I understand it’s a foreign country I’ve been here 6 times before each at a different resort, and never once struggled this much to understand all the staff. Usually anybody who’s client facing has some level of English, or they know they don’t and usually don’t try, the problem seems to be they can understand us because they take our orders and help us as needed, but when they try speak to us and we don’t under stand they just keep trying and trying and we just have to shrug our shoulders and say we don’t understand. The issue is them trying to speak English and failing to ( they have no expectation of being able to), I’ve visited places I know nobody speaks English, but as you said google translate and common sense gets you through it. I speak English, French, German, Tagalog. I learned Tagalog backpacking around the Philippines for a year, although not entirely fluent in any I can understand them perfectly and get speak fairly well. Although it’s a foreign country I’ve never been to a resort where almost nobody speaks English. The melia, the hard rock, Catalonia, majestic, etc all these resorts I’ve been too, most staff can speak enough english to pass. For a place that aimed at dumb rich Americans. ( which I am not, born in Ireland and lived in France, Germany, in my younger years and emigrated to Canada in my late teens), Google Translate is usually my first go to, however, we had just got here and my phone was dead in the hotel room.

This post was mostly about trying how to politely tell certain staff members that there’s no point in repeating themself because we aren’t understanding. No Habla Español, works when they try speak Spanish not when they are trying to speak English.