A survey of 8,100 German holidaymakers carried out by German travel operator Urlaubstours found that Germans viewed the Russians and the British as both loud and all too often drunk.
British tourists are second only to Russians when it comes to nationalities Germans dislike most when on holiday.
In addition, the Germans complained in the survey that Brits in particular were rude and had poor table manners.
The Dutch were close behind with 15 percent followed by US travelers with 14.6% of Germans claiming negative experiences when meeting travelers from Holland.
They also also disliked the Chinese for lacking table manners and the French for being rude and unfriendly, the survey said.
Before you get the impression the Germans simply can’t stand anyone sharing their space during a yearly vacation, they quite like the Swiss – 96 percent. Most say they have nothing negative to say about their their neighbours to the south. This also counted for Austrians and Japanese tourists. Germans didn’t mind sharing a holiday with them.
In the same survey, German holidaymaker’s fourth biggest anger when on vacation is ‘people who steal the sunbeds by reserving them with a beach towel before anybody else gets a chance’.
This backs up a recent online poll by travel site ab-in-den-urlaub.de that showed Germans had as little patience with sunlounger-hogs as Brits.
That survey’s analysis added Germans were also irritated by their partners, hotel food, Russians again, getting up too early and noisy children when they were abroad, with more than three-quarters of those questioned saying they spend their holidays feeling ‘on edge’.
Germans take around 70million holidays a year as a nation, but are far from relaxed despite all their time off.
The survey found that most Germans abroad get upset easily – including 14 percent who are annoyed by other tourists, mainly Russians, Chinese, Brits and other Germans.
But most of all, they fall out with each other – 58 percent said they end up arguing with the person they travel with, whether it is family or friends.
Hotel food leaves 35 percent of them seething, while 21 percent cannot stand noisy children in their resort.
A further nine per cent resent waking up to blocked sunloungers – despite the humorous stereotype that it is Germans who place towels on sunloungers to reserve their spot.
Psychologist Bernd Kielmann, analysing the results, said: ‘During their everyday working life, partners hardly see or talk to each other.
‘During their holidays, they hang around together for days and don’t have much to talk about.
‘It is mostly not until their holidays that the partners’ free time interests also turn out to be very different. So just one partner getting up earlier can provoke an argument.
