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Tourists on a naked rampage in the Ljubljanica River, Ljubljana. (full size)
Prague-based blogger Scotty Mac recently posted a story about the Czech capital’s plan to crack down on "drunken Britons," whose rowdy benders are turning the city of spires into the city of stag parties. According to this story, roughly 700,000 mostly British "beer and sex" tourists materialized in the city last year, where they accounted for 20% of all weekend crime. Why Prague? Well, as one Englishman told Prague TV:
"We’ve come for a weekend to get drunk. It’s not really a culture
visit. We chose Prague because it was at the end of an EasyJet route."
Over at Baltic Blog, Scott points out that Estonia has also become an EasyJet stop, and that as a result, the "restaurants in Old Town have started banning groups of Brits from their
establishments. The cleanup bills aren’t worth the business."
This April, EasyJet started offering daily service from London to Ljubljana, with fares starting at 15 euros. However, the route is expected to take no more than 90,000 passengers a year (in both directions) and is therefore nowhere near the intensity of the British invasion of Prague. This isn’t to say, though, that the British presence hasn’t been felt yet.
EasyJet’s official guide to Slovenia has this to say about the capital:
"During the day, you should not miss a chance to stroll
through the Old Town, along the Ljubljanica river or enjoy the lively
open market."
The picture above shows some EasyJet turisti taking that advice. Here they are again, and once more. (I’m indebted to marko7 at Sloreactor for the pictures.)
If the Czechs really do end up turning away British tourists with stricter measures, Ljubljana may actually have a good chance of becoming the new Prague. I’m not sure they’d want to, though.
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Ljubljana is already “the new Prague” and it doesn’t need a couple of uncivilized, uncouth, drunken Brits to achieve that. (Prague can keep them)
Good point however as a Slovenian I really don’t care what the British think!
Brits cant hold their booze and should
stay home and barf at the local bars.
Slovene drunks have more style than Brits
There’s a poetical portrait of Ljubljana on Google.
THE MARKET AND THREE BRIDGES
Andreja
Hold on a moment - not all Brits fly to places to trash them and return home to a ‘civilised’ existence.
I have huge respect for the architecture and history of most of the Eastern European countries…I have had a chance to visit many of them, as I work for easyJet and get staff travel.
Please don’t tar us all with the same brush!
drunken brits are teh gay
A British friend was asking me why we Europeans wanted Britain to be in the EU so much. After all, she said, they are eurosceptic conservative rude islanders and the worst tourists.
I remember my first trip to Prague…back in 1991 when it was the CZECHS who consumed large amounts of alcohol and vomitted over themselves in the street….where does the time go?
ou have our sympathies and apologies. As was said earlier many of us do appreciate the history and culture of Slovenia. To be fair to easyjet prices do make it more inviting for everyone to visit not just the “drunken Britonsâ€?.
Unfortunately many of my fellow countrymen don’t seem to be able to drink or not act like complete idiots.
Maybe we should have a test before issuing passports and send all those who fail to the countries we seem to be starting unnecessary wars against (cheaper than the army and more effective ;-).
Try again the first word is You (sorry - v tired).
Ljubljana sounds like a fun place to party. Where do I sign up?
If foreign drunks are a problem, arrest them and charge them large amounts of money to get out of jail in time for their flights home. You could make the payment a security that they will appear in court two Wednesdays (purposely choosing the middle of the work week) from the date of arrest. The foreigners will pay to get out and home, and they will not see their money again unless they can manage to come back to town in the middle of the week, which is unlikely. Even if they do show up, they’ve put more money into the economy by staying or returning for the Wednesday hearing. In any case, they will not be back. And, now that I look at the pictures here, use the extra money to clean up graffiti.
The Brits are the *worst* tourists? What about Americans?
The Brits are the *worst* tourists? What about Americans?
It looks like Emmy beat me to it. Which is worse? Large groups of uncouth individuals flipping their cookies in the street or large groups of loud fat people in louder shirts pointing fingers at the “funny” locals and pointing their fingers a lot?
I guess I have to vote for my fellow countrymen being the worst tourists. After all, after a hard day of pointing the “quaint” locals, they can hit the town in large groups (wearing the loud clothes!) and flip their cookies in the street.
Please, please, please get this right.
“Britain” doesn’t exist as a single place - there are three nations which make up Britain, Scotland, England and Wales.
Ask anyone who has been to an international football event, and they will tell you… It’s the English that are the problem. Violent, racist, nazi thugs who care *nothing* about the local population and just want to get drunk and start fights.
The Welsh and the Scots… just want to be everyone’s friends - we get drunk and SING, not get drunk and fight. We don’t smash the place up, we dance in the streets.
Please, please, please, don’t tar us as “british”. It’s a horrible badge that isn’t fair on us.
Ask where these people are from - if the answer is “en-ger-land” then you know you have a problem. If they are from Scotland or Wales, you have nothing to fear - just some new friends to make.
Mmm. I don’t know how the reputation of my country’s tourists is there days, but I know back in the day some made the habits of a Finnish ’sikaturisti’ (pig tourist) pretty well known in parts of Europe. Loud and very, very, very drunk.
Once again sweeping racist generalising about the English.Talk of the BNP one of the smallest far right parties in Europe.Yes we have drunks but so does every other country.We also have tourists like myself that go to savour the delights that travel brings neither are the English role-models ,we are just English
To the Welsh writer,we understand that travelling isn’t your thing-why travel when there is a sheep in a nearby field to make love to.And the Scottish don’t have to travel to get pissed-though enough pissed up jock travel south to appear on Trisha.
I’ll tell you this; when I’ve been abroad and have seen British tourists misbehaving, the well-behaved Brits didn’t bother themselves to tell the yobs to cut it out.
That kind of thing goes a long way in showing the locals that the foreigners aren’t all of one type.
Easyjet needs to start running these tourists to Canada. They would learn what real drinking is all about.
The English are rude. Proof: Brisey
David
brisey, take your head out of the sand.
During the last world cup, more than eighty English were arrested for rioting. in the same time TWO scots were arrested - for fighting each other.
Valaraki is considering introducing a cap on the number of English tourists, and a surcharge to help pay for the damage and extra policing that is involved in handling these thugs.
of course not all english behave like animals - just a much larger percentage than other nations.
Accepting that Americans (my family, if they ever left thier trailors…would no doubt shame me…) are loud, obnoxious and ignorant in most cases (fortunately its not too much a problem as Greyhound doesnt run an $80 return to Prague from Atlanta…) are pretty damn bad, and yes the English (my husband and the small educated mass that resides in the South of England…)are mostly racist, dirty thugs that boo other nation’s national anthems at football matches, only as the appetizer for thier upcoming riot…) Lets not forget University students from ANY country that like spend thier parents money flying to places where its cheaper to drink. The worst hooligans in this category (after the English and Irish) are the Spanish…While we are creating the perfect stereotypes, lets not forget this loud, mostly friendly but irritatingly attractive group of University students have dinner at ten at night, go out to drink at midnight, and like to sing loudly at 5am…
The Most Irritating Tourists.
Here in Slovenia, that prize goes to Italians who have that amazing ability to be annoyingly loud and uncivilized.
Have they ever heard of the word “subtlety”?
Ian,
To say that only 2 Scots were arrested in the previous World Cup rather ignores the fact that they didn’t qualify.
Try the statistic that 62% cases of domestic violence in Scotland involves Alcohol,32% on drugs and 87% of the drug users also involved alcohol.
I was not trying to be rude but the tone of the postings are anti-english rather that anti-drunken teenage yob.The second half of my posting was suppose to be ironically sarcastic.
Cheers
As an American the only thing I can say is I’m glad to see a people that suck more than us!
God bless the Schenken Treaty!
It could be a HELL of a lot worse. The visitors COULD be Americans on holiday! GOD!
Worst tourists?
Bosnians–because they come but they don’t leave…
United Kingdom?
Shouldn’t that be “Disunited Kingdom”
Eh, I’ve seen disrespectful tourists from almost every nationality represented in the above comments. There will always be good and bad with any visiting nationality, so try not to hold a grudge on account of a bunch of idiots.
If you go abroad and act nice, you most likely will be treated nicely. Both sides of the Atlantic could use a reminder of that.
Besides, you Slovaks should hear what the Russians say about you guys.
Slovaks?
What drug are you on?
For those of you out there who are either ignorant, stupid or on some illicit substance here is a quick lesson.
Lesson No.1: This site is about Slovenians.
Lesson No.2: Slovenia and Slovakia are two different countries, like Austria and Australia.
Anyway, I don’t hold grudges against anyone except idiots like you Brian!
Tourists in Slovenia who need to “lighten up” and not take themselves too seriously.
Germans and Australians ….oops only joking ….I mean Austrians!
Besides, you Slovaks should hear what the Russians say about you guys.
Another reason why we should stick with saying the way more popular “Slovenian” instead of “Slovene” (being phased out everywhere, but too slowly).
yanks are wankers
fucking ignorant stupid american wankers
You guys. Can’t even figure out the joke…you know, the crossed out portion of the banner? Haha! Calling me ignorant, and you idiots can’t even see what’s right in front of you.
/And I thought Parisians were pissy.
Viva America. I can’t wait to wear my George W. Bush “Victory” t-shirt and neon sunglasses around town and gawk at everyone.
The funniest thing about Europeans and Americans is this: Americans get so sensetive whenever Europeans call them slobs, yanks, wanks, whatever, for no real reason.
The truth is that every nation in Europe trashes each other nation in kind in order to feel better about themselves…to convince themselves that their cheese curdles, odd-shaped bugels or genetic stock is somehow so superior to those 10 km away.
We’re onto your game, you rogues.
We just don’t care anymore and enjoy looking at all of your moments and going full out ugly american rather than halfassing it.
Call it “Shock and Awe.”
alright, you’ve succeeded in dragging me into this, i’m a casino dealer in las vegas and have been for a dozen years and i see more numerous and culturally varied tourists than just about anyone on the planet. what is painfully necessary to point out is that you’re all a bunch of uncivilized, boorish, loudmouthed, ignorant, insensitive assholes. noone holds the world title of worst overall tourist, though a point needs to be made; you are all every bit as irritating as the ugliest american. i don’t point, don’t gawk, take a genuine interest in local history and am a well-educated, well-behaved, well-mannered drunken lout who NEVER vomits on himself in public. thanks for the education.
The Brits pay for the beer don’t they? So whats everyone getting up tight for. I could care less if someone wants to run around bare ass.
ok-i don’t care where the hell you all are from, but stay the hell out of slovenia. don’t ruin that country and all the hot, sexy slovene men that live there. p.s. the british aren’t that bad (just not as sexy as slovene)
But we never complain about prices of food in restaurants or the quality of service like I have seen in other countries :O
why even travel, when you can complain about obnoxious foreigners right
here on the internet? it’s so much cheaper. seriously, you
can find drunken idiots in every country i’ve been to so far.
there’s no sense in holding a competition. human beings on the
whole are an obnoxious, disgusting species.
I don’t know if that ‘Brisey’ still visits the site to see he posted the worst comment of all. He has no opinion on the main subject. Just attackin the welsh and scots for nothing and insulting with beastsex remarks (maybe he indulges on that). Hey, pal, you make no favour to the English image.