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To think this sun lounger behaviour is cheeky?

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MadamePompadour · 17/07/2019 21:48

Staying at a large hotel with the usual sun lounger issues. It isn't quite a stampede in the morning but if you haven't got one by 10am forgot it.

I'm always ok as I'm wide awake by 7am every day so was out on a lounger at 8am.

Have realised that a couple near me have "bagged" 4 loungers for the day, for 2 of them. Two in the shade and two in the sun. They spend a hour or so in the sun, then leaving stuff on them move six foot away to the others. Then swap back. They've been doing it all day! While others are walking past obviously searching for free ones.

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JumpingJaneFlash · 17/07/2019 23:00

"Oh, are you looking for an empty lounger? I think these two are free... Yes, the couple who were using them earlier have moved over there. They must've forgotten to take some of their things with them!" *

^ this ^

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MadamePompadour · 17/07/2019 23:01

They're British as well btw.

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WaxOnFeckOff · 17/07/2019 23:22

I've not long returned from holiday, first time in a hotel for a while as we've done villas the last few years. Was very pleasantly surprised re sunbeds. I'd say there were about half in sun and half in shade but people weren't hogging and you could more or less get the type you wanted at any time of day and if not, if you took what was free you were able to swap after a short time.

Simply because people were only using them when they wanted to and not hogging all day. If you actually just allow them to rotate, there wouldn't be an issue imo. It was refreshing!

WaxOnFeckOff · 17/07/2019 23:24

Maybe the difference was that there was no pool entertainment? You could relax in peace and read a book or listen to your own music with your headphones or get a bed beside the bar and they had normal volume music playing that you could hear on nearby beds but wasn't blasting across the pool.

Reallybadidea · 17/07/2019 23:25

I really don't understand why people don't just take unused loungers... they're only towels not a padlock and chains!

Unhomme · 17/07/2019 23:27

Last year on holiday in France the entertainment team at our pool ran a 'towel confiscation' session (to music) and took away every towel that didn't have a person on it at the time.

It was very funny to see people jumping out of the pool to go back to their loungers, but had the desired effect of releasing 15 or so 'unused' beds every couple of hours.

groundanchochillipowder · 17/07/2019 23:37

I don't stay in places that allow you to 'bag' sun loungers for hours and hours - 30 mins and your stuff is removed by staff. Most cruise lines are good about this.

Tartyflette · 17/07/2019 23:37

My favourite-ever hotel has about 100 guests but over 200 loungers around the various pools, terraces and gardens. It's bliss.
Because there are so many, people aren't bothered about 'bagging' one for the day. Even the water-bed ones.

The staff come around regularly with cold drinks, fruit skewers and sunglasses cleaner and pick up damp/stray towels anyway. You just get a fresh one from the towel bales.

Dawnofskeggy1 · 17/07/2019 23:48

Cheeky! Stand up to them, you will always get people who bully.

yearinyearout · 18/07/2019 00:10

Shocking, I'd be pointing out their spare beds to anyone who was looking. On previous holidays if I've seen beds unoccupied but with towels on for more than a couple of hours, I've left the towels folded on the floor and buggered off to another spot with the beds 😂

BlythesEyes · 18/07/2019 00:40

Just use the sunbeds you want ...if anyone asks or says they're reserved just say I'll move when they return.
I've done this in so many places..parks, hotel receptions, at the races.
There is no argument if you honour your word..and chances are they know they're being CF so cant say anything.

EdtheBear · 18/07/2019 00:49

More places need to take that French attitude.

I also think hotels should have to provide a minimum number of loungers per room, ie if the hotel has 100 rooms, they should have a minimum of 160 beds. Which allows for 2 per room, and 20% of people being elsewhere, tours / beach.

I've seen people attempt to hold loungers by leaving their lilo behind them and towels on them over night! They seemed to get away with it for a couple of nights (maybe more) but by the 3rd night the loungers were stacked up and the lilo left to fly off!

timeandtimeagain42 · 18/07/2019 06:11

I really don't understand why people don't just take unused loungers... they're only towels not a padlock and chains!

I generally do this, just sit down on any sun lounger that is only occupied by a towel. The problem is, people do get very confrontational and stroppy over "their" sunlounger and who wants that on holiday?

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