The summer sunbed sprints have begun! Tourists are filmed racing for the best spots in Spain and Tenerife as more patient families look on
- Footage shows tourists charging towards sunbeds to throw down their towels
Tourists have been captured racing for the best spots at the poolside at hotels in Spain as the summer sunbed wars have begun.
Dozens of towel-holding holidaymakers can be seen charging towards the sunbeds after patiently waiting for the gates to open at 8am at the popular Spring Hotel on Tenerife.
The prime spots by the pool were snapped up in seconds as sunseekers threw towels and clothes onto the loungers to reserve them.
The comical footage was posted on TikTok with the words: 'The only thing that lets this hotel down. Queuing for the gates to open at 8am.'
A second video posted on the platform showed holidaymakers grabbing their spots at a hotel on Spain's Costa Dorada on the mainland.
Dozens of towel-holding holidaymakers can be seen charging towards the sunbeds after patiently waiting for the gates to open at 8am at the popular Spring Hotel on Tenerife
Just a minute after the gates to the pool opened, holidaymakers had already reserved nearly all of the sun loungers after racing for the best spots
A second video posted on the platform showed holidaymakers grabbing their spots at a hotel on Spain's Costa Dorada on the mainland
One person said: 'Literally running for it. We thought it was hilarious.'
Last week tourists were filmed holidaymakers filmed running for sun beds in another early morning free-for-all.
In 2023, the same hotel hired a security guard to break up fights as Brits got up before dawn to battle other holidaymakers for sunbeds.
And it seems the Sunset Beach Club hotel in Benalmádena on the Costa Del Sol is still one of the worst battlegrounds for spats over sunbeds.
Hundreds of Brits are forced to queue from the early hours if they want to be in with a chance of a lounger.
A video posted on TikTok showed dozens of holidaymakers running to claim a lounger. One person said on the platform: 'My idea of hell.'
This comes after a Dutch woman sick of 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.
While it's not clear who laid the towels down, sunbeds have been the focal point of countless battles between the likes of British and German tourists vying for top spots at European resorts.
After just a few seconds, most of the prime spots next to the pool at the Costa Dorada hotel were snapped up
This comes after a Dutch woman sick of 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 (pictured above) that had already been occupied the night before
And as this furious vigilante shows, it seems the Dutch are just as riled by those who unfairly hog prime loungers.
The woman, who goes by the username effi.sxx on TikTok, was walking past the pool of a Turkish resort at 2am when she noticed that a whole row of sunbeds had already been taken up by other hotel guests who had put down their towels and other belongings to claim their spot.
Fed up with their selfish behaviour, the woman decided to teach them a lesson and removed their towels from their poolside seats.
A video posted on her TikTok account shows the woman removing the yellow hotel towels from the loungers, as well as other objects left by tourists, including pool toys and sandals.
'Why not just do it the honest way? First come, first served', the woman captioned the video.
