Towels on sunloungers- scourge of the holiday

[Kiddiewinks2008]

I'm on holiday in france and theres a lovely pool with lots of sunloungers but always very busy.
Theres this one british family that go up there in the morning, take posession of 3 loungers and leave their towels there all day. We went up the other day & had to sit on the floor as there were none available but said family had gone off for lunch & came back 1 hour later leaving towels on loungers. I have been watching them and they do it every day. The day we had to sit on the floor, I moved one of their towels & took posession of one of their 3 loungers and when they came back the man complained as now they only had 2!
Aibu to think that this is just not reasonable behaviour?
(I am being slightly tongue in cheek with my post but I do think they are selfish twats!)

[pinkunicornsarefluffy]

we didn't stay there all day every day when we were on holiday, we took trips, we wandered around the town, went sightseeing, all sorts of things. But it was nice to know you had a sunbed waiting for you when you got back as we would not have dreamed of reserving one if we were not actually using it.

But on some days we did just lie in the sun, or dip in the sea and actually had a nice relaxing holiday. Everyone is different, some people go away to relax, others go away to sight see, we did a bit of both!

[youarenotkiddingme]

Ice

[Tigerpaws57]

That video! Witnessed this at otherwise lovely hotel in gran canaria. Pool was closed off from hotel by glass doors which were opened at 9 am each morning. Queue started to form about 8.15. When doors were opened there was a battle charge, middle aged mums and dads elbowing each other out of the way and practically trampling over staff to grab and position the best sunbeds. One bloke made it his mission each day to line up six sunbeds and related parasols/drinks tables across the sunniest corner of the pool, claim them with his union jack towels and then smugly gloat at the other holiday makers like some sort of conquering hero. Fortunately I don't like to sunbathe so could sit in the shade and amuse myself people watching!

[WaitingForEgg]

I once got shouted at when I was 8 months pregnant by an entitled couple who had left a scrunched up NEWSPAPER on a lounger. I moved said newspaper, that could easily have just been rubbish and had been sat there for a good hour by the time they arrived. Why they thought I should sit on the floor while they sodded off for an hour i've no idea. People are wankers

[wtfdidijustwatch]

Yeah I have my judgeypants on. So what.
You can see which ones are serial sunlounger hoggers on here.

Randy, that clip is hilarious.

[Chihuahualala]

I spent a week at that hotel once! Argh luckily we were without kids and they had an adult only rooftop section which we spent our time on.

But overall the hotel was lovely it was just the behaviour of people there (such as the sun bed run antics) that put me off, it's all inclusive and people were just getting wasted leaving their kids to run around like feral beasts. It was awful, still makes me shudder 9 years on!

[HawkingsMead]

OMG, that video. I've never seen anything like that before. How awful - that's not relaxing!

[AngelsWithSilverWings]

I find these sun bed reservers quite funny. They are obsessed!

We were once staying in a small holiday complex of 8 villas surrounding a pool. Each villa had two beds outside the patio doors.

We were there all week and there were no problems until a large family arrived to stay in one of the three bedroom villas and realised that they were only allocated two sun beds.

On the first night that they were there I woke up just after midnight to the sound of sun beds being dragged across the pool area. I looked out and saw this family taking every bed from every other villa and putting them outside their villa and placing a towel on each one. I was laughing so much watching them.

When I woke up early the following morning I just went and took two back and sat there relaxing with my book and drinking my breakfast coffee - they came out and gave me evil looks.

The whole family emerged two hours later all dressed up for a wedding and disappeared until about 4pm before coming back to their villa and moaning about the the lack of sun beds.

They did the same thing at midnight that night and once again I just took them back before they had woken up.

Weird behaviour and this wasn't in some sun soaked resort - this was Cornwall in April!

[cathyandclare]

When I was a student I went to a hotel in Greece with a group of friends (definitely not five star ) We were staggering back from a nightclub at 3am and half the beds were already reserved, they'd done it in the middle of the night.

Every towel had a very soggy end! Sadly we were still asleep so unable to enjoy the carnage the next morning.

[Mummaaaaaah]

just watched the video. Wow. the hotel must be pissing themselves laughing!

[cathyandclare]

Cross posted with Angels, clearly night baggsying of loungers is a thing

[mouldycheesefan]

The hotel in that video is my idea of hell. That is not a holiday I would rather stay home!

[wtfdidijustwatch]

this woman sounds really pissed off. Up at the crack of dawn every morning of your holiday. That's no holiday.

Ooh my ass is really hurting now.

[sodabreadjam]

On holiday in Spain once and was talking to another woman about the general selfishness with regard to sunloungers. She told me that when she had been at another resort (in Spain), Germans had turned up with chains and padlocks and had padlocked "their" sunloungers to the trees at night.

I have been in several hotels where people have been provided with chairs for the balconies/terraces but have picked up sunloungers and taken them to their balconies for their sole use during their holiday.

At a resort in Turkey, one couple would reserve sunloungers in a prime spot next to the pool every day. They would then sit on their balcony looking down at their reserved empty sunloungers and would finally come down and use them for an hour at the end of the day - we didn't twig it was them until half way through our holiday.

[Vickyyyy]

I fucking hate this so much. We were in Benidorm in March and there was this elderly couple that used to shuffle down to the loungers every morning, put their towels on and disappear for most of the day. The loungers the claimed as theirs were directly opposite our hotel room. I saw them use them ONCE in about 4 days, and that was for half an hour then off they went, returning a few hours later to remove the towels once it was too cold for anyone to sit there anymore. Drove me mad.

The day it rained was rather amusing though. As usual, about 7am they were out reserving the loungers they never used then buggered off. Come 10am there was a monsoon out of nowhere, cue them scuttling back, standing arguing about whos idea it was to leave the towels outside (conclusion, not sure which) and stomping off with sodding towels in their arms. Rest of the day those 2 loungers were able to be used by others..which was good as once the monsoon passed it was a pretty nice day. Next morning though, back to usual.

I do not understand it at all.

[squoosh]

If you're at the point where padlocking a sun lounger to a tree seems like normal behaviour, you'll need a lot longer than a fortnight in the sun to sort your problems out!

[HawkingsMead]

At least in the second video they don't have to get their own sun loungers out! And ouch, that one man did bust his bum when he slid and fell!

[AngelsWithSilverWings]

That video is so depressing! I'd hate to go somewhere like that.

Where we went last year you had to pay for your sun beds and once you paid they were yours for the day or half day. Miraculously there were always sun beds available as people only paid for the beds they actually needed to sit on.

[mcm77]

Yes you are being an arse, more money does not make better people- I can confirm that in my equally extensive travelling

[Footyfan16]

Oh this has amused me.

I was on holiday last week and witnessed a Spanish guy taking a load of towels, chucking them on the floor then taking the sunbed.

The English guy came back about 15 mins later and all hell broke loose.

Very entertaining to watch from the pool

[mcm77]

Sorry my last post was directed to itslikerainonyourweddingday

[wtfdidijustwatch]

This is the one I was looking for.
Full on argument over a bloody sunbed.

[Whatsername17]

We went to Kos a few weeks ago and there were 4 pools and more towels on loungers than people on loungers or in the pool. It was infuriating. Especially as people were talking about how they left the hotel towels on loungers by one pool and then their own towels at a different pool 'incase the kids wanted to move'!!! I don't mind people popping off for half an hour to get lunch or whatever. But those people who buggered off all day really pissed me off. We ended up moving out loungers with us from pool to pool!

[GlindatheFairy]

Think it's fair enough if you are just away for lunch. Where we stayed recently there was a 2 hour rule and then the lifeguard may remove the towels (which belonged to the hotel). Have to say previously we've stayed in smaller places where there has been no shortage so there wasn't the "sunlounger stress". Though at least you didn't have to be up at the crack of dawn to get a lounger.