Almost a Brawl: Sunbathers Race to Snag a Lounger at Tenerife Resort Pool

What a bleak existence. Spending most your life slaving away under grey skies with brief intervals of sitting in a very crowded pool area for a week.

Why doesn’t the place just buy moar chairs?

No one said it was an upscale hotel....

Germans. Ugh.

At one of the resorts in Aruba, there's always a battle for the chickies that begins before the sun even comes up. A guy we vacationed with would get up at 5am each day to secure our chickies for the day and he would tell us even then it was very competitive and cutthroat.

Chickies??

In Tenerife every day is Black Friday, it is just poolside loungers instead of cheap garbage TVs.

EuroKarens

You can’t beat a German to a sunlounger.

I don't understand the appeal of hanging around a hotel pool all day. I'm always out looking at sites and strolling around enjoying local scenery, shopping, and stopping at various cafes for a coffee or local wine.

R10 is a fucking liar.

How so R11? Explain please.

R11, is that your idea of fun? As an American who grew up within easy access of a beach in a Southern state I can assure you that roasting in the sun is not my thing and becoming acquainted with different cultures is far more interesting to me.

No need to get so trollish and angry sounding. You do you and I'll do me, okay?

Sitting around a pool is for the braindead.

To answer your question, OP, this wouldn't happen in America because we don't care about having a chair by a pool.

I'm assuming this is something that Northern Europeans do for fun since they live in countries with not much sun?

The other thing I find dreadful is the crowds at these pools or even on the beaches.

[quote] To answer your question, OP, this wouldn't happen in America because we don't care about having a chair by a pool.

How easy to disprove.

It’s very easy to deal with a German who has “reserved” a deck chair using a towel: Remove the towel and use the unoccupied chair. It’s not “illegal” to do so, no matter what the furious German might say.

R18 that's a totally different ballgame. Your own private pool is different somehow. I miss having one. I actually went swimming when I had my own. I wouldn't dream of using a public pool.

R19 Yeah, no telling what a furious German might say or do.

You could be creating the next madman by stealing that seat!

Was it those binge drinking vulgar tourists from The UK or the almost as bad Deutschland Uber Alles crowd. I've seen them on vacation in The Med and they are so funny with mein chair don't touch mein chair!

R18 I didn't see anyone throwing punches in those photos, could you possibly hypothesize as to why? Since you want to debate.

[quote]You can’t beat a German to a sunlounger.

Game on!

The ocean is right there.

Another reason to travel in shoulder or off season

They do the same thing in Vegas. I was staying at The Bellagio and got up early for coffee and people were in line at 6 for "their spot" at the pool.

They should take reservations. Some of the nicer places have cabanas for daily rental which sounds far more appealing and how I would do it. Tv, comfy sofas inside in the shade and your own pool boy for towels and food/drinks but more importantly "private".

It can be very relaxing to sit on a beach lounge as one of the routines of a beach holiday. I went to Alassio for years - a cute middle class resort in Luguria filled mostly with Italians. Also it has a sandy beach. You pay for lounger and umbrella sit around with your friends, read a book, swim in the sea, have a cocktail. Take a stroll through town. People watch. No pressure for culture, shopping, excursions. Just chill.

How déclassé! Stick to the Ritz Carlton I say.

I’m honestly surprised these folk haven’t sunk to the level of buying their own chair in town and carrying it out to the beach.

The plot of the film "the Lost Daughter" begins on a Greek beach with a woman among a large family of visiting Greek-American tourists becoming territorial about a beach chair Olivia Colman, a British tourist, is using first.

I don't think territorialism during vacation times especially is something we Americans are exempt from. I always see it when I travel among people of every nation.

I am so not interested in sitting by an ocean on a beach that it's always surprising to me. I love ocean views and I love hiking; but I hate sitting on a beach.

R32 That's a fictional film, not a documentary.

If you told a crowd of executives at a business conference that there's a dire shortage of dog poo and only the lucky few could get it these days, they'd kill one another diving for the pile to get more than their shares.

A scarcity mindset is a crazy thing.