- It is the latest example of ‘sunbed wars’ in tourist spots
A Dutch woman fed up with people hogging the best spots by the pool at a Turkish resort decided to take matters into her own hands and removed towels from sun loungers that had already been occupied the night before.
The woman, who uses the username effi.sxx on TikTok, was walking past a Turkish resort pool at 2am when she noticed an entire row of sun loungers had already been taken by other hotel guests who had left their towels and other belongings behind to claim their spot.
Fed up with their selfish behavior, the woman decided to teach them a lesson and took the towels off the pool seats.
A video posted on her TikTok account shows the woman removing yellow hotel towels from sun loungers, as well as other items left behind by tourists, including pool toys and flip-flops.
“Why not do it the honest way? First come, first served,” the woman wrote in the caption of the video.
A Dutch woman fed up with spending her holidays in Turkey decided to take matters into her own hands and remove towels and other items from the sun loungers by the pool. Guests at a Turkish holiday resort had placed the items there so they could reserve their sun loungers by the pool the night before.
Holidaymakers left items such as pool towels and toys on sun loungers. The woman’s video sparked mixed reactions, with some calling her behaviour unnecessary. However, others backed her up and said they shared her frustration.
However, many social media users were not impressed with the sun lounger guard. One person commented: “Who are you to touch other people’s stuff?” while another user said: “I would be irritated too. But touching other people’s stuff is really going too far for me…”
“You really came to the wrong place,” wrote another.
However, others understood the woman’s frustration and defended her, some even admitting they had done the same.
One user said: ‘I always take out other people’s trash in the afternoon when I see they’ve been away for more than an hour and a half.’
Another person commented: ‘I’m in Antalya now, this is driving me crazy too – towels everywhere and no one to see for hours.’
People queue to sunbathe on sun loungers at the Hotel Estival Torrequebrada near Malaga, as many brought chairs and a good book as they waited almost two hours before the beach and pool opened.
Families, including young children, were caught on camera running out of doors to grab a sun lounger at a Benidorm resort.
In Benidorm, locals were seen setting up parasols in the dark facing the ocean as they battled with Brits flocking to sun loungers.
Every year, several images and videos appear on social media of tourists rushing to get the best spot on the beach or pool.
Leaving a towel or other belongings on a sun lounger has become a common tactic used by tourists to mark their territory, which in some cases can even lead to a fight.
Just this weekend, sun worshippers brawled on an Italian beach after being denied access to sun loungers in a prime spot near the coast.
Two women demanded to be given sun loungers near the sea, placing them in front of people who had already been on the beach for hours, a local government official said, citing a witness.
The rescuers refused and a brutal fight broke out between the women and the public, with footage showing them fighting and pulling each other’s hair.
In addition, foreign tourists in Mallorca have recently been seen marking their territory on the beach by hogging the straw-covered parasols by the water, hanging towels and T-shirts on the poles before they bring out the sun loungers in the morning.
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