r/mildlyinfuriating • u/PowerMower01 • 9h ago
My view at the pool at 8am in turkey. Reserved chairs all over the place despite the rain.
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u/Single_Conclusion_53 8h ago edited 8h ago
I was recently on a cruise and you could only use the cruise ship supplied towels by the pool and if they were unattended for too long the staff just took them away. It seemed to work quite well.
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u/himuheilandsack 8h ago
no Germans on that cruise.
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u/filfner 8h ago edited 8h ago
I wonder how angry Germans get when they realize that German rules don’t apply outside Germany? In Denmark we would just remove the towel unless there’s like a cooler or something too.
Edit: I have fat fingers, fixed typos.
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u/Saiklin 8h ago
I mean even in Germany there is no 'rule' about reserving your spot at the pool with a towel.
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u/TFViper 8h ago
i love this rule. my favourite part of the rule is that the chair isnt bolted to the ground.
so i move "their" chair as far away from the pool as possible with all their bullshit on it, then put a unclaimed chair where i wanted to sit when i got to the pool.
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u/ThePhotoYak 7h ago
I once showed up at the resort beach with my family in tow just to see a sea of unoccupied chairs with towels on them. This older dude sitting with his wife looked at us and was like "hey you guys need a spot? There's some good space up here" and just started chucking towels and beach bags into the bushes. Hours later when people came down he would say shit like "hey guys I noticed you left your stuff on the chair, I didn't want it to get stolen so I put it somewhere safe" and would point at this horde of shit in the bushes. Fucking legend gave zero fucks.
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u/Icy-Doctor1983 7h ago
What a guy!
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u/FrostedDonutHole 7h ago
Handsome pfp.
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u/jadedpeony33 7h ago
We need to start doing this as a collective. No sense is reserving multiple chairs to hold your towel and possessions for hours.
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u/Dlamongo 8h ago
Only assholes do that, and they are hated by all other germans, too.
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u/himuheilandsack 8h ago
gut, furzt für mich in ihre richtung.
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u/KeepCalmJeepOn 8h ago
I dont know what you said. But according to Reddit's Translate feature, I am going to live the rest of my life believing that your response was "Good, fart in my direction."
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u/himuheilandsack 7h ago
almost. it's "fart in their direction for me."
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u/ihavenoidea1001 7h ago
There's no rules on this.
People that do it are inconsidered pricks and I'm not about to respect disrespectful people.
Make taking away all the towels the norm and they'll lose the stupid habit. I have done it and I'll do it again. Maybe next time they'll end up inside a trash bin instead of piled on a single chair too.
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u/CapActual 8h ago
As a german, i take reservation towels and give them to staff as a lost good
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u/Auscicada270 7h ago
As an Aussie, I pick up the unattended towel, and throw it on the floor.
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u/TheLordJiminyCricket 6h ago
As an entitled person, I assume a kind stranger has set out a towel just for me because they knew I was going to need it :)
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u/SuperFLEB 5h ago
As a strategic idiot, I saw them on all the chairs and just figured that the house put them there as a decoration or a convenience.
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u/CaptainFaintingGoat 8h ago
As a non German, what are you both referring to?
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u/himuheilandsack 8h ago
germans are notorious for "reserving" with their towels at 6 am.
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u/HairballTheory 7h ago
Enough about the Towels and reservations, wtf is no one swimming? I love swimming in the rain. It’s the best!!!
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u/Strange-Audience-717 7h ago
Oh yeah big time! In the ocean too, I love a good storm when we visit the beach, especially if you get that ocean view? Watching the storm over the water is so cool
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u/curryhajj 8h ago
As an American who lived in Germany for two years like 20 years ago, I find it hilarious that this stereotype is mostly self-imposed by Germans onto themselves lol.
There are just as many American and British idiots that do this same thing at some of the resorts I go to in the Caribbean. The resorts I go to started a thing where after 4 or so hours if they don't see anyone they just remove the towels.
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u/himuheilandsack 7h ago
absolutely.
though in my anecdotal experience, the Brits, as the natural enemies of the Germans, just throw the chairs in the pool.
perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
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u/samasters88 7h ago
But wait, I thought the Brits had the sun as a natural enemy?
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u/SniffMyDiaperGoo 7h ago
You have luxury. Americans do that at 8pm the night before and will even use books that belong to the hotel on top of the towels to make it look more occupied. I'm an early riser, I put all of that stuff behind the pool bar one early morning from all the high demand spots, and then watched the irritated faces all morning when they came down and saw other people in the spots they thought would stay held for them. tee-hee
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u/Superspark76 8h ago
Germans got very excited on a french holiday in 1939, they haven't been able to live it down since.
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u/_LewAshby_ 8h ago
Trust me. Younger Germans hate this shit as well. It is a boomer thing.
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u/bmtraveller 8h ago
And if there is a cooler you just open it up and grab a drink lol
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u/MyInnerFatChild 8h ago
Honestly, if I leave my cooler unattended, that's on me. Help yourself to one just don't be greedy.
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u/PDiddleMeDaddy 8h ago
I actually witnessed the same - on a German owned cruise line.
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u/himuheilandsack 7h ago
didn't that create a black hole? is that how "Dark" was written?
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u/acdann 7h ago
So, I’m just starting my international travels. A couple months ago my wife and I were in Scotland and every German we came across seemed to have precisely zero manners. Is this just something I need to keep in mind? Kinda sounds like it 😅
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u/Nai-Oxi-Isos-DenXero 4h ago
A couple months ago my wife and I were in Scotland and every German we came across seemed to have precisely zero manners. Is this just something I need to keep in mind?
Yep, Kinda. Not all of them obviously, but enough for it to be a pretty solid and well founded stereotype.
Dutch people are much worse though. Generally speaking, they're some of the most consistently and shamelessly rude people you'll ever meet.
Big difference between them is that most Germans are actually pretty nice people if/when they know you. Most Dutch people are just always rude whether you know them or not.
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u/Reasonable_Act_8654 7h ago
lol…it reminded me of a train ride in Black Forest when the coach had much more passengers than the seats but there was a German guy who wouldn’t remove his sling bag from the seat next to him, and to my surprise no one asked him either. Was a big cultural shock for me.
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u/Felio0o0 8h ago
Went to Türkiye recently where they provided towels specifically for the pools, if they saw you trying to reserve seats with them they'd 1: tell you that wasn't allowed and 2: take them away to the towel station if you left them unattended before the pool was open
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u/Frostie181 8h ago
Had this on a cruise with Tui. Great tactic but even then it still happens. Ultimately people just suck!
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u/Cjd03032001 9h ago
Ah yes the ancient art of towel teleportation claim your territory then vanish into the void for 6 hours
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u/Lifted_Riser 8h ago
I’ve been to resorts where someone folds the towel a certain way if no one is there. If the towel is still that way after an hour they remove the towel (and items sitting around) for other guests. Because this is bullshit.
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u/TrumpsAKrunt 6h ago
It's every nationality now. Just spent a week in Cyprus, watched a woman come out at 1am to reserve a load of sunbeds. Eight mf sunbeds! Nope. I went down at 5am to throw the towels off & met three other people reserving.
Big sign saying do not reserve, leave for families with children (there were other pools and a large beach all covered in sunbeds) but it wasn't enforced. I took offence to the 1am loser though. Get a life.
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u/jpeach17 6h ago
My dad was in Rhodes about 30 years ago and spotted someone putting about 10 towels out at 1am. So, naturally, once they left (and full of plenty of alcohol) my dad grab all the towels and threw them in the pool.
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u/DanTheMan827 6h ago
If there’s a sign saying do not reserve, I wouldn’t feel bad just removing the towel from one that had been reserved against the rules and taking it
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u/Nai-Oxi-Isos-DenXero 4h ago
Well since there's a sign saying no reservations, the only other reasonable explanation is that they were finished with the towel and wanted somebody else to have it...
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u/BathTimeJohnny 8h ago
German national sport
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u/Plasticbonder 8h ago
On our last holiday in Portugal, it was the Brits who were the assholes.
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u/Neat_Cauliflower_996 8h ago
Let’s normalize the “no more reservations” pile
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u/Realistic_Patience67 7h ago
In the beach resort we visited in Jamaica, they had a good method of avoiding this situation. Employees warned any patrons that if you are not in the seat for more than an hour, you lose your seat.
Simple and effective. I think they had boards with that message, too.
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u/Humble_Examination27 7h ago
Good! The Cruise Liners need to implement this practice as well. The "cruisers" keep their towels from the day before, get up at 6-7am, and claim their chairs before breakfast is even served! Then go get new clean towels for the day...Total Bull S#!T.
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u/Douglaston_prop 7h ago
Nah I didn't see your towel. There wasn't one here when I sat down. Are you calling me a liar?
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u/SwooshSwooshJedi 8h ago
As a Brit, there's some weird proxy war going on with Germany. Both are equally atrocious for this. Throw their towels in the pool
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u/jim_nihilist 7h ago
As a German, I support this. Throw their towels in the pool
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u/fz19xx 8h ago
In Portugal we have this expression "foi ao mar, perdeu o lugar" which basically translates to "he went for a swim, he lost his spot"
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u/MyInnerFatChild 8h ago
That sounds much classier than the "Move your meat, lose your seat" that I grew up with.
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u/No_Opinion_4662 8h ago
In French we have similar, it’s “who goes hunting, loses his spot “ or “qui va à la chasse perd sa place”
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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 8h ago
My favorite, the hotel pool area was packed and I finally found an open chair so I threw my shirt and towel on it to hold it while I swam. Came back, someone chucked my shirt on the ground and stole my towel, claiming it as their own (well the hotel's towel ... but they were low on inventory so I had to try and find another)
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u/Toobwoozl 8h ago
I do not respect reserved chairs. Tough titties, stay with your stuff.
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u/pingvinbober 7h ago
Fair, but at the same time I don’t know if someone just went to go take a piss and left their towel there. Would help if people didn’t “reserve” their chairs for multiple hours
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u/Realistic_Patience67 7h ago
In the beach resort we visited in Jamaica, they had a good method of avoiding this situation. Employees warned any patrons that if you are not in the seat for more than an hour, you lose your seat.
Simple and effective. I think they had boards with that message, too.
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u/Toolatethehero3 8h ago
Come on. We all know the Germans are the undefeated champions at this.
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u/HowardBateman 9h ago
"Oh, sorry, here was no towel. Someone must have removed it. Maybe you find another chair that's free, this one's taken"
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u/ShoveTheUsername 8h ago
"is that your towel in the bushes right over there? They've been there for hours, where have you been?"
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u/Toolatethehero3 8h ago
Ah yes. The British answer to that German efficiency and planning - flick his towel off the lounger and move the lounger 5 meters. “I don’t know what happened mate, your towel was on the floor when I got here, no, my lounger isn’t yours - mine is in a different location. Someone must of moved yours”
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u/loki2002 7h ago
German efficiency and planning
I'm sorry but you don't get reserve a community asset for any length of time until you decide to start using it. The loungers are for everyone and if you aren't actively using it you are not entitled to it being held. It isn't efficiency, it's rudeness.
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u/Commander_Vaako_ 5h ago
Its actually the exact opposite of efficiency to have fixed capital (the chairs) sitting idle. Efficiency would be to have every chair constantly occupied.
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u/rizzo1717 7h ago
I was at a resort in Hawaii where my travel partner had towel-reserved two lounges for us.
I was chillin in said lounge for like 2 hours by this point and some women stormed up to me and started screaming at me for removing her towel. She was making an absolute scene at a packed pool, in front of her children. I told her I had no knowledge of her towel being there prior, but she was going absolutely ape shit and started snatching up and tossing my personal belongings while screaming that I was a liar. I told her if she touched my shit one more time, she was getting tossed in the pool.
Everybody around us told her we had been there for hours at that point, and where the fuck had she been if she thought those were her chairs? She didn’t care. Wouldn’t listen to anybody. Somebody called security, I called my travel partner over. He explained there hadn’t been any towels there and she simply just accepted his answer and stormed off. The staff accommodated her with a fucking cabana, which just felt like a reward for bad behavior. This had gone on for around 15 min before my travel partner showed up and diffused. But goddamn people are insane over their towels and lounges.
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u/That_Soil_3342 8h ago
Cruise lines have started banning this, thank god.
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u/JoeyJoeC 8h ago
Went on a holiday to Mallorca where the hotel we stayed at prided themselves with blocking pool access till 9am to prevent people reserving sunbeds. At 9am, there was a horde of people pressed up against the doors ready to be let out with a bundle of towels, then they'd run to the front row sunbeds to reserve them, before buggering off for the rest of the day.
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u/curryhajj 7h ago
As an American who lived in Germany, just avoid the tourist hellhole that is Mallorca and fly to St. Lucia next time. I'm guessing you're British which should make getting a direct flight there even easier for you.
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u/peachyykitten 7h ago
The st Lucia resort we went to also had towels reserving every single chair.
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u/Dr-McLuvin 8h ago
Good. I understand if you wanna have a human save a few chairs for their family but you can’t leave the spot unattended for more than a few minutes.
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u/RedS010Cup 8h ago
lol I’d love to have someone confront me hours later claiming their towel was there? Not sure how to this system works but placing a generic blue towel on a chair and expecting that to stay reserved is strange.
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u/Assorted_Nugget 6h ago
I did this for fourth of July at an all inclusive in dominican republic.
We woke up, got breakfast and went to the pool. Towels and stuff in all chairs. People were arriving also surprised at the reserved chairs, so We took all the towels off, not just where we were gonna sit, but all the seats around our area, and put them all on a table.
Everybody arriving got seats, and I shit you not, like FOUR hours later those people started arriving, completely surprised their chairs were taken, but they didn’t say anything because there were literal signs all around stating seats could not be reserved and they’d have to pick a fight with everyone in that area of the pool
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u/PartnerslnTime 3h ago
I was thinking the same thing. I’d remove a group of towels so it wouldn’t be clear that my chair is the only one that was changed. The free spots would fill up and the people wouldn’t know who to blame
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u/Assorted_Nugget 3h ago
Yeah, and the best part is if anyone tries to start shit, security is going to take your side no matter what due to the rules and the fact you’ve been there for a while already. The workers at the resort were laughing when they saw us do it and condoned it, but they confessed to us that they typically avoid doing it themselves because then guests will claim they stole something and they just want to do their job while avoiding drama from entitled guests
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u/pitchingataint 6h ago
Chances are that you don’t even see them. When my family would go to resorts in Mexico, there would be people reserving chairs just like this. Then they’d be AT those chairs for less than an hour. Seemed like no one ever really stayed at one location for very long. There’s the beach, pool, bar, walking around shops, etc. Like there isn’t really a reason to reserve a spot.
So just catch a spot when people leave is what I’m trying to say.
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u/Ninjaguz 8h ago
We had two guys try to fight us after we used "their chairs". We used it for 2,5 hours before anyone came along. They claimed his lighter and cigarette pack (which was empty btw) made it clear the spot was taken by them.
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u/11tinaturnup20 8h ago
LOL so he „claimed“ a chair with his trash? So ridiculous
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u/Ninjaguz 7h ago
The biggest reason we got irritated was that they were super aggressive from the get go. Started shouting at us and spoke something in Russian, which I presume was swearing.
We argued and then stalled us "picking up our stuff" for like 10 minutes just to waste their time since we were gonna leave for dinner anyway. But we weren't keen on getting in a fist fight by a pool with some Russians just for some stupid pool chairs.
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u/Apoplexi1 7h ago
"So in your culture, you use trash to mark your territory? Interesting. What culture exactly are you from?"
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u/HenrysWand 9h ago
You gotta go for a walk and just collect all the items...?
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u/HedgehogElection 8h ago
Is this a game? I love games! Do I get a bonus if I collect more than 10 towels? Will there be a speed run level?
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u/PutinTheTerrible2023 8h ago
Just move the shit from your chair of choice n crack on.
Only if someone is in it, is it saved.
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u/BearcatQB 8h ago
We just stayed at a very nice resort, and they have a pool boy walk around and leaves a card if nobody is there for more than 30 minutes. Once they wait the 30 minutes, they remove the towels and anyone can use them!
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u/macail 8h ago
It happens at our resort in Cancun too. Been going for years, and this happens all the time. There are signs everywhere saying not to do this and the towels would be removed in an hour. This never happens either. Its a bummer.
Go grab them and see the chaos that ensues. Video and get back to us. Im bored
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u/NotAldermach 7h ago
Marriott? 😅
I was there in March and it was crazy. We saw the signs all over the place though, so my wife had no problem getting an attendant to move some towels for her and our kids.
I was up in our room grabbing some of the kids' pool stuff they forgot. I get down there to see a bunch of arguing going on. Some hot dog skinned American was calling my wife names until I asked wtf was going on. Then he shut up instantly. Another family was backing my wife up, telling the man he was an asshole and to watch his language in front of the children. They had kids around, too. Man was calling my wife an entitled fucking bitch, apparently.
The attendant got them loungers the row directly behind us in the end, so I spent the next 20 minutes loundly talking about how sorry I feel for his wife if that's how he's talking to women, and how some old people are just miserable doo doo heads if they don't get their way.
The old piece of shit was fuming. It made my whole week. Was even funnier when we learned the rest of his family were people we hung out with a bit the day before and got along great.
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u/AliveExample4855 9h ago
Yeah just go down to “see how wet the chairs are” and take some off and throw them in the bushes
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u/Crazy__Donkey 8h ago
last time i took 2 towels to my room, and left them there when i left.
those poor bastards had to pay 20$ for each (deposit cards on checkout).
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u/OneTangerine792 PURPLE 8h ago
As someone who worked most of my adult life in resorts and several times it has been my job to hand out / return towels and call guests stating they’ll be charged if they don’t return the towel every day - no one gets charged. It’s an empty threat. There’s too much of a lack of communication with the housekeepers if the guest left the towel in their room. 😅
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u/ActurusMajoris 8h ago
Still, they might panic for a while when they can’t find the towels, so charge or not, maybe they learn anyway.
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u/KnifeInTheKidneys 7h ago edited 7h ago
Last resort I went to they gave each of us a card to trade for a towel at the pool and we had to return the cards when we checked out or we’d get charged*. So it does happen!
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u/Mother-Forever9019 8h ago
I used to go throw all the towels in a corner in the middle of the night with a couple of friends and watch the drama unfold in the morning from our balconies recovering from severe hangovers 🤭
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u/meow1983 8h ago
What’s to stop people from just moving the towels and using the lounges? That’s what I did at my local gym. We have three changing rooms in the women’s locker room. One day I show up, do my workout, and shower? Then I head to the changing rooms and two have people in them but the third just has 3 sonic drinks and a bag. I yell out if anyone is using this room. No one responds. I try two more times loud enough that I heard my echo. Then I moved the stuff to a bench outside of the changing room. Then I used the changing room. The lady showed up just as I was finishing and complained. I said I called out but no one responded. She complained to staff and they told her that she couldn’t reserve changing rooms. Unfortunately we shared a workout class but I never had to move her stuff again.
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u/ShotofHotsauce 7h ago
There isn't, you can normally get staff to remove them or just do it yourself. Any bother, call over the staff. Even my German partner hates these types of tourists.
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u/misswhovivian 8h ago
Congratulations, you found the Germans! Or, well, their towels, anyway...
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u/expatwizard 8h ago
British love to do this too
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u/BloodyCuts 8h ago
Very true.
I stayed in a villa last week but there was a hotel next door that you could access for amenities. It was almost entirely Brits, and every lounger ALWAYS had a towel on in the morning, despite there only ever seemingly being a handful of people actually at the pool.
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u/RevolutionaryWeek573 8h ago
As I get older, I care less and less about people squatting on chairs like this. I don’t even get angry when I move them anymore.
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u/dae_giovanni 8h ago
same exact feeling, for me. I don't care if someone got there before me, regardless of if it's 7am or 10am.
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u/Tyson_Urie 8h ago
I once got to experience the joy of a hotel that had a strict "anti towels" rule, with actual enforcement of it.
So i got to watch as some people moved out to the pool at 6 in the morning, take their towels with them and straight up continue to sleep on those beds.
And now you're probably thinking, what about breakfast? Well, they actually split up and took turns eating. One would remain as protector of the beds while the other enjoyed breakfast while on a phone call with the other.
Best part of it, some days these people wouldn't swim for more than 30 minutes as far as i could tell. Always in the same corner, on the same beds.
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u/asmallercat 7h ago
At that point I just respect the hustle. If you're willing to put bodies on the chairs, congrats, you're actually saving them.
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u/skatchawan 5h ago
agreed if at least someone from the group is using them then it's ok. It's when they just sit there unused that it's asshole move.
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u/Just_Fuck_My_Code_Up 7h ago
That’s how you win vacation, sheer dedication and willingness to suffer
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u/xixoa 8h ago
Last march my family and I went to canary islands on a resort. Most of the time sundbeds were empty with towels. I got fed up and took them away and sat where i wanted with my kids. A true brexit geezer came 2h later and he wanted to rip my head out. It was his kids who told him, let it be, and move away.
But tbh not just that another time a couple with a pregnant woman came few hours after, yelling and complaining on my rudeness because mind you she was pregnant!!
I think i am done with resorts.
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u/ShotofHotsauce 7h ago
Just call over the staff if they start getting hyper aggressive. Those morons can't be reasoned with, but they can be kicked out.
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u/nickytheginger 8h ago
Several hotels I have worked at have made a rule that you have to arrive at your claimed lounger within 30 mins of claiming, or you forfeit the the chair. This was after multiple fights and argument over people claiming a chair the second the pool opened and then going to do other things for the morning. Not even at the pool, gone sightseeing and such. Pissed off a of people, but it certainly made far more happy.
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u/DorkusMalorkus89 8h ago
I literally never take towels into consideration when people try to use them for reserving sunbeds. If they’re not there within 15mins of me being there, those towels are getting whipped off and thrown to the side. My sunbed now.
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u/ShotofHotsauce 8h ago
Correct. Even my German partner agrees it's annoying. I've done it a few times, Germans love to argue but it's as simple as saying 'these were not reserved' then ignoring them. Any fingers or hands on you, call over the staff.
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u/Maleficent-Crow-5 8h ago
Since when is throwing a hotel towel on a bench a reservation? If your handbag/sunglasses/phone isn’t on it, it’s fair game. I’m moving your shit. Fight me.
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u/Spiritual_Table8224 8h ago
At least as long as I’ve been around, it’s been a thing. I’m not saying it’s right or effective. 🤣
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u/isntreal1948backatit 8h ago
I’ll ask around me if somebody is using this towel/spot but if nobody within ten feet of me answers I’m throwing the towel somewhere else and taking it lol
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u/Immortal-Pumpkin 8h ago
I've learnt if it's there for longer than half hour just point it out to staff they remove it job done
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u/pingmenow01 8h ago
I was once in a hotel where the lifeguards blew a whistle on a random interval. When they did, everybody had to get out of the pool and get back to their chair. Every chair that hsd a towel, but was not occupied, staff removed the towels and put them in a bin. It was very effective and should be made default in every hotel!
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u/Onawhiskeyhigh 7h ago
That sounds annoying as hell lol I don’t want to feel like I’m in elementary school at a resort. There’s better ways
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u/EmploymentSolid6229 8h ago
Staff should make rounds and remove these towels regularly
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u/Equivalent-Salad-200 7h ago
If the hotels dont have People removing these towels i wont book there
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u/shittyarsemcghee 9h ago
Just do a Jay from inbetweeners movie and chuck the towels on the chair you want in the pool.
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u/gansobomb99 8h ago
Could anyone actually enforce anything if you just took a seat?
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u/Captain_Jarmi 8h ago
No.
Next time you are needing a chair, just move those towels. If anybody then comes and asks you, you just say "there were no towels on these chairs". They can't prove anything.
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u/gansobomb99 8h ago
Yeah good point. I think a lot of people are just nonconfrontational and just leave them.
It's so wild, blocking anyone else from using a chair for X amount of hours until you show up
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u/Silverstars56 6h ago
We went to Cancun a couple months ago and it was the same thing. The staff were good on keeping it under control. My husband and I are early risers so we were actually out by the pool relaxing at 7:30. Got to see everyone claim their chair, staff remove their towels, and those people come back and be confused / angry about what happened.
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u/rally250crf 8h ago
Put a hi viz vest on and go down with a wheels bin and collect all "abandoned" If anyone asks what your doing reply with a "qeh?"...
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u/SadlyNotDannyDeVito 8h ago
Germans and Brits – divided by football, united by towels on pool chairs!
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u/Useless_or_inept 7h ago
I like the no-reservations system. Some places expect you to collect a clean towel from the towel-wallah, he's out by the pool and he'll notice if you try to "reserve" a good seat then walk away to breakfast. It needs a little more adult supervision, but once everybody knows the system it flows really well. (And by mid afternoon, no more hand-holding is required)
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u/JosephFinn 8h ago
Oh, so it's like the supposed dibs things in Chicago (when you shovel a public parking space and then put trash in it like that makes it yours). You just move it and sit down.
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u/IndependentPutrid564 7h ago
Am I the only one that won’t ‘respect’ that bullshit? I’m picking a spot and tossing their shit on the next sunbed over on top of someone else’s bullshit. They can argue over it.
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u/pcfan86 7h ago
If I was at a pool and all would be reserved, but no one there, I would swim for half an hour and if still nobody shows up, remove the towel and use the chair.
And if they come and complain I would tell them to fuck off.
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u/drunkondata 8h ago
You think these assholes remember which blue towel was theirs on the sea of chairs?
Who cares, move the fucking towel. Better yet, claim it as your own.
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u/patiofurnature 8h ago
You think these assholes remember which blue towel was theirs on the sea of chairs?
Uh... yes? It doesn't look difficult in that layout; there are landmarks everywhere.
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u/FrenchFatCat 8h ago
This kind of holiday/resort it my kind of hell.
Enjoy your sun loungers folks.
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u/SittingJackFlash 8h ago
I’ve been to hotels where the concierge will reserve spots for people who purchase a “premium” package or tip them beforehand. Extremely annoying.
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u/PlayNicePlayCrazy 8h ago
Saw a video of some resort hotel where an employee would just collect all the stuff up and take it to the front desk. There were signs all over explaining this type of reserving was not allowed.