A British tourist is stunned to discover a new level of sunbathing madness at a Mallorca hotel

A British tourist has been stunned to discover a new level of sunbathing madness at a Mallorca hotel.

In recent years, tourists have been getting up earlier and earlier to drop off their towels and ensure they have a prime poolside spot for the day.

But at a number of popular vacation spots, hotels have added some sort of rule in an attempt to prevent morning towel slams.

This includes the Camp de Mar resort area of ​​Majorca in Spain, where some hotels keep the pool closed until later in the morning to keep early risers at bay.

Crafty guests, however, have already found a way around this rule: laying their towels on the ground at the entrance to the pool area.

Photos show beach bags and towels arranged in a neat row leading to the gated pool area so hotel guests can secure their sunbed the moment it opens.

Tourist Geoff told The Mirror: ‘In an effort to control the sun lounger craze, the hotel gate to the pool area was kept locked until 8am.

“So people were lining up their towels on the floor in queue order by the door before it opened. I must add that it was not about young people, but mostly older and middle-aged people.

Speaking about the behavior of the other guests at a four-star hotel in Camp de Mar, he said: “The towel line actually went back a lot further (than the picture shows) and the owners were sitting on the sofas outside out of sight, ready to fly out when the door was open.

‘I don’t know what time they started, but we woke up at 6:30am one morning to have breakfast before a hike, and there was already a set queue for towels out the door. Crazy behavior!

Meanwhile, a holiday hero has spoken out against some ‘entitled’ tourists who reserved sun loungers for nine hours while he and his wife were on holiday in Bali.

Newlyweds Thom Aspland and Lisa were honeymooning at Bali’s Grand Barong Resort, where they were greeted by unfurled towels on sun loungers at 6:30am.

After returning at 1:00 p.m. and seeing the chairs intact, the couple waited another hour with no movement, before finally ditching their reserved towels and taking the place themselves.

They were greeted at 3:30pm by the surprised pair of tourists ‘titled’ ‘iPads and books in hand’.

The couple was even sure to teach their competitors a lesson by taking other tourists to their place as they left.

Speaking to Yahoo News, Thom said: “We definitely thought they had the right, but we were surprised they didn’t confront us.”

He assumed that the lack of confrontation was due to the fact that they ‘knew what they had done’.

Thom also noted the hilarious degree of mean-spiritedness from the couple in getting on the beds in the first place.

“We didn’t even want the beds,” she said, but the compulsion to prove a point was too strong.

“A lot of places here have an hour rule, so we make sure to give them an hour once we get in the pool,” he added.

He revealed that he and Lisa had been watching from the bar for two hours before making their move.

He also gave humorous details about the approach of the couple who he thought would get away with the nine-hour booking, saying they “walked briskly to the chairs, then stopped and looked at each other for a break.”

“Then they frantically searched for their two personal towels” before leaving for their hotel room, never to be seen again, he said.

The happy couple made sure they made their point when they left by passing the beds to a mother and daughter after telling them the whole story.

Thom shared the ‘petty’ revenge story online with a host of followers who agreed that leaving towels on seats all day was ‘sun hogging’ and disrespectful.

“Am I the only one who hopes that there will be a day two for this situation?” Said one person.

Another wrote: ‘Proof that not all heroes wear capes.

If I were there, I would yell a Bintang to both of you.

“I would have done the same, except I wouldn’t have waited – if they weren’t there, using them is free for everyone,” added a third.

Some also praised the couple for waiting the hour they did.

Thom then posted an update of the empty poolside chairs the next morning as a sign of victory.

‘Free all morning,’ he declared.

In August, a guest who filmed the chaotic scene from her balcony at the Paradise Park Hotel in Los Cristianos posted on TikTok the hilarious moment a tourist bagged five sun loungers by running to them before throwing their towels in the best poolside spots. . , Tenerife.

The video shows a large pool surrounded by a covered terrace, moments before several people emerge and start running towards the sunbeds.

A man dressed in yellow can be seen running towards the loungers with several towels on his arm. He moved between rows of other chairs until he reached the ones in prime spot by the pool.

As the other guests made their way to the sun loungers, he took a shortcut to get there first, tossing his towels to claim the seats with astonishing speed.

This wasn’t the first time the man had been on a hunt, as another video showed him in a black T-shirt securing the best spot.

Jess Clarke, who filmed the crowd, captioned her video: ‘Day Three Sunbed Wars.’

It quickly gained more than 11,000 likes and viewers left hundreds of comments, saying, “I love it, it’s so much fun” or commenting, “I’ve never seen lounger fights this bad.”

Another commented: ‘The guy in yellow put on a proper change.’

A fourth said: ‘9am lounger wars paradise park Tenerife what a show’.

One user recognized the man from Ms Clarke’s earlier video titled ‘Day 1’.

The hotel is notorious for sun lounger reservation races and similar scenes were caught on camera last year.

A viral TikTok video from July shows tourists at the Tenerife hotel running cheekily for the best poolside spot.

Footage shows crowds of tourists appearing at a pool in Paradise Park just as it opens.

They then drop their towels on the hotspot’s best loungers, some even looking around guiltily as they do so.

TikTok user Sarah, whose clip has already garnered over five million views in a single day, simply captioned it: ‘The Sunbed Race’.

Paradise Park spokesman Rafael Ruiz-Benítez de Lugo told MailOnline last year: ‘We were amused to see it considering our hotel has five pools and areas with space and sunbeds for everyone.

Although we do see quite a bit of talent among our guests for the steeplechase races.

Weeks earlier, in June last year, hotel staff took towels from sunbed users at another resort in Tenerife.

Tourist Amanda Proctor filmed workers collecting dozens of towels guests had left on empty sun loungers in a bid to reserve the best poolside seats at the five-star Gran Costa Adeje hotel in southern Tenerife. .

Ms Proctor said staff at the hotel, which has four swimming pools, took guests’ bags and towels and left a note on the chairs telling them where to pick up their belongings.

The tourist said there was a sign at the hotel saying guests were not allowed to reserve sun loungers before 10am

A hotel spokesperson told MailOnline: ‘At GF Gran Costa Adeje, we stand up for the right of all our guests to enjoy our pools and ask everyone to respect our policy.

‘All the guests will have their space in our solarium. In this situation, our partner, like the entire GF Gran Costa Adeje team, is a hero without a cape. We are very happy with the reaction to the video and from our customers.’