Rude Ruskies? Jerky Germans?

As we were researching the resort prior to getting here, we read plenty of accounts of people observing poor behavior from folks, often identifying them by their nationality. As I’ve been known to have a short fuse from time to time, getting into a confrontation over the type of behavior I read about was one of my biggest personal concerns. After spending 10 days here, I can share our experience: We didn’t see any over-the-top acts of complete rudeness or aggression. We did see some of the embarrassing behavior one can expect almost any time several hundred people congregate, especially people from different cultures.
A few tips/observations that will be obvious to the well-mannered among us and utterly lost on some:

• Don’t “hover” over people who are eating (especially in the theme restaurants) while waiting for a table
• Don’t allow your kids to run berserk during the evening performances
• Don’t stand up and walk out of the evening performance while someone is on stage performing
• Wait in line for a table on the patio at breakfast time. As hard as it is for some to believe, none of us is more important than the others
• When you approach a bar, take note of people that were in line before you and defer to them before ordering your drinks
• Don’t “reserve” a lounge chair by leaving your towel on it for hours during prime pool time (and try to use as few as possible as these chairs are scarce)
• Treat resort employees with respect, e.g., people at the front desk, restaurant wait staff. They are working extremely hard under trying conditions that they don’t necessarily control.