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Infuriated hotel guest slams sunlounger hoggers after every SINGLE bed is taken by 7am
And etiquette experts have weighed in on the real sunlounger rules
A HOTEL guest has sparked fury online after realising every single sunlounger had been taken at his hotel by 7am.
Posted on the "mildly infuriating" Reddit forum, they explained they were on holiday in Zante, Greece.
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However, they spotted the extreme behaviour when on their way to breakfast.
They wrote: "Just this. It's 7am and everything is 'taken'."
The images then show all of the loungers reserved with towels, some cover as many as three sunbeds together.
Not only are all the sunloungers by the pool reserved, but all of the surrounding ones appeared to be taken as well.
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People were just as infuriated in the comments with hundreds offering suggestions on what to do.
One person said: "I’d make some towels mysteriously disappear."
Another simply said: "Just put the towel somewhere else, sit down and claim there was no towel when you got there."
"A third said: "Absolutely not. Toss them all on the floor. If it's not taken."
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One dad went to more extreme levels to get one himself, after going on holiday.
He said: "I had already paid off the lifeguard and as soon as I and my wife would be in sight of them, they would come over to us, ask where we wanted to lie down and just remove the towels."
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The sunlounger wars have already started this year, with two tourists slammed earlier this week for stacking the beds on top of each other before lying on them.
And two Brits were told to leave the pool by security after they tried to take sunloungers before the allowed time.
Some hotels ban guests from reserving sun loungers before a certain time, leading to huge queues and people running to get a spot.
But other resorts have wised up to the chaos, banning anyone from reserving a sunlounger at all.
What is the etiquette when on holiday?
Etiquette expert William Hanson has given his tips on how to behave well at the pool.
"You can't hog the sun lounger for the entire day."
"You don't want to come back and find your towel covered in sand or chucked over the hedge."
"It's also a personal bugbear when people play music through speakers around a public pool - if everyone did that it would be chaos."
"And when it comes to food, if there is a menu offered by the pool, you are well within your rights to eat and drink at the pool.
"But I personally wouldn't, I would go away to the hotel restaurant and eat there."
For example, the Ving Hotel Sunprime Pollensa in Majorca has signs that say: "Please do not reserve the sunbeds with towels or other belongings if not intended for immediate use.
"All unattended towels will be removed by hotel staff until 8am every morning."
The hotel's manager previously said: "We want to stop the culture where sun loungers are occupied before they are to be used."
Some parts of Spain are even considering fining sunlounger hoggers on the beach, charging as much as £650.
If you want to know the polite rules about using sunloungers, etiquette expert William Hanson has weighed in.
He previously told The Sun: "In the morning, at the start of the day, and you're by the pool after breakfast, then it's fine at 8.30 to put your towel on the bed to reserve your spot."
"But later on in the day after you've used the lounger, and go off for a massage, for example, which is going to be an hour, then you can't use a towel to reserve the sun lounger."
However, Laura Akano, the Principal Coach and Trainer at Polished Manners, who is also an etiquette expert, said no one should be reserving loungers.
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She said: "I think it should be a first come first serve basis - if the resort doesn't have a booking system.
"If you go away someone else should be able to use the sun lounger."