A British holidaymaker was left stunned during her Spanish getaway as the notorious sunbed wars erupted each morning at a four-star hotel.
Chaos at Dorada Palace
Lisa Smith saw the madness unfold during a week's holiday at the Dorada Palace in the Spanish coastal resort town of Salou. "This happened every day, people would start queuing from 8am, sometimes put chairs near the doors until more people came, then the chairs got moved," she exclusively told The Mirror.
"It was mad watching them because they were all so focused on that door, waiting for it to be open. Once the door was open, they went crazy, they just ran, jumped over walls, threw towels over people's heads, just so they could claim a bed first."
Viral videos
Lisa recorded two videos of the sunbed chaos and shared them on TikTok (@lisasmith274). The videos went viral, securing more than 2 million views collectively, showing hectic scenes of holidaymakers racing outside with towels in hand.
In one video, she captioned: "Never seen nothing like it... Grown men jumping walls to get their beds."
Vulture-like behaviour
Even when Lisa attempted to move a sunbed, she received an unhappy response. "One day, when we were getting a bed, we secured one, then I saw one in the distance, so I decided to drag it over to where the other one was, and this person threw their towel on it whilst I was moving it," Lisa explained.
"I looked at them and said, 'I'm moving the bed, you can't do that', I've actually got hold of it, I refused to give him the bed, so I continued to pull it across. They were vultures, in my opinion. They shoved and barged people for the beds."
After all that stress, some holidaymakers didn't even use their sun loungers. "They would leave their sunbeds for hours before returning," Lisa revealed. "We did move them ourselves in the end, and there were nine of us, and we only had two beds - the rest were chairs."
