Australian tourists who rent pool chairs with towels or other personal things and then depart without using them have come under fire for being ‘annoying’ in Bali.
Tourist Angela Scott, who is a visitor at the Grand Inna Kuta resort in Bali, has seen the same people visiting the pool daily and reserving loungers with personal things before abandoning them.
On Wednesday, Ms. Scott vented her complaints on the “Bali Bogans” Facebook group, complaining that she had nowhere to sit despite the pool being empty and the sunbeds being vacant.
Cannot believe she came down, rented two more couches, and then left after setting up the towels. FFS,” wrote Ms. Scott.
The only drawback is that every day the same individuals come out, place something on the sun couches to reserve, and then go.
It was so frustrating that it was tempting to just sit down and toss the towels into the water.
The sunbed blockers, according to many Australians, are “quite unpleasant.”
Had the same problem the whole four days we were there. Each bed was “reserved” with a towel or a personal item every morning without fail. Hannah Crugnale remarked, “We were too afraid to move it.
When in Bali, Chris Mutch stated it was his “greatest pet hatred.”
He called them “bloody stupid, self-righteous people.”
Others advised her to take the things off and keep the sunbed for herself.
Buffy Murrace declared, “If this occurs when I’m there, I’m moving their sh*t, this shouldn’t have been permitted, and I will not give a crap if your not there then too bad.”
It was agreed upon by Suzanne Schembri, who stated: “Angela, you’re too kind and if you keep sitting back and whining about it, they will simply continue to feel like they own the place,” she said.
I would just take the things out and sit down. The cost of the accommodation and its extras is on you.
There are other places besides Bali where sunbed blockers have enraged visitors.
At the Gran Costa Adeje Hotel in Tenerife, staff members allegedly stole towels that customers had left out on unoccupied sun loungers while attempting to book the sunbeds in June.
Tourist Amanda Proctor captured the action on camera as staff members removed hundreds of towels that visitors had spread out on vacant sun loungers to claim the finest spots adjacent to the pool.
According to Proctor, the hotel’s personnel grabbed the visitors’ bags and towels and put a letter on the sun loungers instructing them where to retrieve their items. The facility has four pools.
A notice at the hotel, according to the vacationer, said that sunbed reservations were not permitted before 10am.
She said that other individuals didn’t return until mid-afternoon and that it was “really amusing” to see them come back to discover their towels stolen off the beach loungers.
At the well-known Playa del Ingles resort in Gran Canaria’s Hotel Servatur Waikiki, film from 2017 showed guests scurrying for sun loungers as the pool opened at 8 a.m.
According to hotel sources, customers start lining up at 7.30 am every day to get a perfect seat in the first row of sun loungers.
The British and Irish are allegedly the worst offenders.
Frequently, they set their towels down and go to breakfast before coming back at their convenience. In all, the hotel has close to 500 rooms, and the video shows more than 150 sun loungers.
The issue of sunbed bagging became so severe that hotel employees was given the order to take towels off of loungers that had been vacant for two or three hours.