Tourists Who Stayed in Jamaica Through Hurricane Go Viral for Rude Treatment of Staff

As Jamaicans begin to pick up the pieces after category 5 Hurricane Melissa violently tore across the country, vacationers stranded at the Riu Montego Bay Resort are hassling staff over what they feel are “disrespectful” accommodations. And onlookers across the internet have not been happy about the behavior they've seen.

Guests Are Hassling Staff Over Accommodations

A video shared on social media on Wednesday shows a Riu Montego guest berating several employees over a supposedly insufficient breakfast service as they apparently attempt to leave the hotel grounds to purchase their own food. “So why can’t we leave when y’all are feeding us f---ing pastries for breakfast, and we still had to pay full price to stay here? I mean, come on!” the disgruntled guest vented.

“May I ask where you're going now,” one exceedingly patient staffer inquired.

“We’re going to get something to eat!” the troublesome guest and her friend shouted in unison, as the woman recording the video narrowed her eyes to the camera in a subtle but unmistakable manner. “Everything’s close across the street. Everything’s closed,” the staffer responds. “Gas station, shopping mall, everything’s closed.

“So what are yall doing for guests?” the woman shouted back. “Y’all knew this storm was coming, right? So you're gonna give us bag lunches, bag breakfasts, some pastries? That’s so disrespectful!”

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I ready to go home!!!! Surviving Hurricane Melissa was not in my itinerary. Y’all, please keep us in your prayers! #hurricanemelissa #jamaica

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Social Media Had Much to Say About the Guests

It didn’t take long for the clip to spread like wildfire, with many accounts offering their own take on the hideous scene. One Jamaican local posted a wide-mouthed reaction with the caption, “Based on this video, these individuals seem to lack sympathy for our island’s struggles after the category five hurricane.”

Another posted a fiery response: “Some of these tourists are so wrapped up that they paid their hard-earned money to get to paradise that they’re not even able to humanize the fact that a natural disaster has happened. Elitism at its finest! They’re complaining that their breakfast is not as luxurious as they’d like it to be, while people two miles up the road just swam in their living room and watched their entire month’s food supply wash away. It’s tone deaf.” That video was captioned, “Imagine trying to drown out the cries of people whose whole life just changed and you’re leaving in two days.”

“I’ve just seen live footage from Black River,” one commenter wrote on the original video. “God bless Jamaica. Maybe someone should show her the footage.”