My first foreign holiday was also aged 9 in Ibiza in 1974. About the time this was filmed. It seemed so exotic. I’ll never forget the heat and humidity stepping of the plane. Something not experienced in England.
I did visit Palma four years ago on a cruise stop the first time I had been back to the island since 1975. Loved it - will have a weekend there as soon as I can travel again.
I went to Palma Nova in March 1975. We stayed in a huge hotel. It rained solidly for three days and the roads were not finished yet so there was no drainage and our feet got covered in mud. The only Spanish people we met worked in the hotel. All the shopkeepers were English.
We stayed at the Magaluf Park hotel in August 1978. It cost £156 for 11 nights full board with flights and transfer included. We had waiters serving our meals no buffet style it was much better. We had waiters who took drink orders round the pool so we didn't have to move if we didn't want to. We would tell the staff we wouldn't be in for lunch and they insisted on giving us packed lunches which we didn't really need. There was entertainment at the hotel for those who didn't want to go to the pubs and night clubs. We went out only young then though. This was in the good old days before we were charged and ripped off for every little thing.
I went to Magaluf, most years from 1972 - 1979 .. Im 59 now ( 2023 ) Great times, I stayed Hotels Trinidad / Guadalupe / Antillas / Barbados ... Wonder what happened to the 'New' shopping Centre 'Soliveras' ?/ Cant see nothing on Interweb about it ( I remember it being built, then a few years later visited it c1975 ! )
A cross section of average citizens from the UK back in 1974 , well spoken articulate ....fast forward to Covid 19 Uk what have we become as a nation ?
Self-selection bias. The people chosen aren’t representative of the British population, merely representative of the kind of people that were selected to appear in the piece by the director.
I first went to Magaluf in 1980 - been back there numerous times and to next door Palma Nova. There's a middle class snobbishness here redolent of the time. Earlier it was for places like Torremolinos then Monty Python did a sketch that re-affirmed that prejudice and travel shows moved on. Same with Benidorm. These places are sunny, fun and make people happy - lets not sneer eh?
i live in spain for last 8 years and the roads are still nail biting experiences. stray dogs on the loose, racing drivers and drunk ex pats. but on the whole the spanish are obviously very skilled at driving as despite the reckless nature they never ever seem to have accidents. daily near misses but rarely accidents. they must have bull fighter type quick reactions or perhaps liquid cognitive brains. but i have to say,, i prefer going slowly.
I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . (Spain's tourism industry - RIP 2020)
Something fundamental has changed since 1974 and I don't just mean prices. A vox pop of Brits on hols on the Spanish costa in 2020 would sound nothing like this. The interviewees almost sound like they lost their way off the set of Downton Abbey - the first one has the strangest accent.
It was almost half a century ago, so it would be odd if something hadn't changed? You sound a bit shocked that the world has changed in half a century?
@@th8257 You're right of course. I was 16 in 1974 but change comes in increments so small that it's almost imperceptible. That is until you watch something as innocuous as this that you're made to realise just how much it's changed. It's.not only the crazily well spoken holiday makers that jump out it's the presenters style .... a hote resort is reviewed like something from an early Top Gear ..... and the complete absence of background music ...
Went there in 1980 and then 81, 82 & 83 - had a ball every time !. No groups of morons fighting, being sick etc, etc - just all like-minded decent young people solely out for fun !
...are not as cheap as you think. 66p then is the equivalent of £8 now. 20p is £2.40. people got paid a hell of a lot less then too. So it's not especially cheap on any real way
Those buildings overlooking the beach look so ugly. What a horrible sight, ruining the beauty of the surroundings. I would never want to holiday in such a place. I bet it looked beautiful before those apartment units and hotels were built.
This IS Franco Spain - the Caudillo died in office the year after this programme, and tourism in Spain was Franco’s baby. Franco left concrete monstrosities all over the country. Many rural communities were forced out of their homes and relocated in prefabricated towns like L’Altet to service Franco’s tourist industry. You didn’t argue with Franco, and his authoritarianism was so pervasive that it stymied economic growth. He HAD to open up Spain because he’d frightened the entrepreneurial instinct out of his citizens. Franco’s social experiment shows what would have happened to Nazi Germany if it had won the war. It would’ve collapsed in the 1950s.
Brings back happy memories I was in Majorca in 1982 aged 9 my first holiday abroad
My first foreign holiday was also aged 9 in Ibiza in 1974. About the time this was filmed. It seemed so exotic. I’ll never forget the heat and humidity stepping of the plane. Something not experienced in England.
Your both lucky I didn't get to go abroad until I was 21 to Greece 😂
Fantastic! So much fun to watch this 😊😊😊
Take the sun and beach away and it looks like a south London council estate.
I did visit Palma four years ago on a cruise stop the first time I had been back to the island since 1975. Loved it - will have a weekend there as soon as I can travel again.
20p a pint! Those were the days. 😏
Go to Kyiv and you can get one for about 45p now.
Of course, 20p in 1974 is equal to about £4 currently (2020)
@@NoosaHeads - approx £1.95
@@richbiles230872 £2.40 in August 2020 money.
@@th8257 😂
I went to Palma Nova in March 1975. We stayed in a huge hotel. It rained solidly for three days and the roads were not finished yet so there was no drainage and our feet got covered in mud. The only Spanish people we met worked in the hotel. All the shopkeepers were English.
Wow! I wish prices were like that today in 2024 would make such a nice holiday at those prices lol
We stayed at the Magaluf Park hotel in August 1978. It cost £156 for 11 nights full board with flights and transfer included. We had waiters serving our meals no buffet style it was much better. We had waiters who took drink orders round the pool so we didn't have to move if we didn't want to. We would tell the staff we wouldn't be in for lunch and they insisted on giving us packed lunches which we didn't really need. There was entertainment at the hotel for those who didn't want to go to the pubs and night clubs. We went out only young then though. This was in the good old days before we were charged and ripped off for every little thing.
When I hear the Thames music at the beginning, I always expect Benny hill to follow.
😂 👏🏻 ahhhhh the good ol’ days
SandManJono 123 there has not been or ever will be anything so fantastic as that show
C Johns 👍🏻 💓
I always expect Rainbow
I always expect crossroads
Priceless watching 😂
I went to Magaluf, most years from 1972 - 1979 .. Im 59 now ( 2023 ) Great times, I stayed Hotels Trinidad / Guadalupe / Antillas / Barbados ... Wonder what happened to the 'New' shopping Centre 'Soliveras' ?/ Cant see nothing on Interweb about it ( I remember it being built, then a few years later visited it c1975 ! )
That woman with a towel on her head was very keen on charming Jim. Lol.
A cross section of average citizens from the UK back in 1974 , well spoken articulate ....fast forward to Covid 19 Uk what have we become as a nation ?
Self-selection bias. The people chosen aren’t representative of the British population, merely representative of the kind of people that were selected to appear in the piece by the director.
@@markofsaltburn not sure I agree with you but a fair point
Ahhh! Them were the days!👍😆
OMG, I've stumbled upon this after a bottle of wine, and I'm on the floor laughing at these people being interviewed 😅🤣🤣
I first went to Magaluf in 1980 - been back there numerous times and to next door Palma Nova. There's a middle class snobbishness here redolent of the time. Earlier it was for places like Torremolinos then Monty Python did a sketch that re-affirmed that prejudice and travel shows moved on. Same with Benidorm. These places are sunny, fun and make people happy - lets not sneer eh?
Well said
that was my job, babysitting in Magalluf, it use to be great
"Where are you taking your wife tonight?"
"I'm taking her up the.... Nightclub here in the hotel." 🙄
I thought you were gonna say wrong un.
What an absolute British tool
66p for a litre of Brandy. Happy days
38 quid a week wage though!
That's the equivalent of £8 in today's money. Not especially cheap then, especially given that it was probably poor quality stuff.
When time travel is invented will the exchange rates be the same?
Sausage and chips por favor
i live in spain for last 8 years and the roads are still nail biting experiences. stray dogs on the loose, racing drivers and drunk ex pats. but on the whole the spanish are obviously very skilled at driving as despite the reckless nature they never ever seem to have accidents. daily near misses but rarely accidents. they must have bull fighter type quick reactions or perhaps liquid cognitive brains. but i have to say,, i prefer going slowly.
The shorts lol!
1:58 and 3:10 Nice!
Nice then!! Maybe not so now
English beer, English newspapers, English food, Oh forgot bring your own HP sauce and Ketchup
Love wish you were here
Joe Dolan singing in the background
magic
@3:01 "Who's going to look after the children Mrs. Hunt?"
Shame it wasn't somebody else he was asking??...if you get my drift? 😳😳😳
Mrs. Hunt - got a nice.. husband
Don't understand ?
Levi Macdonald snowflake.
Shame the husbands name wasn't Mike, saying Mike Hunt on camera lol
@@unigateman shame they did not get her to introduce her husband, hello Thames viewers here. is my husband '' after a bottle of brandy
The Brits being interview were well spoken. Was it the place for the upper middle classes in the 1970’s, or has our quality of speech declined?
I was about to make exactly the same comment
Quality declined in all aspects really.
I was just saying the same re this VT, the accents and pronunciation was much clearer.. innit
The foreigners have down graded Queens English, Channel 4 to blame bro, get weh it dude
Declined. Full of common twats now
Hasn't changed one bit 😉🔆🍺🍺🍺
Did anyone else see manuel setting up the table? ;)
Brilliant
I’m booking two weeks at these great prices, 20p a pint 🍺 incredible.
You need to understand a joke when you see one.
20p then is the equivalent of £2.40.
Sat on that flimsy railing talking ....taking a chance
Gosh I am going to cry, what has happened to magalluf , ???? it's disgusting right now
The Yorkshire Ripper on holiday 1:38 - I bet he had a ball pein in his trunks!
Lol. The most comfortable of hammers I would imagine. They should be banned. Offensive weapon in the Speedos.
Mrs Carol Hunt - must've paused a short while on taking the husband's surname.
When he said Ian, I thought it was going to be "HuntLEY"!
Looks like it used to be half nice. Now with the "Supply and demand", many places all over Spain have gone the same way into the modern day Magaluf.
Very democratic. 4 star mum from Coventry. 19p champagne. Daily Telegraph. Why not.
Buying a British newspaper while on holiday...
See what humans do.!!!!!!!
Interesting things, these humans!
That first guy getting interviewed trying to make himself sound well travelled, Bet that was only his second time on the Med 🤣
Now it's Shaggaluf.
£5 car hire, 20p a pint ,sign me up 😂
Who is that handsome presenter? Anyone know?
Obviously no sun cream!!!! Check out the red sunburn with the ladies at beginning😩 Thank the lord for factor 50 now!
It used to be baby oil and vinegar! I prefered Ambre Solaire factor 2. And I always had a lovely tan.
The interviewees appear scripted or at least rehearsed 🤣
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . .
(Spain's tourism industry - RIP 2020)
Now it's shaggaluff
@0:50 "it's got the 3 Bs: booze, bed and breakfast!"
and also the 3 S's: Sea, Sex and Sand
Shagaluf 70s style 😂
Those were the days, now they are making it impossible for you to travel.
I like the Sun Sea Sand and Socks
Something fundamental has changed since 1974 and I don't just mean prices. A vox pop of Brits on hols on the Spanish costa in 2020 would sound nothing like this. The interviewees almost sound like they lost their way off the set of Downton Abbey - the first one has the strangest accent.
It was almost half a century ago, so it would be odd if something hadn't changed? You sound a bit shocked that the world has changed in half a century?
@@th8257 You're right of course. I was 16 in 1974 but change comes in increments so small that it's almost imperceptible. That is until you watch something as innocuous as this that you're made to realise just how much it's changed. It's.not only the crazily well spoken holiday makers that jump out it's the presenters style .... a hote resort is reviewed like something from an early Top Gear ..... and the complete absence of background music ...
Shagaluf
Megaruf
So it's only the prices that have changed then.
JJ
Blackpool with sunshine! I'd prefer a bit of the local culture.
20p a pint! I’m going as soon as it’s back on the green list.
🤣
Went there in 1980 and then 81, 82 & 83 - had a ball every time !. No groups of morons fighting, being sick etc, etc - just all like-minded decent young people solely out for fun !
not bad that 60 p for a bottle of plonk a may book up after the pandemic, the lodgings cheap 18 pounds a night for 2 including full english
Shagascruff
The prices....
...are not as cheap as you think. 66p then is the equivalent of £8 now. 20p is £2.40. people got paid a hell of a lot less then too. So it's not especially cheap on any real way
So shagaluf wasn't as chavy back then.
Wonder if Ian Hunt's brother Mike is gonna pitch up? 🤣
The lady at 1:34 reminds me of Petunia from the Joe and Petunia public information films 😅 ua-cam.com/video/qV46-BgB1LA/v-deo.html
you could earn your keep here doing $5 tricks for johns on the beach after 10pm
Those buildings overlooking the beach look so ugly. What a horrible sight, ruining the beauty of the surroundings. I would never want to holiday in such a place. I bet it looked beautiful before those apartment units and hotels were built.
I wouldn’t go there even if I was paid . Endless drinking and overcrowded beaches and hotels isn’t my idea of Fun !!
You don't know what you're missing 🎤🎵🎡🎆🍟🍔🏄🏊⛵💥💦👅💪👀👍🐳🌞
Too many people and sprawl.
M You should try Amalfi. Been 3 times and it’s a beautiful place !!
@@tina5203 Is that near Rhyl ?😂
I suppose it depends on your age, as 18-30 yr olds see it as heaven, as its exactly what most people that age enjoy. I know I did at that age
I was rather hoping this was before the whole English food in Spain thing
but ton shit
1 litre of brandy.....66p!
Which is the equivalent of £8
🌞🌊 🚬🚬🍹🍻 🇬🇧
Brandy at 66 pence a litre - hardly seems possible.
66p is the equivalent of around £8 in today's money. Not especially cheap then or now, given that it was almost certainly very poor quality stuff.
Never ever go there.....
Give it at chance.
Omg omg noone went to magaluf in the 70s on less you was loaded. Been a few times in my 57 year life. Don't do it. Go to greece. 😎
..another example of architecture destroying the scene .. another example of post Franco Spain.. another example of mindless tourists ..
This IS Franco Spain - the Caudillo died in office the year after this programme, and tourism in Spain was Franco’s baby. Franco left concrete monstrosities all over the country. Many rural communities were forced out of their homes and relocated in prefabricated towns like L’Altet to service Franco’s tourist industry. You didn’t argue with Franco, and his authoritarianism was so pervasive that it stymied economic growth. He HAD to open up Spain because he’d frightened the entrepreneurial instinct out of his citizens. Franco’s social experiment shows what would have happened to Nazi Germany if it had won the war. It would’ve collapsed in the 1950s.
All northerners
Trendy clothes... like the lady at 1.57! and those teeth! She should have just skipped the holiday that year and got a clean at the dentist