Lounge Stealers at BeachPlace

[pwrshift]

Thought you might find this interesting.

 

[mdurette]

I wouldn't mess with them.....they all look pretty darn professional. The way they wrap and tuck a pool towel around a chair - its like a fitted sheet! This is some serious stuff they have been practicing for years.

 

[bazzap]

Thought you might find this interesting.

I guess it is trick of the perspective, but is it just me who thinks it looks like the guy on the lounger in the photo image is a giant relative to the woman on the boardwalk?
I am so pleased I have not yet encountered this scale of craziness and lack of consideration for others at all the resorts I stay at.

 

[Superchief]

I've observed a significant increase in this type of behavior at hotels and timeshares. In many cases, the group doesn't show up to use the lounges until afternoon. There was one particular group at Oceana Palms who would put their towels on 8+ lounges that were among the few located in the 'morning sun' area at 8am. For those who arrived at 9 to actually use them, there were only a few scattered ones left. This group wouldn't show up until 1PM or later, and typically only actually used about 4 of them because the children were always in the pool. After two days of this, another owner and myself decided to move these reserved lounges to a corner shaded area (that would be in the sun by the time they arrived). If asked, we could honestly say that we didn't 'remove their towels from the lounges'. I really wish resorts would enforce 1 hour limits. On our last visit to Ocean Pointe, we noticed that several guests put their towels on lounges at the Cobia Pool when they went down for the morning water classes. However, they didn't actually use those chairs until much later in the day. We prefer the Cobia pool, but had to start using the main pool in order to get a lounge chair mid-morning.

I'm curious, when did these people reappear to actually use these 'reserved' lounges?

 

[Fasttr]

At our recent visit to MOC, they actually had employees who's job it is to monitor and enforce a 1 hour policy. If they see your chairs unused, they will look for you in the pool (provided that they have come around and written down your name), and if they can't find you, they tag your chair(s), and you have 1 hour from that point in time to return or the staff removes your towels and any other items from the chairs. It seemed to work effectively and the majority of folks seem to appreciate and respect the rule.

 

[bizaro86]

I thought it was interesting that they zoomed in on the person actually sitting on the chair. If someone wants to go sit at the pool and read at 6AM, it's their vacation...

The people who set up their stuff and then leave for hours, on the other hand, probably deserve a public shaming.

 

[WBP]

Thought you might find this interesting.

The actors on this year's video look different from the one that you shot two or three years ago. Have the Long Islander's gone home? It seems like this visit of yours is later in the season than the time that you shot the last video.

Have you thought about selling DVD's in the lobby of BPT? You could title the DVD, "My Vacation Memories (and nightmares)."