German tabloid mocks UK tourists

[DuVeL]

For your delectation boys and girls and to urge any of you who holiday abroad this year to hurl any german twols into the pool at evey opportunity!

Germany's tabloid newspaper, Bild, has printed a list of holiday resorts to avoid - those dominated by the British.

This comes after a British man was awarded £750 (953 euros) after suing his travel company over a holiday at a resort filled with Germans.

Bild quotes a German legal expert saying that Germans holidaying in all-British resorts would not have the same opportunity of suing.

It goes on to poke fun at British cuisine, drinking-habits and sport.

David Barnish, 47, was awarded compensation last week for a holiday in Greece which he argued had been spoilt by the number of German tourists and the fact that all the activities were organised in the German language.

Penalty jibe

Bild points out that Germans will find it hard to get their money back if they find their hotel overrun with Britons.

"Even if the travel company announces in the brochure that the resort is 'favoured by Germans', the tourist has to accept the possibility that he will spend his holidays with up to 90% foreigners - above all with the English," Uta Stenzel, a legal expert, told the paper.

Bild recommends avoiding the best-known destinations for British holidaymakers and lists the top six 'black spots' as the Bay of Palma in Majorca, San Antonio in Ibiza, Playa de las Americas in Tenerife, Ayia Napa in Cyprus, Faliraki on the Greek island of Rhodes and Malia in Crete.

Just in case the Germans have a problem identifying British tourists abroad, Bild has a guide on its online version, illustrated with an unappealing photo of two sunburnt women on sun chairs.

It also ridicules British cuisine, binge-drinking, fashion and sport, says that "athletically they are not up to much, they can't even take penalties" and points out that Austria and Switzerland - the hosts of this summer's Euro 2008 football championships - will be largely British-free zones this year as no British teams have qualified.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7433905.stm

[smilodon]

It's a very fair point and I think the Germans have got it about right. In fact  both countries are a complete disaster when they go abroad. We sort of deserve each other. If we make sure we go to the same resorts then at least the rest of Europe can go somewhere else and enjoy themselves.

[DuVeL]

Lol, what I find anoying when on holidays is that the Germans usually put their towels over chairs and such early in the morning to "reserve" them.
 
Have a read about that here;
http://www.eursoc.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/1883/Leave_Your_Beach_Towels_At_Home.html
and here;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/aug/08/germany.travelnews
 
"There is a certain type of German tourist who does it, the same type who when they are on the beach builds a little wall with shelves and so on to protect their spot."
 
BTW, I'm not meaning this any offensive towards our German forummembers

[T-Bag]

Stereotypes are generally based on fact. I've been on holidays where Germans have reserved sun loungers. And I also know British people who'll refuse to eat anything different on holiday to what theeat back home (which is usually Chips & /).
Both annoy me, being Britsh the idea of reserving something which other people will use on a busy day is just rude, and going to another country and expecting it to be Britan but sunnier is just as rude.

[Penfold]

The British are just as bad at putting towels on sun loungers imo.

I'm embarrassed about the Brits abroad - I wouldn't go to any of those resorts cited so I'm not surprised that the Germans don't want too either.

PEN

[Jamoe]

Agree, its just rude, whoever does it. But it only annoys me if its against hotel policy to do so.

As for only eating British food that doesn't bother me so much. I've been to places where all they offer is British food. My wife is a very fussy eater, shes not very good with "new" things. Me, I'll try anything once.

But, I've never seen the point in going to a different country and sitting around a pool.

[Luminance]

I hope there won't be any of those brits and germans in the Dominican Republic from 10th to 26th of august, after reading this all :S


btw i thoughed it was custom here in Holland too to leave towels, though i've never done it, and get aggrivated to when i see em with no owner around for hours.

[smilodon]

Actually I don't get the towels on the sun lounger thing. I go down to the pool in the morning. There is a towel on the lounger. I take the towel off the lounger and put it on another lounger or on the floor. I lay on the lounger. Job done.

[Dingo]

I hope there won't be any of those brits and germans in the Dominican Republic from 10th to 26th of august, after reading this all :S

That's where they all go, peak season for both countries, and their favourite destination.......looks like you will be laying in the sand!!:crying:

[Luminance]

That's where they all go, peak season for both countries, and their favourite destination.......looks like you will be laying in the sand!!:crying:

NOEEZZZ,

Ah well, if all is going as planned i'm going to hire a towel boy to lay on our loungers whole morning.

They only charge 1 dollar an hour :flirty:

[Dingo]

NOEEZZZ,
 
Ah well, if all is going as planned i'm going to hire a towel boy to lay on our loungers whole morning.

Is that what they call themselves nowadays!!:norty:

[Luminance]

you got me confused there


As for the towel boy, maybe i'll go get a towel lady for 3 dollars an hour

[Benny]

Where's the uproar? The nationalism that sees us through hard times, Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton, Airy Neave (sp?)? We deserve better.  

The only foreigners I don't like are the ones from other countries, with their traveling and differences. Gibraltar, that's a holiday.