Anonymous
Post 12/16/2025 13:47     Subject: Is it worth it to you to pay $150 a day for pool chairs?
Anonymous wrote:
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.


front row of the pool is a terrible location.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2025 13:45     Subject: Is it worth it to you to pay $150 a day for pool chairs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How much is a cabana? I at least want guaranteed shade


$600.


DH would just get the cabana


Cabanas sound even worse. Last resort we were at charged $1000 per day for a cabana. Obviously, we didn’t get one. I’m pretty sure the $1000 didn’t include the $50 burgers, $25 chicken tenders and overpriced drinks. We sat in the free chairs, without shade. Thankfully, we aren’t really pool people- an hour or two is plenty, so really no reason for a cabana.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2025 13:10     Subject: Is it worth it to you to pay $150 a day for pool chairs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm having flashbacks to our trip to Aruba. This was exactly why I would never go back to that resort (Marriott with the lazy river, not the one next door). It was a total sh!tshow.

We recently went to the Sands at Grace Bay in Turks and Caicos and I've never experienced a resort with such plentiful chairs, both poolside and beach. Such a better situation.

In this case, I'd buy the chairs.


Is it a bunch of dad bros in brown flip flops with sunglasses on their heads getting up early to snag chairs while their fat wives sleep? I'm trying to imagine the scene there because I thought the chair things (sunbeds) was more a European problem. Trying to imagine competitive Americans and it's making me quite ill.

Lol, I’m the fat wife and I secured the beach umbrella (not pool chairs) each day in Aruba. You could pay, but there was also a small number set aside that you could sign up for each day for free. They’d release the umbrella reservations at 6am and you could book them on their app or at a stand on the beach. By 6:15-6:20, the free ones were all booked. This was a decade ago.


Well you are a good wife but I don't think I would care that much for a free umbrella.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2025 21:14     Subject: Is it worth it to you to pay $150 a day for pool chairs?
Anonymous wrote:Just go at 8am and put your magazines and flip flops on 2 chairs.



Horrible advice, don’t do that
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2025 21:09     Subject: Is it worth it to you to pay $150 a day for pool chairs?
Anonymous wrote:There would be plenty of chairs for 95%of the day if awful people didn’t send their husbands down at 7am to claim them when they won’t even be at the pool until 10a or later. When I had little kids sometimes we swam in the morning but were back in the hotel for morning naps or to shower and change for lunch by 10/11. If everyone stopped saving chairs when they weren’t actually using them this problem would disappear (mostly!) and hotels couldn’t charge a chair reserve fee.


Yup! One thing I like about cruising, none of this nonsense. If your butt isn't in a chair for over an hour, staff is moving your crap
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2025 21:08     Subject: Re:Is it worth it to you to pay $150 a day for pool chairs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'll just say it. $1000 a night over the Christmas holiday is not a high end pool/beach resort. Pay the money to reserve the chairs.


How much would you tip on the $150? $30?


Just who are you tipping?
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2025 20:49     Subject: Is it worth it to you to pay $150 a day for pool chairs?
There would be plenty of chairs for 95%of the day if awful people didn’t send their husbands down at 7am to claim them when they won’t even be at the pool until 10a or later. When I had little kids sometimes we swam in the morning but were back in the hotel for morning naps or to shower and change for lunch by 10/11. If everyone stopped saving chairs when they weren’t actually using them this problem would disappear (mostly!) and hotels couldn’t charge a chair reserve fee.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2025 20:02     Subject: Is it worth it to you to pay $150 a day for pool chairs?
We went to one of Walt Disney World's water parks. Paid $99 for a large umbrella, two chaise loungers, two reclining chairs, and a table. It was in a restricted area that required you to have a special wrist band.
Hated paying that much, but after seeing what OP could be paying for just seats, it was a bargain!
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2025 19:48     Subject: Is it worth it to you to pay $150 a day for pool chairs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t go somewhere that crowded in the first place. And I’m not rich. So no I wouldn’t.


I have had this problem at every resort I go to.


I’ve never had this issue at any resort in puerto rico.

To op, yes, I’d pay it.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2025 19:43     Subject: Is it worth it to you to pay $150 a day for pool chairs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How much is a cabana? I at least want guaranteed shade


$600.


DH would just get the cabana
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2025 17:59     Subject: Re:Is it worth it to you to pay $150 a day for pool chairs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'll just say it. $1000 a night over the Christmas holiday is not a high end pool/beach resort. Pay the money to reserve the chairs.


How much would you tip on the $150? $30?


This is the chair rental price? I have never tipped on something like that. It never occurred to me.


They will give you a bill at the end of the day with all of your food and drinks and the chair rental price on it. I'm sure it will be $350 or so with lunch and drinks. $70 tip just seems crazy.
Anonymous
Post 12/15/2025 12:14     Subject: Re:Is it worth it to you to pay $150 a day for pool chairs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'll just say it. $1000 a night over the Christmas holiday is not a high end pool/beach resort. Pay the money to reserve the chairs.


How much would you tip on the $150? $30?


This is the chair rental price? I have never tipped on something like that. It never occurred to me.
Anonymous
Post 12/12/2025 17:22     Subject: Is it worth it to you to pay $150 a day for pool chairs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm having flashbacks to our trip to Aruba. This was exactly why I would never go back to that resort (Marriott with the lazy river, not the one next door). It was a total sh!tshow.

We recently went to the Sands at Grace Bay in Turks and Caicos and I've never experienced a resort with such plentiful chairs, both poolside and beach. Such a better situation.

In this case, I'd buy the chairs.


Was Aruba at spring break? I looked at the Sands, but the reviews are not great.


No, for us Aruba was early summer but this was a while ago. The Sands wasn't perfect, but it was pretty darn good. And this was NOT a problem.
Anonymous
Post 12/12/2025 17:15     Subject: Re:Is it worth it to you to pay $150 a day for pool chairs?
Anonymous wrote:I'll just say it. $1000 a night over the Christmas holiday is not a high end pool/beach resort. Pay the money to reserve the chairs.


How much would you tip on the $150? $30?
Anonymous
Post 12/12/2025 17:14     Subject: Is it worth it to you to pay $150 a day for pool chairs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm having flashbacks to our trip to Aruba. This was exactly why I would never go back to that resort (Marriott with the lazy river, not the one next door). It was a total sh!tshow.

We recently went to the Sands at Grace Bay in Turks and Caicos and I've never experienced a resort with such plentiful chairs, both poolside and beach. Such a better situation.

In this case, I'd buy the chairs.


Is it a bunch of dad bros in brown flip flops with sunglasses on their heads getting up early to snag chairs while their fat wives sleep? I'm trying to imagine the scene there because I thought the chair things (sunbeds) was more a European problem. Trying to imagine competitive Americans and it's making me quite ill.

Dad bros don't have fat wives.