A Brit tourist has showed off his ‘smart’ solution to beat holiday sunbed wars by throwing his towel from his balcony – only to forget to end up using them as he got too drunk.
Darral Roblyn boasted of his hack to avoid ‘joining the morning morons’ by sharing a video of him dropping his towel onto the sunbeds below his room in Salou, Spain, on August 19.
The 46-year-old father, from Rhondda Cynon Taff in Wales, had returned to his hotel at six in the morning after a night out and had a bright idea about how he could reserve a sunbed without having to participate in the morning rush.
After using the old golfer’s trick of licking his finger to check the wind speed and direction, the groundsman decided to try and drop his towel onto the sun loungers just below his balcony on the third floor.
However the father-of-one admits he was unable to take advantage of the success of his ‘brainwave’ – as he was so hungover the next day he didn’t get out of bed until 3pm and didn’t use the pool.
The footage begins by showing Darral Roblyn eyeing up his throw for the sunbeds
The smug father then launches his towel, as he shared how to beat sunbed wars on holiday
The 46-year-old from Wales releases the towel from his balcony and it lands on one of the sunbeds below
The father-of-one had returned to his hotel at six in the morning after a night out, and had a bright idea about how he could reserve a sunbed
Mr Roblyn said holidaymakers at the hotel cannot lay their towels out at the crack of dawn because the doors to the pool do not open until 10 o’clock and this means everyone rushes at once to nab the best bed.
He said: ‘I’d had quite a late night one night, I’d been out with some friends and stuff and got back from a club and I was sat on the balcony having one last drink and I just had a little brainwave.
‘I thought, we’re only on the third floor, I could see the beds directly below me. So I checked the wind speed and direction.
‘I had a practice run first and the first one [towel] landed pretty good so I just thought I’ll have a go at filming the second one.
‘You will get a bed but the rush is really for the best spots. It’s not really for the beds, it’s for the best spots in the sun, the most or the least shaded spots. The first line around the swimming pool and stuff.
‘It’s crazy. The frustrating thing is they’re not staying there then they go out, they put their towels out there, some of them are out there for four or five hours at a time.
‘They commandeer the parasols. I just thought nah, I’m not joining them. I’m not having that. So I just thought I’d work my own way around it.
‘I think it’s pretty selfish behaviour sometimes. It’s not just British people, it’s a European-wide epidemic. It’s definitely a problem, I don’t like it. It’s a bit of a free-for-all basically.
‘It’s also a problem on the beaches here. People who walk down and put their deckchairs on the beach at maybe six or seven in the morning at first light and then bugger off somewhere for hours upon a time.
‘I know the police have gone down on certain days and collected everything up with a tractor and got rid of it all.’
The 46-year-old, who is away for two weeks with his daughter Mia Roblyn, 15 (pictured)
The father-of-one did say he was unable to take advantage of the success of his ‘brainwave’
He said he was so hungover the next day he didn’t get out of bed until 3pm and didn’t use the pool
He said the beds he managed to bag before everyone else using this hack are his favourite because they stay in the sun all day.
The father-of-one, who used to live in Salou for 12 years working in bars and DJing, comes back to stay in the same hotel every year and said the sunbed wars have never been as bad as this year.
Unfortunately, that day when he woke up after nabbing the beds, he did not feel well enough to use them.
The 46-year-old, who is away for two weeks with his daughter Mia Roblyn, 15, said: ‘I’d had such a heavy night the night before, I didn’t wake up until like three o’clock in the afternoon.
‘I went down, the towels were there but I didn’t use them to be fair. Cooking in the sun is the last thing I could have done when I woke up.
‘I was just trying to show you can beat the system, you don’t have to be running around setting alarms for a sunbed on holiday.
‘Just work smarter, not harder. I feel quite pleased that I’ve solved it in a different way. I was just thinking outside the box.
‘I think there should be a time limit on your towel being on the bed to be honest. I know that’s difficult.
‘If you know you’re going to be longer than an hour then you need to gather your stuff up. You can’t go down at nine, leave it there all day, come back at four in the afternoon.’
