British behaviour in holiday hotel

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We are staying at a good all inclusive resort (yes, I know all inclusive is not high end, but this is about as good a one as you can get). I am just shocked and ashamed at fellow british people at breakfast time. Letting their kids make a huge mess by allowing them to get their own food. Huge amounts of wasted food. Multiple untouched plates left on tables. Total disregard for others barging round, blocking walkways etc. When did this become ok?? AIBU with expectations? Bear in mind this is not a cheap rubbish tui-blue type place. I dread to think what they are like!

Clearly slumming it !

I've been on a few AI holidays now and can say that this kind of behaviour isn't confined to Brits. In fact, I can't think of a single instance where I've seen British families behave like that. I'm off to another cheap, rubbish TUI Blue AI place in a couple of weeks so maybe I'll find them there?

I used the term "English" as that's the term used in other countries to when referring to English speaking badly behaved tourists. I wasn't making any reference to English being any better or worse than British.

I stayed at a TUI BLUE place recently and everyone was very well behaved.

Why wouldn’t kids choose their own food?

Pontins abroad. I'll pick up a few string vests for DS and make sure he practices knotting his handkerchief into a hat.

In all seriousness, my last TUI holiday cost well into 5 figures for four of us. The hotel was gorgeous and all the badly-behaved tourists were American. DS and DD were agog.

We've only done AI a few times and found the behaviour to be mixed:

SAGA ocean and riverboats - mostly good at the buffet, but a fair amount of drinking (drinks mostly free).
Expedition ships - pretty well behaved (drinks only free at dinner)
Japan tour - courier was arranging where we ate (no free drinks) - first half very good, but second half not. Why? Many of the other travellors (Australians) complained loudly about it mostly being Japanese food, so the courier arranged all 'european' (second rate) meals for the second half. Very disappointing.

No kids on any of the trips.

The use of inverted commas to signify tongue in cheek humour or sarcasm where I have used a stereotype.

I don't see what is wrong wanting to go on holiday to somewhere where people are kind, considerate with good manners.

I’ve just booked a TUI holiday for four of us for a week and it’s £5000! Wish it was cheap.

Why does wanting to go on holiday to somewhere where people have good manners make me poor?

A work colleague is staying AI in Greece at the moment and sent a photo of his dinner plate to the work whatsapp chat yesterday. It was enough food for 4 people not 1 and he later added that he'd not even managed half of it.

As a vegetarian it really offends me to see meat going to waste, that animal died so you could eat.

Jesus wept, Sani is NOT cheap!!!

I know it's not, I didn't state it was!

YANBU The amount of wasted food is obscene.

It's the same at hotels in the UK, people coughing all over the buffet and leaving stacks of toast behind,

'Bear in mind this is not a cheap rubbish tui-blue type place. I dread to think what they are like.'

Because as everyone knows kids who don't come 'elite' backgrounds are practically feral. Imagine them on holiday in a Tui Blue (🤢) resort. I mean perish the thought.

🙄 Aren't you a peach.

YABU to be snobby about other people’s holidays.
YANBU about the habits of some people at AI resorts.

Not all AI's are the same, you need to book well in advance but Maxx Royal Kemer Resort in Turkey in unreal.

I’ll never forget one holiday where the dad filled his pocket up with butter sachets each morning. It was 36 degree heat, it must have been sliding down his leg before he’d made it too far!

Yep. The snobbery in OP’s post is awful.

I've stayed at a few internationally catered AIs and the food wastage, ignorant pathway blocking and kids running riot is certainly not just a British trait. I think its peoples attitudes towards AI in general. Although the getting drunk as early as possible does seem to be British. Who wants to supetvise their kids in a pool while tipsy? I do not get it.

Cheap rubbish Tui Blu place? I’ve never seen this sort of behaviour in one of those hotels tbh ? If you choose to visit cheap all inclusive hotels maybe that’s what you get!

“but the UK does seem to have a problem with lack of consideration for the space around you”

this is utterly cringe self obsessed Brit wank. You sound really lacking in diversity

its the same way people who can’t afford flights pack up their car to go to a caravan site in France and bang on endlessly about how terrible for the environment flying is and how they SIMPLY LOVE being in the French equivalent of hoeseasons and eating generic Brie from the carrefouR

its not because you can’t afford better- it’s because you’re SUPERIOR.

Actually I do find Brits are ‘more’ prone to a total lack of giving a shit about other guests , although I’ve witnessed the odd feral Spanish and German family too- hence why the minute I could I hit the adult only places and with kids preferred villas and apartments.

“Although the getting drunk as early as possible does seem to be British”

really not. See Russians, Dutch, Irish

I've enjoyed staying at Sani (and IKOS and Tui Blue!), I am just speculating as to where this person thinks has accidentally let the riff raff in.