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The swankier the hotel, the sulkier the tourists

Julie Burchill rediscovers an eternal truth in Barbados

9 May 2015

9:00 AM

9 May 2015

9:00 AM

Unusually, I didn’t leave the British Isles until I was 35, when I went to the Maldives for a fortnight. (You bet it was a culture shock, considering that the most exotic place I’d been until then was the Bognor Regis branch of Butlins.) But I’ve globetrotted like a footloose fiend since then, and on my travels I’ve observed that the pricier the watering hole, the less likely vacationers are to look happy.

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