A security guard has been filmed brutally removing 'reserved' towels from sun loungers at a Tenerife hotel. The unnamed worker, who was wearing a luminous yellow jacket, can be seen walking around the pool area taking notes of the occupied beds.
He then appears to whip the towel off the lounger before folding it away and putting it in the right place. Sharing the clip on TikTok, @renovatewithroberta wrote: "They should do this everywhere", reports the Mirror.
The clip has been viewed more than 176,000 times since it was posted on last year. Sunbed wars have long been a common start to the mornings of British holidaymakers' trips abroad, where people wake up at the crack of dawn and place their towels on beds in a prime position of the pool.
Last year, Brits on holiday in Majorca were caught laying out their towels as early as 5am in a bid to get the best spot. Mum Rebekah posted a video on Instagram showing the swathes of towels left on the ground by guests in an effort to reserve a space.
In the video, she jokes: "Ladies and Gentlemen I present to you the British efforts from this year’s annual ‘Sun-bed Showdown’. More tactical, skilled and hated than ANY sports team in the world…"
While hilarious footage of guests at the four-star Spring Hotel Bitacora in Tenerife shows crowds of desperate tourists waiting next to their resort's swimming pools and running to grab the best spots at the earliest possible time.
Commenting on the post of the security guard stopping the war, one person wrote: "I agree, first come, first served." A third wrote: "Spot on, you wouldn't walk into a restaurant and leave your jackets on the chairs to reserve a seat."
Another person posted: "Never got why people on holiday wanna get up first thing in the morning for a lounger if they could only have breakfast at 6.30am, they'd freak out."
Recent footage showed the increasingly tense sunbed war apparently ruining Brits' summer holidays. Dubbed the "towel police" by TikToker John McGowan, the worker can be seen shoving holidaymakers' belongings into plastic bags.
He even walks around the pool area with a stopwatch and clipboard to time how long each sunbed has been reserved for and if the person has not returned within 30 minutes, their items are removed from the beds.
One commenter said: "Well done to this resort. Hope others take note. It might make people's hols less stressful if the towel dash doesn't happen anymore."
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