holiday hotels ...dress code ?

[MontyVeda]

no comment... we all have our strengths and weaknesses

 

[gbb]

no comment... we all have our strengths and weaknesses

My first reaction reading winners post was...fcukwits, no idea, but then i thought, you cant lead a horse to water, and the sad thing is, they'll never know what they're missing, what a waste.
One of the abiding visual memories I will always carry with me were the teeming fish and beautiful coral we saw snorkelling up the coast from Sharm.
No english ? Apart from the manager in the Turkish hotel we didnt speak to one other British couple. We heard two couples on different occasions in the whole two weeks but they were just passers by, that was it,, no other British in the hotel, no other sightings outside. it would have been nice, but hey, we just enjoyed our own company and talking to locals. Anyway, plenty British people you meet on holiday, you wouldnt neccessarily want to spend time with, thats just the way it is.
Some people seem scared, scared to step out from the safety of what they know.

 

[MontyVeda]

being devil's advocate...

maybe there's something about a family enjoying their holiday in the gated and fenced compounds of the resort, by the pool, the only thing the kids can fall into is the pool, keep an general eye on them whilst getting a tan/reading a book/doing a crossword/etc. without fear of a shark, giant squid or Warlords from Atlantis emerging from the depths and threatening their sunny sedate security.

The person at Hurghada Airport that Winnershsaint met has got one up on me as i've never been to Egypt.

 

[Winnershsaint]

I have no real idea why so few Brits venture to the beach, personally I don't much care whether they do or don't, it is merely an observation based on a number of holidays in the same place. I take the point about the pool being a relatively secure environment, but it renders the Red Sea coast as just another hot sunny place to have a holiday and people just miss out on the real attraction, which is underwater.
Mind you the 'Russians' (According to the Brits a generically applied term for any eastern Europeans regardless of whether they are from Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia., Slovenia, Czech Rep etc) need to be educated about the effect of feeding reef fish bread and croissants. Most understood me when I politely asked them to stop doing so whilst snorkeling, but carried on regardless. One asked me why he should stop, another explained that is was for the children to see the fish and a German family asked to stop feeding them by a Dutch guy said they thought it was allowed because they'd seen the 'Russians' doing it.

When all is said and done the memory that will stick with me was the sight of that turtle feeding on the reef for around an hour, and eventually seeing it leave, swimming away so gracefully for such a large creature, that was a real privelage. TOTALLY DUDE!

 

[hopless500]

Mind you the 'Russians' (According to the Brits a generically applied term for any eastern Europeans regardless of whether they are from Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia., Slovenia, Czech Rep etc)
I, and no-one else I know (British or otherwise), have ever referred to any of the above list as Russians. Why would you. Russians are from Russia aren't they?

 

[pplpilot]

I hate the beach. Full of people with white teeth and tanned skin. I have white skin and tanned teeth. Really not my environment.

 

[Winnershsaint]

Mind you the 'Russians' (According to the Brits a generically applied term for any eastern Europeans regardless of whether they are from Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia., Slovenia, Czech Rep etc)
I, and no-one else I know (British or otherwise), have ever referred to any of the above list as Russians. Why would you. Russians are from Russia aren't they?

Bit of an overstatement I know. Probably just applies to Brits in the hotel rather than all British people. People in the hotel who hear eastern European languages being spoken in Egypt automatically assume they are Russian, especially if they are on the beach taking up the front row of sunbeds from 4:30 am onwards even if they are not there until 10 o'clock.

 

[Herr-B]

Are the Scandanavians a bit more relaxed ?

In response to this question, yes. I work for a Norwegian-owned company and whilst I'm expected to wear shirt and trousers my colleagues over the North Sea aren't, they just pitch up in jeans and a top, even the upper echelons dress down every day.