Holidaymakers filmed laying out their sun loungers at 6.30am...almost FOUR HOURS before pool opens
26.07.2023 - 10:48
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Overeager tourists have been caught on camera laying out their sunbeds at 6.30am - three and a half hours before the pool opens. Holidaymakers in Tenerife were spotted dragging the loungers away to bag the best spots.
Dad-of-two Matthew Vine, 46, filmed the keen sunbathers while having a coffee on his hotel balcony. He said the early morning rush was a daily occurrence, despite the fact the pool at their hotel, Globales Suneo Tamaimo Tropical, didn't even open until around 10am.
Matthew, who was on a two-week holiday with his wife, Sarah Vine, 46, a waitress, and his two children - Charlie, 11, and Holly, seven, said: "It was massive - there were two pools and plenty of sunbeds. When we went down around 9am there were still plenty of beds to go around.
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"I took the video around 6.30am when people started to lay out their beds - which were still chained up at the time. I never did it, but I did enjoy laughing at them - why not just wait?
"I think they see one do it and panic sets in - suddenly they're all doing it."
A representative of the hotel said: "It is forbidden to reserve sunbeds in all our hotels, it is verbally indicated to guests when checking in, and in the sunbathing areas it is also indicated with signs.
"We are doing our best, including measures such as the one you can see in the video, chaining sunbeds so that people do not come to book sunbeds at unseemly hours despite the fact that we have enough sunbeds. This is not a problem unique to our hotel, but is repeated in many hotels.
"We are looking for solutions to this problem that do not cause even bigger problems, although all this would not be necessary if