To think sunlounger reservers are the worst

[Clearlynotmyname]

We're on a sun holiday which is lovely in many ways but we can't get a space for love nor money by one of the three large pools, because of people saving beds when they are not there. This morning by 9ish, all of the beds at one pool had stuff dumped on them, and there was literally one person present, everyone else had gone off to have breakfast or whatever.

This gives us the fun options of: not having a bed, moving someone's stuff and inevitably having a fight when they eventually show up, or also being dicks and rocking up at 7am with our towels.

First world problem and all that and I know I am lucky to be on holiday but perhaps precisely because it's our first proper holiday in years that it's pissing me off so much. I have spoken to reception but nothing has changed. Aibu?

@Clearlynotmyname

DismantledKing It didn’t take long for the ‘you want to relax on a holiday?! How common. Tarquin and I like to explore; we’re travellers not tourists’ brigade to get involved on the thread.

Couldn't have put it better myself! To all the holiday snobs who've posted, we actually do lots of different things on holiday, only spend a couple of days or half days by the pool. I still don't want those times to be super stressful
Loving some of these suggestions!

I assume they’re the same people who think that they’re superior because they get up earlier

The “oh I could never lie in, I get so much done at 5am! it’s a waste of the day otherwise” lot

@DixonD

Surely there’s more to being on holiday than sitting on a sun lounger all day long? There must be other things to do? So people really pay money to fight over loungers for a week?

I couldn’t think of anything worse than sitting around a pool for days on end, and I definitely wouldn’t be getting up at 6am to reserve one.

Hell certainly is other people. But this type of holiday is not far from it!

Did you just comment on this post to feel superior compared to all the uncultured plebs who like to lounge by a pool on holiday?

@MrsPnut

The place we stayed at in the south of France last summer rang the bell mid morning and mid afternoon. Everyone had to go to their Sun lounger and any loungers with towels on and no person were cleared and the belongings taken to the lost property.

This is a GREAT solution!

On a backpacking holiday many moons ago, we stayed at an hotel for a couple of nights to bathe, use the laundry service and recharge our batteries after a nasty bug. It soon became clear that poolside sunbeds were being reserved, 'the Germans' were being blamed rightly or wrongly and trouble was brewing. Towels seemed to be being placed on sunbeds after a late night in the bar and before retiring to bed. Someone obviously 'cracked' because one morning at breakfast all the towels were at the bottom of the pool.

I tend to just send the butler on these types of holidays - I'm most likely in the Himalayas or on a yoga retreat in Nepal

The ONLY time I’ve ever engaged with this nonsense is aged about 20 with a group of friends when I removed a towel and lay down.

After a while a very large person came and shouted at me in Spanish before lying down ON TOP OF ME! I kid you not the rest of the resort was in Stitches and she was eventually dragged off by hotel staff. Still shouting. My friends thought this was completely hilarious naturally but not so much when we decided we needed to find alternatives for the rest of the week.

Tend to stay away from this type of resort nowadays…