- Images show tourists running towards the sun loungers to throw down their towels.
Holidaymakers have been spotted competing for the best spots at hotel pools in Spain as the summer sunbed wars have begun.
Dozens of holidaymakers with towels in hand can be seen rushing to sun loungers after waiting patiently for the doors to open at 8am at the popular Spring Hotel in Tenerife.
Prime poolside spots snapped up in seconds as sun worshippers tossed towels and clothes onto the loungers to reserve them.
The funny video was posted on TikTok with the caption: “The only thing that’s disappointing about this hotel. Queuing for the doors to open at 8am.”
A second video posted on the platform showed tourists taking their places at a hotel on mainland Spain’s Costa Dorada.
Dozens of holidaymakers with towels in hand can be seen rushing to sun loungers after waiting patiently for doors to open at 8am at Tenerife’s popular Spring Hotel.
Just a minute after the pool gates opened, holidaymakers had already reserved almost all the sun loungers after competing for the best spots.
A second video posted on the platform showed tourists taking their places at a hotel on Spain’s Costa Dorada on the mainland.
One person said: “We literally ran away. We thought it was hilarious.”
Last week, tourists were filmed rushing to sun loungers in another every-man-for-himself early morning.
In 2023, the same hotel hired a security guard to break up fights when Britons got up before dawn to fight with other tourists over sun loungers.
And it seems that the Sunset Beach Club hotel in Benalmadena, on the Costa del Sol, continues to be one of the worst battlefields when it comes to disputes over sun loungers.
Hundreds of Britons are forced to queue up early in the morning if they want a chance to rest.
A video posted on TikTok showed dozens of tourists rushing to get a sun lounger. One person said on the platform: “My idea of hell.”
This comes after 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 remove towels from sun loungers that had already been occupied the night before.
While it is unclear who laid out the towels, the sun loungers have been the focus of countless battles between British and German tourists competing for the best spots at European resorts.
After just a few seconds, most of the prime spots by the pool at the Costa Dorada hotel were occupied.
This comes after a Dutch woman, fed up with people hogging the best poolside spots at a Turkish resort, decided to take matters into her own hands and remove towels from sun loungers (pictured above) that had already been occupied the night before.
And as this angry vigilante demonstrates, it seems the Dutch are just as angry about those who unfairly hog the best sun loungers.
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.
