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?

Crazy for two reasons, no way am I queuing for sunbeds and no way would I let an 8 year old go in the pool without being in the pool myself, kids under 12 or so need proper supervision, lying nearby isn’t enough.

I’m an early riser. I would be off exploring rather than queuing to stick my towel on a sun lounger.

Are there enough sun beds to go around or would you not get one at all if you didn’t play these silly games?

An 8 year old can go in the water without an adult,if they're being watched. What do you think happens at swimming pools all over the country that allow 8+ in unsupervised.

Btw, I’ve found the perfect pool subbed solution is get up late, breakfast, go for a walk, take bus into nearby town or do an activity, then lunch (if required), sangria (definitely required) go to pool and use one of the dozens of now abandoned sunbeds because people have disappeared off to their rooms!

Share your hotels! OP why would you rebook this?! Where is it?

Also where is the allocation by age hotel?

Get up and have a great breakfast together whenever it suits your fancy. For me it would be 8:00 am.
Take turns to accompany young one to pool from 10:00 am until 11:00 am.. Thus, slumber longer (or see extra gallery) every second day.

All get some exercise together at the pool before lunching and staying out of the sun until mid afternoon.
Go to Art Galleries, Zoos, Museums etc.
Play in the pool at the end of the day.

I would never wait in line.
I would never bask in the sun between 11 - 3.

This is why we preferred a villa when ours were young. I couldn’t be doing with queues and sunbed wars. I know there are pros and cons with the food etc but we preferred it.

They could swim at 7am if they fancied it, or midnight.

I’ve never done a sunbed holiday & never expect to, though I do see the advantages if you have kids.

I’ll get up as early as necessary if there’s something interesting I want to do which I know will be busy later. But if you leave a towel on a sunbed for an hour aren’t you pretty much asking to have it removed?

I'm.on holiday right now.
I've been up for an hour. Noone else is awake tho.

We will go to the pool when we fancy it. Probably not til this afternoon.

I'm at an All Inclusive right now. There's no mad rush for sun loungers, pool opens around 7am and it's full by about 11am.

It's perfectly normal in an AI resort to leave your sun loungers while you got for breakfast, lunch etc. We generally get set up when we wake, which is around 7.30 and I enjoy some peaceful reading time before a later breakfast.

Yes it's fine to go to pool, set up camp, disappear for half an hour or so for breakfast. But what isn't fine is getting up at 6, laying your claim then fucking off until 3pm or whatever.

I will remove your stuff and sit there.

That hotel sounds like actual hell to me, but I’d get up early.

Yeah @BusWankers There were four loungers reserved by us yesterday and the family rocked up after 3pm. That's not on at all.

(They also had small babies so why they didn't set up camp at the little kids pool also stumped me.)

Tend to get up about 8 on holiday wherever we are. I like it when it's still a little cooler. So we'd be ready by 10. But more likely to go out in the morning and then have some pool time later after lunch (say about 3 when it's quieter). The main thing for me is being in the shade so I need to be under an umbrella.

Most hotels stop serving breakfast at 10am if restaurant type.

Another who wouldn’t be standing in a queue for hours for a sunbed.

we get up and have breakfast and go out and explore.

Back to pool for 3/4pm. Usually there’s sunbeds that have been abandoned (for hours) but I use to put towels down on grassy area and if I wanted to sit and read I’d sit there.

I also always book a hotel with 2 pools as 1 is always the favourite and you then get an empty one to enjoy!

Is there Option 3: avoid hotels with pool queueing and politics? I’ll take that one please.

If I had to deal with it, I’d get up when I wanted, have breakfast and leave the hotel/do other things until lunchtime and then find a sun lounger once everyone had gone back to their rooms.

Sounds like a stressful and nightmare of a holiday.

I was a hotel last summer and a couple of women with no kids insisted on bagging sunbeds by the kids pool every day and complained about getting splashed 🤦‍♀️.

I do miss the people watching when we get a villa 🤣

Currently staying in Italy in a hotel with ample sunbeds for everyone. I’d hate to be in the sunbed wars. Years ago, when DS was small, we stayed in a Spanish hotel with sunbed issues. Never before or since but now that DS is grown , I seek out places where I won’t meet Brits/Irish abroad.

I remember sunbed wars at a resort years ago. big all inclusive full of Brits and people would bag a spot, fuck off on a boat trip excursion and you would literally not see them all day. I'm not saying other nationalities were any better either. Staff did nothing! I definitely squint at the ratio of sunbeds to size of hotel now! I also ended up having a massive row with a pissed up someone who's bratty kids were terrorising mine too. Ah happy days. So relaxing.

When we did holidays like this, we just moved towels off beds if it was evident that those people had buggered off for the day. Put them by the life guard. It’s only caused a scene (by the people whose towels I had moved) once.

I loathe and detest the "dump the towels on the bed and fuck off for hours" brigade. So selfish.

I don't go for baking in the sun but it's nice to go for a swim without having to search for an empty bed because they've all got towels and no owners.

Can’t you lie on any of the sunbeds or use the pool until 10am? They’re bringing this whole rush to reserve beds situation on by doing this.

The AI’s that we’ve been to haven’t had any time restrictions. I tend to wake about 7.30/8ish. Wander down to the pool, usually with one of the kids. I have a read, they have a dip and we go in for breakfast at about 9, coming back to the same sunbeds about 30 minutes later by which time DH and other dc are usually already there. If we go out fur the day there are usually sunbeds available when we get back, or the beaches seem to always have sunbeds available.

I would actively avoid any hotel with a scramble for sunbeds every morning. That’s not my idea of a holiday!

I wouldn’t be competing for sunbeds.

I have only been to two hotels with pools and sun beds and although there was no scramble, the policy was that if you disappeared for more than 30 mins the staff put your stuff in a basket and kept it near the lifeguard station.

Mad dogs and English men springs to mind.

Holiday to me is a relaxing time when you can do what you want when you want and sitting round a communal pool is a very small part of an enjoyable holiday, especially between the hours of 10.30 and 3pm when the sun is at its most vicious.