British behaviour in holiday hotel

[Scarfitwere]

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!

Seeing as you’re so keen to point out that you’ve paid a lot (and so imagined you’d be safe from the hoi polloi), I must comment that it’s always the poshos who have the worst behaved kids in my experience. We stayed at a very expensive resort last year with a load of ‘baby led weaning’ crunchy mamas who were letting their incapable kids make a mess all over the tables and floor for the staff to clean up, much to the disgust of me and my beautifully non messy common family.

I completely agree that often there are excellent meat (and fish) and salad options but wanting people to supervise their children and have an awareness that cross-contamination is a very real hazard is not being 'fussy'*. I have coeliac disease and watch with horror as children and adults use salad tongs to help themselves to pasta and put the tongs back in the salad or help themselves to red snapper with a bread roll in their hand, putting even more limitations on an already incredibly limited diet.

Ant plus one for the 'Russians are mental guests' - in one resort I saw a man ask for a 12-egg omelette, a woman take an entire gateau for herself and nearby tables used by Russian families covered in overflowing plates of uneaten food along with zero conception of allowing people to exit a lift before getting into it!

*Using your term as an opportunity to highlight the above, not have a go at you @Metromayhem 🙂

Haha yes!
I can picture it now, all the refined, cultured people enjoying a quiet, civilised cocktail beside the pool when all of a sudden - “Argh the English are descending!”

It’s odd to not expect some food waste at a buffet tbh…

No you didn’t 🤥. You clearly have strong opinions, why don’t you at least stand by your own words? How embarrassing.

”I’d be mortified to be English” — “I mEaNt pEOpLe wHo sPeAk tHe EnGLiSh lAnGUaGe” yeah right 🤣

Yes, I'm always surprised how many people labour under the delusion poor behaviour abroad is a British specific trait. Perhaps some of us have just seen a bit more than others!

That’s a real rib tickler that. And totally explains away the generalisations you made. Pointing out those quotation marks around “well trained” really changes the tone of your post, and the contempt you show towards English people magically disintegrates.

And just to reassure you, nobody thinks there’s an issue with wanting to be around kind considerate people with good manners. The issue is when you attempt to equate poor behaviour to a particular ethnicity, rather than understanding that it’s a sad fact that humans from all walks of life have the capacity to be rude, inconsiderate, ignorant and display all manner of negative behaviours. I hope that clears things up for you.

And just FYI, making generalisations based upon ethnicity is impolite.

You can cringe all you want, I’m not the one with an established bad rep as a tourist lol

Damn I bet you were itching to slide in some racism, I hope that made you feel better

We book clean and small independent hotels with their own pools. Then eat in local restaurants. I also double check that companies like Tui and Jet2 don’t use them. We have amazing holidays at a fraction of the cost of these AI horrors. No regrets at all.

The type of people who book an AI holiday are not the sort of people I want to mix with or be around. You are being unreasonable for booking a holiday that is an environmental and financial disaster for the tourism in the area and for the ecology of the region and thinking it's OK.

What sort of people book an AI holiday?

Are you in an Ikos?

No one behaved like that when I went.

God why would anyone go to an AI?? Hideous

I've said in my post pretty much. People who don't give a shit about the environment or financial consequences for the area. Ecologically they are disastrous.

Common people like me probably

I say the same about people with second homes. Not the sort of people I’d ever want to fraternise with.

@Scarfitwere Is this Sani or an Ikos?

This is such a bizarre way to make life choices. How many other things would you allow the other people who attend it to dictate whether you do?

What about when you’re visiting the pyramids standing next to some AI dweller, on a boat trip on a Greek island, seeing the acropolis, Machu Picchu say? Dismiss them all in case you happen to be near a AI dweller in the gift shop?

I bet you’re one of the France caravan site insecure types whose adventure begins and ends at carrefour

Hmm very interesting that you interpreted that post in that way without even an ounce of self awareness. I think you are overdue a little reflection time. Damn.

Last time I went to Menorca I had a similar experience. The parents were as bad as the children, eating off their plates whilst walking around the buffet loading their plates up. Children running riot. Throwing rubbish all over the floor. The British were kept in a separate block from other nationalities where there was a different restaurant. There’s loads of complaints on Tripadvisor about it but I can totally understand why other nationalities would not want to dine with us.

This.
They should be supervised until they can be trusted so they aren't spilling things, putting spoons back in the wrong place, taking things and leaving them, reaching ups too high and pulling things over or touching things and then not eating them.

Posh people don't go on AI holidays almost by definition.

In my experience the Finns !! Make the Russians/Brits/Irish look like teetotallers !!