Even though there weren’t any sun loungers available until 9am at a hotel in Majorca, Brits started putting down towels to claim their seats from 5am.
At the Pirates Village in Santa Ponsa, rows of towels were spread out on the ground, some of which had inflatable toys inflated for the pool.
A 38-year-old woman who posted the video while travelling with her husband and two children called the practise “ridiculous” and attributed the mayhem to unruly British tourists.
She questioned why, in the year 2022, we were still engaging in this stereotypically British behaviour of arguing over sunbeds. Every day is like playing a stupid game.
“I wake up at six in the morning to go to work, and now I’m getting up early to grab a spot by the pool because you don’t want to disappoint your family.”
“It’s funny.” We spend our entire lives saving money for vacations, but when the time comes, we only play this game with people of the same nationality, with no Germans to be seen.
She stated that while she had not voiced her complaints to the hotel, parents of young children had brought up the issue with the staff.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the British efforts from this year’s annual “Sun-bed Showdown,” the witness told Metro.
More shrewd, adept, and despised than any athletic team in the world… In this illustration, sunbeds aren’t made available till 9am.
When you want a good place near the pool, start gathering towels in large groups as early as 5 a.m.
If you’re very lucky, take a parasol.
Even beyond unlock time, the more devoted members of the team stake out on these towels.
No towel down by 7am, no family space near the pool.
Think of it as the Hunger Games crossed with a British hybrid version of musical chairs.
Leave the lie-in behind and get ready to immerse yourself in the game!
There are four or five stacks of loungers arranged around a circular pool, and starting at five in the morning, people arrange their sunbeds according to where they want to place them.
At 9 am, the sunbeds are unlocked. Some people return at 8am, while others choose to stay there even earlier.
When it is 8 a.m., there will be a crowd gathered around the sunbeds as people wait for them to be opened.
It reminds me of the Titanic’s boat rush, people say.
It’s absurd that individuals are using all these strategies to ensure they obtain a spot by the pool when there are enough available.
The hotel was “excellent other than the sun lounger issue,” she said, complimenting the staff and the facility.
“We stayed here in 2019, and the sunbed behaviour was similar, but it wasn’t as intense as it is now. I’m not sure if it’s because people are taking their first vacation after Covid, but it seems to be much busier now, she continued.
Despite everything else going on in the world, it just appears like British people are determined to compete for a parasol by the pool.
It is the most recent incident in this summer’s sun bed warfare and comes after holidaymakers in a Tenerife hotel were caught on camera last week swarming for the nicest poolside lounge chairs despite the resort’s five pools.
One visitor’s popular TikTok video depicts a mob of tourists arriving at one of the resort’s pools at Paradise Park on the Canary Islands shortly before it opens.
Then, some even look around remorsefully as they drop their towels on the best lounge chairs at the hotspot.
Sarah, a TikTok user, simply titled her video “The Sunbed Race” and it has already received more than five million views in just one day.
She also included a laughing-crying emoji.
Rafael Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo, a spokesman at Paradise Park, told MailOnline, “We were amused to see it because our hotel has 5 swimming pools and spaces with space and sunbeds for everyone.
Despite the fact that we notice some talent among our visitors for obstacle courses.
In contrast, hotel personnel at another resort in Tenerife took away the towels of sunbed blockers in June.
At the five-star Gran Costa Adeje Hotel in southern Tenerife, traveller Amanda Proctor captured the moment staff members swept up dozens of towels that visitors had spread out on empty sun loungers in an effort to secure the finest seats near to the pool.
According to Proctor, the hotel’s personnel grabbed the visitors’ bags and towels and left 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.
Another video filmed by Julie Larsson last month showed visitors scurrying for sun loungers at a Majorcan hotel at 6 a.m.
The video, according to Larsson’s joke, is all about “sunbed wars at 6am.”
In the video, competitive sunbathers reserve their patio chairs for the day by setting down luggage, towels, and other personal items.
Additionally, a lot of individuals scurried to get the best seats by the pool.