to stay in a three star hotel but use the pool in the 5 star hotel next door!

[sadsquirrel]

is this a bit cheeky?

we would of course be buying drinks there and probably lunch some days

I am sure they will be up to this trick! You aren't exactly the first!!

Yes very cheeky! I wouldn't want 3 star riff raff rolling up to my 5 star pool ;)

oh its a large hotel so they don't realise your not staying there, theres no security or anything!

YANBU to stay in a 3 hotel but YABU to assume that you will be able to avail yourself of the 5 facilities next door, many of which may be reserved for the exclusive use of resident guests rather than casual drinkers/diners.

We did this one year! It was wonderful! Yes do it!

Yabvu. Bloody cheek

You seem remarkably informed about the lack of security at the 5* establishment. Done it before, have you?

Mona beat me to it

YANBU to stay in a 3 hotel but YABU to assume that you will be able to avail yourself of the 5 facilities next door, many of which may be reserved for the exclusive use of resident guests rather than casual drinkers/diners.
Ha! Do you work in a hotel izzy?!!

It's not cheeky at all! The price for a day's spa (or whatever they call it) membership will be clearly displayed and you pay either at reception or entrance to the pool complex (depending on layout).

Five star hotels have security staff who will (discreetly) check that only guests and those who have paid are using facilities.

Did you sneak in at 7am and put your towels on the 5* sunloungers Mrs Fane?

DO IT !!!!
:o

Izzy No need!! The 5* hotel had plenty of sunbeds and free towels!!
:o

Fortunately, for the likes of people who take what they're not entitled to, I don't work in the hotel industry.

bleurgh

i'm cringing for you when they kick you out

Some hotels allow non-residents to use the pool for a small fee, others don't. I suggest you ask the hotel what the situation is. Otherwise, it would, of course, be very cheeky to just turn up and use the pool. What else are you going to help yourself to? Sit yourself in the business class seats on the plane, when you've booked economy? Let yourself into an unused bedroom in the 5* hotel? Help yourself to the breakfast buffet because they're lax about checking people's room numbers?

Izzy Drinks served around the pool too. They had plenty of opportunities to tell us to get lost. For instance, when we ate there, when we had treatments there, when we watched the entertainment there. The travel reps and waiters knew we weren't staying there because we told them when we booked a table/ treatment.
Nope, we must have fitted in well at the 5* hotel because they didn't give a fig.

But of course we paid for meals/ treatments!! Helping yourself from an all Inc buffet would be a bit !!

Joking aside, I agree with Edith: Five star hotels have security staff who will (discreetly) check that only guests and those who have paid are using facilities.

Assuming this is somewhere like Spain with flights in and out all the time I doubt anyone would notice. Our pool had an entrance off the road so you could simply wander in and out.

EEk, I think I'd be pretty miffed if i was paying for 5 star and found out that someone was using things for free.

We once went on a treat holiday, that we saved up for and overheard countless peole talking about how they'd snuck in. the hotel did nothing but we wished we'd saved our money as it just felt like we'd been robbed.

Part of me kinda hopes you get caught tbh,

But your choice at the end of the day and I can be as cheeky as the next person at times

yes i have done it before, but i do feel a bit cheeky, thats why i'm wondering.

I think it's cheeky. Pity the hotel aren't a bit stricter to monitor it. I'd be upset if I paid 5* prices and other people were taking advantage of the facilities because they thought they could get away with it

no i wouldn't eat at an all inc buffet or breakfast, can't stand food thats not cooked fresh.

I am surprised they don't have people checking. Lots of 5* hotels have beach towel schemes and don't operate a cash bar at the pool/beach forcing guests to show room cards and therefore prove they're stating at the hotel.