Pool space hogging

[Pipkin]

Vent! Family of four take a pool area dining table and four chairs. When I went to sit on one of the additional empty chaise lounges I hear " excuse me, that's taken. She then proceeds to cover them with towels. No one has sat in that chair for the entire hour I've been here.

 

[sam_gordon]

Vent! Family of four take a pool area dining table and four chairs. When I went to sit on one of the additional empty chaise lounges I hear " excuse me, that's taken. She then proceeds to cover them with towels. No one has sat in that chair for the entire hour I've been here.

So just sit there. When she puts up a fuss tell her no one has used it for the last hour.

 

[Allison]

So sit down and use it.

 

[piccolopat]

If other chairs/chaise lounges were available I would just move to the next. If not, I would have said taken by who? If she said it was hers, I would sit at the table. If she said that was hers too I would tell her to pick one. If the others in her family aren't actually there. If she says they are in the restroom or getting something to eat nearby, I would tell her I'll get up if they return in the near future. I run into that same attitude occasionally on my commuter train. For a row of three, one person in the row will say they are saving the seat for their spouse. I tell them their spouse is only entitled to one seat and proceed to sit in the aisle seat. Many times, either no one ever shows up or they show up further down the line.

 

[Pipkin]

So just sit there. When she puts up a fuss tell her no one has used it for the last hour.

I sat in an adjacent area which was acceptable but after an hour I said to her; I've been here for over an hour and not once has that chaise been used, other than to hold a towel and a shirt placed after the fact". She tried to say her son was sitting there and I pointed out not once did he sit there and during a hot, crowded pool day it was selfish to commandeer 8 chairs ". For me, it was unusual behavior at Shades of Green. Her response? "Oh well".

 

[mefordis]

So selfish. I figure it's best to walk away and find other accommodations. She isn't going to learn manners or proper etiquette or even how to be a nice human being at her age from a stranger. Because of people like this I am always happy to go out of my way to give up seats that aren't being used by my party.

 

[mnrose]

The "towel game" is my number one complaint at most resorts. Drives me nuts. Super-entitled behavior. I study reviews very carefully and if they mention the towel game (e.g, "we got up at 6:30 to claim our chairs and it was no problem!"), I'll book somewhere else. Get a grip people. If you are actively "using" the chair, fine, but please do not "reserve" it "just in case" you want to use it later. And, in OP's situation, choose between the table and the chaise lounge. Not both. I wish resorts would make rules against this and enforce them.

 

[Wishing on a star]

If it was very busy, and availability of chairs was a problem:
I would have replied, "Excuse me, but I don't see anyone, or anything, sitting IN the chair, and DH and I would have just simply taken it.
I can be very direct when warranted.

Since there were some chairs in an acceptable (even if not quite as great) nearby area, I would have simply set-up there, and been happy for time being.

I wouldn't let this be enough to ruin my day/attitude enough to go back and address it, at all.
Why do that to one's self when one is supposed to be relaxing on vacation!
I don't like to also serve as the chair-police.

 

[Poohlove]

My family of 3 usually snags one chair. I will put our bag (s) and towels and clothes on it to keep them dry and off of the ground. I jump in the pool and hang for a but then get out and sit in the chair to read. My 2 kids would stay in the pool forever. If they get out its usually because they are ready to go back to the room. If it were because we were getting something to eat we would spread to a neighboring chair if available, I would let them share the chair while they ate or we would move.

Space hoggers drive me nuts. I like my space and try to respect others as well. Not that it was poolside but my daughter and I were in a shoe store on Monday and she needed to sit for the 2 minutes it would take for her to try on a pair of shoes. The only available seat was occupied by a woman's huge (ugly too) purse and a shopping bag, she was sitting across the aisle on another bench. I asked her if she would mind moving her bags for a minute so my daughter could try on her shoes and she looked at me like I asked her for a kidney.

Some people are so self absorbed and entitled in the way that they think it makes me wonder how on earth anyone can be in the same orbit as them.

 

[Pacolovestacos]

The "towel game" is my number one complaint at most resorts. Drives me nuts. Super-entitled behavior. I study reviews very carefully and if they mention the towel game (e.g, "we got up at 6:30 to claim our chairs and it was no problem!"), I'll book somewhere else. Get a grip people. If you are actively "using" the chair, fine, but please do not "reserve" it "just in case" you want to use it later. And, in OP's situation, choose between the table and the chaise lounge. Not both. I wish resorts would make rules against this and enforce them.

Ehh depends really. What if someone wakes up at 6am, puts a towel on some chairs or a cabana, because they want to go have a relaxed breakfast without worrying about finding space when they're done? Perfectly reasonable to me.

 

[shoney]

When we go to a resort, my dh gets up early and hangs out out the beach. Puts our stuff on 2 loungers...I eventually get up (usually around 8:30) go to breakfast and go back to our "reserved chairs". While we leave for swimming and lunch, we use them throughout the day. If we bring the kids with us, the same goes, but we never "reserve" their chairs because they don't sit long enough. Teens mingle....

should mention that this is only on the beach....don't sit poolside long enough to "reserve" anything

 

[Squirlz]

Ehh depends really. What if someone wakes up at 6am, puts a towel on some chairs or a cabana, because they want to go have a relaxed breakfast without worrying about finding space when they're done? Perfectly reasonable to me.

This is the problem being discussed here.

 

[low-key]

keep preaching sister, amen

 

[BigAlsGal]

If no ones butts have been sitting in the chair for an hour it becomes fair game.

 

[Disneylover99]

Get in the pool and splash her.

 

[anniemae]

We were at CRB a few years ago and went to the main pool. Most chairs and loungers were taken. We found a table with a few used, crumpled up towels and a CBR life preserver. We assumed that people had left and just did not return the life vest or put the towels in the towel bin. We moved the towels and put our stuff there. After swimming for a bit, we were sitting putting on our shoes and getting ready to leave, a woman comes up and starts yelling at us demanding to know where we put her "stuff." I told her that if she was looking for the dirty towels and resort life vest, i moved them to a chair off to the side. She started huffing and puffing, but we had already gathered our stuff and were heading out. We walked away and didn't look back. She was saving that table for hours with some used towels and a life vest. Now if someone had left personal belongings like a tote bag, swim suit cover-up, folded towels, flip flops etc. I never would have taken the table and chairs, I would have assumed the people were swimming. But resort stuff? It just looked like people had finished swimming and left their towels behind.

 

[BigAlsGal]

One time a CBR people had reserved 4 chairs with a SHEET from their beds. Like a Disney room sheet. I was blown away. I never saw them come back.

 

[msjprincess]

This is the problem being discussed here.

Exactly. That's one of my biggest pet peeves at resorts and on cruises. I have no problem removing a towel from a chair if I see no one use it for an hour.

A few years at at the BC/YC there were people lined up waiting for the pool gates to open every morning. They would walk in out towels on a lounger and walk out. It was absolutely ridiculous.

 

[msjprincess]

Ehh depends really. What if someone wakes up at 6am, puts a towel on some chairs or a cabana, because they want to go have a relaxed breakfast without worrying about finding space when they're done? Perfectly reasonable to me.

That's not acceptable in my book.

 

[photogineer]

Ehh depends really. What if someone wakes up at 6am, puts a towel on some chairs or a cabana, because they want to go have a relaxed breakfast without worrying about finding space when they're done? Perfectly reasonable to me.

This is absolutely not acceptable, and behavior like this is why people feel the need to be so possessive of the chairs to begin with.