To take towels off "reserved" sunbeds?

[Nancy91]

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.

At a hotel about 8 years ago people were down at the poolside at 6am before the beds were even unchained and set up by pool staff. They had towels on the ground reserving the exact space they wanted. Once the beds were out they then put towels on them. I usuallt sit at a table with a drink and if someone hasn't come back the lounger by the time my drink is finished I fold up the towel and set myself up.

JustCallMeKate
That sounds very civilised. We're looking at Mexico for next year- any recommendations?

I once came back to our hotel at about 4.45 am after a night out and a little worse for wear. I took each and every towel and threw it in the pool. Either the hotel didn't have cctv or they were silently applauding me because I never had any come back from it.

Apart from anything else, and even if I were guaranteed a sunbed every single day, there is no way that I would want to be in such close proximity to strangers a few inches away from me.

Just doesn't suit me, and I hold both my hands up, it is probably just me. I like my privacy and I cannot understand the need to sit or lie next to anyone. I wouldn't share my hotel bedroom with them, so no way would I share a poolside either.

Anyway, that kind of sardine sunbed thing is awful for me.

As I and some others said earlier, paying for a hotel/apartment with a nice terrace with its own sunbeds is worth every penny. It really is.

I realise that it may cost a little more, but it's worth it.

If someone could tell me what the delights of sharing a poolside with many others is cheek by jowl (or maybe arse by boob) actually is, I would be delighted to know.

Storms off in a huff. LOL.

soda but you would share a restaurant or a bar with them? It is more akin to that rather than like sharing a hotel room. Our kids are too young to spent any length of time by the pool but when we do go I don't really notice anyone, perhaps a little people watching like a cafe but nobody really intrudes on anyone else. If one of my kids plays with another child I will smile at the parents otherwise it is all very chilled.

@Lucked,

I can go to a bar for a half an hour and move around if I wish. I daren't move off the sunbed though!

I'm being lighthearted, and I do realise that everyone is different, especially ME!

I don't have any children to bring along now, so that has probably upped my game a bit!

I am currently on holiday in Turkey , went last year too just a different hotel and even at 12 noon there were tons of free sunbeds at different locations around the resort - no one really reserved any. Those that had towels but no people were where they were in pool/ getting drinks and they came back win 10-15 minutes. I would hate to stay anywhere where they were reserving them all the time. I guess it just depends where you stay.

Those videos are crazy! That second one is such a stupid idea, I'm surprised there aren't loads of people getting injured!

That last clip makes me not ever want to go on holiday abroad. I have never seen this happen. Up thread I said I had been to turkey on honeymoon and we had to put towels on the loungers

But that was a different thing, as I now see. There the loungers were out all the time, but one deep around the pool circumference and them there was plants etc like a perimeter. No more loungers would fit, so I guess they were in short supply.

WOW!! Where was that place? Remind me never to go there. People do this for holiday? the staff must find it hilarious.

I'm so glad I've never been to one of these places shown in the video.

Places I've been have had a few arses who let their towels sunbathe for hours but everyone else plays fair.

OP, if there are no loungers available I completely endorse removing the towels. Anyone defending this practice is selfish and grabby? Just why should you hog a lounger when you're not even using it? Put your towel on AFTER breakfast when you're ready to use the pool.

What i don't get from one video she says she spent the day in her hotel room, why didn't she go out somewhere, get a taxi and sight see?

youarenotkiddingme I stayed in The Flamingo Oasis the year it opened and it was exactly like that.
The glass doors would open at 8am and there would be a stampede.

Nowadays we don't have any problem with reserving beds on holiday. My DC's are grown up so it's just the 2 of us and now we aren't staying in the family orientated hotels there are plenty of beds available in the hotels we stay in.

Get your own villa. You only have to fight family

I wouldn't be brave enough to do it but it is very annoying!!!

Slightly different but picnic bench hogging drives me nuts too. We went to a V busy attraction last week, no picnic benches available, so we sat on the grass. Watched 3 families use benches for their coats to be dumped on whilst they played with a ball nearby. Unfortunately I'm a weed so no way I'd say anything !!

youarenotkiddingme 😲 I'd feel like a total twat doing that. The staff must be laughing their arses off. First of all the holidaymakers are doing their job by getting all the loungers out and second they just look like dicks.
Fuck that.

I would, its very rude, and unacceptable. I would wait for about half hour -40 mins, if nobody comes, I would leave the towel in the place and move the sunbed, they don't own them!

I've seen people put towels out ridiculously early to reserve beds for the morning and also in another position for afternoon sun. Unbelievable. But I've been too scared to move them... I will now though!

I don't understand the issue with that second video? There are loads of sunbeds still stacked up even after the "dash" - so why the urgency?

It would probably be a better idea if the staff put the beds out in advance to make the most of the space though - there were some fairly selfish looking arrangements!

Yeah I'm not sure why they are running around like it's the apocalypse. What a stressful thing to do, really early, on holiday