Who are the lounge chair claimers?

[Anonymous]

They wake up at the crack of dawn, hustle down to the pool or beach to drop towels and a book on prime loungers and then disappear until sometime after lunch. When they do finally show up they don’t stay for long and don’t really seem to enjoy themselves. Who are these pushy little people and how can they get that worked up whilst on vacation?

[Anonymous]

I don’t know, and I’ve never encountered it, but I hear about it often enough that I’m amazed that resorts don’t do something about it. I would ding the hell out of a place that refuses to address the problem by writing negative reviews and letting them know that I will not return, and will discourage my friends from booking there as well.

[Anonymous]

New Yorkers. They ruin every resort!

[Anonymous]

I don’t know who they are, but I think “Lounge Chair Claimers” might make a great name for a band.

[Anonymous]

We vacationed in Aruba one year and while I absolutely love Aruba I would never return to that resort. It was awful.

[Anonymous]

The last beach I went to had chairs that had to be rented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New Yorkers. They ruin every resort!

I’m from Western NY and I’d have to agree with you, except to say they are probably from the NYC area or Long Island.
I’d also throw New Jersey onto the list as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New Yorkers. They ruin every resort!

I’m from Western NY and I’d have to agree with you, except to say they are probably from the NYC area or Long Island.
I’d also throw New Jersey onto the list as well.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know, and I’ve never encountered it, but I hear about it often enough that I’m amazed that resorts don’t do something about it. I would ding the hell out of a place that refuses to address the problem by writing negative reviews and letting them know that I will not return, and will discourage my friends from booking there as well.

Would love for Resorts to do something about it. Love the ski areas that have places for "stuff" and tell you to absolutely not leave it on a table while you are out on the slopes. It really seems to work.

[Anonymous]

Germans do this a lot for some reason. Pisses the Brits off to no end!

[Anonymous]

Damn Europeans and East Coasters.

[Anonymous]

Yep! In the meantime, while their towel is sitting there (I should say towels, because they get a chair for everyone on their room), people could have used the chair and then left it empty again.

So instead of multi-use, their towel gets higher priority of chair time than I do.

[Anonymous]

Move their stuff and then play dumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Germans do this a lot for some reason. Pisses the Brits off to no end!

This was going to be my answer, although plenty of Americans do it too. Very annoying. Last place we stayed had a big sign saying not to do it, and on check in they actually told us if there are clean towels on the chairs we should feel free to use both the chair and the towels (I think sometimes they distribute towels that way).

[Anonymous]

The same people who think it's okay to block three lanes of traffic on Connecticut Avenue to make their left turn.