Vacation at a hotel in Turkey with my ex-boyfriend. Around 9am we went to the pool – all the loungers were already “taken,” even though there were hardly any people around. Since it had been the same in the days before and our nerves were getting a bit strained, we decided to remove two towels from reserved loungers, put them aside by a parasol, and take the seats ourselves.
After about 30 minutes, two mothers with their children showed up, looking for their “reserved” loungers, found their towels – and saw us lying there. Immediately the insults started: we were rude, badly raised, and they claimed they had been gone “only ten minutes.” They even tried to gossip with other guests about us, saying how awful it was that we had “stolen” the poor mothers’ loungers.
We stayed calm and felt completely in the right, especially since several signs clearly stated that reserving loungers was not allowed.
NTA.
There’s a limit to how long you can reserve something for.
Thanks! And this was Obviously not for a short time to just get something from the room, but rather having breakfast…
NTA. No way in Turkey that they were gone for “*only ten minutes*.”
NTA. Most resorts don’t “allow” patrons to reserve lounge chairs with towels. Sometimes they’ll even send an employee around to pick up the towels from chairs “reserved” too long.
Unfortunately the employees didn’t really care in our hotel, the guests just did it anyway despite there being signs that it’s not allowed…
Yeah, that’s unfortunate, but the signs say people can’t reserve chairs like that, so you’re 100% NTA. The people who reserved the chairs are the entitled a-holes.
I would have told a little fib. Oh no, we didn’t move anyone’s towels. There was an attendant that came through and removed many. He was pretty angry we begged him not to confiscate your belongings so he left them.
Will totally use this!
That’s so smart, should have done this 🤣
Wow, bad luck that the people whose towels you chose to move came back after only 30 minutes!
Anyway, obviously it’s NTA, I wonder why you have to ask when several signs clearly stated it wasn’t allowed.
NTA If there’s a sign saying you can’t reserve lounge chairs, they ran a risk by attempting to reserve them.
NTA. “Reserving” loungers you’re not using is bad manners. There was even a sign it’s not allowed.
NTA.
People need to learn that “reservations” are bs