Holiday firm offers "chav free holidays"

[★ Dav]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7852959.stm

 

this seems to have upset a few people, very very funny though!

[★ Lynx]

LOL, that was a good find.

 

-L

[SeVeR]

A good idea in my opinion. I'm a young man and can't stand chavs. I imagine it's even less tolerable for older people. The only problem would be identifying who is a chav and who isn't. They probably just do an age cut, like you must be over 40 or something, which would discriminate against non-chav young people. It would be interesting to see how they make the separation.

[★ Lynx]

They blocked the names Kylie, Bianca and some others.

 

-L

[NBVegita]

I personally like the idea. They're not "banning" these people, it would be like a travel agent in America advertising that you will not find many, if any "thugs" on one of our vacations.

 

No matter how you call it, a thug, a chav, a punk, insert label here, I would welcome as little social interaction as I can possibly have with them.

[SeVeR]

There have been a lot of complaints to travel companies from people who ended up in a hotel with a bunch of 18-30 loud mouths who shout, scream and play music all night. You could find these people on almost any package-holiday, so it would be good to know at least a little about who's going to be in the "same boat" as you (oh the pun!). I never go through travel companies to book anything, they always rip you off somehow.

 

[my previous post: yea i read about the names thing afterward, but the forum was down for me so I couldn't edit.]

Edited January 27, 2009 by SeVeR

[Cancer+]

For us americans...

 

Chavs:

Chav, Chava or Charva is a slang derogatory term applied to certain young people in the United Kingdom. The stereotypical image of a chav is a white aggressive teen or young adult, of working class background, who wears branded sports and casual clothing (baseball caps are also common) who often fights and engages in petty criminality and are often assumed to be unemployed or in a low paid job. The term may originate from the Romany term "Chavvy", which is a general term for young person.[1] In its English form it is generally derogative and appeared in mainstream dictionaries in 2005

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav

[FMBI]

Agreed with Sever on the travel company thing. This particular offer is a stunt, but why would you pay a premium just to save yourself 10 minutes of planning a trip in the first place? Edited January 28, 2009 by Finland My BorgInvasion

[NBVegita]

Well usually you go through a travel "company" to work with a travel agent.

 

There has not been one vacation I've taken where I could have gotten the deal that my travel agent got me on vacations, and I'm not talking about just a few bucks off.

 

It's very similar to why people hire wedding planners. It's not that everything is terribly difficult, it just can manage to be stressful, for example if you had a family of 5, so going through an agent, similar to a wedding planner is a convenience so that you don't have to worry.

[Nokia]

i wouldn't mind a chav-free holiday