A British tourist has shared his 'smart' solution to beat holiday sunbed wars by dropping his towel from a third-floor balcony—only to be too hungover to use the sunbed he reserved. Darral Roblyn, 46, from Rhondda Cynon Taff in Wales, filmed himself throwing his towel onto sun loungers below his hotel room in Salou, Spain, on August 19.
Mr Roblyn, a groundsman, returned to his hotel at 6am after a night out and decided to avoid the 'morning morons' by using the golfer's trick of checking wind direction before launching his towel. The father-of-one said the hotel's pool doors do not open until 10am, causing a rush for the best spots. He described the behaviour as 'selfish' and a 'European-wide epidemic'.
Despite successfully landing the towel on a prime sunbed, Mr Roblyn admitted he did not use it. 'I'd had such a heavy night the night before, I didn't wake up until like three o'clock in the afternoon. Cooking in the sun is the last thing I could have done,' he said. He added that his hack was meant to show holidaymakers can 'work smarter, not harder'.
Mr Roblyn, who previously lived in Salou for 12 years, said the sunbed wars are worse this year than ever. He noted that some guests reserve beds with towels but do not use them for hours, and that similar problems occur on beaches where police have removed abandoned deckchairs with a tractor.
