Sunbed wars hot up as tourist is seen bagging SIX prime spots with towels at Spanish hotel - as Majorca launches crackdown on holidaymakers hogging beach loungers at dawn
- Footage shows tourists charging towards sunbeds to throw down their towels
Sunbed wars are heating up across Europe, as this holidaymaker was seen bagging six prime spots at lightning speed at a Spanish resort.
With schools having only just broken up for the summer, armies of tourists will be fighting on the beaches and pool sides for the best beds in the sun.
In a video posted to TikTok earlier this month, guests at the Hotel Village in Benalmadena, Spain, can be seen with towels in hand ready to dash to their desired spots once they are given the okay by staff.
One man in a bucket hat can be seen staking a claim for six loungers by quickly flinging his towels across two rows of three.
It comes as Majorca announced plans to end the towel wars by introducing an app for people to book sunbeds with the aim of putting an end to the beach battles.
Footage shows sun-seekers with towels in hand at the Hotel Village in Benalmadena ready to bag a row of beds for their families
A man in a bucket hat, pictured centre, flings towels across a row of three beds before heading to another set of three
The individual appears to have reserved six beds in a prime location right next to the pool
If the plans of the town hall of Palma de Mallorca are followed, loungers at the municipality's beaches - Ciutat Jardí, Cala Estància, Can Pere Antoni, Cala Major and Playa de Palma - will only be able to be reserved via an app, BILD reports.
The beaches will also have Wi-Fi and video surveillance, with the plan set to start as early as 2025.
Bookings will work similar to how seat reservations work on planes, with the app showing which sunbeds are occupied or free to book.
Reservations can then be made online regardless of location with prices being transparent to ensure everyone is treated equally, the report says.
Until then, however, tourists will continue to battle for sunbeds, as seen in the latest clip posted online.
Commenting beneath the TikTok video of the Hotel Village in Benalmadena, one person joked: 'Want to know what happens afterwards. Do they all sit and relax?'
Another said: 'My idea of holiday hell,' while a third added: 'I am glad I hate sunbathing.'
With millions of British families set to jet off to popular holiday hot spots over the next couple of weeks, holidaymakers will be swapping their stressful morning commute for a crack-of-dawn assault on prime sun loungers.
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
A second video posted on the platform showed holidaymakers grabbing their spots at a hotel on Spain's Costa Dorada on the mainland
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
Last week, dozens of towel-holding holidaymakers were seen charging towards the sunbeds after patiently waiting for the gates to open at 8am at the popular Spring Hotel on Tenerife.
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.
One person said: 'Literally running for it. We thought it was hilarious.'
The week prior to that, tourists were 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.
