A TikTok clip has gone viral of mayhem by the side of a swimming pool at a Benidorm hotel where at least 10 men were involved in a fight with kicking and punching
A massive brawl broke out by the swimming pool at a hotel in a popular Spanish resort with people chucked into the water.
Punches were thrown in the ugly scenes at the Benidorm hotel as other tourists watched on in horror at the chaos as more people got involved. The situation quickly escalated with brawlers pushing and shoving, before footage shows a man being launched into the pool. A man dressed in black was shoved while another person in a T-shirt targets a sunbather before he himself ends up in the pool. But he then quickly jumps out and in retaliation shoves another into the water.
The clip has gone viral on social media, and has racked up nearly 300,000 views on TikTok. In the melee involving at least 10 men, there were kicks as well as punches while other bathers watched on.
An England flag was clearly seen hanging in the background with the words “Ash’s Stag 2025”, but it is unclear whether the men involved are British, or why the fight broke out in the first place.
There has been a mixed response online to the brawl with some joking and others blasting the behaviour as “embarrassing”.
“How embarrassing…say no more, it’s Benidorm,” one social media user wrote. Another commented: “These lot are an absolute embarrassment.” Another said: “Quite possibly the worst (but best) scrap ever.”
It comes a month after a “joke” on a lad’s holiday in Benidorm ended up with a dad breaking his neck when he was shoved into a pool.
Martin Bullen, 31, described how someone who he didn’t know playfully pushed him into the water at a Benidorm pool party on June 10. The single dad-of-two said he tried to turn his fall into a dive but he didn’t realise how shallow the water was and he split his head open on the bottom of the pool.
Luckily one of the revellers at the party was an army medic who helped get Martin out of the pool and kept him still until an ambulance arrived. Paramedics took Martin, who works as a sales advisor, to a nearby hospital where doctors gave him 16 stitches in his head and found that he had fractured his neck in three places and broken his back.
He said that the trip to Benidorm had been intended as a relaxing getaway with his cousins to give Martin a break from being a busy single dad.
He said he had gone to book travel insurance before the holiday but he had gotten distracted before paying and forgot to purchase it – a mistake he dubbed ‘stupid’. Martin ended up forking out £1,500 for the hospital stay and extra flights – he is urging holidaymakers travelling this summer not to make the same “daft mistake” as him.