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Holiday rant- towels on sunloungers

19 replies

Blankiefan · 01/07/2019 10:02

First full day on holiday. Spanish family resort. Three pools - plenty of sunloungers for people actually at the pool or in the area.

One of the pools opens at 10am. We arrived at 10.20 for the morning. A full line of loungers - probably about 40 - closest to the pool all have towels on them. We find three a line back and set up camp. DD and DH have been in the pool since. About 10 of the loungers at the front have been sat in. Maybe about 15 people in the pool.

Families are showing up about 11am and they can't find any loungers but still loads sit empty except their towels. It's so rude. How do people justify sending someone down at 10am with half a dozen towels to bagsie loungers that they don't intend to sit in for hours.

Rage...

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MagentaRocks · 01/07/2019 10:06

It always happens. We are on holiday too. The pool opens at 9 and we sit and have breakfast and watch everyone waiting at the entrance for it to be open and then they all run to the beds they want...... then leave their towels there for hours.

We do get our sunbeds early when we have a pool day but stay on them for the day only leaving them for lunch.

EssentialHummus · 01/07/2019 10:23

Move the towels if they remain unoccupied for 30 min or more. If they can make up the rules so can you.

Whathappenedtooursummer · 01/07/2019 10:24

Fold the towels and leave aside.
Cfer.

crustycrab · 01/07/2019 10:27

If you can't beat them join them. I'm first in line for the best beds

Freudianslip1 · 01/07/2019 10:28

There was a 30 minute rule signposted up at the last resort we we at. Speak to someone at managerial level. YANBU.

Drum2018 · 01/07/2019 10:30

Move the towels if there is no evidence of people using the loungers. There are usually signs up telling guests not to put towels down like that. Therefore people can't really complain if their stuff has been moved back a row or 2.

Nesssie · 01/07/2019 10:32

If its been an hour since anyone has used them, I would remove them.

fraxion · 01/07/2019 10:32

Agree with Whathappend. There should be someone there collecting towels that have been on unoccupied beds for ages.

One year we had our own loungers on our own bit of beach in front of the villa we were staying in. Came out and not only a whole family had set up, they were using our towels. They couldn't understand why I asked them to go elsewhere.

Kez200 · 01/07/2019 10:37

Watch for a while, then move them. I wouldnt wait 30 minutes. Its your holiday too. Maybe 10/15 just to check they havent just popped to the bathroom but its usually obvious by the lack of stuff.

sneakypinky · 01/07/2019 10:39

Bundle the towels up and chuck them in a corner. Take the loungers for yourself.

I have no patience with lounger hoggers.

Skittlesandbeer · 01/07/2019 11:05

Bundle them all up. Into a pile, somewhere damp. Paddington Hard Stare at anyone who complains. They’ll grumble, but they won’t do it again.

And yes, get onto management about implementing a 30 minute rule, with sign.

SrSteveOskowski · 01/07/2019 13:38

When Pope Benedict was elected a few years ago, the joke doing the rounds was that he only got elected because he was first out to get his towel on the lounger.

I told the joke to my German SIL.

If looks could kill!

ChesterDrawsDoesntExist · 01/07/2019 13:47

I too would speak to staff. There may well be a rule about it.

flowery · 01/07/2019 13:52

"How do people justify sending someone down at 10am with half a dozen towels to bagsie loungers that they don't intend to sit in for hours."

That's nothing. There was a thread a few weeks ago about this, and one poster was quite cheerfully admitting that when on holiday, she sets her alarm for 3am to go down and put towels on loungers....

Self-catering villa all the way here...!

whitehalleve · 01/07/2019 13:55

I just neatly fold them and put them to one side.

Shutityoutart · 01/07/2019 14:03

I was on holiday in Kos a few years ago and a family of 14 did this for a few days but they would go off until about 3 pm each day. I removed all their towels one day. When they came back from town they looked livid but everyone around the pool said nothing and feigned innocence 😊

EskewedBeef · 01/07/2019 14:09

Ask the pool attendants or whichever member of staff you can collar to police it. If the staff aren't there within half an hour removing towels, I'd take that as permission to do it yourself.

People go all sorts of weird on holiday - nobody would pop down to the park at 9am and leave a picnic rug on a bench they'll want to use after lunch.

Biancadelrioisback · 01/07/2019 14:16

My dad used to do this when I was little. Didn't think anything of it until I got older and realised what a dick move that was.
I do always go down for the pool opening at whatever time, I will grab a lounger for me and one for my DH, then I'll go swimming and do lengths until he comes down with DS.

notso · 01/07/2019 14:38

This is why I will only get a private villa. Once we did the whole resort holiday shebang the sunbed olympics, buffet behaviour and 'entertainment' were all just dire.
Not to mention inflatables, overly chatty people, holiday reps and having to share a one bed apartment with the kids.
I vowed to never do it again.

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