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Things that annoy me on holiday...
- Thread starter Boycee
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Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
Are you flying on third world dodgy airlines?
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,187
People who request the hotel floor above you just so they can practice their scraping-chairs-across-the-floor-in-the-middle-of-the-night technique.
boik
Well-known member
Blimey. I'm glad I can't afford to go on these sort of holidays. They sound appalling!
blue'n'white
Well-known member
They get above my room too - everywhere I go. Even when I'm on the top floor (which is scary)
We thought this so went to the Vendee last June, catching the ferry from newhaven then constant screaming in the car for seven hours. It rained constantly for seven days. As such we went to Spain in October and it was much easier. If we didn't have such miserably unreliable weather in this country, though, I guess it would be different.
bobbysmith01
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- Feb 6, 2015
- 785
Brits abroad are quite simply embarrassing, especially in all inclusive deals, which I would never do again. Had a 'wonderful' experience in Cyprus a few years ago, Brits queuing for beer at 10 in the morning, putting union jacks towels on sun beds during the night, yes we are the worst in the world for this, Agadoo full blast in the afternoon by the pool, screaming kids, brits moaning that the food is foreign, clapping when the planes lands, getting up and collecting their luggage before plane has stopped or seatbelt signs are turned off. Bloody replica football shirts, singing 'here we go', god I sound like that monty python sketch now.
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Raleigh Chopper
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Sweaty Geordie's that own shitty little bars with football flags adorning the walls, they then proceed to talk to you like a pleb because they live and work in the sun and you don't.
Crap beer and food, tart of a daughter working behind the bar and a miserable missus.
Frequented by the same people all week as their local and get to know the barman like a friend while the kids are in there from lunchtime until 2 in the morning playing pool.
(Don't go in them then Raleigh)
Oh and fat Brits getting up at 6am to put a towel on 20 sun beds for their Jeremy Kyle family.
It's not all Germans you know.
Crap beer and food, tart of a daughter working behind the bar and a miserable missus.
Frequented by the same people all week as their local and get to know the barman like a friend while the kids are in there from lunchtime until 2 in the morning playing pool.
(Don't go in them then Raleigh)
Oh and fat Brits getting up at 6am to put a towel on 20 sun beds for their Jeremy Kyle family.
It's not all Germans you know.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,187
Usually John Smith's, Carling and Strongbow on tap, all the vile stuff you wouldn't dream of drinking at home.
blue'n'white
Well-known member
I've been on adults only all inclusives for the last few years as I don't like screaming kids ruining my holiday. However they don't seem to have adults only flights yet so you always get parents who can't be bothered to control their little darlings and who glare at you when you complain that their little treasure has just chucked up all over your seat whilst you've been away from your seat to go to the loo (yes it happened this year and I made them sit in the slowly congealing mess). Not a good start to the holiday
Sounds like some of you really need to start holidaying elsewhere. The places you visit sound be like a nightmare.
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
- 23,035
When Snowdonia's on your doorstep why would you go through the hell of airports and flying? "I am not a number (in an airport departure lounge surrounded by wankers, the flight delayed five hours) I am a free man!"
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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Or their trotting horse impressions as the female totters around in stilettos, I ALWAYS get someone like that in the room above me. I have stopped staying anywhere where I can't have the top floor or a bungalow/separate building.
Trufflehound
Re-enfranchised
Rule 1 of holiday-makng: Never ever go on holiday anywhere where there are women who feel the need to wear stilettos.
ATFC Seagull
Aberystwyth Town FC
Everyone was a child once, including you. Children make noise, get sick, get restless etc. I'm not commenting on the above as it doesn't sound like the parents were particularly helpful or polite, but I can't get along with this idea that people have some sort of human right to be away from children at all times should they choose.
- Jul 10, 2003
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Choose a destination, hire a villa or apartment online direct from the owners, book a flight and a car from the airport.
The flight can sometimes be a little annoying but the moment you go through baggage control and get in your car, you leave it all behind
And this from a proper grumpy old git !
PS if you're on a flight to Croatia in the next few weeks, keep the noise down
The flight can sometimes be a little annoying but the moment you go through baggage control and get in your car, you leave it all behind
And this from a proper grumpy old git !
PS if you're on a flight to Croatia in the next few weeks, keep the noise down
Trufflehound
Re-enfranchised
Choose a destination ... go there ... leave it all behind
Almost right, but edited for more accuracy.
I'm not sure he was talking about the right to be away from children. Just a desire for parents to keep their little darlings under control and understand they're not the centre of everyone else's universe. Certainly, compared to when I was a kid in the 70s/80s, things are very different. Flights/cafes/restaurants - even pubs - are sometimes more like a play school these days. It's good we've moved on from a packet of crisps in the car park, but learning when to behave is still a pretty useful life skill.
Puts on tin helmet.
People who insist on crowbarring the fact that they are on holiday/are going on holiday/have recently been on holiday into every single post they make on an internet forum, no matter the topic.
ATFC Seagull
Aberystwyth Town FC
Don't disagree with that at all. I would say the majority of parents who take kids into these places keep them occupied/sat down etc, but you are always going to notice the ones who are out of control, in spite of it being the minority. I think the tone of that post however was much more general in terms of wanting away from kids "there's no adults-only flights YET". There's also a line drawn between what kids do and poor behaviour/lack of control. I.e. kids do make noise when it's not ideal, have tantrums, get sick etc. No amount of top parenting is going to stop toddlers doing these things from time to time.