S/O: saving chairs at a resort pool/beach

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a problem at high end places like Ritz Grand Cayman, Four Seasons Nevis, etc.
We have four kids and we aren't early risers so we have to pay the pool attendants to save seats for us. When we arrive, they always have the lamest things on the chair like a teeny shovel or an old newspaper. They aren't even trying to make the chairs look used. I'm convinced it's a lucrative side business for the pool staff

I've never had this problem at a Ritz. If you tell a pool attendant, they'll go get you a chair.

I agree and was thinking the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why we usually only "save" two chairs for our family of four. We are usually never all four out of the pool at the same time.

You are on the right track. Save one chair for all your stuff. It is all you need.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People who leave just a towel thrown over a chair and then leave for hours?
Like 6-10 chairs for their group.

I take their spots if they are only seats available.

Well aren't you just a peach. Bless your little heart.

You're kidding, right? Some people come out early in the morning, dump towels on however many chairs they want to "reserve" for the day, then go in for breakfast, down to the beach for an hour, back to the pool, leave towels on the chairs while they go to lunch, etc. In what universe should they not be called out for this when other people have no chairs?

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One chair to put your stuff, maybe. A bunch? No way.

Local pool once had my stuff on it, guest of someone actually took it (It was one chair, not a bunch). Bad idea.

Why? What did you do about it?

Same thing you would have done if someone had their posterior in your chair, on your bag, on your clothes, and on your towel - literally chose to sit on all of them. How classy of her.

[Anonymous]

I will just move their stuff and give it to a pool attendant if it is abundantly clear that they are nowhere near the pool.

No one has time for these silly games. Grow a backbone, folks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate this! I put the blame on the resort. And in vegas, where you're already paying a $40 resort fee, paying additional money for a prime spot by the pool really burns.

This is crazy! I would furious if I had to pay extra for chairs at a resort. For the cost of the hotel room, plus the ridiculous "resort fee," I expect chairs. And I'm not getting up at the crack of dawn on vacation to save them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People who leave just a towel thrown over a chair and then leave for hours?
Like 6-10 chairs for their group.

I take their spots if they are only seats available.

Well aren't you just a peach. Bless your little heart.

You're kidding, right? Some people come out early in the morning, dump towels on however many chairs they want to "reserve" for the day, then go in for breakfast, down to the beach for an hour, back to the pool, leave towels on the chairs while they go to lunch, etc. In what universe should they not be called out for this when other people have no chairs?

+1

One chair to put your stuff, maybe. A bunch? No way.

Local pool once had my stuff on it, guest of someone actually took it (It was one chair, not a bunch). Bad idea.

Why? What did you do about it?

Same thing you would have done if someone had their posterior in your chair, on your bag, on your clothes, and on your towel - literally chose to sit on all of them. How classy of her.

PP here. To clarify, this is what the Klassy (autocorrect above LOL) seat stealer did.

[Anonymous]

There needs to be another option to no seats/putting your stuff on the wet pool concrete floor. Mostly people just want seats for stuff. We don't sit in seats at the pool. The people who do are there, big bodies camped in their seats! So maybe a towel rack or cubbies or benches...