A group of workers who are spending their summer in Zante went viral for their revenge on hotel guests who got up to reserve sunbeds at 6am – but people have been left divided
A group of hotel workers got their revenge on “selfish” Zante holidaymakers who wage sunbed wars by “hiding” their towels and flinging them up trees.
Tourists will know the struggle of securing a sunbed while on holiday all too well, with some waking up at the crack of dawn to reserve beds close to the pool or beach. Videos have previously shown tourists fighting over beds, with some holidaymakers reserving them for the whole day despite not using them.
Millie Newsham was on her way back to her hotel room at 6am after a night out on June 27 with friends when they noticed towels were placed on sunbeds to reserve them. Footage shows the group chaotically dragging towels off the loungers, chucking and scattering them around the poolside.
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Towels are dumped on railings, “hidden” on top of 7ft walls and even slung up trees. The 20-year-old Brit has been in Zante since mid-June and is working as a waitress there for the summer but says her friends have become increasingly frustrated sharing the hotel with other tourists.
She said reserving sunbeds was “selfish” and not the done thing in party island Zante. Millie, from Blackpool, Lancashire, said: “We live at the hotel because we’re working here and a load of tourists are staying here now. They came and put their towels by the pool.
“Nobody does it. You just don’t because we’re in Zante. We’d all had a little bit to drink and then we started hiding their towels around the hotel.
“I don’t think that you should reserve sunbeds because obviously here nobody gets up until about three in the afternoon so there’s literally no point.” Some hotels have policies in place that attempt to deter guests from reserving loungers, though they are rarely enforced as bosses fear backlash.
“It’s quite selfish because half of these people they’re not even getting up,” Millie adds. “Then the people that are getting up then don’t have a lounger. It’s so annoying. We’ve scared them off. They haven’t done it since.”
And while Millie’s drunk antics might have gone unnoticed initially, news of her viral video has done the rounds in the hotel. Millie said: “I’ve heard people talking about the TikTok.
“A couple of girls I was sat next to at the pool, I’ve never spoken to them and they were like, ‘I’ve seen this TikTok, it was at this hotel and people were moving the towels.’
“I was just laughing. I wasn’t expecting it to go viral. Every time I go on there’s like another thousand likes on it. Some people were agreeing with it. Some people think you shouldn’t touch other people’s stuff but it’s a towel.”
The clip left TikTok users divided in the comments, with some understanding the frustration and others defending the right to reserve a sunbed.
One user said: “They want to have their cake and eat it – if you’re not prepared to wake up earlier, do not expect to get a sunbed if you have to have a more budget holiday, it’s first come first serve.”
Another commented: “Why don’t you just sit on one with no towel?” A third said: “No way are people defending the odd balls that claim sun beds.”
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