Moment sunbed vigilante removes towels from sunbeds in middle of night after sneaky tourists tried to hog loungers
SUNBED battles are boiling over summer hols and now a vigilante has shown a sneaky way to tackle tourists hogging loungers.
The Dutch woman strolled past the pool at a Turkish resort at 2am and despite the time, many sunbeds were already claimed by guests who laid out clothing and towels.
Posting footage to TikTok, the woman – who goes by effi.sxx – films herself removing the holidaymakers’ belongings to free up the sunbeds.
She moves the clothing and towels into a pile on one of the beds after seeing them spread across many.
She uploaded the video with the message: “Laying down the towel at 2am in Turkey, why not just do it the fair way, first come first served?”
Footage shows the sunbed vigilante going after the towels and clothes one-by-one while the hotel guests are likely asleep.
Pool toys and sandals are also cast aside.
The Dutch traveller’s actions have sparked new bitter debate in the sunbed wars.
Some TikTok users were left less than impressed, with one questioning “Who are you to touch other people’s things?”
Another said: “I would be irritated too. But touching other people’s things is really going too far for me.”
But others backed the move, with one boasting they are even more brutal in tackling sunbed hogs.
A user said: “I always throw away other people’s junk in the afternoon when I see that they are gone for more than an hour and a half.”
The sunbed wars have been raging on again this summer hols season.
Shocking footage from the weekend just gone captured a brawl between two women at a popular Italian beach as they battled over a sunbed.
The pair were seen wrestling and grabbing each other’s hair on the packed sand as fellow beach-goers watched on.
That bitter battle occurred in the coastal resort of Varcaturo, near Naples.
And the Dutch woman is not the only TikToker broadcasting her sunbed battles.
Earlier this month a Brit family boasted of their early-morning methods to claim sunbeds by the pool in resorts.
TikTok user Hollie Harper bragged of family setting up camp while on holiday in Crete as early as 6:45am, despite the hotel announcing sunbeds can only be claimed from 7am.
Leaving the sunbed for breakfast would give hotel staff the power to throw their towels away, but Hollie said the Harpers were “all willing to sacrifice breakfast for the greater good”.
Meanwhile tensions are boiling in Majorca this summer with hotel operators warning of a sunbed shortage.
Beaches of Cala San Vicenç, Albercuix and Tamarells in Pollensa do not have proper sunbeds or umbrellas for tourists, Majorca Daily Bulletin reported.
