There was a large number of German tourists in Playa de Palma last weekend. They had come for a "fiesta" that the hoteliers and police knew nothing about. While the number of visitors gave certain hotels 100% occupancy, any good news this represented was nullified by the problems caused.
The Riu Bravo Hotel was particularly badly affected. A fire sprinkler was broken and this resulted in ten rooms being flooded by seventeen tonnes of water. There was considerable damage as a result. The hotel's director, Patricia Caldentey, says that she was called at three in the morning and was confronted by guests who were demanding compensation for damage to their belongings.
The police were alerted, and there was a rapid response from the National Police and the local force. Such speed, it has been noted, is not always the case. The hoteliers believe that if there were a greater permanent police presence, rather than one just a response, this would prove a deterrent. In addition to hopefully stopping tourists, for example, defecating in the streets, it would also help against illegal street selling and the type of prostitution that is just a disguise for robbery with violence. On this latter issue, the hoteliers observe that there are already prostitutes, who would not normally appear at this time of the year.
The tourists who went to Playa de Palma last weekend weren't young people. They were aged between forty and sixty. The hoteliers say that some were so drunk when they arrived that they couldn't check in.
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Here we go already, the muggers or so called prostitutes are already working their way back in is Calviá going to try and stop them mugging people by the thousands this year or just continue to let them run the streets? Why have so much investment in the area and let it all go to waste by allowing the vermin to freely mug people on the streets??
If they were drunk on arrival,why were they allowed to check in,drunks are drunks no matter what their age or nationality is.? Secondly,it would seem that this hotel does not have CCTV in the public areas,that is a mistake that they and other hotels lacking in CCTV need to rectify.
Just when you thought we where better than the Germans at something.
Well well well, so our friends from Germany behave in the manner which has be blamed on us British holiday makers for years, and not a rowdy teenager in sight. The OAPs on their annual run to the sun, jolly pensioners outing to cause mayhem. Surely if they were that drunk why didn't the Hoteliers cancel their bookings and refuse to check them in? If they were drunken British teenagers then they would've turned them away. So sadly some blame must go to the Hoteliers for allowing drunken pensioners to stay.
I thought it was only Brits abroad that were meant to behave badly?