Page 2 | To design a new sunbed policy?

BeanCalledPickle · 2022-08-31T21:04:31+00:00

Right. I am so over the holiday sunbed wars. Just back from a place where we were woken every morning to people moving sunbeds around and draping them with towels at 7am. Few returned for much of the day. My favourite bit was when there was a storm and I’d say 80pc of the towels were left out. If you were on site clearly you’d go back and retrieve your towel before it chucked down, right? so how do we solve this? If no one rocked up with a towel then surely there would be enough to go around? Should lifeguards remove them after thirty mins? What is the solution? We can’t all afford swim up rooms. Hell, I’m hard pushed to pay for the holiday in the first place!! solutions please! What shall we do?

limitededitionbarbie · 31/08/2022 22:36

Purplepepsi · 31/08/2022 22:11

I heard about one where they blew a whistle every few hours or so and everyone had to get out of the pool and sit on their sun bed and any bed unoccupied had the towels removed!

Quality and brill

User478 · 31/08/2022 22:37

In the Disney resorts they come round once an hour and fold the towels over the end of any unoccupied sun beds, if the towel isn't unfolded the next time they come round they take everything on the sunbed to the kiosk and it's free again and you can pick up your things later.

People get really cross about it.

WhatsitWiggle · 31/08/2022 22:37

I'm at a hotel in Cyprus with a sunbed allocation scheme. There are enough sunbeds for every person at the hotel. On the day you arrive (or the next morning if late), you visit the pool kiosk. The attendant has a list of available sunbeds by each pool, asks your preference and shows you to your sunbeds. Those are reserved for you for the rest of your stay (there's a number on the brolly). If you change your mind, you go back to the kiosk and they let you know which other beds are available.

It's so refreshing, no more early starts to grab a bed. We go to breakfast late (9:30 or later!) and only around 30% of the beds have towels on them because everyone knows their bed will be ready when you are.

If you do go along to your sunbed to find someone else on it, they either aren't aware of the policy (didn't listen at check in) or are trying it on. Either way, the pool attendants keep an eye on anyone hovering by an occupied bed and race over with their clipboard to sort it out!

There's quite a few 5* hotels in Cyprus doing this and it's something that would make me choose one hotel over another now I've experienced it.

Bernadinetta · 31/08/2022 22:40

WhatsitWiggle · 31/08/2022 22:37

I'm at a hotel in Cyprus with a sunbed allocation scheme. There are enough sunbeds for every person at the hotel. On the day you arrive (or the next morning if late), you visit the pool kiosk. The attendant has a list of available sunbeds by each pool, asks your preference and shows you to your sunbeds. Those are reserved for you for the rest of your stay (there's a number on the brolly). If you change your mind, you go back to the kiosk and they let you know which other beds are available.

It's so refreshing, no more early starts to grab a bed. We go to breakfast late (9:30 or later!) and only around 30% of the beds have towels on them because everyone knows their bed will be ready when you are.

If you do go along to your sunbed to find someone else on it, they either aren't aware of the policy (didn't listen at check in) or are trying it on. Either way, the pool attendants keep an eye on anyone hovering by an occupied bed and race over with their clipboard to sort it out!

There's quite a few 5* hotels in Cyprus doing this and it's something that would make me choose one hotel over another now I've experienced it.

This sounds good

thenightsky · 31/08/2022 22:48

WhatsitWiggle · 31/08/2022 22:37

I'm at a hotel in Cyprus with a sunbed allocation scheme. There are enough sunbeds for every person at the hotel. On the day you arrive (or the next morning if late), you visit the pool kiosk. The attendant has a list of available sunbeds by each pool, asks your preference and shows you to your sunbeds. Those are reserved for you for the rest of your stay (there's a number on the brolly). If you change your mind, you go back to the kiosk and they let you know which other beds are available.

It's so refreshing, no more early starts to grab a bed. We go to breakfast late (9:30 or later!) and only around 30% of the beds have towels on them because everyone knows their bed will be ready when you are.

If you do go along to your sunbed to find someone else on it, they either aren't aware of the policy (didn't listen at check in) or are trying it on. Either way, the pool attendants keep an eye on anyone hovering by an occupied bed and race over with their clipboard to sort it out!

There's quite a few 5* hotels in Cyprus doing this and it's something that would make me choose one hotel over another now I've experienced it.

I love this.

PolkaDotMankini · 31/08/2022 22:49

Dunno OP. I paid $50 a day on holiday this summer to get a reserved cabana and adjacent sunbeds for the DC (not that DD used hers ever!). It took all the stress out of it, but TBH the hotel was big enough that there were plenty of empty spaces anyway.