This is a pet peeve of mine. I hate when people reserve sunbeds but leave them unused.
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Well, I’ll admit to doing so. But in our case I go down early, put towels, books, sunscreen, etc, then go for breakfast. Back to the beds and stay there for the rest of the morning. We could go for lunch and leave our stuff there. Back in the afternoon. If we go into town, or whatever, we clear out our stuff.
I like the idea of having assigned beds but can foresee this being available at a price.
The funny thing is that lots of these places would have enough sunbeds for everyone if people with towels on them were actually using them at the time.
No excuse for ever leaving your towels on them and going off to eat or whatever.
Why do some people think they are special?
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I have heard of people who get pleasure in going around taking towels off sunbeds and putting them in the laundry baskets.
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Or throwing them in the pool!
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I think the problem goes down with the stars the hotel has. Just make it expensive enough so those idiots stay out!
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Nah. The more expensive, the more likely someone has peed on the towel or in the iced …
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Never seen more, and more cosmically huge jerks as in supposedly high end places.
I once got invited to stay a week or two with someone who had a place in Alicante
He invited me to the owner’s meeting, which happened at the same time
The development had a pool with sunbeds around it.
During the meeting, somebody showed a video of one of the owners throwing towels from sunbeds into the pool
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It is an effective solution.
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In expensive hotels guests pay to the staff to reserve sunbeds for them in the morning.
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sooooo 70s…cannot believe the ‘tradition’ continues 
maybe it’s primal human nature…
You only have yourself to blame. You choose to go to such a hotel.
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You mean a hotel with an outside pool? Or a campsite with a pool? Or a water park?
I read it in the hotel reviews in the last 10 years.
maybe you are too young … I remember that behaviour both in beaches and hotels from my childhood. Of course at that time I couldn’t speak english or german…but the people looked of those nationalities… their tattoos and lobster colour gave it away.
It’s infuriating, especially when you walk past the pool at 11 AM and see a sea of empty loungers completely blocked by towels with not a single human in sight for miles.
The worst part is that it forces everyone into this toxic arms race. If you don’t wake up at 6 AM to claim a spot like everyone else, you’re left sitting on the concrete for the rest of the day.
Have to say that sounds like a very unusual holiday resort.
the solution is simple. you start your stopclock (or use one of these car -roulette clocks), check the absence of humans for 5 minutes in your chosen spot, then, after neatly folding the other’s people towel, take posession of the spot. When they show up, you coldly and quantitatively show them for how long they were absent, and engage on a cool-headed discussion about public property.
You might find even reasonable people! I did in a couple of occasions.
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