pretty much wasted
My colleague and I had had a pretty long day flying around the Central Pacific, (B737), when we finally made it to the hotel bar in Port Villa.
Lovely bar, beautiful view, full of tourists. As we turned from the bar a European/Antipodean male asked were we part of his group?, "No, we are here to fly a charter tomorrow to one of the Islands", Oh said he, "Not XXXX I hope", "well yes," said We, "why?", 'Why? well here you both are drinking", (out
first cold beer after a hard day and at least fifteen hours to go before we flew again).
I tend not to believe the anacdotal stuff that passengers come up with, there is a lot to be said for choosing hotels for crew well away from passengers, if only to remove the opportunity for inebriated passengers to swear blind the crew were drunk in the bar.