Sunbed wars reach new heights! Clever British tourist drops his beach towel from third-floor balcony

A British tourist showed off his ‘clever’ solution to avoiding the sunbed battle on holiday by throwing his towel off his balcony, only to forget to use it as he got too drunk.

Darral Roblyn bragged about his trick for not being ‘one of the morning people’ by sharing a video of him dropping his towel on the sunbeds below his room in Salou, Spain on August 19.

The 46-year-old father from Rhondda Cynon Taff in Wales arrived back at his hotel at 6am after a night out and had a brilliant idea: he could reserve a sunbed without having to deal with the morning rush hour.

After using the old golf trick of licking his finger to check wind speed and direction, the groundskeeper decided to drop his towel on the lounge chairs just below his third-floor balcony.

However, the father of one admits that he did not benefit from the success of his ‘intellectual’ idea. The next day he was so hungover that he did not get out of bed until 3pm and did not go to the swimming pool.

The smug dad then throws his towel up in the air as he explains how to win the battle with sunbeds on holiday

The 46-year-old from Wales throws the towel off his balcony and it lands on one of the sunbeds below

The father of one had returned to his hotel at 6am after a night out and had a brilliant idea about how to reserve a sunbed

According to Mr Roblyn, holidaymakers at the hotel can’t put their towels down at the crack of dawn, as the pool doors don’t open until 10am, meaning everyone has to rush to get the best bed.

He said: ‘I had a late night one night. I had been out with some friends and when I came back from a club I was sitting on the balcony having one last drink and I had an inspiration.

‘I thought, we’re only on the third floor, I could see the beds right below me. So I checked the wind speed and direction.

‘I did a practice lap first and the first time (with the towel) went pretty well, so I thought I’d film the second time.

“You get a bed, but the rush is really for the best spots. It’s not really for the beds, it’s for the best spots in the sun, the most or the least shade. The first row around the pool and stuff.

“It’s crazy. The frustrating thing is they don’t stay there, but then they go outside, they put their towels out there, some of them stay there for four or five hours at a time.

‘They’re requisitioning the umbrellas. I just thought no, I’m not going to go with them. I’m not going to accept that. So I thought I’d just work around it myself.

‘I think it’s quite selfish behaviour at times. It’s not just the British people, it’s an epidemic across Europe. It’s absolutely a problem, I don’t like it. It’s a bit of a free ride really.

‘It’s also a problem on the beaches here, with people walking down and putting their sun loungers on the beach at six or seven in the morning at first light and then hanging around somewhere for hours.

“I know that on certain days the police have come by and picked everything up with a tractor and thrown it away.”

The 46-year-old, who is away for two weeks with his daughter Mia Roblyn, 15 (pictured)

The father of one said he was unable to capitalise on the success of his ‘brainwave’

He said he was so hungover the next day that he didn’t get out of bed until 3pm and didn’t go to the pool.

He said the beds he managed to get before everyone else used this trick are his favorite because they stay in the sun all day.

The father-of-one, who lived in Salou for 12 years working in bars and DJing, returns every year to stay at the same hotel and says the battle for sunbeds has never been as fierce as this year.

Unfortunately, that day, when he woke up and grabbed the beds, he wasn’t feeling well enough to use them.

The 46-year-old, who has been away for two weeks with his 15-year-old daughter Mia Roblyn, said: ‘I had such a rough night the night before that I didn’t wake up until 3pm.

‘I went downstairs, the towels were there, but I honestly didn’t use them. Cooking in the sun was the last thing I could do when I woke up.

‘I just wanted to show that you can beat the system. You don’t have to set alarms for a sunbed all holiday long.

“Just work smarter, not harder. I’m quite happy that I solved it in a different way. I just thought outside the box.

“I think there should be a time limit for putting your towel on the bed, honestly. I know it’s hard.

“If you know you’re going to be gone for more than an hour, you need to gather your stuff. You can’t go down at nine, leave it there all day and come back at four in the afternoon.”