The end of hotel sun lounger hoarding?

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German tourist wins payout after losing sun lounger race

The man sued his tour operator for allowing people to reserve sun loungers with towels despite a hotel ban on the practice.
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This is one of the things that really annoyed me about many hotels I went on holiday to years ago. It’s one of the reasons that I started avoiding hotels and just booking AirBnB or VRBO units as then I didn’t have to put up with selfish ********.
 
I can only hope , cruise ships write about how they wait 2hrs and then a vacant chair gets cleared . It never happens


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The practice is aggravating. On a recent trip to Antigua, all the loungers under shade were reserved with towels but very few bodies. We took the ones we wanted and if the people showed up we dealt with it then. Only once, after being the beach for several hours, did the people that reserved the loungers show up. A super nice couple from England and by taking 'their' spots, it created an ice breaker. There were 8 of us, btw, and we only encountered 1 couple on one day.
 
One could only hope that this would be the end of it. Our last trip in Mexico we were waking up at 6, then 7, then 8 to grab some spots in the shade (I personally hate laying in the sun). BUT, we would show up at 9am to spend the rest of the day at the beach and I always felt guilty telling people 'sorry that's for my cousin/friend' but most people were cool with it.

I hate the practice, but if you don't join in on the poo...you're SOL.

Never had an issue personally as I'm an early riser, but have seen arguments and close to fist fights over a lounger.

I wish they would abolish the practice. 30min and the staff takes the towel. But they don't get paid enough to care.
 
On one holiday we found some chairs but all the sun shades had been reserved by the towel hoarders. As time goes on the sun moves….so I moved our chairs into the new shadows cast by a sun shade that had been empty for hours. When the German family eventually came back I explained that they hadn’t reserved the shadows.

I witnessed one guy zoom around the pool at a hotel one morning and throw every towel on a sun lounger into the pool.

I got into a fight at breakfast one morning with a German who stole my toast from the toaster.

Shortly after that was our decision not to book hotels if we could help it. We’ve booked a number of AirBnBs and VRBO places with private pools and it’s been luxury and at that time it was way cheaper than getting a hotel. Things are changing a little bit but we still will pay more for the privacy of an AirBnB.
 
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I witnessed one guy zoom around the pool at a hotel one morning and throw every towel on a sun lounger into the pool.
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That might have been me. I’ve done that a few times (well, not in the pool, but into the towel bin).

As far as I’m concerned, if you leave your lounger for another activity, you loose. I’ve never had trouble finding a spot I like.
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