Hilarious moment when a holidaymaker packs five sun loungers with a well-rehearsed sprint
This is the hilarious moment when a vacationer packs five sun loungers by sprinting for them before throwing his towels on the best poolside spots.
The footage was posted to TikTok by another guest who filmed the chaotic scene from her balcony at the Paradise Park Hotel in Los Cristianos, Tenerife.
The video shows a large swimming pool surrounded by a wooden deck just before several people emerge and start running towards the sunbeds.
A man dressed in yellow can be seen sprinting to the lounge chairs with several towels on his arm. He skipped past rows of other chairs until he reached the poolside chairs.
As the other guests made their way to the lounge chairs, he took a shortcut to get there first and threw down his towels to claim the chairs with impressive speed.
Hilarious footage captured the moment a holidaymaker (in black T-shirt) packed five sun loungers by sprinting between them before throwing his towels on the best poolside spots
This wasn’t the man’s first time on the hunt, as another video showed him securing the top spot in a black T-shirt.
Jess Clarke, filming the audience, captioned her video “Day Three Sunbed Wars.”
It quickly gained over 11,000 likes and hundreds of comments were left by viewers, saying, “I love it, so funny,” or commenting, “I’ve never seen such bad tanning bed wars.”
Another commented, “Man in Yellow has done quite a service.”
A fourth said: ‘9 hours tanning bed wars paradise park Tenerife what a sight.’
A user recognized the man from Mrs Clarke’s previous video titled ‘Day 1’.
The hotel is known for its tanning bed reservation races and similar scenes were caught on camera last year.
The video quickly gained more than 11,000 likes and hundreds of comments were left by viewers saying, “I love it, so funny” or commenting, “I’ve never seen such bad tanning bed wars” (Photo: Before and after the battle of the beds)
A viral TikTok video from August shows tourists at the hotel in Tenerife taking a shameless flight to the best poolside spot.
Film material shows a crowd of vacationers showing up at a pool in Paradise Park just as it opens.
Then they drop their towels on the hotspot’s best lounge chairs – and some even look around guiltily.
TikTok user Sarah, whose clip has been viewed more than five million times in a single day, captioned it simply: “The Sunbed Race.”
Paradise Park spokesman Rafael Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo told MailOnline last year: ‘We were amused to see that our hotel has five swimming pools and areas with space and sunbeds for everyone.
‘Although we see quite a bit of talent among our guests for obstacle races.’
Weeks earlier, in July last year, hotel staff had their towels taken away at another resort in Tenerife.
Holidaymaker Amanda Proctor filmed the moment workers picked up dozens of towels left by guests on empty sun loungers in an attempt to reserve the best poolside seats at the five-star Gran Costa Adeje, in southern Tenerife.
Ms Proctor said staff at the hotel, which has four swimming pools, took guests’ bags and towels and left a note on the seats telling them where to pick up their belongings.
Staff were seen taking towels from sun loungers at the five-star Gran Costa Adeje hotel (pictured)
Footage shows three hotel employees picking up the hotel’s yellow towels from sun loungers, with one man carrying more than ten towels over his shoulder
The holidaymaker said there was a sign at the hotel stating that guests were not allowed to reserve sunbeds before 10am.
A spokesperson for the hotel told MailOnline: ‘At GF Gran Costa Adeje we defend the right of all our guests to enjoy our swimming pools and we ask everyone to respect our policies.
‘All guests have their place in our solarium. In this situation, our colleague, like the whole team of GF Gran Costa Adeje, is a hero without a cape. We are very happy with the reactions to the video and from our customers.’
Vacationers have been known to wake up early in the morning and make a frenzied sprint to reserve sun loungers.
Also in July last year, footage shot by Julie Larsson captured tourists running for a chair in a Majorca hotel in the early morning.
Ms Larsson joked that the video was all about ‘sunbed wars at 6am’.
The video shows territorial sunbathers reserving their lounge chairs for the day by placing bags, towels and other belongings on the seats. Many people also rushed to get the best seats at the pool.
In 2017, footage surfaced of people racing for sun loungers at the Servatur Waikiki hotel in Gran Canaria’s popular resort of Playa del Ingles just as the pool opened at 8am.
Hotel insiders say people start queuing at 7:30 a.m. every day to grab a spot in the front row of lounge chairs.
And despite the stereotype that Germans are the first to lay down their towel, sources say the British and Irish are the worst offenders.
In many cases, they put down their things and have breakfast before returning at their leisure.
The problem of packing sunbeds got so bad that hotel staff were ordered to remove towels from sunbeds that had been left empty for two or three hours.
Tour operator Thomas Cook has tried to solve the problem at partner hotels by letting holidaymakers reserve seats via an app.