played in their a bit then tried going outside. Cue me stepping in and "oh let's stay inside until mummy and daddy gets here" after a few minutes of watching and no parents appearing I sent DH off to find security.

They came and said "oh her again", it turns out all week they had been stopping her from leaving the entertainment complex alone, and her parents were in the showroom drinking

Sorry I meant your original statement not that one.

A work jolly/conference with 200 odd people - dinner, disco then at about 3am 30 people pile back to a room for a ‘nightcap’ - some neighbouring rooms ring reception to complain about the noise, security pop up. And the again. And then again and threaten to call police at which point one of our managers punches the poor bloke knocking him out. Hotel didn’t take it further as they were worried about future business ( a chain that we have an acct with). .. HR pretended it never happened...

We saw the police arrest a naked man in the street in Mallorca and my DD still goes on about it now. It was the highlight of her holiday.

I saw that happen at Kings Cross a couple of weeks ago...... 😁

Business class longhaul, I had got a free upgrade and excited. Couple in their 40s sat opposite, all white linen, pink trousers and loafers - both of them. Clearly already loaded. Hands all over each other snogging. Drank the fizz, got more, got the wine for dinner and more, asked for some miniatures - got 8 of those by my count from 3 different staff. Started more action under a blanket -Finally the trolley dolly clocks this - so they calm down a bit. Want more booze. Sorry, no sir. They start with the whole DO you know who we are. We’re only not in First because it was full blah blah Sorry Sir, we can’t give you more alcoho as you’re drunk. They kick off about that but cabin crew aren’t budging. More snogging. Clothes getting looser.
By this point we’re 3 hours into 12 hour flight and I am so over them. Then he says something to her and she LOSES it with a ‘ you showed WHO my tits?’ Turns out Prince Charming showed his golfing buddies pictures of his wife’s breasts that she’d texted him. She went nuts. And all he kept saying ‘ but they’re great tits! I didn’t think you’d mind!’

Finally she turns away in a huff and they both passed out to the relief of the entire cabin, and the staff I would imagine- all fur coat and no knickers...

.At the street markets while on holiday in Turkey we were trying to politely say 'no thank you' when sellers were trying to get us to buy stuff. Their replies ranged from 'ahh come on' to 'fuck off then you fat cunt' aimed at DP because he wouldn't buy a fake watch. Lots of lovely people in Turkey but we'd never return due to the harassment at the market and also various bars/eateries.

Menorca, being woke at 3am to a piercing scream and being so scared for a woman being attacked by her partner. Security removed him but she had him back the next night.

Disneyland Paris last year
Crying 6yo girl and her mother screaming in her face to "Sort your face out!"
And later in a queue a different woman slapping her 11yo daughter in the face. The worst thing was, the child didn't even react; it was as if she was used to it

Once I was on holiday and visited the Sistine Chapel,the woman next to me was so emotional she wouldn't stopped screaming.Ruined the entire experience.

Brunettes
Best. Post. Ever

In Luxor, local children being sold to tourists for sex. In a restaurant, quite open and the staff knew what was going on. Spoke to others on the way home and they'd seen it happen too.

@BrunettesDoItBetter - you stole the internet

@imeant of course it's not better. Try replacing travellers with Irish people in your formulation and see how that sounds.

A man who gave his nine year old son a “ clip round the ear” in a splash pool, because son had kicked his younger sister. I wonder where the boy learned that behaviour from!
Told the lifeguard they said it wasn’t there responsibility’s to do anything.

@Iask 👼

Saw a man at the poolside use a finger to close one nostril to blow the snot out of the other onto the tiles in front of him. Then did the other one.

On my first family holiday with my two kids we were getting the plane home and there were several late teenage /early twenties people rowing in the queue. One girl was kicking off because another girl had "sucked Jason's cock last night when she knew she was shagging him". It all became quite heated and hair was pulled and punches thrown. Husband and I tried to shield our kids as best we could and thankfully a lovely security guard let us go into the airport early. Everyone was talking about it on the plane and then I realised that the girl was meant to be sitting next to my three year old! Thankfully they were deemed too drunk to fly and were escorted off the plane by police .

@BrunettesDoItBetter - just brilliant! haha.

@BrunettesDoItBetter take a bow

When waiting at the airport gate a women complained very loudly that the family with a disabled child shouldn't be given the “special privledge” of boarding the plane first.

Placemarking for later ...