• 8 months ago
Almost half of Manchester residents think taking tea and coffee when travelling is essential, new research from TUI has confirmed.

It has long been suspected that Brits enjoy their home comforts when going on holiday, and data collected by the travel company shows Mancunians are sneaking their favourite snacks and beverages into their suitcases.

48 per cent of people surveyed from Manchester revealed they pack tea and coffee to drink while travelling, 37 per cent refuse to travel without their slippers, and 16 per cent admitted they carry a few bags of crisps.

We asked people in Manchester what weird and wonderful items they take with them on holiday.
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00:00 Almost half of Manchester residents think taking tea and coffee when travelling is essential,
00:06 new research from TUI has confirmed.
00:08 It has long been suspected that Brits enjoy their home comforts when going on holiday,
00:13 and data collected by the travel company shows Mancunians are sneaking their favourite snacks
00:18 and beverages into their suitcases.
00:20 48% of people surveyed from Manchester revealed they pack tea and coffee to drink while travelling,
00:26 27% refused to travel without their slippers and 16% admitted they carry a few bags of crisps.
00:33 We asked people in Manchester what weird and wonderful items they take with them on holiday.
00:37 Oh definitely the tea bags, I mean the Lady Grey, I don't know if I'm allowed to mention
00:42 a name like that, but the Lady Grey's definitely because you can't get them anywhere else,
00:47 but that's the main thing that I would take with me.
00:50 Food probably not, I'd probably take a chance then once I get there.
00:54 If I'm going self-catering, yes I do, I take tea bags and coffee and dried milk, but apart
01:02 from that no, no I don't really take a lot of, shampoo, hairspray, I take all those with
01:09 me because I find they're quite costly out there and they're not always having the products
01:14 that I like.
01:15 I have known to take my own pillow.
01:23 Does I prefer to sleep on my own pillow?
01:26 No, no if I'm going somewhere out of this country I like to try the local food, I wouldn't
01:32 dream of taking English things with me, in this country no.
01:36 I take tea and coffee, decaf to be sure I've got the decaf, biscuits because I love biscuits,
01:45 Slimming World biscuits because you can't get them when you're abroad.
01:49 So tea and coffee, is there a reason you take that, is it because you just like your own
01:54 ones?
01:55 It's because of having the decaf, I've had decaf for as long as it's been going, and
02:00 abroad you don't get it the same, so I don't want to switch on to caffeine again when I
02:05 don't take it at home.
02:07 I've just come back from Indonesia last month, one month in Indonesia, ten days in Nicaragua,
02:11 and I'm going to Costa Rica in June.
02:14 When I go I pack my own food with me because I don't like, like when I get to Indonesia
02:19 they are only eating rice, everything they put is rice, I can't be eating rice every
02:22 time.
02:23 So it's more healthy because you don't know what you are going to meet there.
02:27 It's good to eat with the locals, but hotel food is just as if you are still in England,
02:32 so I pack my own food, including milk and sugar, so that is it.

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