Book Your Holiday Sun Bed Via Thomas Cook

[malagabob]

Apparently Thomas Cook are offering their customers a way of reserving their sunbed at their hotels for the duration of their holiday. Doubt TUI will do the same.

[237SJ]

I suspect that the trial will prove fruitless. I hope so

[New Judge]

I'm rather inclined to agree. I think there will be too many problems rather than too few takers. The problem with the larger hotels is that their sunbed provision is often totally inadequate.

[237SJ]

And the reviews on Tripadvisor won' t do the hotels any favours

[sapelesam]

I have never seen anything so ridiculous as that sun lounger scramble, talk about a stress free holiday.

[Mamyalynne]

It's quite comical, like a lot of chickens rushing to lie in rows on the spit.

[237SJ]

That isn't normal for most hotels

[Mamyalynne]

I'm sure it isn't and I am naughty to find it silly.

It's just not me, I love some sun and light but would prefer to sit near trees etc.

Never been a sunbather.

It's what folk like that matters.

[237SJ]

I love to sunbathe under trees. When I go on holiday, the first thing I look at on Tripadvisor is how much shade there is on the beach.

[Ellipsis]

Alternatively ...

[Cloverjo]

In one hotel I was in a few years ago a big family daily laid out their towels with a book and bottle of sun cream on each bed, but didn't come down til mid-afternoon. I only wanted a bed for half an hour one day so moved one person's stuff and found the bottle was empty and the book as stiff as a board. As were all the others.

[237SJ]

^ I would throw out their towels. I have done that many times. It didn't go down to well but tough.

[theshedman]

This may be new to Thomas Cook but there are hotels that already allocate a sun bed to each guest on arival which is theirs for the entire holiday.

[Flonska]

For those using Money Supermarket to book holidays, there is already a "premium" package available but as yet, not in the UK . . . perhaps Brexit will ensure that it won't be?

[Flonska]

^^Travel Supermarket^^ . . . . entschuldigung!

[TWR]

If the stupid holiday maker will pay this cost, they are making a rod for their own stupid self, would I pay it? you have more chance of me walking to Spain from the UK

[Deskdiary]

Have only been to one of these places once - Majorca in 2006 as we thought our 3 year old daughter would enjoy the holiday clubs.

We vowed we'd never go back - and to this day, other than one disastrous holiday to Egypt in 2014, we've always gone for a villa with its own pool.

I can remember watching the mad rush from my balcony every morning at 7am - people were actually sprinting towards the sunbeds, even the fat chav women.

It was laughable and pathetic in equal measure, particularly as there was a fantastic almost empty beach a 5 minute stroll away.