What time would you get up on holiday?

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We are going away in a week and have been to the hotel before.
Pool opens at 10am, they have ropes round until then.
People queue for sunbeds as they want th ones along the front of the pool so they can watch kids in the pool.
we have a 8 year old who we also want to be able to sit in the front sun beds and watch in the pool.
so, would you wake up 9/9.15 go down and queue by the pool and when they drop the rope at 10 put your towels in preferred sunbeds and then go off to have breakfast in the hotel, returning to sunbeds and pool around 10.45am -11am.
OR would you get up around 8am go and have breakfast then be ready to queue for pool for 10md get sunbeds and start your day around the oooo then.
We stay up the night before watching the shows and singers until around 10.30pm and head back to bed.
what does your holiday time like consist of ie are you keen to get up and get going early so not to waste the sunshine and Easter your day, or do you lay in until 9.30 and have a slow start?

Well this just shows that we’re all individuals with different ways of doing things because, to me, the first option is absolute madness.

The first seems like a waste of the morning and I wouldn’t need the extra time in bed if I’m spending the day on a sun lounger.

I’d be up and having breakfast at 8 then down by the pool for the day. Only because I’m used to being up early so that would be a 3.5 hour lay in for me 😂

Hate it when people put towels on sun beds & then disappear off for however long!!!

Option 2

If it was me I wouldn't be returning to a hotel like this - is too hate the reserve towel behaviour, so knowing this happens already would make it a big no from me! In your place I'd go for option 2.

Option 2. If you’re going to lie around all day anyway, getting up at 8 is no hardship.

I'm in Greece and the day for us starts late, breakfast isn't even starting to be served at the bar til 10 so I'd get up 930 ( it's 730 now and I'm still lounging in bed) and we stay up late. fortunately our pool doesn't permit towels to be left they're scooped up and dumped at the bar and there's enough sunbeds to go around. we are also self catering so that means we have a fridge of stuff if me or my teenagers can't be arsed to walk the 25 metres to the pool and bar! wouldn't have done self catering when they were younger but with young adults it's worked out well especially as there are food options to buy as well without going anywhere.

I wouldn’t partake in the pool queue, hate the whole attitude around that! No way. We’re at a hotel in Greece currently and it’s not necessary, doesn’t happen, everyone gets loungers if and when they want them. I don’t see the need for the frenzy. Haven’t been anywhere that happens ever.

To answer your question I would get up when I wanted to, have breakfast if I was hungry, and go about my day.

Absolutely this.

Holidays are the time when you can take your time in the morning - whatever time you prefer to get up - without having to race around.

Absolutely zero chance I'd be queueing every morning or rushing around to try and get a sunbed. I'd take my chances for whenever I got there, or alternatively, just head to the beach.

Do people really queue for 45 minutes every morning of their holiday?! Sounds bonkers to me.

8-9am naturally. Never been anywhere we had to queue for the pool though. Went to a place in Portugal where we'd take our towels down at breakfast if you wanted particular loungers, but there wasn't a queue.

We are currently on holiday with allocated sun beds... and it looks like they allocate the beds based on children's age, with young kids near baby pool, under 10s near main pool, then teens adults near the sea.

Its great, we aren't tied to timings like that.

I'd avoid all that nonsense by having breakfast when I felt like it and going to the beach or sightseeing in the morning. When we recently went away we generally went for breakfast at about 9.15/9.30 as it finished at 10.

Have lunch out or come back for hotel lunch around 2/3 pm if AI then go to the pool afterwards, as the morning pool crowd will have started to move on by then.

I'd book a hotel where this nonsense doesn't happen.

Just come back from all inclusive in turkey. Dh joined the masses by getting up at 6 to put towels down. Then came back to bed. All up around 9.30, breakfast at 10ish then to the pool around 10.30. We stayed there til around 3.30 each day.

I avoid any hotel where people reserve beds and always check on Tripadvisor for this before booking. Who wants to set an alarm on holiday so they can queue?

What is this hotel please sounds fabulous!!!

Sounds like the perfect holiday for some Brits. Enforced queuing with plenty of opportunities to annoyed by Other People.

We just move people's stuff if they aren't there 🤷‍♀️

This doesn’t sound like a holiday to me!

Get up when you like, breakfast at your leisure.. when you want to go to the pool just go- if there are towels on sunbeds and people are clearly not there just remove the towels and use the beds. The whole reserving a sunbed with a towel thing is totally bonkers and I've never stayed anywhere that does this!!

We do too. Put them by the lifeguard.

Yes, option 2 or this might happen. You can’t put towels down then swan off for an hour for breakfast.

Am surprised your towels were still there if you’d left them for 4 hours.

I mean, I wouldn’t go to a hotel like this…

eat when you want, then go hang around the pool, point out to lifeguard that some sunbeds have clearly been abandoned, ask them to remove the stuff.
Next year, book a resort that doesn't have sunbed races.