Sunbed wars!!

[ForMintShaker]

On holiday at an all-inclusive style resort , been to different ones over the years but god I am so so over the sunbed wars. I researched for hours when booking and thought I'd booked a decent one without the sunbed problem. Me and partner here with DD (4) and basically have concluded that people are probably leaving towels here at night time for the morning after , it's bloody bonkers.
Current situation is that we came down for breakfast at 9 and managed to grab one bed , which is all we need as someone always in the pool with DD, but a row of chairs in front with adults (over 60s, no kids ) have left towels and positioned a chair blocking anyone on the other rows getting to the pool without walking all of the way around. I moved the chair to get through and then a woman put it back and has now disappeared!!!! Hasn't been back for over an hour
Anyway , petty example I know, but god it doesn't half put a dampner on the holiday itself. We wanted a holiday with mini disco etc and although I know it's possible to pay more and have private pools etc I just wish the hotels could do more. We have told reception but 'nothing we can do' is the response.
Think I might stay at home next year 🤣🤣

I stayed at a hotel recently, they were ruthless watching bed snatchers.
Towels were removed by staff, some tried holding 3 beds, between sunglasses on one bed, bag on another, staff removed them.

Had sunbed wars at HV Ibiza, really depressing and took the shine off tbh. We’re on holiday, just let us come down to the bloody pool when we are ready and lay on a sunbed!!!!
I would try a slightly different area @ForMintShaker , you’re going back to the same group that are annoying you and it’s probably grating more and more. Draw a line and sit somewhere slightly different.
We’ve never done an AI since! Covid hit the following year and 2021 we didn’t go abroad just in case things got cancelled and by 2022 kids were old enough not to need discos etc and we’ve done villas ever since. Bliss!! Get one walking distance to a town square/strip and eat at a nice restaurant every night.

How pathetic and selfish! 🙄

@Mayve I'm very excited to be able to do villas when DD has grown out of the mini disco phase.
I think if people are waking up that early to do the sunbeds , surely it dampens the holiday for them. Seems bonkers to me.

@EmeraldShamrock000 that's really good ! I wish all hotels would have the same approach

@ThisWayLiesMadness thank you for that list, very useful !!!
We are in Lanzarote, so unfortunately some cloudy days , but me or Dd don't like it too hot so we're ok 🤣 the sun comes out in the afternoon!

100% this @ForMintShaker

there is absolutely no point at all in leaving a shitty review when you’ve left!

photograph it now, email the manager and tell them to manage this situation ! It’s your holiday too.

and move the chair/belongings, sit there yourselves and deny all knowledge of their stuff lying at the bottom of the pool

woman up!

Just come back from a hotel in Greece where any lounger left unused for 45 minutes all the stuff gets collected. Seemed a good system.

I was in Rhodes last year and a couple of times we came back to our hotel quite late at night and towels were all laid out on sunbeds ready for the morning. Our hotel had a fairly small pool area and there weren’t enough beds to go round, so they were always all reserved by the crack of dawn.

If you complained, staff would remove them if they’d been left for more than an hour, but they weren’t proactive.

I went on holiday earlier this year and staff would put the sunbeds away at night and then got them out in the mornings. Only hotel issued towels were allowed on the beds and towels were labelled and allocated to each room. If a towel was left on a bed unattended for more than an hour they were removed and you had to ask for them back. It seemed to stop it as there were always sunbeds available.

I'd be irritated by this too.

We were at a Eurocamp last week and they handled it brilliantly. The pool was enclosed and locked until 10am but people would queue at 10, reserve beds and go off for the day. On really busy days where all the loungers were taken, the lifeguards would make an announcement and ask everyone to get out of the pools and return to their loungers. Then they would go round all the loungers without people and collect the towels. They clearly loved doing it and thanked everyone for playing Top Towel 😄

Watching people return hours later and try to work out what had happened was amusing!

It’s blocking quick entry into the pool in an emergency

Can you get a couple of water pistols/super soakers & play around between them & the pool having water fights? Keep yelling mum/dad watch watch whilst spraying the other parent & all around.

Shame if they get sprayed. But they are by the kids pool so . . .

Definitely complain or enquire as to how they're managing the issue

@ForMintShaker @PregnantBarbie , this is the way forward😂, scuttle off to the shop now and get snickers, cos it would be even better with lumps, they are selfish bastards BTW, shift the chair every single time you want to get to the pool.

This is one of the many reasons why I don't go abroad. Other people suck.

Find someone senior on LinkedIn, they need more beds or to manage the situation. I once complained in a v high end AI Caribbean resort about similar guest antics which left no beds. Within the hour we were packed up and put in the most amazing residence on the resort with a butler, chef and driver, we had 5 toilets, a 12 seater table in the dining room, private beach, private pool etc.

One of my kids has a 6 foot long inflatable pizza pool floatie - get a child to squeeze through the blocked path with that a few times, especially when wet from being in the pool and lightly smacking the woman on the lounger on the way through and watch the gap reoopen

Why? That is just stupid.

So grim too. Imagine trying to play with your kids in the pool and there’s just loads of abandoned towels in the pool.

This thread has reminded me why sunbed holidays in resorts aren’t my idea of a holiday.

Yeah who would want to look at that..?

OMG OP I just don't get why people are so desperate to "mark their territory" on the sunloungers like they're some kind of badly-trained dog.

For anyone who finds these sunbed-baggers absolutely hilarious (and mildly baffling) to watch, this whole thing reminds me of this video of sunbed antics from a few years back. Some guy filmed it from his balcony and the commentary is just spot on:

@MeringueOutang wow that is crazy 🤣🤣
People really are odd !!! So over these types of holidays now 😭

They weren't in the swimming pools, they were in little decorative side pools.

Strict 'No Reserving Sun Beds/Couches/Pergolas' policy, so towels got dunked and property taken to the manager's hut.

Signs everywhere, 'polite' reminders from staff as you're walking around in the morning, even reminded you on check-in, so nobody could say they weren't warned. And as the guy said, it's the kind of 'mistake' you only make once 😅