Sunbed wars are continuing to heat up this summer, as new footage shows badly-behaving Brits sprinting for the best poolside loungers.
Armed with towels in hand, these UK tourists can be seen queuing around the corner to the pool’s entrance ready to dash out as soon as doors are opened by staff first thing in the morning.
The video – taken at the four-star Villa Romana hotel in Salou, Spain – shows holidaymakers pushing past each other as one person chuckles, saying: ‘Oh my days.’
But it appears that was not enough to deter the tourists, who did their best impression of a 100m sprint to get to the pool.
It comes after a five-star hotel declared war on sun-bed hogging holidaymakers earlier this week who stake their claim by the pool and then disappear.
The footage begins by showing a group of tourists waiting to run to the pool first thing in the morning
After the hotel staff at Villa Romana in Salou, Spain, open the doors, holidaymakers do their best 100m dash to get a lounger
One person can be heard laughing in the background and saying, ‘oh my days’, as they run
The Laur Hotels on Turkey’s Aegean coast has instructed staff to remove tourists’ possessions if they try and bag loungers early in the morning – or even the night before.
Two videos on social media show a stern-faced hotel boss rounding up towels on two separate occasions.
The first video – posted by a British tourist – is accompanied by music from Madonna’s Holiday and the second clip has the lines ‘guess who’s back? Back again’ from Eminem’s Without Me.
In both videos, the hotel employee grabs at least half a dozen towels as he patrols the resort’s pool area to clear space for sunseekers arriving to enjoy the weather.
As sunbed wars continue to rage across Europe, it seems holidaymakers are swapping their stressful morning commute for a crack-of-dawn assault on prime sun loungers.
While some sun seekers make it their mission to bag a row of beds for their families, others are just as happy to film the early-morning invasions and share the footage on social media.
A video posted last week from the Hotel Village on Benalmadena in Spain with the caption ‘ready, steady,go…’ shows the moment when guests rush for the beds.
TikTok user The Railway Queen shared a video showing a manager at her Turkey hotel piling up towels on his shoulder, in an attempt to clear up space by the pool
The towel on the lounger is considered a near-universal sign of reservation
The member of staff was seen taking the towels back to his colleagues, though it is not clear what they did with the collected towels
Footage shows sun-seekers with towels in hand at the Hotel Village in Benalmadena ready to bag a row of beds for their families
The individual appears to have reserved four beds in a prime location right next to the pool
One man in a bucket hat is seen staking a claim for four beds by quickly flinging his towels across the row.
The footage was posted on TikTok and one person said: ‘Want to know what happens afterwards. Do they all sit and relax?’
A second TikTok video shows similar scenes at a hotel in Tenerife. Once the gate to the pool is open, guests flock to the waterside and snaffle all the available beds in moments.
The footage is accompanied by a soundtrack of Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger – the theme tune of the Rocky boxing movies.
