Holidaying Brits Abandoned Almost 3 Million Lilos Overseas Last Year

UK travellers abandoned almost three million lilos after their holidays in 2018 rather than taking them home, according to new research.

A quarter of people admitted to leaving inflatables behind and 9% said they chucked them in the bin, in the survey of 2,000 people by holiday company Holiday Hypermarket.

With Brits taking eight million package holidays last year, Holiday Hypermarket suggested that, laid end-to-end, the leftover lilos would stretch for almost 3,300 miles – enough to cross Europe and reach Egypt’s holiday resorts on the Red Sea in the north west corner of Africa. 

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