Towels on sunbeds abroad.

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Just read an article about people getting up early on holiday to save a sun bed with a towel. I really don’t understand why people do this. First come first serve I say. How silly.

It's like musical chairs.

TBH I don't really 'do' beach / sun bed type holidays. On the few occasions I have decided to stick around a pool with a book for the morning I just moved the bloody things (most hotels I've stayed in have had rules about how long it's reasonable to reserve a sun bed while away, although it's been mixed about how much they enforce them IME). Only once had bother when a Spanish pensioner turned up 2hrs later shouting & bawling the odds - hotel were not sympathetic.

I think it's hilarious. But definitely not for me. I am so private I just could not see myself sitting around the pool surrounded by strangers. Just me I suppose.

The commentary on this one is so funny....

OMG that last clip. Just why? Lying so close to everyone else on sunloungers all day? No thanks.

We stayed somewhere once where they'd get up at 4 and sleep on the sunbeds until breakfast opened. I found this out when I went to the loo at this time and heard the scraping of the beds.

Mind you, my dad was a very early riser so would reserve a bed for my mum at some ungodly hour. He used to strike up friendships with people on holiday this way!

It is ridiculous, but in all honesty, what do you do? We had to be up with the rest of the hotel to get 2 sunbeds (never get kids one as they are always in the pool) at 7am. If we didn’t we had no where to sit for the rest of the day.

I agree it was ludicrous but it’s an impossible situation. And of course parents want to be near the pool to watch their children??!!

I've just been on holiday with my parents and sister. My dad and I are early risers (about 6am) so we would go down to the beds, put towels down, go and have breakfast then go back to the beds for a swim/nap by which point my mum and sister would join us. There were people there who would get up either even earlier or about the same time to lay their towels down, but would then go back to bed in their hotel rooms!

I thonk it's often people with children who want to be right at the edge of the pool?
I want shade in a quiet corner and seldom have a problem.

I’m currently in a place that is horrific for this issue. So all week I’ve gone to unoccupied but towelled loungers, shoved the towels to the side/top. Enjoyed them for an hour or two then left. So far nobody has come looking for their lounger but I’d they did I’d just shrug and move to the next one that’s been unused for a good while.

it’s absolutely fucking ridiculous and people are total twats to both do it and tolerate/respect it.

Growing up we used to have towels in the colour of the German flag with 'reserved' on them! They're probably still at the back of my mum's airing cupboard. 😯

Best I've seen, and kudos to her, was a girl in pyjamas lean over her first floor balcony in Majorca and fling 2 towels onto 2 loungers below, before retreating to go get ready and have breakfast.

I was so impressed and amused with her ingenuity I went over and straightened them up for her (we were already out by the pool and this was about 9.30am, it wasn't a '6am dash' kind of place).

We once got back in the early hours to find most of the sunbeds around the pool had towels already on them. I’m ashamed to say that my husband went back and chucked every one in the water.

We don’t even use the sunbeds.

Thing is, it's a good idea for hotels to remove stuff from unoccupied loungers, but that doesn't stop the selfish demading to know why you've taken "their" place - even when you weren't to know and it isn't "theirs" anyway

Reason doesn't work with some of these people, and the aggression they easily resort to isn't pleasant

We were on holiday in Minorca where this happened every day. One morning we were stunned to see the pool full of towels. Our two boys had snuck out at stupid o clock and done it they admitted. We never fessed up but things improved 😂😂

Horses for courses. No kids yet so DH and I have 2 or 3 holidays a year. 1 or 2 of them we'll go somewhere new and explore thoroughly, the other one we go back to a hotel we love in the Med and completely relax and switch off for a week. Sun loungers, books, magazines, a pack of cards, Yahtzee and not much else.

We might go into the resort or take a boat trip if we fancy it, not if we don't though.

I should add, we don't dash out for sun beds though! One of the reasons we love the hotel is because they have more than enough for all, and they're all in a 'good' position.

On par with people reserving parking on a public street with a wheelie bin or cone

DH wheeled a bin off down the street last week to teach somebody a lesson. Who the fuck do they think they are?

DH and I were at my in-laws timeshare in Tenerife in April. The pool is fenced off and gated to stop those not at the timeshare from using it. The fence is 6ft high and the gates have coded pin pads. They would lock the pin pads between 10pm and 8am so nobody could get to the pool during those times.

During the day the staff would monitor the sun beds and if they were unused for 90 minutes they would remove the towels.

As a local govt officer required to park across the residential streets of the district in the course of my work, I always make a point of moving wheelie bins off the road if they’re there to save a parking spot. Small pleasures. 😬

a few years ago, I saw a family of 4 put towels down for themselves by the pool plus another 4 towels down on sun beds in the shade! Bloody horrible people. We complained to the receptionist and they were told to not do this again.

Villa with own pool this year. I’m ginger, pale and burn in 3 mins. We’re tired of scrapping for a place to sit. Too many unoccupied sun beds, while gingers fry.

self catering might be more cooking but I won’t need to scurry around and no pool time

Do people not have their things stolen?

most hotels don't cater for kids on sun beds. 250 sunbeds for adults, any kids aren't catered for.could be and extra 50 kids, minimum. total chaos. I've been at very high end resorts at peak times, unless you're paying £2500 a night you're not getting a sunbed easily.

Last year in Cyprus people were leaving towels on beds the night before! So ridiculous. However we have got up at 7 on holiday and gone and set up by the pool. We did it to get a spot near the sloped end of the pool when our children were babies. We would then go for breakfast and come straight back to the pool. It frustrates me so much when people do it and then don't come down to the pool until mid afternoon. We don't do it anymore now the children are 7+

We went on holiday to a hotel that had four pools.

We got friendly with a family who realised that a group of people were putting towels on beds at each of the four pools and then going out for the day.

We couldn't get any beds.

The dad of the family that we became friends with, picked all their towels off their reserved beds and threw them in the pool!