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Why is it a nightmare to get a sunbed?

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mommas2022 · 09/08/2022 16:04

I'm a new mum, due to travel to Costa Del Sol with my DP and 5MO.

The hotel I booked had brilliant reviews, but the last month it has been really down hill due to complaints about sun beds and queuing for them.

Wtf is going on? I don't recall it ever being this bad?

Is anyone else been on holiday recently and had difficulty getting a sunbed?

We don't plan on staying at the pool all day long, but it would be nice to be able to get a bed!

Wish every hotel had a booking system for this 🤦‍♀️

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Flopisfatteningbingforchristmas · 09/08/2022 16:07

People just want particular spots.

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mommas2022 · 09/08/2022 16:09

Flopisfatteningbingforchristmas · 09/08/2022 16:07

People just want particular spots.

No way? 🤣

I know this! But seems to be really bad recently!

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Flopisfatteningbingforchristmas · 09/08/2022 16:23

I think it’s post covid thing. If people went on holiday last year most hotels weren’t at full capacity so in comparison this year is worse. Or just have higher expectations and/or more entitled, you see the same kind of complaint about holiday makers behaviour who live in UK holiday destinations. In short the situation isn’t worse just people’s behaviour and expectations.

pinklavenders · 09/08/2022 16:39

Hotels are greedy and build way too many rooms for the size of pool...!

pinklavenders · 09/08/2022 16:41

We recently experienced this in Greece - way too many guests for the amount of pool and beach loungers.... unless you got up at 7am you wouldn't get one. Same with the restaurant tables...

Hotels make money by selling lots of rooms...!

Greenfrog78 · 09/08/2022 16:48

We found out by reading people are queuing for sunbeds early on TripAdvisor it makes everyone else get up early to do same( just incase none left). Hotel we stayed at was same everyone getting up early to reserve beds and no one by pool for most of time.

StorieAnna · 09/08/2022 16:55

Awful, we are all so selfish. If everyone just used the beds as and when there wouldn’t be an issue. Empty sun beds left by selfish people create this.

But, if we all managed this together and we all moved towels off empty sun beds the ‘saving’ of beds would end. There wouldn’t be any point.

I never do it - happy to look when I’ve returned to the hotel later in the day.

I’m also going to blame ‘hen pecked’ men 😂 after a holiday where our balcony overlooked the pool. Soooooo many men, paddling down with two towels at some ungodly hour of the morning. Bet they are ‘sent’ by the wife! 😂Get a grip guys, cos I bet ‘the wife’ wouldn’t be traipsing to the pool at 6.00am!

Walkingtheplank · 09/08/2022 16:56

I hate this and wish hotels would manage it. On our last holiday you had to get to the pool ( that could not be used until 10am) by 7am to get a sunbed. By then, anything under a parasol was taken.

I want to have a lie in on holiday - getting up the same time as a working day is not a holiday.
And then, as someone who actually wants to be in the shade, I have to fry away whilst sunbeds under parasol are not used or the beds are moved into the sun.

Went to one hotel where empty sunbeds with towels on would have a timed sticker on them. An hour later, if the sticker was still there, they took the towel that had a €10 deposit on it. It was lovely, whenever you went to the pool there were loads if beds to choose from.

StorieAnna · 09/08/2022 16:57

pinklavenders · 09/08/2022 16:39

Hotels are greedy and build way too many rooms for the size of pool...!

But with less rooms hotel costs would increase surely.

minipie · 09/08/2022 16:58

Yes it starts with the selfish behaviour of a few people who “reserve” the beds all day with their stuff despite only wanting a bed for a few hours here and there.

Then other people end up doing the same as they realise it’s the only way to get a bed.

And so the cycle continues.

Can only be broken if hotels monitor for unused sunbeds and move the stuff.

pinklavenders · 09/08/2022 17:02

Can only be broken if hotels monitor for unused sunbeds and move the stuff.

Yes, but this costs money for the hotel.

abovedecknotbelow · 09/08/2022 17:03

Because people are arseholes, get up at 5am and bag their sunbeds. Then fuck off for the day and come back at 4pm.

pinklavenders · 09/08/2022 17:03

And some hotels genuinely have too many guests for the size of the pool, at least at full capacity.

Winterfellismyhome · 09/08/2022 17:15

A swim up room will change your life 😁

StorieAnna · 09/08/2022 17:18

I’d love to set up a ‘sunbed force’ 😂

We, ‘ mumsnetters’ could be it. Sent out on secret missions to disrupt!

My plan would be to move the towels from one set of beds, to the next, remove the next set and put these on a different set of beds and so on. The last beds, just dump the towels on the grass…then sit back and watch the chaos, as no one can find their stuff.
This would mean I also don’t have to be confronted by someone whose bed they think I’ve taken. 😀

SarcasticMrKnowItAll · 09/08/2022 17:23

I've just come back from a hotel that allocates everyone a sun bed, it worked so well. I only wish all places would do this!

pictish · 09/08/2022 17:24

I’ve seen videos of holiday makers queuing up for the sunbed race waiting for the staff to blow a whistle so they can elbow their way through the scrum and lay towels down for pole position by the pool.

Horrible to see actually. People are dicks.

minipie · 09/08/2022 17:24

pinklavenders · 09/08/2022 17:02

Can only be broken if hotels monitor for unused sunbeds and move the stuff.

Yes, but this costs money for the hotel.

Doesn’t cost as much as losing customers due to reviews saying beds are a nightmare.

Unlikely that constant monitoring would be required anyway - put up signs saying unused beds will be cleared and enforce it every so often, should be enough to stop the up at 6am nonsense.

Bodice · 09/08/2022 17:29

I think I will choose my hotels carefully in the future. Only hotels that have strict rules about it. Or just fling off the towels.

Strulch · 09/08/2022 17:43

Yep we had the same in Majorca in a small 4 star TUI hotel. It wasn't like that when we went to the same hotel 3 years ago but that time we went in the school holiday - it was definitely older people without children doing this. It has put me off going on that sort of holiday again. It was reported to the pool lifeguard but they did nothing about it. One day the reserved lounger next to me was only sat on for an hour in a 9 hour period. The 4 of us were sharing one parasol between us.

BigSandyBalls2015 · 09/08/2022 17:47

Take the towels off if they’ve been there for ages …. cheeky fuckers!

LaMadameCholet · 09/08/2022 17:51

I’ve never been on this sort of holiday but I don’t understand why people don’t just remove towels which are left on sun beds for ages?

Bodice · 09/08/2022 17:55

By the way I am in France on a campsite and people are just rocking up to the pool using the beds and then taking their towels when they are done. Haven’t seen any of this nonsense.

AtomicBlondeRose · 09/08/2022 17:56

If some hotels don’t even have enough restaurant tables for the guests then it’s basically deliberate under-provision of resources as you can’t bagsy a restaurant table!

pictish · 09/08/2022 17:58

LaMadameCholet · 09/08/2022 17:51

I’ve never been on this sort of holiday but I don’t understand why people don’t just remove towels which are left on sun beds for ages?

Because they fear an encounter with aggressive, selfish twats who are going to kick off about ‘their sunbed’.

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