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sun lounger bagging etiquette

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hwjm1945 · 04/09/2013 08:34

Ok,I know this is trivial but......on hols,about 120 sunloungers,maybe 70 of which offer umbrella shade,.every morning as soon as pool opens parade of people with towels,books, bagging the prime loungers and then going off for breakfast etc,and not reappearing for in some cases 2 or 3 hours.
In one memorable case,a family group did not have Enough towels to bag the number of loungers required so used a pile of cut leaves!I do not think this is decent behaviour,I think if you are using area for lounging,pool etc save for popping t o loo Tec or to get drink then bag a spot.if not using it for hour or so you should remove your stuff to free up for others.what do people think?

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elvisola · 05/09/2013 22:48

Thank you, I will have a look!

MrsMelons · 06/09/2013 08:52

On the cruise ships they have alloted places where they take removed items depending on which pool you are at. Its quite amusing watching from a distance these people going mad over their removed towells (which belong to the ship anyway) even though they have been there for 5 hours with no one on them.

I have been on board at least 3 times where people have been thrown off (at the next port of course) for fighting over sunbeds!

Sparklingbrook · 06/09/2013 09:08

They should make them walk the plank MrsM.

Loving the parking tickets on towels though.

GhostsInSnow · 06/09/2013 09:10

Well I've not heard from DS who's currently at the sunbed bagger hotel (according to trip advisor). If I don't hear from him tonight I might have to assume that he's either staying permanently on his sun bed or, he's been involved in some lounger induced riot

MrsMelons · 06/09/2013 09:49

Sparkling I believe that has been suggested!!

You wouldn't believe the goings on - people are kicked for all sorts

MidniteScribbler · 06/09/2013 09:53

If I were at one of these hellholes holidys and there were no loungers, I'd wait five minutes, then move some unattended belongings and take it. I'm Australian, we don't put up with that shit, and you could argue with me until you're blue in the face, I wouldn't be moving.

Use it, or lose it.

BrokenSunglasses · 06/09/2013 10:00

I think you have to go with what the majority does in some hotels.

Technically, people have paid for sun loungers in the price of their holiday, and if someone has reserved a bed and there are still others available, then latecomers should use the available ones, even if they are not in as great a spot.

When the majority of guests in a hotel are doing the same thing, which has always been the case when I've experienced it, then it's out of order to get up late then start chucking other people's towels off of beds. If you want a bed, then get up early and get one, or use the ones in the crap spots.

flowery · 06/09/2013 10:01

I genuinely thought this stuff was a myth, or just a stereotype, not something people actually had to spend their holiday worrying about, to the extent of setting alarms to get up early. Bonkers!

flowery · 06/09/2013 10:03

"Technically, people have paid for sun loungers in the price of their holiday"

Well if the hotel/holiday company t&cs state guaranteed availability of sun loungers, sure...

But even if it did say that, people who's towels had been removed because they had 'reserved' loungers they were not using would surely only have reason to complain if there were no sun loungers at all, not if they had to use ones not in the best place?

flowery · 06/09/2013 10:04

whose

flowery · 06/09/2013 10:05

Also, how are they latecomers if they are there ready to use them before the people who reserved them are?

skyeskyeskye · 06/09/2013 10:10

It should be first come first served and you have to actually be ON the sunbed, not just your towel. That is the only fair way. So as people get up, so the sunbeds get filled.

It should be safe to leave it for an hour to get some lunch, ot to have a dip in the pool, but not to reserve a bed for hours while you are still in your bed inside the hotel.

BrokenSunglasses · 06/09/2013 10:23

I agree it should be safe to leave a sunbed for an hour to get lunch, breakfast or be in the pool, but the way some posters are talking, even that's not acceptable.

It's not right that people leave their beds for hours expecting them to still be theirs when they have come back after a whole morning out, but I don't think anyone is advocating that.

I think people have a right to complain if they have reserved their beds early, sat there for a while, gone to breakfast and their stuff has been disturbed while they've been eating.

Every time I've experienced it, everyone has done the same thing and it's just been accepted that a sunbed with a towel on it is reserved. If you miss out on a sunbed, then just do the same thing the next day. It's not that much of a hardship.

DowntonTrout · 06/09/2013 10:38

I have stayed at the afore mentioned hotel in Barbados where Michael Winner stayed.

It is true, you are shown to your sunbeds the first time you arrive at the beach. These are "your" beds for the entire stay. The sunbed guys welcome you by name, towels are already on the beds for you, 2 each, no hoiking wet towels around.

There is a little blue flag to stick in the sand and a waiter just appears and takes your order. Someone comes round every hour or so with chilled wet flannels to cool you down. Morning and afternoon they bring little treats of sorbet or fruit. Marvellous it is, very civilised. It is also bloody expensive- sadly far to expensive for us to be able to go in the foreseeable future. All our other holidays in recent years have involved playing the towel game but I think the rule is if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Mooycow · 06/09/2013 11:17

We gave a sizeable tip to the pool man in Egypt, he even had our loungers ready before breafast. one morning he came to find us in the restaraunt and told us he had them ready for us , he looked really put out that we were going out for the day bless him , that said the hotel was really quiet, not alot pf people sat around the pool, it was just a preferred place to sit, we would have been happy to sit anywhere really.

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