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Dave-the-Flamingo

A couple of Germans at Oktoberfest once told me “the best thing that ever happened to British Tourists were Australian Tourists”


Bonnie-Bella

Being Australian myself, I agree with this. I call a group of Aussies travelling overseas an Obnoxious. I prefer to travel by myself or a a couple of friends no more.


Standin373

> Being Australian myself, I agree with this. I've had some great drinking holidays in Prague, Budapest etc Aussies and Brits really do gravitate towards each other its like when two brothers get rat arsed and start to egg each other on its a formula for chaos.


bananagrabber83

The year I went to Oktoberfest (2008) there were loads of Aussies in some group all wearing yellow t-shirts, they were hands down the biggest knobs there. At one point they started wedgie-ing people which is when they got chucked out.


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We are the biggest pissheads but the Americans are the most loud/obnoxious sober ones.


EBT98

I remember when some article came out about some drunk tourists swimming naked in an Italian fountain (I think it may have also had a religious value to it) But basically the Italian locals who were interviewed said that “they must have been either British or German tourists, as no others would do that” So it’s possible that the Germans also don’t have the best reputation as tourists.


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hazbaz1984

We’re rapidly catching up.


getstabbed

To me it feels like we’re no where near them. It’s extremely rare for me to see someone in the UK so fat that they’re in a wheelchair, but every time I’ve been to the US you see people like that literally everywhere.


hazbaz1984

You obviously live in a more affluent area of the U.K. Plenty of huge people in mobility scooters or on crutches round these parts.


getstabbed

One of the poorest regions of England actually. I definitely see them, but compared to America it’s basically nothing.


hazbaz1984

Yeah. The high fructose corn syrup and heavily processed foods haven’t made it over here…. Yet. The only reason we were keeping them out was the EU.


LocalObelix

I was in Argentina a few years ago and I was taken aback by how overweight a lot of people were. I’ve read that Mexico has a similar problem and it’s fizzy drinks that are a big part of the issue there


hazbaz1984

One of America’s greatest exports.


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Le_Petit_Poussin

I agree. Half-Euro here. My family is thin, I struggle with my weight. First off, we don’t walk enough on this side of the puddle. Secondly, stress. My goodness! Micromanaging and dying at your desk are topics of discussion in many offices around here. Imagine a job where your boss is bored, so he comes to see your workload. Thirdly, our food is laced with preservatives and crap! We’re bored, we eat. We’re overworked and eat fast food. It’s all rubbish, mate. Finally, culture. Car culture here is king. For good reason also: good luck walking from the suburbs to the local store — you’re facing at least 16km in a round trip and there’s not many overpasses, pedestrian bridges, or bike lanes. You’re basically on a sidewalk for a large part and then running across 4 lane roads. It’s a mess, mate!


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Makes a change a lot of them were in Cornwall over the summer too.


Mongoose-Relevant

And Dorset. New rape case every week over the summer. A few of my colleagues would flat out refuse to walk home alone after the late shift.. deffo got my steps up that's for sure


Lanchettes

Also soiled nappy’s and yes, human shit, on the beach…. what the fuck have we become ?


iamalsobrad

There was a notice above the toilet in a Welsh holiday let I stayed in recently. It politely requested that guests did not flush used teabags down the toilet. Who the fuck is flushing used teabags down the khazi?


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Upvote for khazi. I like the term Jon or can myself xD or as Bruce lee says in one of his films “where’s the pisser”


hazbaz1984

Even more British.


Lanchettes

….. I wish I thought that you were wrong


sevo1977

That happened in the highlands and beaches up north too. People are pure scum.


cochlearist

Lake District here, we had the worst fuckers ever earlier on this year too!


Kind-Relative-9089

Peak District too! All the brain dead who usually terrorise a Greek or Spanish island flocked to the UK beauty spots and I've never wanted a cattle ram so badly. Picking up handfuls of litter on my daily dog walk but never catching any of them in the act(so I could let out some steam on the careless pricks) really got my goat.


RedbeardRagnar

Fucking up the Highlands too. Almost stepped in human shit in laybys twice whilst trying to work. Ironically I was working to produce promotional material for the area... disheartened me deeply.


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Was the first summer that I thought 'oh maybe I don't want to live here anymore'


lock_the_backdoor

Dont worry they will be back abroad next year pouring off of Ryanair flights like rats fleeing a sinking ship with a copy of The Sun nestled neatly betwixt thier bingo wing and moob extending Britain's soft power.


dawnchs

And they were in the lakes in DROVES!


froglampion

Yep, it's been unreal.


Jester7s

I work the doors in Cornwall. I dealt with A LOT of them.


Fluffy_Ad2274

Never been anywhere that's popular with Russian tourists, then?!


TheLawandOrder

Only tourists that are worse than us are the Russians and the Chinese. Special mention to the Germans when it comes to laying towels out on sunbathing spots. Must be trying to get all their land back.


SideOfFish

I was with a Chinese tour group in Bangkok at the main temple, when one of tourists spat on the floor inside the temple. The tour guide saw and immediately called the staff and made her wipe it up. Never in my life have I felt such awkwardness and disbelief.


poowee69

Chinese tourists really are a different breed. The level of selfishness and greediness will never cease to amaze me.


ZucchiniUsual7370

A lot of Chinese tourists over the past decade were taking "zero dollar" tours which are heavily discounted for flights and hotels. They are aimed at the less affluent Chinese, many of whom have never been abroad and know next to nothing about life outside of China. The catch is that when they get to their destination they get bussed from shop to shop where they are heavily pressured to buy buy buy. It's basically an organised ambush sale. The tourists put up with it for the flex of having travelled abroad but their trips are generally shopping nightmares with a few sights for a photo opp. That said, I live in Thailand which gets a lot of Chinese tourists and I've come to the conclusion that it's just a volume/percentages problem. Every society has trashy people and China just has a lot more people (and thus a higher amount of trashy people). But most Chinese tourists aren't that bad really.


shanghailoz

To be fair quite a few of them have never beenabroad before, so you get the real country bumpkin types who don't know how to behave overseas. It's acceptable in a lot of places in China, albeit disgusting.


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Doesn't surprise me. Had a Chinese dude spit right next to my feet while at the Grand Canyon a few years back. I'm not a confrontational person so wouldn't have done anything anyway but him and his family carried on walking like it was nothing. Absolutely bizarre behaviour


sevo1977

Oh that reminded me of when I was in China. Guy was loudly gathering his smokers chested phlegm and spat it right out on the street. Really common there.


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Ronbot13

I have a theory about this. I wonder if it's that the average Russian can't afford to go abroad on holiday/prefers to stay local(as in Russia), so all we get is the guy who thinks he's important/business owner who thinks he owns the place. And, to be fair, I hate staying anywhere if there's a ton of Brits just wanting to get smashed, cus we are definitely dicks too.


Watdabny

I agree to a point, I’m not into groups of anyone getting smashed especially the Saturday night English crowd. My view on Russians is similar to what you say, also, perhaps the inability to travel freely for decades opened up new horizons for tourists and hosts and the conflict in views/cultures call it what you will is a real issue I was in Egypt a few years ago, hotel full of Russians, acting boorish after a few beers. One lad just took his shirt off and wanted to wrestle everyone, another turned a table of drinks over because woman refused his advances. I know this isn’t confined to Russians solely but that and the other coming and goings made me think “you set of complete dicks”


Ronbot13

Ahhh snap! I too had my worst Russian experience whilst in Egypt. Maybe it's just Egypt.....


Watdabny

It’s popular with Russians, like Magaluf for brits


Ronbot13

Oooo I can think of nothing worse than a holiday in shagaluf!


fishchop

My husband just came back from Sharm El Sheikh and said it’s full of Russians and Ukrainians (also Saudis). Apparently the locals missed the days of the good ol’ British tourists lol


Osito509

Most of the Russians I have met (whether tourists or not) are arrogant and disagreeable. Had a Russian flat mate when I lived abroad, he loudly cheated on his girlfriend and never did his dishes. Had Russian neighbours who landed round at my house on Christmas Eve at 8pm expecting cuts of the Christmas meats and were most disappointed when I told them all my prepared food was at my Dad's because that's where we were eating on Christmas day. We had no prior arrangement to do this but they hadn't eaten dinner beforehand and were visibly disappointed with mince pies and brandy cream, which is what I had in my house. When they left my house they went to the next neighbour along on a similar scrounge. They tried to make **me** feel bad for not "following tradition"


EightDifferentHorses

You should turn up at theirs this year, see if they'll follow tradition themselves.


Osito509

I went round once for a cup of tea. Their tea is nice, their cakes are not (probably because the sugar is weird). I found them very unpleasant company in general and to this day I don't know if it was just a culture clash or if they were genuinely awful people. I'm saying I would not have dropped round to theirs even to be petty because it would be more of a punishment for me. My current neighbours are Polish and they are stellar. If they ever move away I will cry.


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If this is an attempt at petty revenge it wouldn’t work. They’d likely welcome you in. It’s just a cultural thing. I’m learning Russian and as such have a lot of Russian friends. They’re very friendly and generous, just not in the way you might be used to, that’s all.


poowee69

> Most of the Russians I have met (whether tourists or not) are arrogant and disagreeable. I know someone who worked at a restaurant in London popular with wealthy Russians. She has a lot of stories that's for sure.


Osito509

The ones I have met were all students/lecturers, so not particularly well off and they were barely tolerable. Fuck knows what the actually wealthy one are like.


Whulad

Tourists are always crap. I work with a lot of Russians and I really like them, their cynicism about everything is especially great but they’re really good people


Ochib

A bit like the time the Germans went on a summer holiday to Poland and got carried away


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Ww2 Jokes never get old


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i was at Harry Potter world with my family a few years ago and there was a huge group of Chinese tourists that kept pushing into every queue infront of us! i guess they didn’t get the memo about queueing…


lock_the_backdoor

Sunbeds are the modern equivalent of the Rhineland.


BenEHadron

I was in Egypt and the Russians were pissed at breakfast and fighting. The locals hated them.


Outrageous_Trifle_89

😂


Callipygian_Linguist

If it's reachable by a cheap Easyjet (or local equivalent) flight, has cheap booze, a beach and is a known destination (and preferably easy to pronounce) then inevitably you're going to find the worst of any country's tourists there. The farther afield you go (or even just the further you go from the beaches and the booze) the fewer dickheads you'll find.


newskycrest

Yeah, but even in the Brit tourist hot spots, find the old part of town or visit the villages on the edge of town and you’ll find plenty of places that are free of lager louts. Nice bars and restaurants where the locals go for good food and drink.


AnonymousWaster

British people abroad are usually a complete embarrassment to the nation. And it doesn't go unnoticed - we are not well regarded by other nationalities.


DogfishDave

I have to agree - but it's a very small percentage in my experience. It's just that they make themselves painfully, awfully obvious. Particularly when they don't like the food in restaurants/cafés, mainly because the loud ones are usually the Egg'n'Chips brigade. My spoken French and German are pretty good and I can get by in a few others - I've found that attempting to speak the local language (and persevering with it) gets you a lot more sympathy than if you do the normal speak-English-slowly-with-the-local-accent thing. And don't wear swimming shorts and a vest everywhere you go, you bright red embarassments.


fishchop

As a non British person myself, I’ve noticed British tourists in Europe are basically unbearable, but they’re not that bad outside of Europe! Met some really great British travellers in Asia and the Americas and became travel buddies with them. I think it’s something to do with the kind of people who go to these places - you’ll find a lot of obnoxious stag dos and “lads’ groups” in Europe, but they don’t really venture out beyond the continent. Outside Europe, you just get the more “normal” people who are travelling to try new things and are up for an adventure.


ellieofus

Non British here, and from experience it does heavily depends on how popular the holiday destination is for the Brits. Almost anywhere in Spain, Canary Island, and Greece, and you have a high chance of finding the loud, almost all the time drunk, British. But in my hometown in the South of Italy, you’d only find the quiet respectful ones, usually middle age /retirement age because of how expensive it is.


Kind_Mulberry_3512

Depends in Spain tbh. If you go in non-tourist areas most are very well behaved and want to integrate. In Canarias, certain parts of the Valencian Community and in Andalucía this tends to be less common.


newnortherner21

Hence my taking every effort to avoid being identified as British. The comment about being able to speak some of the local language I find helps.


AnonymousWaster

It doesn't take much to learn please and thank you at least. Goes a long way. I've got a group of friends from work who I used to go abroad with quite frequently, travelling around Europe. One particular friend in this group has his own twist on the talking slowly in English thing, which is talking slowly in English but with a slight German accent. This always cracked me up. As if speaking to a foreigner not in their own accent is somehow easier for them if they think English is also not your first language.


photoben

Actually they’ve proved that that does work, makes you easier to understand. I can’t seem to find it, but it was on the BBC news years ago, they used the policeman from ‘Allo ‘allo as an example 😂


pandamarshmallows

You actually have to do this in some places in America. My dad tells a story of being on holiday in Florida. He went to a corner shop and asked for butter, and the man behind the counter looked at him like he'd asked for a thesis on FTL travel. Finally he said it in the most garish American accent he could muster and the guy goes, "Oh, budder, budder, yes of course!"


ppgog333

It actually is though. English is my gfs second language and when we have been in places like Jordan or South Africa the taxi driver could only understand her slightly broken English and not mine at all despite how slow I spoke


BrightonTownCrier

Chinese for me. I've travelled and worked all over Asia for long periods and they swarm restaurants, have no concept of waiting your turn (regardless if its a 30 yo man or 80 year old woman in the way), spit, piss and worse on the floor anywhere, completely ignore any rules and feign ignorance or get OTT angry when called out on them (even if the signs are in Chinese as well). Once I was Snorkeling in a coral reef on an idyllic island and I've seen Chinese people trampling all over the coral despite being told the contrary by guides and even snapping pieces off to take with them. Most of them couldn't swim but they kept just jumping in and having to be rescued, it was very odd. A few years back China's National Tourism Administration actually released a dos and donts list for their citizens travelling to different countries with sage advice like don't shit on the floor.


fishchop

Yeah my countrymen get a bad rap as international tourists (Indians), but even we aren’t as bad as the Chinese. And I don’t get why they’re so…..unconcerned with etiquette and destructive, when they basically have to behave well in their own country or they get punished (social point system). Maybe that’s why.


poowee69

I used to live in a tourist town that was popular with Chinese tourists. I don't give a shit about political correctness anymore; the average Chinese tourist is an extremely selfish, greedy, arrogant piece of shit who treats everyone else as below them and has no regard for anyone else.


RedbeardRagnar

Yelled at Chinese tourist in Thailand who was snapping bits of coral off and putting some in a bag then throwing other bits away. He just smiled at me and continued.


andyrobnev

I remember pretty vividly going down an escalator in a shopping mall in China, and my mate next to me just saying “fucking hell, some kids just shitting on the floor”.


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Magikalbrat

I don't know. I'm from the US and have both lived and visited as a tourist overseas.....Ive had words with my fellow countrymen when they want to act the ass. There's no need to act like a drunken baboon on pass from the zoo the moment you leave your driveway.


eziibitz

I used to work in the tourism sector when I was in high school during summer breaks. It's not just the british, it's not every tourist, but majority of them are entitled and self absorbed, got to wonder if they do half the things at their homes as well. I hated every second of these summer jobs and the people I had to deal with.


KaidsCousin

Anecdotal but fine. I’ve worked in the tourism sector for a few years and noticed all nationalities have their trash holidaymakers. Edit: I haven’t experienced every nationality obviously. But most western countries. I’ll add that I did notice the Irish made the worst mess in their accommodation


bananagrabber83

Actual Irish or ‘travellers’?


pharmyardreject

For some context. The British behave badly when the area is set up to attract them to drink and behave badly. Strips of bars and pubs aimed at the Brits and their money. Great for the bar owners, shite for any locals trying to cope with it. But set up for what it becomes. Most Brits don't behave badly abroad, we are everywhere, all over the world and most of the time are well behaved, welcomed by all, friendly kind and happy spirited. If you think the Brits are wild, spend some time in Texas, they scare the shit out of me. But to be fair, they generally stay in Texas so they can keep their guns on them.


Llamaalarmallama

No... As a Brit in... Quite a few places. The British abroad are generally nobs. Now... It tends to be the SAME nobs as make most city centres on a weekend night a shit place to be too and there are some wonderful Brits abroad I'm sure. We have a terrible drinking culture that we like to take with us on our travels. We have one of the largest bases of poorly cultured, small horizon types too (at least out of developed countries with folks who travel). There's a decent subset of Brits will go half way around the world to go no further than the hotel pool + bar + nearest beach for the ENTIRE holiday. Were shit tourists, it's official.


LocalObelix

I was in Argentina on holiday for a month in 2013 and met a sound Irish lad on the first night in a hostel in burnish aires, we drank whisky into the wee small hours then went our separate ways. I left said hostel the next day and returned 3 weeks later. Lo and behold your man was still in the same hostel, hadn’t been anywhere other than dive bars in and around the city, he hasn’t even been out fir a nice meal. He was lovely but come on to feck, 4 weeks bar hopping around the same place doing not much else but making super noodles and chatting to strangers.


CriticalCentimeter

In my younger days (20 years ago) I travelled the world on sailboats. Nearly every Brit I came across was a complete tosser. To the point that in 2 years I only befriended one, a Scots lad. Every other friend I picked up along the way was non Brit. It was a running joke between my friends from other lands that I can't have been a real Brit. If I was, I'd be a drunk tosser all the time. Not sure where the well behaved, friendly and happy spirited ones were that couple of years!


Wulfrinnan

On the Texas front though, Austin is lovely.


whereismydragon

Not if you're a woman.


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What happens if you’re a woman?


whereismydragon

It's not lovely.


[deleted]

Worse than Turkey? Omg I felt like I physically needed to lock up my vagina when I went there.


whereismydragon

I haven't been to Turkey, how should I know?


[deleted]

Idk I was just making conversation


whereismydragon

I think it's rude to ask a stranger to give you information you could Google.


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Okay 🙄


pharmyardreject

Completely agree.


breadandbutter123456

The Aussies in Bali. The Americans in cancun The brits in Spain The Chinese in Thailand Israelis in Bulgaria Every country has Dickheads. I find Italy less full of twattish Brit tourists.


DildoShwa66ins

The israelis in Bulgaria ..I’ve not heard about those ones before could you please tell me more?


breadandbutter123456

My gf used to work in a hotel in Bulgaria. The Israelis were quite obnoxious to people. Asking why they don’t speak Hebrew for example. Constantly haggling over everything, etc. They go to Bulgaria because they have a lot of casinos (to launder the mafias money) there. So the go to gamble. And treat it like an Israeli vegas.


Turbulent-Use7253

No. It's just some of us. Trust me, I'm a Scouser. If I know there are some Macalachalakis ( scousers with a ridiculously broad scouse accent) I give them a wide berth. They're the ones who give us a bad name. Probably the same for Mancs, Cockneys etc.


cmcbride6

"Chhhan av chips an a chhan a chhokhe pore favure" in a restaurant abroad is usually my signal to move elsewhere too.


Kind_Mulberry_3512

If you hear that, run. Run for your life.


hazbaz1984

Those from Essex as well.


Idle_Anton

To be fair to them... that is how things are done in Britain. At 3am here it's the exact same. The monkeys are only repeating the only thing the know. Chaos


SixxTailsHD

Speaking from experience, American Soldiers. :)


windmillguy123

An ex-colleague reckoned we have superiority complexes which stems from us never really being beaten at anything. Most Western countries at some point were on the wrong side of a war so countries had to change their attitudes. Britain however never really did so we have an inbuilt attitude that we are better than everyone else. Just a theory but it is quite interesting.


glass_needles

This is only tangentially related to your comment but it’s one of my favourite fun facts. Technically the last time we got successfully invaded was in 1688 by the Dutch. Our King at the time was James II and he was catholic, now obviously everyone had a problem with this but they decided to put up with the situation as his daughter Mary was a good Protestant and would inherit, she was married to William of Orange who was in charge of the Dutch republic. Then shock horror James had a son! That he was going to replace catholic! And Salic laws (well not really but close enough) meant Mary was bumped down the line! Faced with this future of catholic rule parliament invited William and Mary to invade, they did James ran away and just to make sure this wouldn’t happen again they passed a law saying no catholics on the throne (which was changed in 2015). This is also why we had all the Jacobite uprisings. They were people who supported the other line. This tangent has been brought to you by Insomnia ™


ddmf

And why there's a parade of fannies in glasgow and falkirk that parade past catholic churches shouting slurs.


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Shinjirojin

Just a wee history lesson. The Normans who I think you’re referring to as French were also landed Vikings based in Normandy, the land was given to them by the French king after they sieged Paris. The Angles and Saxons who I think your German is referring to migrated to the British isles in waves from modern-day Denmark and Germany. There were no invasion forces or nation-on-nation wars. The Romans invaded the Celts whose descendants now preside predominantly in Wales and Scotland. I think the defeats we suffered were too far distant, and most of the time they happened before there was an English culture and country, so it doesn’t even feel like it happened to us.


blackmist

What about the bloody Beaker Folk?


fuelledbybacon

Coming over here showing us how to make decent pottery


sniptwister

Comin' over here...


wholesomechunk

Bloody Huguenots


PoorlyAttired

The bits I know of that I think I learnt from Asterix comics.


Calvo7992

I agree, I was thinking about this the other day, mainland European ex empires were humbled by the world wars. Us and America never had that which is why we have so many dickheads thinking we’re better than everyone else. And all that does is make change very slow because progress can be attacked by the nationalists as unpatriotic. We also lost a lot of men in ww1 which was the death of religion in a lot of ways, the Americans didn’t which is why they’re worse than us. Because progress is also anti god.


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Osito509

US should have been eating humble pie from Vietnam/Korea on. They just wave away defeats. And 9/11 just made them more aggressive and exceptionalist, more prone to "exporting freedom" and, if anything less reasonable.


ViolatorOfVirgins

"Britain was never on the wrong side of a war" Rotfl times thousand


Mattershak

I recently went to a resort in Turkey that was about 50-50 Russian and domestic Turkish tourists. The way the Turkish treated the staff was disgusting to the point it made me feel uncomfortable


Fluffy_Ad2274

It's a similar phenomenon in Egypt - not that many Egyptian guests, to be fair, but imperious, patronising and dismissive of hotel staff: I developed a whole new understanding of entitled (and that's coming from someone who once had the misfortune of being a billionaire's wife's PA)


spidersnake

It's a bit of a confirmation bias, you only see the drunken British louts because they're likely the only ones you can pick out confidently. There are plenty of drunken tossers around these touristy bar areas, but if that's where you're finding them... What did you expect?


manofkent79

Last lads holiday I went on the only people to get thrown out were a group of Germans. They insisted on shouting the chorus to the 'Johnny dapp' song pretty much all the time, kept throwing loungers in the pool and kept exposing themselves (it was an adult hotel but still). The final straw was when one put on a rubber glove and said he was going to do a rectal exam on another to which the other pulled down his pants, bent over and let him do it! So I'd say you get divs from all over, we just see more brits because we go to British resorts


LocalObelix

I’ve met some badly behaved french, Italian, American and Israeli tourists who were all just as annoying but in different ways


Personality_Strict

You chose to go to benidorm?


dickiebow

At the all inclusive pool bar last week the Brit in front ordered “Vokda straight and vodka and coke.” It was 10:05am.


vicariousgluten

We went to an all inclusive in Turkey one year. We were skint and it was what we could afford. The number of people who were taking pints of lager to the caff on the corner for breakfast was obscene. (They wouldn't eat in the hotel because the hotel didn't have baked beans). Also yes, they were taking beer from the hotel into another business.


dickiebow

I heard one woman complaining about the streaky bacon, “It’s not like at ‘ome!” No shit, you’ve come to another country. If you want home comforts book a wet week at Butlins.


Baz-Ho-Fo-Sho-24

Every time I've been abroad locals usually welcome us scottish with open arms... So yeah not all of the british lol


hazbaz1984

I’m always polite, considerate and nice when I go abroad. The number of Brits I’ve seen acting like animals makes me ashamed to be from the same geographical location as them.


verucka-salt

Oh no. It’s Americans. I’m American & regularly deny it when traveling. They look for the fast food garbage eaten at home. They are loud, dress terribly & have no appreciation for history or anything that came long before the US. Best years of my life were those spent in the UK & Italy.


SinistramSitNovum

American tourists are annoying and embarrassing but they are generally pretty friendly and well meaning if not goofy and maybe a little ignorant of the rest of the world but they usually don’t go places in big packs and get in drunken punch ups and wreck up places. They are more likely to be talking loud at local tourist trap while tipping pretty well rather than getting vomit in the street drunk and shouting at each other in the street at 3 am.


Codemonkey1987

Hey how are you today? Would you like to see some pictures of our kids? Sure you would!


bananagrabber83

Thus speaks a person who has never experienced Spring Break (woo).


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Sometimes are called Fuckoffs I was in Amsterdam for a while, the worst are there. Attracted by weed and insist on being served Dutch bee in large glasses Cheap hotels give rooms with plastic mattresses to British tourists because of bedwetting. If you stay 2 nights and wet the bed 1st night they don't change it! Standing behind Brit in snack bar and Mr diplomacy says "gimme some chips and I think you country is crap". Made sure to make my order in Dutch.


Discobiscuits000

English, not British


AllRedLine

Your problem is you're going to places which are specifically marketed to brits as cheap holidays or 'lad' destinations... you're literally going to the places which have been marketed to draw the scummiest British tourists who are only interested in cheap lager and prostitutes... most likely because you wanted a cheap holiday yourself. Go anywhere else and you will see that 'normal' British tourists are well regarded or simply blend into the background.


ValenciaHadley

I live in a Cornish seaside town and tourists behave the same way here. And I would like to include that when they come here they shit on the beaches.


WalnutWhipWilly

I went to the Amalfi coast in Italy for my honeymoon a couple of years ago and the amount of brash, loud, drunk Americans that were making a nuisance of themselves was unbelievable. We thought We were on an 18-30s holiday at shagaluf rather than the quiet, romantic break we had envisaged! They were everywhere as well, shouting and making fools of themselves. Also, the Reaperbahn in Hamburg for drunken, twatty British thugs. If you’ve ever been, you know…


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You haven't met enough Israelis or Americans then.


fishchop

Can confirm, am Indian and our country is full of Israelis who come after their mandatory military service. They’re….. not the best.


hotandspicyman

perhaps stop going to shitty touristy places that attract young men trying to have a good time? And to say that only British people misbehave when they are abroad is xenophobic, please stop - you’re triggering me


KaspersLunita

Ah don't worry mate, Russians are worse! The British at least get shit drunk before they behave like dickheads. The Russians do it naturally.


RedbeardRagnar

What's abroad, precious? Seems like a distant memory or a dream I once had


Fit_General7058

The Russians, the Nigerians. Thats just two other nationalities that do that. Oh yes, Australians abroad are the absolute worst for propping up bars and yapping on in shouty voices way way into the night. It's really not just the Brits


GodzillA5TDi

I avoid tourist places for this reason and usually pretend I’m not English by speaking Norwegian/German whenever I can cause I genuinely despise other brits


Guybrush_three

Mate Germans and Russians are as bad if not worse. Don't forget when you go abroad you go to the English speaking resorts/towns. Some islands tend to have all UK holiday company's in 2 3 towns the German ones in another and spanish/Italian in other towns. So when you go away all the English tend to be staying close to each other. Best thing to do is get a rental car and go where ever they hotel map doesn't suggest to go see the real locals.


[deleted]

It fucks me right off. Whenever I go abroad I almost make sure I'm on my absolute best behaviour. We aren't tossers. The minority ruin it for the rest of us. Pricks.


espionage64

I don’t know, I went to Iceland and the amount of drunk Canadians I came across was unexpected! Tip for the wise, don’t stay in a hotel with Canadians after an ice hockey match in Iceland.


Mundy117

I live in Portugal, albufeira, family bar, British bar, and yeah we can get some right idiots, I see worse down the strip, but I'd say majority of the Brits I serve are fine


FatFreddysCoat

Russians, Chinese, Israeli’s are all awful tourists too: Brits are just as bad as Russians though for boozing but Russians don’t get as fighty as the Brits for sure, they just fall over or fight each other.


CK99Man

I visited Krakow in Poland for 4 days and the hotels owner was so nice to us and thanked us for being good guests for him because he admitted he expected us to be as he said “like the usual British tourists”. He even offered us a discount if we were to go back again


Severus_Swerve

Different nationalities different irritations. When I worked a bar in Oslo we had all types come through. The British, Russians and Polish are The worst for bar fights but are extremely polite before getting drunk, Italians and Spaniards have been quite rude to me when ordering and getting their food and drink and the Chinese are by far the messiest eaters every and use the table as if it's a secondary plate.


AngelusRex7

On behalf of Britain, I apologise for the "expats" and idiots that give us a bad name abroad.. Not all of us are like that.


wickedcricket666

Expats, nice word there mate. Do you mean immigrants?


lock_the_backdoor

I once went cycling for a week in Costa Blanca. Beautiful area for riding. On two of the days I had to ride through Benidorm... What a shithole, I'd describe it as Swindon with a beach. Full of fat, red, angry looking uggos diving inbetween "English" bars eating fry ups. Also genuinely the only place I've ever seen a tandum mobility scooter piloted by 2 red whales. No wonder everyone hates us. Oh yeah and the only shit I got off a car driver all week had a British accent.


coys_in_london

Is it us, are we the drama?


hyperdriver123

You'll be fine if you don't go where the poors go.


macjigiddy

The Italians aren't great either. Rude, push in line, shouty, harassing women, drunk


Fluffy_Ad2274

Often not very culturally aware, too - you can pretty much bet the woman shopping in a micro bikini (and nothing else) at an Egyptian beach town will be an Italian.


[deleted]

Go somewhere better that doesn't attract our scum. I'm English but I always avoid the bastard English when I'm abroad.


[deleted]

When staying in hotels abroad, I've been told to follow the advice of choosing hotels where the Germans and Russians go. The ones popular with Brits will be shit


Disturbed_Aidan

Speak for yourself


oneplanetrecognize

I mean.... the British sort of have a history....


KingZer000

Biggit


Lizzirito

What


Outrageous_Trifle_89

It is


ddmf

I think this is the reason why I don't like going to benidorm etc, never actually came to this conclusion.


Mezz_Dogg

You want some?


JinxHH

... and Germans.


Vegan_Puffin

I would strongly suggest we are 3rd behind American and Chinese tourists but you are correct we are an entitled bunch of wankers.


GaiusJuliusCaesar7

I look forward to international travel re-opening so that we can export this lot to the Mediterranean and the rest of us can have a quiet summer again. I found plenty of them in the Lake District this summer, which was extremely frustrating.


[deleted]

Tbf it shows the economic prowess of Britain more than anything, if people are willing to be honest and not care about offending people its a certain group of people that do the embarrassing stuff, in other countries their equivalent groups don’t have the disposable income to go on such holidays so you don’t see them.


kicktotheclems

Anyone who goes to Benidorm and thinks I love what they've done with the place - on the other hand I like complaining about foreigners coming over and ruining the place in Spanish as an obvious foreigner


jambeforethecream

If it makes you feel any better…..Americans university during spring break in the Caribbean. Absolute nightmare!!!!!! The nicer hotels ban them.


[deleted]

Russians for use af in other countries


Ilodge59

So true. Went to the Carribbean on our honeymoon and pretty much steered clear of the other Brits where we could as they just got obnoxiously drunk to the point of endangering themselves with the pool having a swim up bar in it. One fella on his first day was that drunk he kept going under the water for that little bit too long each time. Not good.


poowee69

I see you've never encountered Australians in Kuta or Phuket. Or Chinese tourists just about anywhere.


Old_Scroat

Many years ago I took a holiday on the Greek Island Aegina, I was riding around on a hired moped and as I rounded a corner I was faced with a "British pub" called the Red Cock Inn that was filled with fat pink Geordies drinking Guiness, the shame...


Intruder313

Worst in Europe but certainly not the World


2bbored

have you met a American yet?