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.

I have three, all from the same holiday last year.

1. On the way to Cyprus we were sat behind a dad and one small child (boy, around 2yo) and the mother was in the row infront with another toddler (girl) most likely twins.

The dad immediately started to watch a film with headphones in, and the boy started to play up slightly. Nothing extreme, just fidgeting and trying to grab the booklets in the pocket on the seat infront. Without warning the father turned and smacked him very hard on the legs 5 or 6 times. The boy burst into tears and was told to shut the fuck up. At this point the mother turned and picked him up, taking him to sit in the seats infront with her.

A while into the flight the toddler boy needed the toilet, so the mother passed the girl back to the dad to watch while she took him. As soon as the girl was passed to sit next to her father she started crying hysterically. The father didn't try to cuddle her or calm her in any way, he just told her to shut up. She huddled away from him by the window and sobbed until her mum came back. I just wanted to pick her up and cuddle her, but the dad was terrifying to be honest. Nasty bastard.

2. During the holiday a large Russian man fell out with a staff member as he kept allowing his children to take inflatables into the main pool which was not allowed. The staff member kept telling the children to get out of the pool, and the dad was enraged over it. They had a very loud argument, during which other members of staff tried to calm the situation. The Russian man lost it completely and started chasing the staff member round the pool, screaming at him and trying to grab him. They disappeared down the stairs to the beach and that was the last we saw of the incident. The russian man returned hours later, less drunk and calm.

When we spoke to other staff about it, they said that they are often screamed at and even assaulted by the Russian guests and that they had had enough of it. They said they think rules dont apply to them and they can do what they want.

3. On the return flight there was a family in the row of seats to the right of us who had two small children with them. One still a baby really and was on the fathers lap. Once the flight started, the older child was very excitable, and noisy, and kept kicking the chair infront. The mother ignored the behaviour and was reading a magazine. The father told him to stop every now and again, but didn't do much either. The baby started to scream, and once he had started didn't stop for nearly an hour. Still the mother just read her magazine.

In the row infront of them the people were getting very annoyed with the whole situation, especially the person whose seat was being kicked by the child. That person then lost their temper and said loudly that they should "shut it up", meaning the baby.

The mother then flies off the handle, shouting that it's a fucking baby, these people are having a go at a fucking baby. The people infront shout back about the child kicking the seat, the screaming going on for so long etc and they start shouting and swearing at each other.

The cabin crew came and tried to calm the situation, saying that we all had to put up with each other for a few more hours, so was it worth having such a big problem. They gave the baby some olbas oil to sniff to see if it helped any congestion/issues with ears and it all settled down. I thought there was going to be a punch up to be honest!

It's awful when your hard earned holiday is ruined by obnoxious oafs. ( or sex mad guests 😂 )
I feel so sorry for those poor kids. Some parents shouldn't be allowed to have a pet, let alone a child.
@SmileyMiley. I'm German currently sporting hairy legs. If you find that gross, that's your problem not mine, don't like them then don't look at them. Simple. You are racist, no excuses.

However, back on topic.....
Went to Romania when the Berlin wall was still up. The hovel, sorry hotel that we stayed in was er, not good. There was mould on the walls, broken furniture in the room and the staff were drunk! We immediately found the rep so we could be moved.
The hotel owner literally threw himself across the door to try to stop us leaving while shouting ' you stay in my hotel, my hotel is good'
I said no, it's not and we are leaving. He then started shouting ' your wife is crazy, you tell her she is crazy' at my husband, who at that point was trying to extricate himself from one of the female staff who was telling him she ' loved him long time '
We fled like the devil was after us 😂

Otherwise our holidays have been pretty good on the whole.

This thread is horrifying and sad 😞

I wish MNHQ would cut out the "not lighthearted" and "triggering" discliamers and just go straight for "This is upsetting shit." If they feel they must slap warnings on everything, make 'em meaningful.

I was on holiday a couple of weeks ago in quite an upmarket resort in Turkey. Generally guests were lovely but one afternoon at lunch, there was a couple that I noticed at an adjacent table because they both had a foot up on a chair (not that this is the done thing anywhere but I found it a bit odd) and were being overly tactile given they were in a restaurant. He was maybe 70, old, white. possibly German, she was 40s, Philippino - all fake eyelashes, botox & boobs.
An hour later on the beach they were swimming in the sea and suddenly she's floating naked and he is caressing her boobs and how shall I put it, satisfying her orally. Children were everywhere by the way. Shortly thereafter, they are lying by the waters edge with the waves lapping (no pun intended) around them, she is lying on her back, he is lying beside her, caressing her between her legs, boobs, lots of kissing - tongues everywhere. People were quite shocked but no one quite knew what to do. Eventually a Turkish guest politely suggested that their behaviour wasn't appropriate in front of children and that they should move to their room. It seemed to work because they left shortly after.
I never saw them again, happily. Incidentally, there were two beautiful child free beaches in this resort (not that it would have been appropriate there either but still) but maybe they got off on putting on a show for children, who knows. The whole thing was so weird.

Mine is more lighthearted but to do with being a gullible tourist.

In Thailand - Bangkok buying sunglasses at a stall in the mall, chatting about our hotel , guy saying his brother worked there as a waiter then before we knew it we had been hoodwinked into getting into a tut tut. Whisked off to a jewellery store then hard sell. We did resist though as we needed to spend money on our house not jewellery.

Dm was staying there too and said to us "how could you be so stupid etc". We went home earlier and she then told us the same had happened to her and dsf and she showed me a ring she had bought

I had a fairly dreadful experience on holiday last year. Went to Spain with a group of friends/acquaintancies, ranging from 30-50, including some married couples and several gay men. DH doesn't like going on holidays so it was a chance for me to go in a nice group and have company.

Shortly beforehand, one of the men asked if me and the married woman (also sans husband) I'd arranged to share an apartment in the hotel with would share with another (gay) man. I was reluctant as I only knew him vaguely and it didn't make the room any cheaper, but was pressurised into agreeing. Thought he was quite a nice man though.

On the first night, we all had a good time and some of the group went out clubbing, me and the married woman went back about midnight to our rooms to sleep. IT was incredibly hot and the hotel had no air conditioning so we quickly agreed that neither of us was bothered whether we slept topless.

The apartments were comprised of a bedroom with two twin beds and a living room with a kitchen off, where the man was sleeping on one of 2 sofa beds.

I suffer from back problems and am sensitive to hard beds, this is alleviated by using a mattress topper or similar, so I took the thin mattress of the spare sofa bed from the living room which had no belongings on it.

About 4am, the door to our bedroom burst open followed by the man, ranting and raving and shouting about how I had "taken his mattress". Of course there was another sofa bed with two of his bags on it so I had no idea what he was talking about. But he started shouting that he had to have his mattress back now, he wasn't going to leave the room until he got it and all sorts of stuff about how I had done it deliberately and that was the sort of person I was. He was extremely drunk and would not be pacified or leave the room til I put clothes on. I had to get out of bed, holding the bed sheet in front of me to cover me up and carry the mattress through to the living room. Hotel security then showed up, but he went to the door and told them everything was ok and they went away.

I then tried to go back to sleep, but he burst in another two times during the night, shouting abuse at me. The married woman was also very drunk and slept, or effected to sleep through it.

The next day everyone obviously knew as I slept in and he had spun his version at breakfast. I am proud to say that I confronted him about it at dinner though and told him he was a disgrace. He tried the standing up towering over me shouting "sit down and shut up" thing but I just told him he didn't intimidate me and he was an abusive idiot.

That night, much the same scenario played out, minus the mattress - I made a point of taking a different mattress of the other sofa bed. He still burst into our room and walked about muttering and I could hear him shouting and banging in the living room.

The worst thing was that the living room and our bedroom was connected by a balcony, so even if we shut our door (there was no lock), he could just walk round by the balcony and through the open doors to our room - it was so hot, we literally couldn't breathe without them open.

The next day, I actually felt ill with lack of sleep. There were 4 more nights to go and I pondered getting an earlier flight but in the end I booked different accommodation and left in a taxi, leaving a note for the married woman. None of that group even bothered to text me to see if I was all right.

It cost me a fortune but I have to say the feeling of sheer relief when I settled into the new accommodation was immense, and I enjoyed the rest of my holiday. I also hooked up with two other women from Denmark and from Poland in the same accommodation that I've kept in touch with and met up for another holiday with.

I honestly think I was lucky not to have ended up as one of those deaths where someone "falls" off a hotel balcony (it was 18 stories up)! The man was that angry and enraged. I later found out that although he still lives with his mother although he is in his fifties and apparently holds down a mega well paid job in finance despite having no qualifications - clearly shouting and being enraged has worked for him in life...

When I was 13 I went to Greece with my parents and their female family friend. I’m an only child and had to share a room (two single beds) with the family friend, she masturbated every night and I would lay there and listen to it, trying not to move a muscle! She also spoke to me like a piece of shit behind closed doors when my parents weren’t around.

The following year when I was 14 we went to Turkey and my school friend went with us. It was the 90s and she’s a redhead and I’m blonde so we received a lot of harassment from males who were shouting “spice girls” at us. We were both groped in shops and on one occasion a man was masturbating in the sea in front of us.

I went on holiday with a large group from a cycling club. We were all staying in several self catering apartments. One of the guys that were in the apartment with DH and me was having an affair with one of the single women in a different apartment. One day his wife turned up without warning. She had taken a flight out to surprise him. He wasn't happy and I don't know what he said to her but she just stayed in their room all the time and didn't speak to any of the rest of us. Even the night that he went out to dinner with his girlfriend and another couple. DH and I were actually invited along too but declined as we were so upset about the way he was treating her. It still makes me upset now even thinking about it, I felt so sorry for her. I heard they got divorced and he has married the other woman and since cheated on her and got divorced again.

When I was about 13 my parents took my sister and I to Turkey. I met another 13 year old girl there and we quickly became friends.

During the evenings a photographer would come and take photos of people around the resort to sell back to you the next day. Apparently DP were warned that he quite likes young girls and to be wary of him.

A few days later he tries to corner my new friend, so that he can 'speak to her alone'. We were having none of it. Eventually he blurts out that he really likes her, maybe even too much. Does she think that she could maybe like him too? At this point we turn on our heels and head off.

I can't believe that he was so blatant about it and how much he was actually tolerated by staff and tourists. Bloody creep.

Just read this thread jeepers some of these are heartbreaking💔