Sunbed wars!!

We had the worst holiday in Croatia due to this. We worked out that to get a sunbed you needed to go down at 6:30am. The pool/towel service didn't open until 9 which was when you could queue up to get your umbrella. People would be queuing from 8:30am

So everyday I set my alarm and took my book and everyone's towels and sat and chilled out until breakfast time.

Everyone else came down to put towels down and then disappeared before coming back at 9 with their umbrella and then disappearing again , many for the rest of the day.

DH was on umbrella duty.

One day I'd been in the sea and closed my umbrella so that I could dry off in the sun for 10 mins.

A women came and demanded I give her my umbrella because I wasn't using it and she needed it for her baby. I pointed out the entire row of umbrellas in front of us that no one was sitting under but no ,she wanted mine.

We don't usually do all inclusive but our booked villa holiday had been cancelled on our day of departure and all we could get was a last minute all inclusive. Never again.

I’ve never been on a holiday with sunbeds, but I’m wondering if you need to have another holiday immediately after to recover from all the stress?

Go down at 3am to reserve a row of 3 sun beds right in front of the pool for tomorrow!

OP, you’ve made me nostalgic for the old, very un PC beer ad, where the bloke throws his beer, wrapped in his towel, on to a sunbed, to the tune of the Dambusters march.
I shall now have to go and find it on YouTube….

Just move the chair, the towels and their stuff. Who gives a fuck what they think. This is why cheeky arseholes get away with this behaviour, because no one calls them out on it.

That space is too small to walk through any way.

I wouldn't want to be lying down there having people walking past showering me with drops of water from the pool and kids running up and down all the time squealing.

The whole sunbed wars thing is very low budget.

I'd probs just smear a bit of melted chocolate on the sunbed in the right position so it looks like a skidmark. Bet nobody would touch it then. 🤣

Have you been to the Chinese there yet though? The sushi there is so good it’ll cheer you right up.

There’s no need to let it ruin your holiday or future plans. Simply move the chair which is in the way. If someone moves it back, while they are still there, move it again. You don’t need to speak but if you do, state that it is in the way of accessing the pool and so you are moving it.
Towels on chair? Remove it and take the chair for yourself. If a body is not on it then it’s not in use. If confronted, again just state the obvious, ‘this seat isn’t occupied but I’m here so I’m going to use it.’ If they try and argue, hold a hand up and say ‘speak to hotel management.’
life is way too short for this shit.

Oh we’ve been to that hotel a couple of times. We always sit around the quieter pool though so never had any major sunbed issues.

People definitely do put towels out super early though. I used to put mine down on the way to breakfast if I wanted a decent spot.

That side with the animation team is always busier. I can’t say having to walk round to get in the pool would bother me much though. Them reserving sunbeds and then not bloody using them is what drives me insane!

I wonder how often actual physical altercations break out over sunbed wars!

I move the towels if they don’t come back after quite a time

My husband relishes confrontation with people like this. They’re so unreasonable. He’d have dumped their stuff on one of the other beds and taken it. And if they’d pushed him, probably launched their towels into the pool.

The age is usually extremely telling of anyone who thinks this kind of behaviour is ok. I’m guessing you fall into that bracket

Went to a hotel last year where as part of the pool mans cleaning duty each morning, he hosed off any towel until it was dripping wet. Made me smile watching him from the breakfast table every day!

Haha I would love to be able to afford that sort of hotel experience! It took us a good half an hour to manage to work our sunbed parasol last week

You get what you pay for.

Maybe, but they could easily do something about the situation if they wanted to. Getting up at 4 am to go and put towels on a chair is not a holiday.

You clearly stay in more high class establishments than the majority of us 😄

Never been to a place like that, it sounds awful tbh. Usually when you go to the pool they hand you a towel and ask where you would like to sit and follow you there to arrange the umbrella etc, and give you some water. When you leave the pool area they say good bye and go to collect your towel. Much better system.

Hogging sunbeds with towels and not using them for hours is shitty behaviour, really though this chair isn’t that. I really fail to see how someone having a chair beside their sunbed is ruining your holiday.
It’s a complete non issue and doesn’t at all come across like a valid complaint to the hotel.

A few years ago in Egypt, 1st morning of the holiday, after breakfast went to the pool & every single bed had towels on them. I thought the hotel had put them out as they were hotel towels, jumped on 2 beds together & sat there all day. A family arrived back from the beach at 4pm & told us we had their beds! I was like wtf, you've put towels down & fucked off all day!

Got them 2 new towels & told them I wasn't moving & they were selfish for reserving beds all day & pissing off to the beach. We had filthy looks for the rest of the holiday from them

Oh for goodness sake! You are annoyed because you cannot squeeze through the gap which would exist if they hadn't put the chair there? I am beginning to see why they did put it there. 'All the way round' . Just be all of a few metres!
And What has the holidaymakers age got to do with anything?

I would ask staff to move towels from a lounger that just have towels on it seem to be some across the pool
and pop out before you get ready for breakfast and bag your own lounger - put a children’s floaty or hat on it so people can see it’s for a child

What if, say, there's a single parent with a child who's in the pool? How long before they move the sunbed?