- It is the latest example of ‘sunbed wars’ at tourist attractions
A Dutch woman was fed up with people taking the best spots by the pool at a Turkish resort. She decided to take matters into her own hands and removed the towels from the sun loungers that had been occupied the night before.
The woman, who goes by the username effi.sxx on TikTok, was walking past the pool at a Turkish resort at 2am when she saw that a whole row of sunbeds were already occupied by other hotel guests who had laid out their towels and other belongings to claim their spot.
The woman was fed up with their selfish behavior and decided to teach them a lesson. She removed their towels from the chairs by the pool.
A video posted to her TikTok account shows the woman removing yellow hotel towels from sun loungers, as well as other items left behind by tourists, including bath toys and sandals.
“Why don’t we just do it the fair way? First come, first served,” the woman captioned the video.
A fed up Dutch woman on holiday in Turkey decided to take matters into her own hands and remove towels and other objects from the sun loungers by the pool. The objects had been placed there by guests of a resort in Turkey so that they could reserve their sun loungers by the pool the night before.
Items such as beach towels and toys were left on sunbeds by holidaymakers. The woman’s video received mixed reactions, with some calling her behaviour unnecessary. However, others supported her and said they shared her frustration
However, many social media users were unimpressed with the tanning watchdog, with one person saying: ‘Who are you to touch other people’s stuff?’, while another user said: ‘I’d be annoyed too. But touching other people’s stuff is way too much for me…’.
“You’ve really come to the wrong place,” wrote another.
Others understood the woman’s frustration and defended her, some even admitting that they had done the same.
One user said: ‘I always throw away other people’s rubbish in the afternoon if I see they’ve been gone for more than an hour and a half’.
Someone else commented: ‘I’m in Antalya now, it’s driving me crazy too – towels everywhere and no one to be seen for hours’.
People queued for sun loungers at the Hotel Estival Torrequebrada near Malaga, many bringing chairs and a good book and having to wait almost two hours before the beach and pool opened.
Families, including young children, were captured on camera rushing out of the gate to grab a sunbed at a resort in Benidorm
In Benidorm, locals were seen setting up umbrellas in front of the ocean in the dark as they fought with Brits who swarmed to the sunbeds
Every year, social media is filled with photos and videos of holidaymakers sprinting to get the best spot on the beach or by the pool.
Tourists often use a towel or other items on a lounger to mark their territory, and in some cases this can even lead to a fight.
Just this weekend, rabid sun worshippers clashed on an Italian beach after they were denied sun loungers at a prime coastal location.
Two women demanded to be assigned a sunbed near the sea, placing it in front of people who had been lying on the beach for hours, a local government official said, citing a witness.
The lifeguards refused and a violent brawl broke out between the women and the public. Footage shows the women wrestling and pulling each other’s hair.
Foreign holidaymakers in Mallorca have also been spotted more often recently marking their territory on the beach, hanging their towels and T-shirts on the poles of the straw-covered parasols by the water before the sunbeds are brought out in the morning.