Dozens of British tourists were seen eagerly waiting by the door before sprinting to grab the best poolside loungers at a hotel in Spain.
Armed with their towels in hand, newly released footage shows the holidaymakers crowding by the entrance to the pool, ready for the morning scramble to get the first sunbeds.
Brits at the four-star Villa Romana hotel in Tarragona, Catalonia, were almost given a ‘ready, steady, go’ as staff opened the glass doors and they flooded out.
A separate video shows the Brits then running and pushing past each other on the poolside as they try and nab the best spots.
However, others at the back look less fussed as they walk calmly to the poolside loungers.
Dozens of British tourists were seen eagerly waiting by the door before sprinting to grab the best poolside loungers at a hotel in Spain
A separate video shows the Brits then running and pushing past each other on the poolside as they try and nab the best spots
Armed with their towels in hand, newly released footage shows the holidaymakers crowding by the entrance to the pool, ready for the morning scramble to get the first sunbeds
It comes after footage released earlier this week shows holidaymakers taking this summer’s sunbed wars to a new level as they bust out secured loungers before hotel staff have even opened the pool.
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Stunned guest films fellow tourists helping themselves to secured loungers to nab best pool spots
In the video, which was filmed by a stunned guest at a hotel in Tenerife, one man dressed in a t-shirt, shorts and sliders can be seen rearranging the loungers to free five trapped underneath.
A woman and another man were also spotted moving a poolside lounger before the woman comes back to collect a towel she had left on top of the secured sunbeds.
A five-star hotel in Turkey also declared war on sun-bed hogging holidaymakers earlier this week.
The Laur Hotels on the country’s Aegean coast instructed staff to remove tourists’ possessions if they try and bag loungers early in the morning – or even the night before.
Two videos shared on social media show a stern-faced hotel boss rounding up towels on two separate occasions.
The towel on the sunbed lounger has become an almost universal sign of reservation in tourist hotspots.
A man appears to remove secured sunbeds in an attempt to nab the best spot by the pool
In the video, which was filmed by a stunned guest, one man dressed in a t-shirt, shorts and sliders can be seen rearranging the loungers to free five trapped underneath
TikTok user The Railway Queen shared a video showing a manager at her Turkey hotel piling up towels on his shoulder, in an attempt to clear up space by the pool
The Laur Hotels on the country’s Aegean coast instructed staff to remove tourists’ possessions if they try and bag loungers early in the morning – or even the night before
The first video – posted by a British tourist – is accompanied by music from Madonna’s Holiday and the second clip has the lines ‘guess who’s back? Back again’ from Eminem’s Without Me.
In both videos, the hotel employee grabs at least half a dozen towels as he patrols the resort’s pool area to clear space for sunseekers arriving to enjoy the weather.
Furthermore, a posted last week from the Hotel Village on Benalmadena in Spain showed the moment when guests rush for the sunbeds by the pool
One man in a bucket hat is seen staking a claim for four beds by quickly flinging his towels across the row.
The footage was posted on TikTok and one person said: ‘Want to know what happens afterwards. Do they all sit and relax?’
A second TikTok video shows similar scenes at a hotel in Tenerife. Once the gate to the pool is open, guests flock to the waterside and snaffle all the available beds in moments.
The footage is accompanied by a soundtrack of Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger – the theme tune of the Rocky boxing movies.
