I wrestled back control of sunbeds for Brit holidaymakers — by waking up before dawn to beat the Germans in pool raid
THE Sun wrestled back control of our sunbeds for the Brits yesterday as we got up before dawn to beat the Germans.
Battles over loungers have been erupting all over the Med with the German press calling our tactics “embarrassing”.
Despite the criticism, we revealed that German tourists were also rising before dawn to reserve beds.
So yesterday we set up camp at German-favourite-hotel Iberostar Málaga Playa in Torrox on the Costa Del Sol to beat them at their own game.
Armed with a patriotic red and white towel and a Sun Union Jack we sneaked down to the pool area at 5.30am.
German holidaymakers were still fast asleep — coming down at 6.30am only to discover their prime spot had been bagged.
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The day before, Jonas Winter, 43, from Bavaria, had bragged about beating the British to the beds, saying: “We set alarms for 6.30am, get up to reserve the beds with the towels, then go back to sleep.”
At the weekend Bild, Germany’s biggest newspaper, slammed Brits for an “embarrassing deckchair and towel race” in Tenerife.
Another paper, Merkur, said the sunbed battle had taken on “grotesque features”.
Arguments have broken out and some resorts have brought in 40-minute warning notes or security guards with whistles.
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At a Fuerteventura hotel, two British men reportedly tipped a Spanish woman out of a deckchair and shoved her two daughters in a row over who was there first.
The woman is considering pressing charges against the pair, said to be in their 60s and 30s.
It is claimed that the older Brit threw the chair which landed on the woman’s foot.
The Spanish family said they had to move to another hotel because they were so scared of the Brits.
Tourists in the Canary Islands, the Costa Del Sol and the Costa Blanca have spoken about the “carnage” which unfolds each morning.
In the Costa Del Sol, videos show guests at the Sunset Beach Club hotel in Benalmádena waiting for security to unlock a gate to the pool area at 8.40am.
The guests then sprint to their destination.
But hundreds of Brits queue for a poolside spot from 6.30am.
At the Hotel Estival Torrequebrada, also in Benalmadena, Brits start waiting two hours before the gates open at 10am.
