If I was in charge of sunloungers…

Yes just would I would like on holiday a loud alarm going off every 15 mins ! Why on earth do you feel that that as a patent you get the "front row " ?

It happens at self-catering too

Not in a privately-rented cottage, villa or apartment it doesn't! What kind of self-catering are you talking about?

Oh know I wouldn’t do that or if I did by mistake I would apologies but keep the bed 🤣🤣 not really I would give it back …I mean ppl who save from the night before for example

Far’s she gan ti put her stuff then. 🙄

I went to a hotel some years ago where a hotel employee would wander around every now and again putting '30 min' cards on sunloungers that had towels on but seemingly no-one on them. When he came back 30 minutes later, if the card was still there, the towels/books etc were removed to the lifeguard station.

It worked really well - no having to get up at the crack of dawn to find a lounger, no reserving and then buggering off for the day. Always plenty of loungers available when you wanted them. I don't know why hotels don't all do this - the employee only had to go round once or twice a day to solve the problem.

Some woman moved our towels and bag off loungers while we were in the pool. Literally like 5 min after we went in.
She was not happy when I told her to not touch my stuff and move. She did eventually because I wouldn't dubge. I need to be in shadows🤷 That's why I picked these parti ones!
Cheeky mare

Have a look at this. Hell is other people for sure, especially on a sunbed holiday!

I think PP means like a private villa

It happens at self-catering too

If towels are on and there are no other sunbeds available I just take the towels off simple

We've booked a hotel this year where you get allocated sunbeds round the pool. You book the ones you want/are available when you arrive and they are then yours for the duration. This system gets great reviews on TA, but will be interested to see how it works in practice. What happens if someone is on them when you get to the pool and what happens if you want to go to a different pool one day, or realise you've got ones next to the bathrooms/in a bad location and want to change.

Just tip the pool lads to put your towels out! We spend a lot of time at the pool like to be beside the music/entertainment so get up to secure our place at around 6am (our normal wake up time). DS is 10 and can swim so although I like to be at the front I don't need to have 100% attention on him 24/7. I also don't want to carry all our stuff to lunch etc

Yabu some of us actually swim in the pool, also aqua aerobics etc all longer than 15 mins and why should those without children not be allowed next to the pool??? We always choose the quieter pool anyway, feel children venture there as they tend to not allow toys in that pool

But while you’re in the pool, or at the bar, you don’t need the lounger…

You need to be able to find your stuff when you emerge dripping from the pool.

Heaven help anyone who moved DHs things while he was swimming, which would include his very expensive glasses ... you wouldn't want him stumbling bat-blind to a rear row either.

How would you tell if someone had deserted their lounger vs being actually in the pool with their kids?

Maybe more sunloungers in a nice location away from the pool would be a good option for people who want to lounge in the sun on and off rather than actually swimming?

we stayed at a place where you paid to rent the sunloungers - it had a hut you went to to book and an interactive map so you could see which ones were free and click on the ones you wanted. You could book for 1/2 day, whole day or the whole week. meant you didnt have to rush down in the morning to claim a spot and could go to the beach or the water park or back for lunch etc and not worry about it.

The rules aren't the problem, it's that some poor underpaid person has to enforce them. And that person gets called upon constantly by those who want the Pool Police to validate their sense of grievance about something or other.

The world is a better place when public spaces are protected by the culture of the people who use them, not by someone waving a rulebook.

Off topic, but: no gavels please, we're British (unless you're an auctioneer).

But what if it malfunctions and I get consumed by the sun lounger?

I love this what hotel is it

One of the many reasons I prefer self-catering holidays. No shared spaces, no noisy children, no competing for facilities. But definitely YABU. People have paid for their holiday, they can lounge where they like. It's not their problem that you have small children.

There's a campsite in France that plays a certain song once an hour. Idea is that when you hear it, you return to your sun lounger.

The lifeguards have a quick stroll around checking- any unclaimed loungers have their towels removed and the beds are freed up. Possibly not completely foolproof, but probably helps.

I only stay at hotels with allocated sunbeds, you choose them and they are yours for the whole holiday

I would have thought that, in this day and age, that it should be possible to have a sunlounger that snaps shut (rather like a Venus flytrap) if it is not sat on for, say, 15 minutes.

Books, hats, sunglasses etc would be digested and then spat out and the sunlounger would open up again. (A deposit would be necessary before a hotel towel is issued, in case it is consumed by a lounger.)

Very unreasonable. If you’re unable to get a front row lounger you just need to go in the pool with your children. Ours loved us being in the pool with them. Childless people can’t be relegated to the back rows simply because they have no children.

This is why I go to small hotels. This was mid morning at the little three star hotel we went to in Corfu last year. Always loads of free Sunbeds any time of the day.