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We live in an idyllic Spanish resort – but naked boozy Brits poo in our gardens during hellish summers of 24/7 tourists
RAGING locals living in an idyllic Spanish resort have revealed how every summer their town becomes a total nightmare because of drunken tourists.
The quaint village of Arenal, in Majorca, suffers from troublemaker tourists with boozy Brits being dubbed "worst" of them all.
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The quiet village located between Palma and Llucmajor has to face tourists partying all day, fighting, passing out on the streets, stripping naked, and even using locals' gardens as loos.
It is on the opposite side of the Bay of Palama to Magaluf - and was once a lesser-known town, but has since become a popular destination.
Arenal has become home to 48-hour benders - where tourists don't even bother to get a hotel, instead going on marathon drinking sessions in which they sleep in the streets or on the beach.
The town becomes a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week party haven from March to September - and residents are tearing their hair out with frustration.
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And to add to the locals' woes, the town's location, between Palma and Llucmajor town halls means police authority
David Servera, president of the Residents' Association of Llucmajor moaned his beloved home is fast becoming like another Magaluf.
He told The Sun Online: "English have always been the most problematic tourists while Germans used to be more disciplined.
"But now the Germans, the Dutch and even the Spanish are copying the English hooligans, every summer they are more and more alike.
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"Every time they are copying the stupidities of the Brits- drink non-stop, ending up on the ground.
"There have always been fights but every time there are more."
David notes that more and more tourists travel to sunny Palma for a day or two just to party while others get so drunk they cannot remember their hotel.
He continued: "Now we have noticed all tourists are copying the English- they come for 24 to 48 hours holidays, without booking a hotel.
"They get cheap flights and either don't sleep or sleep at the beach.
"My mother was a nurse at a clinic and it was really common drunk Germans trying to enter thinking it was their hotel room.
"I remember meeting a man last year that spent his holiday in the streets because he couldn't remember his hotel.
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"He got drunk the first day he arrived and he never found his hotel.
"Others enter people's houses, they get confused and they just go to bed in houses that are not theirs thinking they are hotels.
"Another thing they do is enter random cars and ask the drivers to take them to their hotels because they can't find taxis.
"This drunk tourism brings a lot of thefts-people ending up sleeping in the street have their wallets stolen."
Alain Carbonell, the vice-president of the Arenal residents association agrees and says tourists are drunk 24/7.
He told The Sun Online: "The German that used to come here had a specific way of behaving- they would always eat well, not mix their drinks, and drug use was limited.
"Now Palma Beach has been 'Magalufised'. The Germans now do exactly what the Brits do.
"They throw themselves from balconies, they keep mixing their drinks all day, and use drugs.
"As a result, they fall asleep in people's gardens, and they are being robbed.
"There a people vomiting all over the place while others use rubbish bins as toilets.
"After partying they go through people's houses, trying to find their hotels, they shout, they sing, they destroy traffic signs.
"They are like crazy, it's insufferable.
"We all live off tourism but we don't want this kind of tourism."
While local Miguel Pascual told how wasted tourists use his garden as a shortcut to their hotels- with one even using it as a toilet.
He said: "I yelled at him to get out of the garden and when he turned round, I saw that his pants were full of faeces."
David explains that in the past few years, more tourists choose to drink in the streets rather than go to a bar- which means they also go to the bathroom in the streets.
It also means that the streets are filled with rubbish overnight and despite being cleaned the following day they become dirty again in a matter of hours.
David said: "We know it's a tourist area and understand there's going to be noise but there are things you don't expect.
"We are a traditional village but in the past 15 years, many people have left because of the tourists.
"Arenal is in a great location, it has a beautiful beach and it could be better.
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"There are hotels and restaurants that are working hard to raise the quality.
"Authorities need to do more to help us raise the level of tourism and put a stop to 24-hour tourists that come here for a night."
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