A bit council (Vol 3)

[Funky Panda]

ferrariF50lover said:

Can we knock up a list of non-Council holiday destinations, please?

Sardinia, Norway, Switzerland, Rural France. I had an amazing weekend driving around Eastern Germany and the Czech Republic minus Prague.

[ReaperCushions]

S11Steve said:

My garage may well be "my space" and a little place of sanctuary and man-stuff, and I am not adverse to the idea of a dedicated "mancave/games room" in the house, but some of these are very council indeed

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/arti...

I'd say there was not a single one in there that wouldn't fall into the council bracket. Even the so called 'classy' ones were festooned with gaudy colours, huge TVs and pool tables.

Also, extra council points for storing small change in large whisky bottles. Ready to head down the local Asda Coinstar machine. Filth.

[Ari]

alorotom said:

Stickyfinger said:

Anything that takes physical effort, no close Irish Bar and has a lack of WiFi connection....

Certain Maldivian islands, Fiji, parts of Sri Lanka, Namibia, small parts of Thailand possibly, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore

Clacton.

[bigmowley]

ferrariF50lover said:

Can we knock up a list of non-Council holiday destinations, please?

Easy! Any ski resort. The ultimate no go areas for the great unwashed.
Very rare to see overweight types on the slopes, the effort to reward ratio is far to demanding during the learning process.
I have skied all over the world, including a little private resort in New Zeland which was stuffed full of naturists , and with the possible exception of that concrete bit full of litter and take always in the middle of three valleys its not a bit council.

Mind you I haven't done Bulgaria.

[alorotom]

Nope - It’s not the effort vs reward ratio that’s the difference, it’s just that councilistas prefer the sun, skin cancer, turning orangey brown and wrinkles over crisp snow and slopes

[FN2TypeR]

bigmowley said:

ferrariF50lover said:

Can we knock up a list of non-Council holiday destinations, please?

Easy! Any ski resort. The ultimate no go areas for the great unwashed.
Very rare to see overweight types on the slopes, the effort to reward ratio is far to demanding during the learning process.
I have skied all over the world, including a little private resort in New Zeland which was stuffed full of naturists , and with the possible exception of that concrete bit full of litter and take always in the middle of three valleys its not a bit council.

Mind you I haven't done Bulgaria.

Are middle class wannabes any better than the council brigade? Me thinks not, imagine being surrounded by the sort of people who read the guardian and the butt of the joke in the majority of Daily Mash articles

[rovermorris999]

FN2TypeR said:

Are middle class wannabes any better than the council brigade? Me thinks not, imagine being surrounded by the sort of people who read the guardian and the butt of the joke in the majority of Daily Mash articles

Very true. I had the misfortune to stay a couple of nights in an hotel on the south coast that had a golf course attached. The hotel and staff were lovely but the golfistas were almost exclusively loud brand-obsessed alpha types with trophy wives. They would have been nicer if they had been Alfa types.

[Bullett]

HTP99 said:

That's what I don't get about people holidaying in these places, wow you've been to Mexico, however you've stayed in an area that is like some chav seaside town in the UK, only the weather is a bit better, you haven't actually experienced Mexico at all, I just don't get it.

I quite agree. However, I have small children and so a holiday I'd prefer isn't really that practical. So a beach, pool, sun and food options are required
We did go out. The aforementioned Tulum was lovely, fab beach and interesting ruins. Also went swimming in a underground rive/cave/cenote which was amazing.


Downtown Cancun looked hideous.

[Meridius]

ferrariF50lover said:

Can we knock up a list of non-Council holiday destinations, please?

Anywhere that has even an ounce of culture, history, art, architecture, music involved in the place, those kind of things bore the council type to death. Its funny that parts of the Spanish coast are Carling can Irish pub council heaven but even somewhere as popular and well known as Barcelona barely attracts them at all.

[bobbo89]

ferrariF50lover said:

Can we knock up a list of non-Council holiday destinations, please?

Anywhere you need to make an effort with the language rather than relying on the locals to have learnt it for/from the masses.

[Mike335i]

Bullett said:

HTP99 said:

That's what I don't get about people holidaying in these places, wow you've been to Mexico, however you've stayed in an area that is like some chav seaside town in the UK, only the weather is a bit better, you haven't actually experienced Mexico at all, I just don't get it.

I quite agree. However, I have small children and so a holiday I'd prefer isn't really that practical. So a beach, pool, sun and food options are required
We did go out. The aforementioned Tulum was lovely, fab beach and interesting ruins. Also went swimming in a underground rive/cave/cenote which was amazing.


Downtown Cancun looked hideous.

I had a great time at Tulum when we where there, also enjoyed climbing up the Coba 'pyramid' (not sure if they still allow that). Didn't see Cancun, but Playa Del Carmen was full on Latin Skegness.

[BigMacDaddy]

FN2TypeR said:

bigmowley said:

ferrariF50lover said:

Can we knock up a list of non-Council holiday destinations, please?

Easy! Any ski resort. The ultimate no go areas for the great unwashed.
Very rare to see overweight types on the slopes, the effort to reward ratio is far to demanding during the learning process.
I have skied all over the world, including a little private resort in New Zeland which was stuffed full of naturists , and with the possible exception of that concrete bit full of litter and take always in the middle of three valleys its not a bit council.

Mind you I haven't done Bulgaria.

Are middle class wannabes any better than the council brigade? Me thinks not, imagine being surrounded by the sort of people who read the guardian and the butt of the joke in the majority of Daily Mash articles

Quite

[The Don of Croy]

New feature - gazebo with fairy lights.

Recently installed next door...

[DRFC1879]

S11Steve said:

My garage may well be "my space" and a little place of sanctuary and man-stuff, and I am not adverse to the idea of a dedicated "mancave/games room" in the house, but some of these are very council indeed

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/arti...

The West Ham one... in the bottom picture is that a framed photo of Jeremy Kyle on the wall? If so surely we have a council Top Trumps winner right there.

[Shakermaker]

Stickyfinger said:

Anything that takes physical effort, no close Irish Bar and has a lack of WiFi connection....

No close Irish Bar?

Everywhere seems to have an Irish Bar, there's one pretty much outside Dubai Airport in the desert...

I wonder if anyone has done a map projection which shows the point on Earth furthest away from an Irish Bar?

[Dog Star]

Algarve said:

You went to Lanzarote - what did you expect? You were only ever going to see the worst of the worst there.

It'd be like me wandering through Albufeira and saying wow all Brits must be like this.

I disagree - it simply depended where you were, it's a lovely place. Stay away from the "all-inclusive" crowd and it was another world. Almost every place we went to initially thought we were German.

The airport was worst - the OH noticed that there were almost no proper family units - so many were grandmother, daughter and kids. Where were the fathers (probably plural)?

[Dog Star]

bigmowley said:

Mind you I haven't done Bulgaria.

Speaking of Bulgaria and council, it's a long story but I'm FB friends with the Bulgarian lass in this article. She ticks all of the Dog Star requirements....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2205802/Po...

Mrs DS was going a bit mad about her "Who's this Russian bh!!!!?"

[alorotom]

Dog Star said:

I disagree - it simply depended where you were, it's a lovely place. Stay away from the "all-inclusive" crowd and it was another world. Almost every place we went to initially thought we were German.

The airport was worst - the OH noticed that there were almost no proper family units - so many were grandmother, daughter and kids. Where were the fathers (probably plural)?

Gran Canaria can be similar, we were taken for Russian on most occasions which was fine by me - stayed in a private gated community away from the crowds and hotels - was great

the airport was exactly the same as you describe - hoards of broken families kettled into Burger King shovelling in fries and burgrers like they were going out of fashion. this was simply avoided by using the exec lounge - where there was my wife and I plus our daughter, a couple in their mid-50s and a business man. it was quiet solitude - the ludicrous point being for the price of a family round of burgers they could have paid to access the lounge and had free food and booze - thankfully they arent clever enough to think in such a manner

[Road2Ruin]

alorotom said:

Gran Canaria can be similar, we were taken for Russian on most occasions which was fine by me - stayed in a private gated community away from the crowds and hotels - was great

the airport was exactly the same as you describe - hoards of broken families kettled into Burger King shovelling in fries and burgrers like they were going out of fashion. this was simply avoided by using the exec lounge - where there was my wife and I plus our daughter, a couple in their mid-50s and a business man. it was quiet solitude - the ludicrous point being for the price of a family round of burgers they could have paid to access the lounge and had free food and booze - thankfully they arent clever enough to think in such a manner

Using the word 'booze'....sorry let yourself down there...council.

[BBenzzz]

Whilst we discuss council tattoo's further back in the thread.. Spotted in Ibiza earlier this year

Cue me being accused as fellow councilist for sharing air with these people, I can assure you it'll be an AirBnB villa next time!