Not surprised some holiday islands don’t want Brits?

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Just spent 2 weeks in Tenerife.
Observed some pretty bad behaviour on number of occasions - all drunken - and all Brits.
It’s a resort known for couples and families and visitors from all over Europe: Iceland, Dutch, Czech, German etc so definitely not overwhelming British tourists. And not a resort that is known to ‘cater’ for stag & hens.
Three examples (there are several more including many drunken football related scenes.)

Two couples (with children) totally smashed one night at hotel when entertainment was on. Loud, shouting, obnoxious, stupid behaviour - the entertainers were clearly annoyed.

Two guys (early 20’s) in restaurant early evening (lots of Spanish families there) totally wasted. Kept saying to each other in loud voices ‘I’m so f*ed’ and shouting, stupid giggling and lots of loud swearing and horrible language about licking your mother. Chucked drink over each other.

Group of drunken hens climbing on promotion animals outside shops, early evening. Lots of swearing, shouting. Observed by many people. Shop staff standing observing.

I know we were all young once etc etc.
AIBU to not be surprised at the latest news of holiday islands wanting other holiday makers and not Brits? Or is this acceptable holiday behaviour? Were we just unlucky to see it all?

We go to Tenerife every other year and we've never seen anything like that!

But we mainly go to quiet areas in the north.

Don't you get that kind of think in most holiday resort towns? Adeje is definitely more of a brits tourist resort.

But you're right, it's usually brits being dickheads (closely followed by Russians). We saw similar in Italy from brits last year in a pretty nice area.

Also it depends where you travel. If you go to Bali and parts of Thailand it’s definitely the Australians that are the worst behaved, Costa Rica and the Caribbean it’s Americans, Croatia it seemed to be Russians.

There are places where I’ve been embarrassed to be British based on the behaviour of other tourists. I don’t know what it is about some Brits abroad that make them lose all sense of self respect.

We avoid anywhere where the British congregate.
You can spot them a mile off. Usually loud, obnoxious, drunk and like lobsters.
It makes me grateful that I'm not British when I see them.
Small surprise that a lot of places want to reduce their numbers.

YANBU at all. We avoid these places like the plague but usually get more than our fill of this type of behaviour just on the flight over after the twats have had a few ‘liveners’ at the open all hours Wetherspoons. Completely normal British holiday ‘culture’: early AM flight with gangs of loudmouthed foulmouthed arseholes who don’t give a shit about anyone else - mainly families with kids, older people, people from Norma countries - because they’re having a “laugh” which to them consists of shouting, wanting to sit where they like, vomiting, insulting and intimidating staff or anyone else who challenges their entitled antisocial cuntery. All completely normalised by society, the UK has a mass, unacknowledged mental health and alcohol abuse problem.

I was sat in Manchester airport last week waiting for my flight and observed the queue for the flight bound for Tenerife - I can totally see where you are coming from.

Unsurprised. I don't want to be around these people, so why would anyone else. Changing their businesses and prices seems sensible.

We prefer a pan European hotel rather than Brits abroad. TUI owned ones usually cater for all I have found. If they have a naturist area it usually attracts lots of Germans I find, they know how to have a good time without being completely obnoxious.

In 2020 and 2021 parts of the UK found out what Spanish and other places have had to put up with for years.

I do my utmost to avoid being easily identified as from the UK when on holiday (what I wear, speaking even a few words of the local language) out of shame partly for such people, not wanting to be a typical Brit abroad, and also because of the great mistake of Brexit.

One of the joys of booking your own flight and accomodation is you can actively avoid the places the package tours use. ( Plus you get a better deal) . The loud drunken behaviour might be 'having a laugh ' to them, but it's destructive, aggressive and intimidating to others. Getting drunk until you puke, being obnoxious to the local staff and causing trouble isn't my Idea of a good holiday

The Mumsnetter narrative of "Everything about the UK is bad. Europe is Utopia" continues.

Why are many of you still in the UK if you love Europe so much? Go on, off you go.

To be honest I'd prefer the costs of flights and holidays went up if it would deter the poor behaviour. I don't think it's the just drunken tourist's they don't want either. I know of older Brits who book the really cheap flights in the winter and eek out a couple of weeks in the sun cooking supermarket meals in their self catering apartment every night. They don't contribute much to the local economy.

Most British couples and families are perfectly well behaved, so it’s not ‘the British’ as a whole.
It’s the single sex groups.

Lanzarote is a beautiful country with amazing art galleries and natural areas. The towns with Brits in them don’t seem to fit with this anymore. I can see why they are trying to discourage developments that bring in loutish customers.

With the £ so weak against the euro now maybe people won’t see Spain as a cheap destination for sun and drinking now. That might calm things down?

Hello, it’s Brit narrative of “No criticism of the UK is permitted, anyone not proclaiming the self evident superiority of all our customs can fuck off.” So insecure.

I’m not in the UK and not British, but so do we. It’s always been that way though, I remember from going on holidays with my parents.

We manage to avoid this kind of thing

If places don’t want business their call

Another UK/Brits bashing thread. 🙄

Nothing to see here.

The area around Playa de la Americas and Los Cristianos has always had a party reputation, but it's a shame if Costa Adeje is now attracting the same crowd, because it has always tried to appeal more to the family market.

I don't blame Spain for trying to discourage the more loutish end of the market, which let's face it, is largely populated by Brits (although having worked in tourism myself, there are a few other nationalities who can give the Brits a run for their money). However, there are a number of Spanish resorts which have, for many years, done all they can to attract the drunken, obnoxious 'Brits Abroad' type tourist, so they really only have themselves to blame. I think Spain, as a whole, has been having a big rethink about tourism lately.

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Go to the cheapest hotels and you get the worst people.
I've just come back from a holiday to a 4 star hotel - and it had a proper swimming pool rather than the wavy-edged kids' splash pool type things. Food wasn't all burgers and chips.

It was all very civilised - from all nations - and the kids that were at the hotel were well behaved. No shouting and screaming and bombing in the pool. Everyone just had, you know, a bit of decorum.

So they don't want cheap, antisocial drunks from the UK.

Hell, I don't want them either. I look forward to it changing.

Absolutely not the thread here. I love the UK wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. Not UK bashing here at all! Just bashing the few UK idiots who can’t control themselves when on holiday in Europe. Perhaps you should find a different thread that’s more relevant to your unnecessary post?
Off you go.

It’s Brits abroad that is bad, not the UK.

Very interesting that two people have instantly agreed with this when it's completely off-topic of the point of the thread.
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