A TikTok user has posted a video showing a hotel member of staff at a Turkish hotel removing towels from poolside loungers.
Many tourists place towels on sun loungers to mark the spot as reserved, infuriating their fellow holiday makers who abide by the rules which have been put in place by the hotel, banning holidaymakers from reserving sunbeds before the pool opens in the morning.
The ten second video was posted by lincs_lady_p and is titled “Sunbed wars. Stay and protect at [all] costs”.
The short clip is accompanied by music from Madonna’s hit single Holiday.
The video shows a manager piling up several brightly coloured towels on his shoulder, in an attempt to clear up space by the pool.
The same social media user posted another clip a couple of days later, accompanied this time by music from Eminem’s The Real Slim Shady.
The video is captioned “Guess who’s back… back again” and shows another member of staff at the same hotel removing more towels.
Clearly guests at the hotel had not got the message from the previous intervention by staff.
European resorts have seen an outbreak of sunbed wars, as tourists vie with one another to bag the best spots by pools and on the beaches.
One man was recently filmed grabbing six prime spots at a Spanish resort in an unseemly scramble.
In a video posted to TikTok last month, guests at the Hotel Village in Benalmadena, Spain, can be seen with towels in hand ready to dash to their desired spots once they are given the okay by staff.
One man in a bucket hat can be seen staking a claim for six loungers by quickly flinging his towels across two rows of three.
It comes as Majorca announced plans to end the towel wars by introducing an app for people to book sunbeds with the aim of putting an end to the beach battles.