Soldato
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Get down there at 7.35am every morning and throw all the towels in the pool.
It's The Brits Not The Germans
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If I saw that I would go out of my way to uncut that and put it somewhere else
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Ha! It will be from now on!
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what utter BS! High season = common folk and you are saying that anybody with children are not high class.
My wife and I have a 12 year old child, and my wife is a school teacher, so we have no option other than going on holiday during high season (school holidays) but of course that makes us a low class family.
Get a ******* grip sun-shine!
Well someone liked that bait....
Was on holibobs a few weeks and attached to our complex was a water park. The park was locked on an evening and didn't open until 1000.
However, on an evening when parents were finished at the bar and heading to bed, they would detour to the water park, lean over the fencing and launch their towels and secure their loungers that way!
There were loads of secured loungers and there were also heaps of towels where they had missed!!
However, on an evening when parents were finished at the bar and heading to bed, they would detour to the water park, lean over the fencing and launch their towels and secure their loungers that way!
There were loads of secured loungers and there were also heaps of towels where they had missed!!
I've only ever been on one holiday, and it was pretty much this every day. It was pretty sad. It was me, my girlfriend, my brother and his girlfriend. Well them guys was just sitting down all day, doing nothing.
We never claimed sunbeds and just left them as we felt it was unfair, but also because we hated to just sit down all day being lazy. Spent a lot of time walking around.
From that holiday is made me realise, them type of holidays aren't for me
We never claimed sunbeds and just left them as we felt it was unfair, but also because we hated to just sit down all day being lazy. Spent a lot of time walking around.
From that holiday is made me realise, them type of holidays aren't for me
Haven't been to benidorm (aka Glasgow upon sea) for my holidays and spending all day sprawled by crowded pool isn't my thing...
Only time that came close was on a 'lads holiday' to the Canarys where we did decide to lay about one morning, took the OPs approach and removed some random towels. Though we weren't staying for long and after about 30mins we got up to have lunch - some random family asks if we're leaving and can they use the loungers... 'Yeah, go for it'. We head for lunch at the pool bar... about another 40 minutes later we hear some shouting, a family of Scouse land whales are kicking off at the family now occupying the loungers...
Only time that came close was on a 'lads holiday' to the Canarys where we did decide to lay about one morning, took the OPs approach and removed some random towels. Though we weren't staying for long and after about 30mins we got up to have lunch - some random family asks if we're leaving and can they use the loungers... 'Yeah, go for it'. We head for lunch at the pool bar... about another 40 minutes later we hear some shouting, a family of Scouse land whales are kicking off at the family now occupying the loungers...
This unfortunately seems to be the norm, wherever you go and regardless of the season - unless winter of course.
Part of the issue is that the hotels put signs up saying you cannot reserve a sunbed, yet do nothing to enforce the rule. They need some sunbed wardens walking around clocking the towelled-but-not-in-use sunbeds, and if no-one has returned in 30 mins or so, (or more if during lunch) they remove the towel. This saves burly chavs from starting a fight with someone who's nicked their towel.
By not doing anything about it, means the only way to guarantee yourself a sunbed is to go down at stupid-o-clock and dump your towel on a sunbed and return to your actual bed for some more sleep.
Part of the issue is that the hotels put signs up saying you cannot reserve a sunbed, yet do nothing to enforce the rule. They need some sunbed wardens walking around clocking the towelled-but-not-in-use sunbeds, and if no-one has returned in 30 mins or so, (or more if during lunch) they remove the towel. This saves burly chavs from starting a fight with someone who's nicked their towel.
By not doing anything about it, means the only way to guarantee yourself a sunbed is to go down at stupid-o-clock and dump your towel on a sunbed and return to your actual bed for some more sleep.
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It's proliferation though isn't it, that's the problem. The Kennedy Family reserve their beds at 9am after breakfast so the Krushchev family can't get a spot by the pool, so they come down before breakfast at 8am the next day, reserving their beds before breakfast.
The resevations get earlier and earlier and gefore your know it somebody is attempting to install missiles in Cuba, and one of the kids is so tired from ferrying beach towel to the pool at 3am that they fall asleep on the big red button. Boom! Everyone's back to living in mud huts, glowing green mud huts.
"I'm sorry, but..."
exactly, they could really do with some rotation scheme, so one family can't reserve a sunbed by the pool the entire week.From my experience a lot of those factors seem regardless. I've stayed in a real mixture of hotels and the issue seems to be the same amongst all. And it's not just the Brits, pretty much every guest at the hotel regardless of their nation will follow the same practice, because if you don't, then you've got a sunbed that's generally in a location that you don't want it to be.
I guess one approach is to scope out the abandoned towels, then when you think it is clear to make your move not only remove the towels but pick up and move the sun loungers to another location by the pool... when the chav family come back for their 'reserved' sunbeds they find a pile of towels and no one to kick off at.
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Christ, personally I don't see the point in going to a foreign country to sit by the pool all the day.
what utter BS! High season = common folk and you are saying that anybody with children are not high class.
My wife and I have a 12 year old child, and my wife is a school teacher, so we have no option other than going on holiday during high season (school holidays) but of course that makes us a low class family.
Get a ******* grip sun-shine!
No he is correct, common folk and there spawn. But then teachers are forever moaning
