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We like to take a break (or two) in an overseas hotel during the darker months. We tend to look at reviews of hotels on Trip Advisor.
You do have to treat them with some caution and we tend to ignore the more extreme reviews, looking more at what the general concensus is.
But one thing that amazes me is the obsession with sun beds!
Not enough of them, not comfortable enough, not new enough........and the biggest topic is - reserving of them!!
Apparantly people go out early morning, put a towel on them and then sometimes, not use them until later in the day? Such heresy!!
As someone who never goes near a sun bed (why would you want to get out of bed and then lie on one of these?) I see no point. I go on holiday to see the place, not to spend all day in the hotel grounds.
Can anyone explain this strange attraction to sun beds?
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Were they German reviews
David
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It's a fallacy, I am reliably informed. It's the Brits who are obsessed by them.
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I agree Oneputt, that's why I said that you have to treat them with some caution.
I'm told that the worst culprits for saving sunbeds these days are the Brits and that they are taking over from the Germans.
I read one review that moaned about the shape of the building.....because it meant that the sun didn't come onto the pool area until 10:30am and was back in the shade at 17:30........so he only got 7 hours of it! (and at this time of year it must be 30 degrees
plus). He must look like a lobster!!How can anyone stand this and not simply die of boredom (or heat-stroke)?
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The attractionof sun beds is that one can guarantee to put on weight. Upsizing for perhaps from 'chubby' to 'Thunder Thighs' and on to 'Lardy A---' whilst looking like an uncooked dumpling all the way up the colour chart to a burnt offering. To make best
use of them, you do need to eat every meal that the hotel offers whilst taking absolutely no exercise.0 -
On our last hotel holidaywe had a pick up for a flight at 6 am (ouch!) and was astounded to see people up and about putting towels on beds while we were grabbing a quick buffet breakfast! Riudiculous - perhaps they went back to bed after 'reserving' the
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To be honest it wasn't much better at Hillhead CC site, which we visited recently. We needed to sit by the pool in order to keep an eye on our grandaughters. Quite early on some of the sunbeds had towels spread on them but we didn't see anyone sit on them
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And that's why we don't go to hotels
now our apartment in Lanzarote has a terrace with its own sunbeds, no need to reserve them, but I am guilty
of putting my sunbed mattress on it complete with towel when I get up in the morning, at some stage during the day I will then lay on said sunbed headphones on book in hand and have a nice nap,. . . . . I mean read
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On our last hotel holidaywe had a pick up for a flight at 6 am (ouch!) and was astounded to see people up and about putting towels on beds while we were grabbing a quick buffet breakfast! Riudiculous - perhaps they went back to bed after 'reserving' the
sunbed!Write your comments here...We have just got back from Bulgaria and people were putting towels on sunbeds from 6am then going back to their rooms, was fun watching them from the balcony.
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Somewhere we went, Bali I think, had a no reserve policy and the pool attendants would remove towels left on unoccupied sun beds after a while. The Russians weren't impressed and tried to bully the lovely Balinese guys and girls but didn't get far as Aussie
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I remember sunbeds being "reserved" when package holidays first took off back in the 70s. It was a race between the Brits and Germans. There was/is an advert where a Brit is doing a rugby tackle and throwing his towel to a sunbed which lands on a sunbed
completely rolling out for his use
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I remember sunbeds being "reserved" when package holidays first took off back in the 70s. It was a race between the Brits and Germans. There was/is an advert where a Brit is doing a rugby tackle and throwing his towel to a sunbed which lands on a sunbed
completely rolling out for his useThere's <THIS ONE>
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I remember sunbeds being "reserved" when package holidays first took off back in the 70s. It was a race between the Brits and Germans. There was/is an advert where a Brit is doing a rugby tackle and throwing his towel to a sunbed which lands on a sunbed
completely rolling out for his useThere's <THIS ONE>
That's the one
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Topical subject as I am just back from two weeks in constant heat and sunshine. Girlfriend spends as much time as possible lying in sun (but not asleap I am informed) in order to get a tan. Dedicated she is, bottles of lotion and sweat dripping to make
puddles in the sand. She gets very annoyed that I come back with as good a tan having dodged the sun most of the time.The quid pro quo is that the rest of the year we go away in my caravan. She does look nice with a tan though!
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The Italian coast guard are confiscating items left to secure "prime locations" on some public beaches. Chairs, umbrellas, towels etc have been confiscated. Offenders are being fined €200 to get their items back. Maybe hotels should implement a similar
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