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To take towels off "reserved" sunbeds?

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Nancy91 · 04/06/2017 16:18

Every time I go on holiday there are people reserving the hotel's sunbeds by putting their towels on them at stupid o'clock in the morning, or even the night before! When I see that nobody has been on these "reserved" beds for an hour or so, I just fold the towels and put them on the floor and we go on the beds. Ok, it's slightly awkward when the people eventually come back, but I have paid for the holiday too, and lying on a towel on the floor isn't ideal when there are sunbeds that aren't even being used!

Does anyone else move the towels? My partner reckons it's a bit rude.

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granof3 · 04/06/2017 16:49

This made me remeber years ago we on a family holiday my girls loved the water and DH and girls went to the pool after lunch it was really warm and they needed some shade. DH moved a umbrella and it's base that looked to be spare, it was at the side of some beds and had not been used for well over an hour. Apparently a fellow holiday maker watching from the balcony came rushing down and said that it was their brolly and it was needed for when they came back down later!!!. Long story short there was a some tugging of the brolly and a heated argument. My husband's point being small children needed shade and no one had been using it. The manager was fetched and the fellow holiday maker was sent packing with a telling off from the manager.
DH was talk of the hotel for the rest of the holiday !!!!
So yes go for it. Not sure what you should do with the towels though???
Hate the attitude of some, your either at the pool side or not.
Yes people go off to do pool activities or for lunch fair enough and that's obvious.
But those who stake a claim then disappear for hours spoil it for everyone.

TheAntiBoop · 04/06/2017 16:50

My friend did the towel removing on holiday. Unfortunately the Russian chap appeared very happy to live off the mafia stereotype and my friend avoided the beach from then on and it spoilt her holiday. She had complained to the hotel but they were too scared to say anything!

So yanbu but be careful which towels you pick!!

paxillin · 04/06/2017 16:50

I do it. It's not rude. Having your laundry take up a seat is rude.

expatinscotland · 04/06/2017 16:50

I move them and then say it wasn't there when I got there. 'Well, can you move then, because I reserved it?' 'No. You can get staff, but (I always go to places that have no reserving policies) there's a no reservations on beds anyhow.' Tough shit.

Mermaidinthesea123 · 04/06/2017 16:51

Take them off and throw them in the pool, cheeky fuckers.

youarenotkiddingme · 04/06/2017 16:51

This is also a reason I factor lilos into the spending money Wink

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Nancy91 · 04/06/2017 16:53

Yay, people that think like me Grin

Somehow I'm the only person I've ever seen doing this, I definitely will move the sunbed away next time so I don't get any abuse.

Santas, I've heard that people get up at 4am to get sunbeds too. Who gets up at 4am on holiday?! Confused

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Fairylea · 04/06/2017 16:54

Wow people really get up at 4am on holiday to put a towel on a subbed? HmmShock

People need to get a life. How ridiculous.

Op yanbu.

Italiangreyhound · 04/06/2017 16:54

It's a bit rude to reserve' a sunbed isn't it. But the hotel should really have a sign up saying 'You may not reserve sunbeds. Any unattended towels will be moved to the lost towel area!'

Fairylea · 04/06/2017 16:54

Sunbed even !

Oysterbabe · 04/06/2017 16:55

Every hotel I've ever stayed at with a pool has had a no reserving policy which is ignored and not enforced.

Just fold them up and put them to the side. When they show up say the hotel has a no reserving policy so the staff must have moved them.

SugarnetMum · 04/06/2017 16:55

I dont reserve towels for long... But today I put my towel outside my apartment on a sunbed for five minutes. Came out and my towel was thrown on the ground and a family of three comfy lying down on the three beds. Ignorant pricks

WellThatSucks · 04/06/2017 16:56

youarenotkidding I'd be in the shady place too and I'd be happy to 'keep' your spot free from others if you wanted while you ate breakfast - which I see as acceptable time away from your 'reserved spot, ditto getting a drink or having a dip!
Going off for hours, leaving a towel overnight or sneaking down at stupid o clock on the other hand makes your towel fair game to be removed because that is really taking the piss.

ForalltheSaints · 04/06/2017 16:58

Involve the hotel staff. Then if they don't help mention it on Trip Advisor or other review sites.

FinnegansCake · 04/06/2017 16:58

We were once in an hotel where people used to put their towels out very early before breakfast and then beetle off on excursions till late afternoon Shock

SnickersWasAHorse · 04/06/2017 16:59

This isn't the kind of holiday I go on.
It all seems to stressful for me.

JustCallMeKate · 04/06/2017 17:00

We were in Mexico last year and had awful jet lag. I was up at around 4am most mornings and found it amusing to watch new arrivals go and put towels down to 'book' beds. They soon realised after the first morning each room had beds already allocated and the pool men would remove the towels and put your room number on the bed as well as a fresh towel each day.

this you tube video still amuses me. I can't believe people's behaviour to get a sun bed.

MagentaRocks · 04/06/2017 17:01

We get up early on holiday -usually about 6 ish. We are not late night people. We then go to the pool, pick a sun bed. Sit there in the cool for a couple of hours reading before heading to breakfast. I wouldn't be happy if I came back from breakfast to find my towels moved. I do get pissed off with people that reserve beds in the morning then go out for most of the day.

NotYoda · 04/06/2017 17:02

Sugarnet

But no-one knows how long you're going to be gone. So, yes, they are ignorant of your intention. Maybe leave a note?

Beyondworried · 04/06/2017 17:02

but nobody is going to use the beds all day.

So why have they reserved the sun beds then? Confused

SugarnetMum · 04/06/2017 17:03

But this place isn't limited for beds.. There were literally 50 more stacked ...

Its very rude to throw someone's towel on the ground. Iv never seen anyone do it.

Beyondworried · 04/06/2017 17:05

I wouldn't be happy if I came back from breakfast to find my towels moved

But why should someone who is there and wants to use a subbed that is clearly not being used not be able to use it when you have gone off to do something else.

BoraThirch · 04/06/2017 17:05

How about you just use the sunbed while you are sitting on it, and then if you get up and leave to do something else then take your stuff with you?

MagentaRocks · 04/06/2017 17:08

Because I intend to spend the day by the pool. The same as everyone else. Going to breakfast do 20 minutes should be allowed as I am using the sun beds from the time I put the towels on. Do you really carry your towels, bags, books, hats etc with you when you go for breakfast or lunch.

80sMum · 04/06/2017 17:08

SugarnetMum "I dont reserve towels for long... But today I put my towel outside my apartment on a sunbed for five minutes. Came out and my towel was thrown on the ground and a family of three comfy lying down on the three beds. Ignorant pricks"

Presumably, the sunbed didn't belong to you and hadn't been exclusively assigned to your apartment, so the "ignorant pricks" had as much right to use it as you did - or more right, seeing as you weren't actually there when they arrived and the sun lounger was unoccupied at the time. They weren't to know that you only intended vacating the sunbed for 5 minutes.

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