To think if you want a sun lounger, just use one!

[BumpAndGrind]

I may be completely in the wrong here as I haven't been on holiday to a place with sun loungers since about 2001.

I was just reading reviews of places on tripadvisor (daydreaming) and noticed the biggest complaint seems to be people reserving loungers (with towels) and not using them. Some people said they were sat on grass next to unused loungers from 10am untilthey left at 5pm.

I would have chucked they towels to one side as 'abandoned' and taken the loungers by 11:30 latest.

When I went to Alcudia many many years ago each morning that we got up early for an excursion or whatever we could see the caretaker going around removing towels from loungers and dumping them all in one big pile, I thought it was genius.

AIBU to think people only reserve loungers with towels because other people just let them and don't speak up fecking remove the towels

The hotel we used to go to in Salou used to remove the towels to reception so you had to do the walk of shame to ask for it back! They gave you 2 hours then removed them.

yanbu you are a lady after my own heart bumo and grind, I once got in awful trouble over a sunbed, My dds hen party was at a posh spa, after taking part in various activities I thought it would be nice to relax by the pool only to find several empty sunbeds with towels on. I thentook towel off and made myself comfy - dd and her future mil were in the pool when the bed would be "owner" returned and demanded to know who the f... I was lying in her bed, I stood my ground and said I didnt know she owned it, she then threatened to throw me in the pool which I just laughed at.
The thing was my dd was mortified it could only be her mum who let her down! Alas I then had to lie there for another half hour when really I was ready to move anyway!

I don't get it either. Haven't been on a foreign holiday for years though. The thought of squishing round the pool with strangers on sun loungers all day doesn't appeal at all. Or the communal eating malarkey.

Private villa would be the way to go I think.

I agree and the problem is if the hotel doesn't do something (like remove them after 2 hrs) you are forced to become that bastard -I did on this holiday as I needed to be pool side to watch all three kids and didn't have another adult to swap with - there where 4 of us and we only ever used 2 loungers - one day we sat next 2 4 loungers with towels that where unused from 9 until 5pm

Jollygoose, I think you were unreasonable. If you're at a spa, then you give people a bit of time to have a swim and return to the lounger. They aren't reserving them in the same way that seems to happen on holidays abroad. I've been to spas many times, and it tends to be a case of finish a treatment, go and lounge by the pool, have a little swim, go back to lounger...

But on holiday, if I'm sat looking at loungers with towels on, and after a while there's patently nobody "attached" in the area, I'll dump the towel and take the lounger away to where I want to be. So they don't even know where "their" lounger has gone if/when they finally turn up.

if you lie on the grass all day by an unused, betowelled, lounger...frankly you deserve to! Saps.

I've just come back from a hotel in Cyprus where you are allocated a sun lounger for the week, your room number is attached to the parasol. No rushing to be first to get a lounger in the morning!

We went to a first choice holiday Village the year before last, and the sund bed wars were pure lunacy.

The beds got stacked and chained up at night, and didn't get released until around 7am, but there were people that would lay their towels out before that in the spaces they wanted their sun beds to be in from before 5am. Then they would come back at about 7 and get beds to put in their reserved spaces.

The majority of us just came down at 7 to get a sun lounger, because if you didn't, you simply wouldn't get one for the rest of the day so there was no choice. People complained to the hotel, but the staff would say there is nothing that could do. I think they were probably too afraid of the crazy British people, and it was all British people.

I can't think of anything worse than lounging around the pool or on the beach all day (can you tell I'm not enjoying this weather?). You can all have my sun lounger .