$150 per DAY or for a few days (for 4 chairs)?

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Anonymous wrote:Dear God. I am not paying for crowds during my Christmas break. If sleeping in is worth it to you (it would be for me!), then go ahead and reserve the deck chairs, but are you sure there isn't somewhere quieter you could go?

Unfortunately, I like bigger resorts with lots of dining option on site so I don't have to leave if I don't want to. Along with this, comes lots of families with kids.

If you are going to Atlantis or Baha Mar, good luck.

Wasn’t there a thread like this where someone prepaid for reserved chairs and was furious they were way in the back or not available? I want to say it was Hilton Aruba?

Anonymous wrote:Dear God. I am not paying for crowds during my Christmas break. If sleeping in is worth it to you (it would be for me!), then go ahead and reserve the deck chairs, but are you sure there isn't somewhere quieter you could go?

Unfortunately, I like bigger resorts with lots of dining option on site so I don't have to leave if I don't want to. Along with this, comes lots of families with kids.

Anonymous wrote:What hotel is charging $1000 a night and forcing guests to either charge the pool at 7 am and lay down towels, or pay extra so you can sit around a pool?

Is this a Carnival cruise run amok?

The tourism industry is destroying itself with this crap.

Fwiw, I’ve never paid an extra charge for a chair on a cruise. I’ve also never waited in a line for towels (or anything).

But friends who go to big resorts centered around a pool often report this nonsense.

Dear God. I am not paying for crowds during my Christmas break. If sleeping in is worth it to you (it would be for me!), then go ahead and reserve the deck chairs, but are you sure there isn't somewhere quieter you could go?

For those days at the resort, my family usually sleeps in and then has a lazy brunch. We usually don't make it down to the pool until 1 pm or so - by then, some folks are leaving and the lifeguards/resort staff are also more willing to move "claimed" chairs that have been vacant for hours.

Anonymous wrote:OP: If you think that $150 per chair is a lot at a high cost crowded resort, wait until you see what the PE (private equity) folks have in store for tourists. Expect extra charges for pillows, sheets, locks on room door, and a per flush charge for bathroom usage.

Not per chair, for 4. Is that more reasonable?

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Anonymous wrote:Just go at 8am and put your magazines and flip flops on 2 chairs.

I need 4 chairs, and I'd like to sleep in.

Most of us just send our husbands down to camp out at the seats extra early.

He's done doing that.

OP: If you think that $150 per chair is a lot at a high cost crowded resort, wait until you see what the PE (private equity) folks have in store for tourists. Expect extra charges for pillows, sheets, locks on room door, and a per flush charge for bathroom usage.

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Anonymous wrote:Just go at 8am and put your magazines and flip flops on 2 chairs.

I need 4 chairs, and I'd like to sleep in.

Most of us just send our husbands down to camp out at the seats extra early.

Anonymous wrote:What hotel is charging $1000 a night and forcing guests to either charge the pool at 7 am and lay down towels, or pay extra so you can sit around a pool?

Is this a Carnival cruise run amok?

The tourism industry is destroying itself with this crap.

It's not a cruise. I don't know if charge is the right word, but if I go down at 10, it will be difficult to get 4 chairs together and they will likely be off in the grass, not front row to the pool. There will be a line when the pool hut opens to get towels.

What hotel is charging $1000 a night and forcing guests to either charge the pool at 7 am and lay down towels, or pay extra so you can sit around a pool?

Is this a Carnival cruise run amok?

The tourism industry is destroying itself with this crap.

Anonymous wrote:I hope this isn’t the Grand Wailea in Maui. God that place is awful now.

Good to know. It's not there, but I was looking at it for spring break. Thanks for the head's up.

If I want front row, I need to pay.