Pet hates when travelling

arthurdick

i see where you are coming from bob.
no pun intended;)

NMSE12

Ok i have more...
Passengers who look at you as an inconvinience because you have children and dare to take them abroad on holiday!

People who speak far to loudly and slowly to natives.

Paying £3+ for a bottle of water once you're trapped inside the airport.

People who crowd the gate, don't even que all kind of gather.

People who start of a queue at the gate unnecessarily early so then your not sat on an uncomfortable metal chair but instead stood in a line for an extra 30 minutes.

Transfers that insist on taking you to the airport 3-4hrs before flight.

Never knowing whether to tip or not.

aileth

Hotels with paper thin walls! Last year in Berlin we were kept up all night by a rather amorous German couple and had to fashion earplugs out of loo roll!!!!

We breathed a sigh of relief when it seemed to stop at 1am, could hear the sound of a shower, then when we started to doze off they started again!!!

Not that I'm jealous of their stamina, but....

Dirk_Gently_2

People who can't embrace the fact that they're somewhere different and take a risk to try something new or different - but instead want everything to be exactly like their home country and exactly what they know. Why travel anywhere if that's how you're going to be?

IMHO that's the whole secret behind Starbucks and other global chains - a bland, mediocre product, but the same consistently bland, mediocre product wherever you are in the world.

Dirk_Gently_2

Oh, and people who can't live the moment but who have to film or photograph everything or it hasn't happened.

Try experiencing things for real, with your own eyes - rather than seeing them all through a viewfinder or a tiny screen.

jackieblack

Dirk_Gently wrote: »

Oh, and people who can't live the moment but who have to film or photograph everything or it hasn't happened.

Try experiencing things for real, with your own eyes - rather than seeing them all through a viewfinder or a tiny screen.

Couldn't agree more
Or, even more infuriating, people who have to photograph everything on their phone/tablet then stand blocking everyone else's way while they instantly upload the photo to fakebook/twit-ter etc !!!!!!!

Experienced lots of this over Easter - best one, at Lincoln Memorial, person uploading photo turned to companion and said " What is this thing called, anyway" :eek: :mad:

aileth

Another one as people have mentioned before, people jumping up from their seats before the plane docked on landing.

The worst example I had of this was coming back from Columbo airport. The flight was still in the process of coming out of the sky when some got up and the hostesses had to shout and bawl at them to get back, so they perched on the side of the seats, plane hits tarmac, by the time it had reached its taxi destination almost the whole plane was up, some were so close to the door the air hostess couldn't actually open up and had to move them back!!!

zagfles

Dirk_Gently wrote: »

People who can't embrace the fact that they're somewhere different and take a risk to try something new or different - but instead want everything to be exactly like their home country and exactly what they know. Why travel anywhere if that's how you're going to be?

IMHO that's the whole secret behind Starbucks and other global chains - a bland, mediocre product, but the same consistently bland, mediocre product wherever you are in the world.

Yes - package holiday resorts aimed at the British are probably more British than Britain! Full English breakfasts, "English" pubs flying the union jack and advertising English beers, bars playing re-runs of Only Fools and Horses all day, where there are "foreign" restaurants/takeaways they tend to be Indians, Chinese etc, ie like a typical British high street.

Many years ago we went to Turkey, the place we were staying at was basically a British tourist village, there were Indian restaurants, Chinese, Italians, and two token Turkish ones which were usually almost empty - though they were very good! The Chinese and Indian restuarants next door were always packed!

You do wonder why some people bother to travel!

Doshwaster

zagfles wrote: »

Yes - package holiday resorts aimed at the British are probably more British than Britain! Full English breakfasts, "English" pubs flying the union jack and advertising English beers, bars playing re-runs of Only Fools and Horses all day, where there are "foreign" restaurants/takeaways they tend to be Indians, Chinese etc, ie like a typical British high street.

The most amusing things about these overseas "English" pubs are the menus. They are full of things like ham and cheese toasties, beans on toast and egg and chips. When did you last see those available in a pub here - sometime around 1980?

To be fair, there are Indian and Chinese resturants all over the world so that's not really a British thing.

aileth

zagfles wrote: »

Yes - package holiday resorts aimed at the British are probably more British than Britain! Full English breakfasts, "English" pubs flying the union jack and advertising English beers, bars playing re-runs of Only Fools and Horses all day, where there are "foreign" restaurants/takeaways they tend to be Indians, Chinese etc, ie like a typical British high street.

Many years ago we went to Turkey, the place we were staying at was basically a British tourist village, there were Indian restaurants, Chinese, Italians, and two token Turkish ones which were usually almost empty - though they were very good! The Chinese and Indian restuarants next door were always packed!

You do wonder why some people bother to travel!

I went to a British pub in tokyo. The only thing British about it was the fact it looked like coronation street inside. The menu looked like something from benidorm....no British beers either... so I suppose it was fairly accurate