Mykonos shocker: A group of Arabs opened 200 champagne bottles, report says

WTF…you open 200 bottles of Champagne but don’t drink a drop? Oy vey. The Greek newspaper Protothema reported that “the Arab invasion of Mykonos” has begun and that said Arabs “made sure to do what they know how to do better than anyone: not to go unnoticed”

At the Nammos beach club, for example, “a group of young Arabs opened today, more or less, over 200 champagnes, not to consume them, but to play pranks with each other, the famous ‘champagne showers', a custom of Arab customers, who literally ‘scatter’ their money where they are given the opportunity to squander,” Protothema said.

When I visited Nammos around this time last year I had to abort my mission, the music blasting so loud it might have set off an earthquake. Not cool at all.

”Money flows at the same rate as champagne [and] often on the floor, since those who open it usually do not drink it, but order it to show off their wealth,” the Greek newspaper reported.

Champagne-drenched sand? Gross.

But it’s no wonder the non-champagne swilling moneyed Arabian hordes make for non-awful spots like Mykonos. According to part of a reader survey in the London Telegraph, Dubai is “the foulest place on earth. Why people would go there on holiday is utterly beyond me, unless they are prostitutes or sex tourists.”

Someone else in the Telegraph said, “104-degree heat or ferocious aircon; signs everywhere forbidding anything enjoyable, including holding hands; and the whole place seemed to be a dusty, stifling building site, except for the souk and waterside, which were distinctly average.”

The best part about the Mykonos champagne spill is that those doing the squandering don’t even realize how tacky it is — in that respect, could dictatorships like the U.A.E. even ask for more capable ambassadors?

Cheers!