'Black Spots' for Tourists to Avoid...
 

The German tabloid Bild has listed the six most notorious destinations for British holiday makers so that Germans can avoid these places:

Bay of Palma - Majorca

San Antonio - Ibiza

Playa de las Americas - Tenerife

Ayia Napa - Cyprus

Faliraki - Rhodes (Greece)

Malia - Crete (Greece)

anyone who has ever been to a Benidorm (Spain) or other resort inundated by youngish Brits arriving for serious partying may want to avoid these places.

Hi Pal:

Old news for the Germans. Majorca is notoriously known for being "German" owned.

Ayia Napa, although very busy, has some wonderful beaches. I would still consider it in the shoulder season.

To be honest, a place popular with a lot of youngish Germans coming to party isn't necessarily unspoiled fun either. This is true for most places popular with youngish people coming to party, as long as you aren't young, on holliday and taking a cheap flight to the sun, with the only intention to party.

I can't say that I was always the responsible pillar of society I am today, so I don't judge them :-) Still it's good to have some distance to them.

The Bild article, which mocks British tourists and lists the 'black spots' came about as a reaction to a British court awarding damages to a Brit who went on holiday and argued that his visit had been spoiled by the amount of German tourists there as well as the fact (more importantly) that all the activities were organized in German language.

The Bild article goes on to (reports BBC) "ridicule British cuisine, binge-drinking, fashion and sport (saying athletically Brits are not up to much, 'they can't even take penalties' and goes on to point out that Austria and Switzerland, co-hosts of soccer's Euro 2008 championships will be largely British-free zones this year as no British team qualified."

Man i bet the Austrian and Swiss towns hosting the cup matches are sighing relief over that fact and will save a ton on extra security and damages Brit soccer hooligans are known to inflict on town centres.

There was a news story here a few days ago. A bloke booked a holiday and when he got there the place was crawling with the hun.

So once he got back he sued on the grounds that being surrounded by the boche is no holiday at all.

He won.

Having been almost everywhere in the world except South America (sorry - I'll get there sooner or later), I have been promising myself to go to one of those black spots one of these days, just because I love to people-watch, and the worse they are the better, at least in terms of people watching.

However, Bild would have been more honest if it had listed the black spots where people should avoid German/Austrian/Swiss tourists. One of my German Swiss friends has told me of a Spanish town where 80% of the houses are owned by this group (his parents have an apartment there) and he said it was the most disgusting place he had ever seen.

To be fair, the court settlement was about whether or not the tour company had supplied what they had advertised. I suspect it only came to court because the company wouldn't refund what the complainant considered enough.

Germans and Brits apparently have one thing in common - they are considered to be loud and boorish by locals it seems and other nationalities too.

The Mayor of Amsterdam recently said, about doing away with the Redlight District and loss of tourism as a result - that it would not be a loss to lose those drunken British tourists