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!)

[Trashbox]

I would never go to any place like this. My idea of hell.

[Notso]

I've never sat on a sun lounger for longer than it takes to towel off after swimming. Why do people covet them so much

[EtTuTuttiFrutti]

I've been going to the same beautiful hotel in Mallorca for the last 15 years (sometimes two or three times a year).
It only has 20 odd rooms, loads of loungers and several swimming pools. Very gentile, quiet, refined. One of my favourite happy places.

I normally go Spring or later in the Summer, but I got a breast cancer diagnosis in late June and decided to escape to Mallorca last month with my teenager. AND there were not the normal people there !!!!! These people reserved sun beds !!!!!

By day three I was pissed off and had got a handle on all the culprits.

I get up really early anyway and would watch them claim their territory. As there were hotel pool towels, they all left books as well.

So after they'd all breezed off to breakfast/shopping whatever: I swapped all the books around: and then I'd just watch.

[Fintress]

We stayed at a plush island in the Maldives in a beach villa, we had our own dedicated loungers on our own area of beach. Two days in a row we came out to find a Russian family (staying in the water villas) not only using the loungers but using our towels and sun cream. It didn't happen a third time 😄. They were furious the first time we told them politely not to do it but not as furious as me when I caught them the second time.

[Chihuahualala]

Lol I see the Flamingo Oasis sunbed rush video has gone viral after being shared by The Poke (satirical website) on Facebook. They must have picked it up from here :-)

[Thequilltosurvive]

Just move the towels. If they're not occupied and no one is in the vicinity (eg in the pool) they're fair game.

[exLtEveDallas]

Lying on a sun-lounger, reading a book whilst DD is in the pool playing is my idea of heaven.

Leaving this cold, rainy, grey country for clear blue skies, warming sun and no stresses is why I go on holiday.

I don't care if people want to 'see the sights' (I have google images for that), 'experience the culture' (I have Wikipedia for that), 'go shopping' (I have UK for that) or 'go for long walks in the country' (I have a gym for that)

Funnily enough I don't feel the need to comment on what other people do with their holiday time.

I've never experienced sun lounger rage. I don't sleep past 6am even on holiday so I can be found by the pool with a coffee and kindle in hand by 6:30 at the latest. There is never a rush for beds at that time - and if there was? I'd have no problem moving the towels of people who go back to bed after 'bagging their spot' and settling in myself.

DH and DD join me by 9, DD and I go to breakfast and then the relaxation begins. Bliss.

[SirChenjin]

How do you know if they're not in the vicinity though? I'd be pretty pissed off if I came back from taking one of the DCs to the loo to find someone had moved our towels and clothes and plonked themselves down on our loungers.

[wtfdidijustwatch]

don't care if people want to 'see the sights' (I have google images for that), 'experience the culture' (I have Wikipedia for that), 't) or 'go for long walks in the country' (I have a gym for that)

That's quiet sad. Yes those things are have their uses, but they're no substitute for experiencing the real thing.
But we're alll different.

[exLtEveDallas]

Nope. Not sad at all. Why on earth would someone feel 'sad' for a perfect stranger who feels really very happy right now? How strange.

[wtfdidijustwatch]

Because if you're right on the doorstep of a place of beauty why would would rather look it up on Google earth?
If I'm somewhere and I have the opportunity to see something for real, that's what I want to do.
Sad was a wrong choice of word.
Don't understand would be better.

[SirChenjin]

Experiencing other cultures through wikipedia or google maps is quite strange

[SirChenjin]

• when you're actually in the country you're googling

[exLtEveDallas]

God some people as so easy to wind up

But in all seriousness. For example.

I am just back from Hurghada. I spent 14 days lazing by a pool, riding slides in a waterpark, having spa treatments and drinking dry martinis. Absolute heaven.

To go to the pyramids would have taken:

A 6 hour coach journey in 40 degree heat on a coach with dodgy aircon, no seatbelts and Windows that didn't open properly.

4 armed checkpoints that took 30 minutes each time.

A DD and SH both moaning "are we there yet?" Every 30 minutes.

A hour in rush hour traffic at the other end where you take your life into your hands driving at more than 5mph.

An hour going around one pyramid rammed with sellers offering camels for DD and extortionate prices for the same tat we could buy at the hotel for half the price.

A sad packed lunch.

A trip to the museum where only 20% of the rooms are open.

A trip to a papyrus studio who wanted €60 for a 6inch square picture they said were hieroglyphs of your name (€10 at Cleoptras Bazar)

A 6 hour drive back to the hotel. Ditto "are we there yet"

Or

As we did (and not as the poor bastards we befriended did). Pay £18. Walk 300m to the hotel next door. Gasp at the scale representation of the valley of the kings. Walk through the 'museum' full of reproductions of all the best items in the Cairo Museum. Watch a show of Egyptian history, horses, camels and the whirling dervish men (who made me dizzy and sick). Pay an extra £5 for DD to have a horse and camel ride.

Walk back to our hotel 3 hours later and have a lovely meal and more martinis.

Which sounds more fun and less 'sad'?

[youarenotkiddingme]

My friend is the same re the fact Ds and I are in bed by 10pm most nights on holiday!

She can't understand why we don't stay up late thing is her DDs love the clubhouse she lets them go alone so I'm sure other families are encroached on and have always had this 'thing' about late nights!

My autistic Ds would much rather spend all day in the pool and bouncing around and I don't see the point in giving him a sensory overload at discos he hates just to be able to say we stayed up till midnight/1am.

Everyone's idea of fun and relaxation differ.

[wtfdidijustwatch]

Elle you seem to be winding yourself up and getting overly defensive about your pov.
Not everybody will agree with you.

I even said at the end of my post

'each to their own'
In other words, I don't understand/agree with it but we're all different.

[wtfdidijustwatch]

Eve.
(damn auto)

[wtfdidijustwatch]

If you're never going to 'leave the resort', why not go to the same resort for the rest of your life? Why bother paying a lot of money going to lots of different places?
You're not going to know which country you're in. You could be anywhere.
A sunlounger is a sunlounger

Friends of ours have been to the exact same resort 'chain' in Egypt and Mexico and Jamaica.
Each time, they've never left the resort.
I don't understand why they don't pick one country and stick to it.
It doesn't make any difference

[exLtEveDallas]

Not at all wound up lovey. Sitting in the sun outside my caravan waiting for DD to get up and dressed. I'm really relaxed.

That's twice you've decided my mood - am I sad or wound up? Do you often worry this much about people on the Internet?

I don't waste any time whatsoever on thinking about how other people use up their holiday leave. I don't think people that go hiking are sad. I don't think people that go on shopping trips to New York are sad. I wouldn't do either, and all I do think (if I bother at all) is "Oh, how lovely for them, hope they have a great time" (oh and if I know them I hope they show their photos on FB because I love to see my mates enjoying themselves )

[BarbaraofSeville]

Don't you get different food in different countries?

Meet people from different countries - more Americans in Mexico/Jamaica?

If you go swimming, snorkelling or diving in Mexico, you would see different sea life to Egypt? Even a different sort of 'hot and sunny'?

There's nothing wrong with choosing to relax in a resort hotel that offers sunbathing, pool, food and drink, activities and reliable hot weather. And I'm sure most people do leave the resort a few times, and so what if they don't?

Eve mentions going to the Egypt exhibtion in a nearby hotel - that sounds great. In any case, I've heard that the pyramids are a bit 'meh' for the considerable effort necessary to go see them.

[SirChenjin]

Which sounds more fun and less 'sad'?

The first option, definitely! You can spend the rest of the fortnight lying on the sun lounger

[exLtEveDallas]

Bloody Hell SirChenjin. I'd rather gouge my eyes out than spend 6 hours (twice) on a coach with DD and DH's constant whining after the first 30 minutes. But hey, if you're free, DD fancies doing Lands End to John O'Groats... I KNOW it will be hell, but if you're game I'll pass your details on....