In Reply to: JBR 4 Seminyak - First Day posted by Coco on Wednesday, 19. July 2006 at 07:36 Bali Time:
We really like Bali Ayu for position and general stuff and also find the rooms to be fine. We will be staying again next month for a week. I read your report on Mics forum and have experience similar. I haven't been able to work out why it is that we run accross fellow "Aussies behaving badly" there more often that we do generally. I know it's cheap but we always stay cheap most of the time and haven't had this happen.
This is in no way a reflection on the staff or hotel both of which are lovely in our opinion.
Twice we have come accross cringingly bad behaviour and both times by men who were old enough to know better. The first time was a middle aged bloke from Perth who just found he had to boast loudly (very loudly) to the staff about his sex life and the hookers he had used. I reckon empty vessels make the most noise and that he was just a legend in his own mind but God he was a pain!!! It ended with him scattering condoms all over and behind the bar. Like a teenager who thought he had just invented sex really. I managed to keep my mouth pretty much shut which does not really come naturally to me. Maybe I should have said something, I don't know. He was enough to make you pretend to be American!!!!
The next time, another loud mouth should know better middle aged bloke with his girlfriend. Same story, loud, loud, loud and making over the top crude comments to the young female staff. I don't mean lighthearted teasing, I mean going too far. In the end I couldn't take it and had to tell him that it it was really rude to be wagging his finger in a young trainee's face and loudly telling him he should show respect to a fellow guest (who was sliding down in his seat in embarassment) and that to show this respect he must use the hand together upraised above the head gesture that the Indians call Namaste. Don't know what they call it in Bali. Of course it was a waste of breath because he was one of those blokes who knows it all. "know all **** all" I heard him called by a fellow guest. I walked away but I'm fairly sure that that trainee wasn't going anywhere til he did what he was told.
Has anyone got an opinion on why this happens and what could/should you do? I feel bad for the staff and embarassed by a fellow countryman on these occasions.
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