All inclusive with no sun bed wars

[pinkpanther84]

Hello I’m looking for recommendations for an all inclusive hotel for the summer holidays next year where sun beds are in plentiful supply and we don’t need to get up early to reserve them. Budget up to £4k for 2 adults 2 children so unfortunately can’t afford Ikos etc! Thank you 😊

Lyttos beach

so so many pools and consequently sunbeds

bliss

£5340 for one adult two kids for one week though. But that was with a private pool (small) so without that…. Will probably be less

Nothing helpful to add but I've just been to a beautiful 5star in Antalya and we headed down to the pool mid morning and if there were no beds available I'd remove the towels and take 3 beds for us if it was obvious no one was occupying them. Too may entitled people that put towels down and clear off for the day

We went to Tui Blue Nausicca Beach in Cyprus.. you had sunbeds assigned to the room

Coma Gran in Majorca had loads of sunbeds in May half term, we would turn up at 10 and have loads of choice as long as you didn’t want 4 next to the kids pool.

Sani/Ikos resorts

The issue is not so much with the number of sunbeds as the space round the pool to put them on. Every sunbed takes up about a metre of pool edge and 25x10 (70 sunbeds, give or take) is a huge pool, the kind you would find in a 300-bed hotel. Doubly so if you are in the price range where you don't get your own lounger on the room balcony/terrace. After accounting for flights, the brands that people are mentioning (e.g., Ikos) would get you about 3 nights tops (you didn't say how many nights you are hoping to get, but I assume it's more than 3).

We went to ic santai family resort in Belek last year , always found a sunbed and that was in August , lovely hotel

Olympic lagoon in Cyprus had an allocated sunbed system, so you get the same beds all week

Did you have to have the same sun bed all the time, or could you move?

We stayed here last year. The staff were very strict in removing towels that had been left which I liked!!https://www.tui.co.uk/destinations/turkey/bodrum-area/didim/hotels/anda-barut-collection.html

If you didn't like you position you spoke to the sunbed manager and he moved you to vacant ones.

Landmar Costa Los Gigantes Tenerife. No sunbed wars and very good value for money

We went here this year it was lush. We got the landi upgrade so had reserved sunbeds by the pool, nice perk!

I stayed at Holiday Village in Benalmadena 2 years ago. The main pool doesn't open until 10am, and is fenced off until then so if you want specific sunbeds then you might need to race but otherwise we had no trouble at the last week of Aug getting some since we weren't desperate to be absolute poolside.

There is also a waterpark across the road (included in the AI) which is shared with two other hotels (and general public) where there are loads of sunbeds. We tended to go there.

Some reviews are iffy, it's the worst rated Holiday Village branded hotel but it's just dated and outside of the main resort of Benalmadena, nothing too horendous. However, if you have dcs under 10, they'll have a blast.

Star Beach in Crete

Depends when. On Sani holidays we had to bag sunbeds for two families by one of us getting up at 8am every day, Took it in turns and took a book. Four years in a row. Can’t be arsed with it any more. Not had the same problem with mark warner. Everyone too busy doing stuff to be sat by the pool all day

How many sun beds were you trying to get in a row?

You see stuff always depends on how flexible people are. Whenever I have been we can always find them by the ooo or beach but some people only want them right by a specific pool. Etc

We went to Atlantico Mare In Cyprus, it’s AI and we could always get a sunbed whatever time of day. They also have swim up rooms. I love them, bloody awesome invention for my ASD teen who gets overwhelmed sometimes. You can go back to your room
and still have a pool.

I'm being stupid but if you have children surely you need one sunbed tops as the other parent needs to be watching the children in the pool?

Who spends 100% of the time in the pool?

My children !
But also if they aren't in the pool they aren't just going to lie on a sunbed so one of us would still need to be watching them.

And not because I am a helicopter parent. But near water my rule is they have to be watched /have someone with them (dependent on age) at all times... Because I used to work as a pool lifeguard

You can sit on a sunbed and watch your children? Toddler you need to be right by them, but from the age of 7 both my children has completed all the swimming levels and could play in a pool without me glued to their side, or course I would still watch them from my lounger 2ft from the poolside.

From 8+ the can go swimming without an adult in the UK. My DC would often go with friends.

😆

no bloody chance. My two are 15 and 13 and they’re in the pool alone all day (they’re dolphins) and I’m sitting reading with the occasional laps in the adult only pool

How old are your children?