Sun Lounger Wars. First Rodeo.

CKhalvashi

xzibit said:

Head to resorts that the English don’t frequent. It’s annoying and I don’t know why they do it. Selfish people. I’ve witnessed towels being out at 7am and the people turn up to lounge around the pool about 4pm. They rely on people being to scared to move the towels. Good on you for taking some action. If more people chucked their towels on the floor they’d give up. 

Completely agree, from experience German travellers (despite having the reputation) are some of the more considerate.

Currently looking for options for September and one of the options is Castellon; still Spain (which is a country I haven't been to for almost 20 years) but far less tourism and therefore a much more authentic experience.

I've never understood why people want to go to foreign resorts to not leave the hotel and remain only with those from their country. This makes no sense to me

TELLIT01

Sea_Shell said:

TELLIT01 said:

A friend's son stayed at a very posh AI hotel for his honeymoon.  He was shocked to discover that sunbeds had to be booked the day before, you were given a specific sunbed number, the beds were not to be repositioned, and it was a maximum 4 hour slot per day.

Were these standard loungers by the pool or "Bali" beds?   

I can understand if the latter, but I'd be miffed if normal ones were so restricted.

Sometimes "posh" doesn't always mean better!! 😉

Not 'Bali' beds, just quite up market sunbeds with thick cushioning.  As you say, posh doesn't always mean better.

TELLIT01

One place we stayed at in Cyprus went one better/worse than removing towels.  They chucked them all in the kiddies pool.  Word does get round quickly.

sammynunes

Lying in the sun all day is really bad for you anyway......expand your mind, choose your travel based on more than the number of sunbeds and you'll be a happier and healthier individual.

lady1964

We stayed at a Sandals resort last year, those with butler rooms had butlers reserving beds both by the pool and on the beach, usually butlers were out at 5am to put the towels, coolers etc by the beds. Of course, one set of beds remained empty for most of the day or were used for maybe an hour then the other used for an hour. We had the pool guy remove towels from one set of beds and it caused a bit of a row with me insisting to the butler that I hadn’t removed the towels. This was at 7am when I was actually sitting on the bed by the pool. It was an awful problem and one that Sandals did nothing about. We won’t be going back.

pattycake

When we were in Lanzarote, we had a ground floor room overlooking the pool but with a wall around our terrace.  We saw idiots with torches arriving in the pitch dark to lay claim to sunbeds in front of our room.  Towels deposited and then presumably they went back to bed!  There were more than enough sunbeds at that particular hotel.  There were always empty beds at any time of day but folk seem to like their own spot every day.  

IvanOpinion

pattycake said:

When we were in Lanzarote, we had a ground floor room overlooking the pool but with a wall around our terrace.  We saw idiots with torches arriving in the pitch dark to lay claim to sunbeds in front of our room.  Towels deposited and then presumably they went back to bed!  There were more than enough sunbeds at that particular hotel.  There were always empty beds at any time of day but folk seem to like their own spot every day.  

At one hotel in Egypt we saw people doing that usually with football towels. It was funny when the pool boy came round to clean the loungers, he just blasted the towels and loungers with the hose. The towels and the muck got hosed into the corner where the drain was. The only football towels he left where the Tottenham Hotspur ones - he supported them.

It was even funnier watching people trying to find their cherished Man U, Man C, Liverpool, Chelsea etc. towel in the filthy sodden mess in the corner. Anybody complaining was simply pointed towards the conditions that said the pool area would be cleaned between 7 and 8AM and no responsibility would be taken for abandoned possessions.

zagfles

You see the same sort of selfish behaviour in other contexts. Recently we were in a well known big store and went to their cafeteria for lunch. The queue was massive, didn't seem to have enough staff on, and after queuing about 30 mins to get our lunch, there were no free tables to sit and eat it at. Some people were sat on the floor eating! But half the tables weren't taken by people eating their lunch, they were taken by people just sat there waiting for their partner/friends etc who were in the queue.

Anyway after a minute or so wondering around and trying to find out if there was anywhere else we could sit and eat rather than on the floor, a group of 3 sat at a table for 4 moved their bag and offered it to us so my wife sat there. Then a table for 2 became free. I went towards it but were beaten to it by a woman who'd just arrived and whose husband had just joined the back of the queue. I just sat down opposite her and started eating. She complained that seat was for her husband. I told her he'd be about 30 mins, I'd have finished by then. And that there aren't enough tables both for people eating and people waiting. But she wasn't having any of it, whining on that she'd reserved it and was there first. I ignored her and carried on eating. Luckily the group on my wife's table left after a few mins and I went to sit with her.

TELLIT01

Any time we go into a pub or cafe, my wife will find a table whilst I'm at the bar or counter ordering drinks and/or food.  Nothing unusual in that.  If we couldn't get a table there would be no point in ordering or purchasing food.

HampshireH

TELLIT01 said:

Any time we go into a pub or cafe, my wife will find a table whilst I'm at the bar or counter ordering drinks and/or food.  Nothing unusual in that.  If we couldn't get a table there would be no point in ordering or purchasing food.

I agree never queued together for food order. One of us will always sit down whilst the other orders. Rarely see the opposite happen