A British mother has filmed herself sneaking into a luxury holiday resort with her family using old all-inclusive wristbands – helping herself to luxury food, drink and enjoying the hotel’s facilities for free.
Roxanne Balciunas, 39, from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, originally stayed in the Ramada Hotel & Suites, Kusadasi, Turkey, in May this year on an all-inclusive holiday with her family.
However, when she later uncovered the discarded all-inclusive wristbands in her travel bag, she booked a second trip to the popular resort town almost two months later on July 7.
Taking her two children aged 13 and six along for the ride, the mother slept in a cheap apartment ten minutes away from the Ramada – and used the out-of-date wristbands to sneak into the resort.
Roxanne claims that she originally snuck into the hotel to surprise her mother who was staying at the Ramada at the time – but was still sure to make the most of the resort’s all-inclusive features over the four-night trip.
Shameless TikTok footage shared on July 12 shows the family of three dining on ice cream, booze and luxury meals for free while lounging by the hotel pool.
Alongside her video, she bragged she was ‘stealing the Ramada all inclusive’ before saying ‘call me a thief all you like but I enjoyed my week of free food and drink’.
Ms Balciunas claimed her family go on holiday every month, and exclusively stay at four-star and five-star all-inclusive venues.
The hospitality worker added the family ate more of the food at the Ramada this time than they did during their paying stay – claiming the fact it was free made it ‘more exciting’.
She said: ‘My mum only booked her holiday a week ago, it was a last-minute thing. I kind of steered my mum towards that hotel, and when I found our bands from May, I was like “this is great”.”I was just messing about, saying “we’ll go and eat their food”.
‘I was just joking at first to the kids, but then we did. I booked last minute to go and surprise her. I used the bands, and it worked.
‘The hotel we stayed in was clean, but when we go on holiday, we do go five-star all inclusive, or four minimum.’
They didn’t check my wristbands when I first walked in. Because I had it on, nobody checked because they could see I was wearing one.
Roxanne says: ‘It’s a lovely hotel. That’s why I steered my mum towards it. We really enjoyed it.
‘My wristband was slightly different. It was a really fine print in black, whereas my mum’s new one had a bigger print.
‘I was really conscious that they’d notice, but luckily they didn’t. Sometimes they have different colour bands, so we got lucky that it was that colour band that week.
‘I don’t know if I’d do it again. It’s on TikTok so they’ve probably seen it.’
Her video racked up more than 900 likes, shares and comments, and viewers were quick to share their differing opinions in the comments.
While some praised the mother’s supposed ‘bravery’, others were more critical.One said: ‘Absolutely hilarious. Well done.’
A second said: ‘Bloody hell – you are braver than me.’
A third said: ‘Why would you air yourself? Some things are better left unsaid.’
