Brit couple left fuming after sunlounger warning on holiday – despite 6am hoggers being ignored
LAST RESORT Brit couple left fuming after sunlounger warning on holiday – despite 6am hoggers being ignored
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A BRITISH couple have been left furious at their hotel's 'unfair' sunlounger rules - after being told off for being away for half an hour.
Jo and Martin were left shocked after they left their sunlounger for 30 minutes at their hotel and returned to find a warning card left on their towels.
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A British couple have been left furious at their hotel's 'unfair' sunbed rules after they were left a 'warning card'
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The couple had only left their loungers for 30minutes when they received the warning, despite other loungers being left for hours
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Whilst staying at the four-star, £140-a-night H10 Salauris Palace in the resort town of Salou near Barcelona, in Spain, the couple noted how other guests had not received a warning despite leaving their sunbeds for several hours.
Jo said: "When you leave your sunbed for 30 minutes, yet others leave theirs for two plus hours and nothing gets done to them.
"Two-tier sunbed policing at the H10 Salauris Palace, Salou."
A clip of the event, shared by the couple on TikTok, quickly went viral, wracking up over 235,000 views according to What's The Jam.
One user commented on the video: "Thirty minutes? Hardly time to go for lunch before you need to come back."
Another added: "At least somewhere with rules with sunbeds though, but probably should be after one hour."
"I would place it on someone else's," another user then joked.
The couple, who had travelled from Belfast, also shared a video of the hotel's sunbeds appearing to be fully 'reserved' in the morning.
Jo added: "Unless you get down to the pool at 6am, you won't get a good location for your lounger."
Someone then commented on the video: "We are in a five-star in Lanzarote and despite rules saying no allocating sun loungers, most have towels on by 8am."
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Known as 'Grump' online, Jo also complained about tourists using large pegs to keep their towels in place, especially on windy days.
She said: "What is it with these giant pegs on sunbeds that annoyed me so much?
"We survived without these for years before!"
However, many users disagreed with her in the comments noting how they are useful and even make a "sunbed look quite pretty".
One user even confessed they were the "best fiver I ever spent".
The H10 Salauris Palace has been approached for comment.
Majorca removes sunbeds and parasols from its top beaches
MORE than 1,700 sun loungers were recently removed from top beaches around Palma, as part of an anti-tourist backlash on the island of Majorca.
Palma's government announced the plans, after locals complained they weren't able to find a sunbathing spot.
Residents said they struggled to find space for their beach towels due to the large number of pay-per-use loungers and umbrellas.
The matter has not been helped by the fact that the island's beaches are eroding, following poor weather over the last year.
Storms, rising sea levels and erosion have taken a toll on the six-kilometre-long Playa de Palma.
The number of sunbeds has already been reduced for 2025 and in 2026, the numbers will be even lower.
According to Bild, Playa de Palma is set to lose the most sunbeds - reducing 6,000 to 4,436.
Out of 2,503 parasols, 2,218 will remain.
In Cala Major, the number of sunbeds will decrease from 300 to 250.
Elsewhere in Palma's coastal suburb of Ciutat Jardi, 12 of the 300 sun loungers will go and so will six parasols.
The at Cala Estància, in Can Pastilla, there will be only 132 sun loungers instead of 150 and 66 parasols instead of 75.
Other beaches are also looking to reduce sunbed and parasol numbers.
Holidaymakers have also been ridiculed for a 'miserable' new trick to secure coveted sun lounger spots in Spain.
Plus, a mum reveals her desperate sunlounger hogging attempt after getting up in the dark hours before pool opens.
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