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I was just reading tripadvisor and saw this written about the hotel I stay in in Alicante:

Once restaurant closes there's no where to get one it should cater for us Brits incl fry up at breakfast. Brits don't eat cheese & ham for brekky.

It made me chuckle. You pay to go to a foreign country and are disappointed that the hotel doesn't serve a fried breakfast???!!!!
As for saying Brits don't eat cheese for "brekky". b******t!
Some people just shouldn't travel if they don't want to experience the local flavours!
 
One year on Camp Site we were just parking up on in the North of Portugal - where we were known and normally given a river bank spot [ normally kept for the locals ;) ]

An elderly female came rushing up to us having spotted our British number plate , and said she could tell us about the supermarket where you could get PROPER Sliced bread for toast !! We just said thank you - didn't dare look at each other or the Camp Guardian [ as he was termed] as we normally brought back his bread, as well as our own,from the bakery in the square outside the Site , every morning . There's nothing quite like wonderful fresh rolls for breakfast.

That wee wifie continued to talk to us in 'Capital Letters' for the next three days till she went .
 
Also don't worry about learning a language just shout and leave long gaps between the words. If that fails just moan about why the stupid locals can't speak English

Off topic a bit (sorry OP) just remembered an Amazon review that made me laugh.
Flash drive was given one star because the fool protected it with a password then promptly forgot it, obviously a design fault.
 
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I've travelled a bit more since getting married and it does surprise me the similarity of breakfast items - cereal, cooked breakfast items, toast, fruit and yoghurt, and "local".
 
omens said:
I've travelled a bit more since getting married and it does surprise me the similarity of breakfast items - cereal, cooked breakfast items, toast, fruit and yoghurt, and "local".
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That sounds like a typical hotel selection. With regards to the hotel above, I stay room only and will breakfast in one of the local places and have a local breakfast. Which is just delicious!
 
I'm quite happy with the continental breakfast food, but if they don't have proper tea (and I do not mean Liptons in this context) and expect me to drink coffee, then it's a disaster :p
 
I was once sat in the restaurant of a hotel in Spain when a huge brash woman and her other half sat at the table next to me. She was tucking into a massive plate of chips with bread and butter and commented " at least they got proper food here".
 
I suppose we've all come across the Brit stereotypes who want a fry up wherever they go, but I suppose it's their holiday and it doesn't really bother me what other people eat.

We've spent most of our adult lives outside the UK. Western hotels and some other places in Hong Kong offered the usual British/American breakfasts, but I always enjoyed 'yum cha' (literally 'drink tea' but served with dim sum) in the morning. South Africa also follows British/American traditions, with variations and additions, but Continental breakfasts are easy to come by and some hotels/coffee shops have spectacular buffets with just about everything you could possible fancy.

I'll have the occasional cooked breakfast, but I prefer Eggs Benedict with smoked salmon or a spicy Indian omelette to bacon and eggs. We usually have yoghurt and fruit at home though. No tea, always coffee.
 
Ricardodaforce said:
Indeed, but negatively reviewing a foreign hotel because it doesn't offer a fry up just isn't right.
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No, it isn't, and I agree with you, but I take Trip Advisor with a pinch of salt. There have been quite a few complaints of shill posts, and chancers threatening a poor review if they didn't get a freebie. I've also seen a lot of mind bogglingly stupid 'reviews' for places I know, so I tend to assume that the same applies to a lot of other venues too!
 
What I would say is Americans, Canadians are just as bad if not worse. The first time I stayed in Mexico about a week into the holiday they stopped delivering papers to the rooms in the morning. My brother in law asked one of the staff why and they said the Americans and Canadians were away home and the British weren't as moany basically so they stopped them.

After many years of my parents trying to persuade me to go to Turkey I finally relented and went a couple of years ago with the family. The hotel had loads of Russian tourists there and I've never came across place like it. We were all inclusive and they would stand there whilst the food was being grilled and take platefuls of everything emptying the place and not give a second thought to the people next to them in the queue. It was horrendous. I waited with my son in a buggy for a lift to open and when it did about 10 of them jumped in front of us and I couldn't get in. They were smoking everywhere and ignoring the Turkish staff when told to stop.

I think the Brits abroad can be embarrassing but no more so than a few other nationalities. At least some of them are idiots with manners !!!!! haha
 
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scottduffy said:
I waited with my son in a buggy for a lift to open and when it did about 10 of them jumped in front of us and I couldn't get in.
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Same thing happens at Tate Modern, despite there being escalators as well as lifts. Gets right on my nerves, so it does.
 
onomatopoeia said:
I'm quite happy with the continental breakfast food, but if they don't have proper tea (and I do not mean Liptons in this context) and expect me to drink coffee, then it's a disaster :p
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Worse than being expected to drink coffee for breakfast is being supplied with luke-warm water and a tea bag.
 
A couple of years ago I read one of the reviews on Tripadvisor for the hotel we were going to where the reviewer complained the food in the restaurant 'was too Greek' .
How dare a hotel in Crete serve Greek food and very nice food it was too. [emoji6]
 
Trip advisor is about as reliable for providing a true representation of a business as Viz is for serious news.
 
viv1969 said:
Trip advisor is about as reliable for providing a true representation of a business as Viz is for serious news.
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No, I think it gives a good guide if read with common sense and picking out the idiots.
 
Weirdly enough I rarely eat breakfast ,and probably the wife will do me egg and bacon about 3 to 4 times a year as a treat ,now when I was in eygpt a few years ago you couldn't get bacon anywhere ,so what's the one thing you could kill for ,yep a full English .i do believe one enterprising English lad moved out to sharm el sheik and started a English cafe importing bacon and black pudding but that's surely gone tits up now
 
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the black fox said:
....now when I was in eygpt a few years ago you couldn't get bacon anywhere ,so what's the one thing you could kill for ,yep a full English .i do believe one enterprising English lad moved out to sharm el sheik and started a English cafe importing bacon and black pudding but that's surely gone tits up now
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The Union Jack pub in Nabq Bay serves full English breakfasts... :-)
 
Could be the one
 
Ricardodaforce said:
I stay room only and will breakfast in one of the local places and have a local breakfast. Which is just delicious!
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The "local" one to me a few years ago, the "Local" breakfast was a coffee, cigar and a brandy.
It was OK for awhile :D
 
I agree about some bits, but sometimes the reverse is true too. We've just returned from Spain, we ate one night at a nice restaurant overlooking the sea, good food and service. Ate at the same place a few nights later, nice table overlooking the sea again. All going well when a local Spanish family group arrive, 9 adults sit on one table and put all the kids (5-12 year olds) on a separate table, who then proceeded to shout, bend the cutlery and play chase around the whole place while their parents just carried on eating without any regard for any of the other diners, most of whom were not impressed.
 
I guess it is fair enough if people really want a full English breakfast. There are plenty of people who like that kind of thing and I can imagine that if you do you'd like to know they don't can't see the problem with that.

I've had once a package holiday in Mallorca and the hotel did full fried breakfast and chips in the morning. It made my stomach turn. Knowing that is for me enough to not go there. It got worse as all tables were allocated, so you had to sit in the same place all the time. And then the dress code was trousers in the evening; oh man seeing man in long trousers with a vest top may be cool when you are Jason Derulo and have the toned body to go with it. But the typical obese middle aged Brit doesn't look good in a vest. Not allowing me entry in chino shorts and polo shirt when it is 35 degrees is just madness.

And then there is the swearing of Brits abroad; f*** this and f*** that. Never forget when we were in Spain and a family arrived in the Villa below us. Driven across in their brand new BMW X5, their son got out of the car and dives straight in the pool with clothes on. Good on him. Except his Mum went into a rant and addressed her own son as you little f*****g c***. Heard across the whole valley. My wife joined me in speaking Dutch for the rest of the time.

Ah well, we didn't let it bother us. Holiday is a time of relaxation. In the hotel we decided to just eat out all the time, and we never exchanged a word with the family below. Just put the stereo on loud and have a pool party :)
 
Cobra said:
The "local" one to me a few years ago, the "Local" breakfast was a coffee, cigar and a brandy.
It was OK for awhile :D
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I find that the cigars usually served give me heartburn. Maybe I should dunk them in the brandy to put them out and chew them more...

A traditional Cretan breakfast is a coffee and a cigarette followed by another coffee.

Where we stay, the other nationalities seem to swear more than the Brits. In English as well as their native tongues!
 
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