A guy from Swansea who worked two summer seasons on Sunny Beach, Bulgaria has exposed the extreme behaviour he witnessed during his time there.
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John Magilton, 23, worked in 2015 and 2016 as a club promoter, and has described the mass nudity, public brawls and drunken excess that was carried out by wasted Brits abroad. He said:
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My job was promoting and getting the club full for the night and offering whatever deals we could.
You always see someone being sick. Sometimes you see people on the floor being sick for two to three hours but then they start drinking again straight away,
You always see people falling off bars, security dragging them out from being sick in the bar.
I’ve seen people falling asleep inside clubs and in weird places, as well as breaking or spraining their ankles, or cutting their feet with glass all the time from walking through the streets with no shoes on.
I’ve seen some boy climbing over a fence, he got to the top and he just went head first over the fence and ended up on the ground.
A rep’s routine is to wake up, have food, get drunk and go to work. I didn’t have a day off drinking in the two seasons that I was at Sunny Beach.
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You have got to drink every day to feel better in the evening to be able to sell and promote. Drinking is part of the job, you get paid to work and you also get free alcohol.
The pay is not great but the accommodation, alcohol and entrance to clubs is free – you just have to pay for your food.
Drinks work out as 50p for a local beer and £2 for a vodka and mixer – it’s so cheap out there.
You can also dance naked on the bar so sometimes you will get people who are naked falling off, which was quite strange, but it was part of the club I worked for.
Girls and boys would be naked, they do say as part of their slogan ‘the only place where you are allowed to dance naked on the bar’ – it’s different.
One minute you would be dancing and the next thing you would look up and there would be someone there naked.
If I could describe my time as a rep, it would be as ‘crazy, eventful and joyful’. I wouldn’t do it again but it’s something that I would recommend doing, though it’s not for everyone.
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Crazy, eventful and joyful? Sounds more like hell on earth to me, but I guess everyone’s different.
Anyway, it sounds like things won’t be this crazy in the years to come, as Bulgaria is cracking down on public drunkenness and noise. Bulgaria’s deputy prime minister, Valeri Simeonov, led police on a raid of two nightclubs in Sunny Beach and this will only continue as the government carries out its “war on noise” in the country. Looks like the party could soon be over in Sunny Beach. Same goes for tourists in Magaluf.
