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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Some resorts won't let you do this. We were at a resort over Christmas in Key West, and they had a sign that you could only leave chairs empty with towels on them for 45 minutes. I don't know how strictly they enforced this, but I liked that they had it. When were in Mexico a few Christmases ago, I had to go out around 6:30 every morning to get chairs! I hated it.

[Anonymous]

Nope.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I do, too.
I don't go to fancy resorts, but at our local neighborhood pool people do the towel toss thing on chairs and entire tables and leave for an hour to swim.
If there are no other tables, I just invite myself to join.
This is not the same as the movie seats obviously, but I don't mind inviting myself to share. Likewise, I always offer people who are looking for seats to share my table. It works both ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

[Anonymous]

6-10 seats? For hours? I would get the hotel to remove.

1-2 seats? I don't mess with those.

If it is a hotel when you have to save seats to get them (this was the case for us in MX too) I would arrive early before breakfast and set down the towels and a paperback book.

[Anonymous]

I pay the pool boy to save them for me so that no one can take them. You'd be amazed at how far a few dollars goes.

[Anonymous]

Drives me nuts. We don't go to resorts that allow this anymore.

[Anonymous]

Don't be German. Or British. Just don't.

[Anonymous]

I've only been to one resort where this happened (a Sandals) and it drove me crazy. I had to wake up at like 6AM everyday, go throw out a towel, and go back to bed. I think it's a huge d*ck move, BUT, I place the blame on the resort. They should have a policy that any chair not seen occupied by a person for, say, an hour, will have the towel taken off and be freed up for someone else. It's different from the movies. The movies, you buy a ticket and you are guaranteed a seat. The pool scenario, there really are not enough chairs sometimes. Plus, for the movies, the saved seats will be used imminently--they're not reserved for five shows in a row. The pool chair thing, people leave there towels there ALL DAY, knowing full well they won't be by the pool for significant periods of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is NOT a bless your little heart matter. PP is fighting back appropriately against jerks.

[Anonymous]

If the people are clearly in the pool and have multiple belongings on the chair (sunscreen, books, sunglasses) then off limits.

If there's just a plain hotel towel on the chair then it could be anything! I'd give it 15 minutes then take it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is NOT a bless your little heart matter. PP is fighting back appropriately against jerks.

No, she's absolutely not. There are two jerks here, you and OP. Bless both of your little hearts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

yep, totally annoying.