A large group of foreign tourists had a drunken party in a hotel in the resort region of the Algarve (southern Portugal). They vandalized their hotel rooms in the Algarve, urinated on the curtains, showed off their naked bodies, and scared other guests, the Express reported.
Loud guests stayed at Hotel José, Regina Apartments near Albufeira’s Old Town. Most of the tourists are believed to be from Wales, although the group also included tourists from Peterborough and Redditch. According to the owner of the hotel Jose Cerquier, the British have already arrived drunk from the airport. After checking into the hotel, they continued drinking. Soon the guests began to make noise. In addition, the hotel owner reported that they vandalized their rooms, urinated on the curtains, and displayed their “charms” to other guests. The drunken party lasted several days.
The 66-year-old owner witnessed the drunken antics and said that the next four nights and three days turned into a nightmare for him and his guests. The British became dangerous to others, so he called the police.
Here is a quote from the hotel owner, who also saw what was happening with his own eyes:
“It was serious hooliganism and it wouldn’t surprise me if they planned it on Whatsapp, they’ve done it before and they’ll do it again. Instead, my admin was waiting for a large family because one person had booked all three rooms with one credit card through Booking and we couldn’t tell who was coming. He called me when 20 drunken men in their twenties showed up last Wednesday and told me to come urgently.”
“They exposed themselves to the staff and female tourists, and I tried to convey to these guests in English that we would not let them into the rooms and called the police. They went to the pool with a large number of bottles of alcohol that they had brought with them and started smashing the bottles around the children who were swimming in the water. Everyone was scared. I first called the Albufeira site but the police said they were too busy to come and I had to call Farah.’
The police stood up for the brawlers and told the hotel owner that he was obliged to let the British in because they paid for accommodation. “During the next four days, they continued to scare the guests, behave scandalously and break everything. We couldn’t get in because they locked themselves and barricaded the door from the inside, saying they needed room service. We had the passport data of twenty of them, but when the police officers arrived, they found three other men who were not even registered,” Cerchiera was indignant.
After receiving no help from the police, the hotel owner contacted the British Foreign Office on the emergency number and reported the following:
“We have faced a lot of financial damage that has been done to us, but we are trying our best to replace the broken door and I have had to close the apartment I usually rent until I can fix it. And I worry about the damage to the aparthotel’s reputation and the negative reviews on social media because it could be much worse. I am 66 years old and have never faced this situation. I am making my complaints public because I don’t want these people to repeat their behavior elsewhere if they get away with it. Portuguese law forbids me to mention their names, although of course I would be happy to do so. But I intend to speak to the British Consul about what happened to see if they can do anything. I have a secretary in reception who is originally from Angola and he says he never experienced anything like it during the civil war there.’
Earlier, DIP wrote that “Nobody has started to serve tourists in hotels in Europe: the staff no longer wants to work in tourism.”