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Brit passengers on four-hour flight to Turkey drink entire plane dry in 25 minutes (www.lbc.co.uk)
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SunExpress’s German-American boss Max Kownatzki told trade publication TTG that one special flight operated by the Turkish airline for a group of Brits on a golfing break was drunk dry in the space of 25-minutes.

He said Brit travellers are “more high-spend, more hedonistic.”

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[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, Brits on holiday are baaad. I say this as a Brit who cringes at this largely accurate stereotype.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think it's the same to some extent for every nationality, but brits do have the worst reputation.

I talked to a Finnish guy who went from bartending in Estonia to bartending in Finland. He says he HATED having Finnish customers here in Estonia. Now in Finland they're all the nicest people and barely even get drunk.

We all just want to do abroad what we don't feel comfortable doing at home. Let loose like there's no tomorrow.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago

I think it's largely about the mindset that people have when going on holiday. Like Brits in Amsterdam, in the initial example, they're often there to get fucked up, which makes them bad even by tourist standards. Finns visiting Estonia have a similar reputation because booze prices are ridiculously expensive in Finland, so it's not uncommon for there to be a mini booze cruise over to Estonia and back, sometimes literally just to purchase the alcohol, and sometimes to get drunk and also bring some booze back.

Finland drinking culture reminded me of the UK actually in a few ways, in the prevalence of binge drinking specifically. Finns on average are less bad than Brits for this, but it's the mentality of the binge that's bad.