Sun Beds at the pool

Hi all.

We just returned home from DV after 20days of glorious sunshine.

Holiday was great. The only annoying factor was that there seems to be a culture starting of people keeping beds for themslves all day. And families keeping whole areas for themselves all day everyday.

People go to lunch for hours at a time and put their sunbeds out of use for everyone else.

On one occasion I watched over 2 beds( with an umbrella) with towells on - left for over three hours before two teenagers decided to return. These two girls then jumped in the water for a couple of hours and never used the beds. In that three hours I watched several people/families looking for beds and after a while leaving the poolside as there was nowhere to sit.

Also there are large families/groups taking up 6 or more beds when thier young children are never going to use them as they stay in the water and kids dont generally sun bathe. I watched one group keep eight to ten beds all day on a regular basis - when not more than three or four were ever being used at any one time.

We were a family of six adults and generally took 3-4 beds between us - and when we went to lunch we gave up the beds - as we should.

Come on fellow residents - play fair and have some thought for other users!

Reserving sun beds is not allowed. I for one will take a bed if I need one and the towel will be gently placed on the floor.

I totally agree.  I removed towels several times after I found them placed on whole rows of unused beds for up to 4 hours while other families were having to lie on the floor.  I went to the pool by bloque 10 one morning at 10:30ish to find all of the beds 'reserved' with towels and only 2 people actually there.  I removed towels from 2 to use with my family after checking with the two people at the pool that no one had been there all  morning.  An hour and a half later a family came to retrieve the beds (they had reserved 6!) and on finding that 2 had been taken, complained very loudly for some time about them having been stolen.  Clearly signs about no sunbed reserving need to be much more prominent!

Caroline

I totally agree with you Caroline and Dawn.  When we were over for 2 weeks at the end of July, we noticed 4 sunbeds being reserved from 8.30 in the morning by one family in particular who didn't arrive to claim them until well after midday.  I was particularly pleased to see their towels removed by other people on one occasion and the beds taken, leaving only one with all the towels on.  By 9 am all the sunbeds had been reserved and usually the people doing this were missing for hours, one family had actually been out in their car as we witnessed them returning on our way out, and those beds could have been used by others.  Luckily, we purchased our own chairs but then it's difficult to find some shade.  I did speak to AEA as there were no notices to say sunbeds could not be reserved and they promised to investigate.

Yes, I too removed towels from sunbeds that had been reserved and nobody in sight!  It's totally unacceptable.  Although I'm not sure that it's owners doing this - I think it's probably more renters/holiday-makers doing this than owners, but who knows.

Signs should definitely be more prominent.

I am glad others agree - as I was starting to think I was a grumpy old man.

There are signs to illustrated that reserving of beds is not allowed - but they they are not prominent enough.

The lifeguard is very good and will often tell you to remove towells. The problem with us British is we are too polite and it would be easier for most if the lifeguard removed the towells for us and started to press home certain rules for the benefit of everyone else.

I think this is a problem that will escalate if not nipped in the bud - and at some point there will be a poolside altercation that none of us want to see.

AEA are a waste of time!!

Warren

Only problem is, Warren, the lifeguard is only at the bottom pool - I'm next to the one inbetween blocks 10 and 12 and it happens there all the time.  Signs must be put up on the gates again (I'm sure signs on the gates before included the rule about not reserving sunbeds).  And if more of us just take the towels off beds that have been reserved eventually it will sink in,

That's good to hear!  Great that their monitoring all the pools.

Brilliant.  Good for security.

   you are all extremely lucky . There are no sunbeds at our pool.

Block 20

Tjh Brown.

tjhbrown, is that the pool on the left as you enter DV?  If so, then I clearly saw at least three sunbeds when I drove into DV this morning.  That's just on one side of the pool.  I don't know what's on the other side.

Dont worry about the sunbeds now. The weather here, at the minute, is horrendous and tomorrow will be even worse, thunder, lightning, torrential rain and flooding. Just finished Lunch in "The Clubhouse" down the road and watched the Golf from France where the weather is superb. G.B and  Ireland against Rest of Europe. Rory and Graham in top form - as usual, come on Boys!

Sorry about the weather but it's glorious in the north east of England  and we've been in the garden all day.  Hope your floods don't last or cause damage.

yep, heavy rain all day!  Must say, personally, it took me back to living in Singapore - looking out from the terrace at all the greenery with the rain bashing down!   Not quite the same when it rained in Dubai!!  I don't mind the rain when it's warm - it's when it's freezing cold and wet that I find unbearable!

   Well, I am sitting in my golf club in Northern Ireland watching Rory and the boys for GB & I  .Its a beautiful day.Hope to be back in October for a few days.

  TJH . Brown.

  block 20

 No lift & a gammy leg.