Holidaymakers have taken this summer’s sunbed wars to a new level busting out secured loungers to bag an early morning advantage before hotel staff have even opened the pool.
Armed with their towels, new footage shows tourists on the Spanish island of Tenerife appearing to free the sunbeds to nab the best spots.
In the video, which was filmed by a stunned guest, one man dressed in a t-shirt, shorts and sliders can be seen rearranging the loungers to free five trapped underneath.
A woman and another man were also spotted moving a poolside lounger before the woman comes back to collect a towel she had left on top of the secured sunbeds.
It comes after footage released earlier this week shows badly-behaving Brits sprinting to grab the best spots by the pool.
A man appears to remove secured sunbeds in an attempt to nab the best spot by the pool
In the video, which was filmed by a stunned guest, one man dressed in a t-shirt, shorts and sliders can be seen rearranging the loungers to free five trapped underneath
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.’
British 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.
A five-star hotel in Turkey also declared war on sun-bed hogging holidaymakers earlier this week.
The Laur Hotels on the country’s Aegean coast instructed staff to remove tourists’ possessions if they try and bag loungers early in the morning – or even the night before.
Two videos shared on social media show a stern-faced hotel boss rounding up towels on two separate occasions.
The towel on the sunbed lounger has become an almost universal sign of reservation in tourist hotspots.
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.
The footage of tourists dashing to grab a sunbed begins by showing a group of tourists waiting to run to the pool first thing in the morning
One person can be heard laughing in the background and saying, ‘oh my days’, as they run
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 Laur Hotels on the country’s Aegean coast instructed staff to remove tourists’ possessions if they try and bag loungers early in the morning – or even the night before
Furthermore, a posted last week from the Hotel Village on Benalmadena in Spain showed the moment when guests rush for the sunbeds by 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.
