It tends to happen with larger hotels but I'm not aware that it's a problem in Turkey.

I go to more small and friendly places so haven't encountered this as an issue.

I think there are probably threads about it in General, in fact I'm sure I remember one that got quite heated on the issue of reserving beds.

We always come down late and it really annoys us to see so many empty sunbeds with towels on them, and some stay like that all day with towel owners turning up later afternoon. I have stayed in 2 hotels what had a strict no reserving sunbed rule and staff went around removing towels, nobody reserved a sunbeds and midday there were sunbeds available. If all hotels done this it would be fair to all guests. I don't see how anybody can get up 5am or 6am on holiday to put towels on sunbeds or do the made sunbed rush at 9am, very funny to watch, I think all who join in must be totally bonkers. I am on holiday want to relax and not get stressed if I can get a sunbed or not.

We already have a sunbed topic in our General section of the forum:

http://www.holidaytruths.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=129744

Will close this one to avoid duplication.

MarkJ HT Mod