dutch danish german people

[tezmand]

i know im gonna get my head bit off but im in gran canaria at moment on holiday and the hotel im staying in is mainly dutch german and danish people and i have never met such ignorant rude and unfriendly people . they never reply when i say good morning to them dont smile as you hold door open for them they push past when at the buffet for dinner and one couple actually got up and put our umbrella down that we were sunbathing under because their feet were in the shade of it , all they had to do was push there sunbed back a touch, needless to say we put it back up so my 17 yr old daughter got called a fat woman is it just me experiencing this

[jno]

Once my car broke down in a Greek campsite. A vanful of young Germans (who had all sorts of tools and were probably ready to drive across the Sahara) came rushing over, helped me fix it, then took me out for dinner. I never even found out their names, but I've always felt good about Germans since then.

[Androcles]

Perhaps they thought you were a gang of British Yobs about to start getting roaring drunk, baring your backsides and fornicating in the pool......... See what Gnome meant about stereotyping.......?

[KARL]

Sadly, people of all nationalities can be found exhibiting disappointing behaviour when on holiday, most especially those among the package holiday brigades, but they are always an unrepresentative sample of the majority of their fellow nationals. One is inclined to notice such behaviour and it creates a disproportionately negative impression. I agree with previous replies here.

[Mosaic]

The behaviour you describe reminds me very much of the middle class Brits I encountered on a posh campsite in the Dordogne. Rude, arrogant, ignorant, sun-bed-grabbing yobs in volvos.
You find all sorts in all nationalities - and I think sometimes people act oddly on holiday.

[Hymie]

It’s always dangerous to generalize national traits based on personal experience of a small number of people.

But many years ago when I was on holiday in Barbados, the Germans staying at the complex had a guaranteed way of ensuring that they always got a sunbed – and that was to take a sunbed into their room at the end of the day.

[craft1948]

I must admit that on a holiday in Tunisia the germans certainly lived up to their bagging the sunbeds profile

[Mosaic]

..and they DO keep losing world wars, you think they'd learn.

[Mosaic]

Mosaic, that was so very cheap.

[baremission]

I've always found the Germans to be by far the nicest of all European nationalities, I think you just got unlucky. The dutch and danes always seem jolly friendly too actually.
They're probably wondering why the British(?) man/woman (sorry i don't know your credentials) is in on holiday and yet is sitting on the computer...

[craft1948]

I've always found the dutch to be very nice on holiday..........indeed I have very fond memories of 6'5" Robin........................

[ConfusedCH]

I live in Germany and can confirm that most are rude arrogant and unfriendly people. 100percent true.

[tezmand]

thanks for your answers guys bare mission i am female, and was with my 17yr old daughter i was on computer while on holiday because i needed to keep in touch with hubby left at home and was having a break from the hot sun. wud of thought they wudnt class me as a drunken yob from england androcles. i am 46 and not into getting drunk lol.thanks confusedch for agreeing with me at least i know its not just me. seems funny some answered that you cant tar them all with the same brush yet the most of the hotel acted the same maybe all the ignorant ones holiday together lol

[tezmand]

llucythomas7 whats it like up there on your very high pedistal must be nice to be perfect but hey i bet you very lonely

[tezmand]

also lucy this site isnt here for people like you to throw insults arounds or perhaps you are about 7 yrs old and dont know any better