Sunbed wars flare up as tourists grab SIX top spots with towels at Spanish hotel
- Images show tourists running to the sunbeds to put down their towels
The battle for sunbeds is raging all over Europe. This holidaymaker quickly secured six top sunbeds in a Spanish resort.
With schools just starting their summer holidays, hordes of tourists are battling it out on the beaches and by the pools for the best sunbeds.
In a video posted to TikTok earlier this month, guests at the Hotel Village in Benalmadena, Spain, can be seen with a towel in hand, ready to run to their desired spot once they get the go-ahead from staff.
The photo shows a man in a fisherman’s hat quickly throwing his towels across two rows of three, claiming six sun loungers.
Mallorca has announced it wants to put an end to the towel wars by introducing an app that will allow people to reserve sunbeds.
Images show sunbathers with towels in their hands at the Hotel Village in Benalmadena, ready to grab a row of beds for their families
A man in a bucket hat, pictured in the center, throws towels over a row of three beds before moving to another set of three
It appears the person has reserved six beds in a prime location, right next to the pool
If the plans of the Palma de Mallorca City Council are followed, sun loungers on the municipality’s beaches – Ciutat Jardí, Cala Estància, Can Pere Antoni, Cala Major and Playa de Palma – will only be available to reserve via an app, BILD report.
The beaches will also have wifi and video surveillance. It is expected that this can happen as early as 2025.
Booking is done in the same way as reserving seats on a plane: the app shows which seats are occupied or free.
Reservations can then be made online, regardless of location. Prices are transparent, so everyone is treated equally.
Commenting under the TikTok video of the Hotel Village in Benalmadena, Someone joked, “Want to know what happens next. Do they all sit down and relax?”
Another said: ‘My idea of holiday hell’, while a third added: ‘I’m glad I hate sunbathing.’
With millions of British families set to fly to popular holiday destinations in the coming weeks, holidaymakers will be swapping their holidays for alternative destinations.They trade their stressful morning commute for an early morning assault on a prime lounge chair.
Dozens of holidaymakers with towels in their hands rush to the sunbeds after patiently waiting for the gates to open at 8am at the popular Spring Hotel in Tenerife.
A second video posted to the platform showed holidaymakers bagging their spots at a hotel on Spain’s Costa Dorada on the mainland
Within seconds, most of the prime spots next to the pool at the Costa Dorada hotel were already taken
This comes after a Dutch woman, fed up with people hogging the best pool spots at a Turkish resort, decided to take matters into her own hands and remove towels from sun loungers (pictured above) that had been occupied the night before
Last week, dozens of towel-wrapped holidaymakers were spotted patiently waiting for the gates to open at 8am at Tenerife’s popular Spring Hotel.
The comical footage was posted to TikTok with the words: ‘The only thing that lets this hotel down. Queuing for the gates to open at 8am.’
A second video on the platform shows holidaymakers securing a spot in a hotel on Spain’s Costa Dorada on the mainland.
Someone said, ‘Literally running. We thought it was hilarious.’
The week before, tourists were filmed looking for sunbeds in the early morning.
In 2023, the same hotel hired a security guard to prevent brawls as Britons rose before dawn to fight with other holidaymakers for a sunbed.
And it seems the Sunset Beach Club hotel in Benalmádena on the Costa Del Sol is still one of the worst battlegrounds for sunbed disputes.
Hundreds of Britons have to queue from the early hours of the morning if they want a chance of getting a sunbed.