Hotels with guaranteed sunbeds

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Please can anyone recommend any hotels that have allocated sunbeds so you don't have to get up at silly o'clock to reserve them?
Spent the last 2 holidays getting up at a stupid time to ensure getting decent sunbeds and would like to go somewhere without that pressure.
We will be travelling in August as we have 2 lads aged 14 and 11 so it needs to be family friendly and all inclusive. Open to any destination at the moment.
Thanks for your help.

Best answers:

• no where I know of unless you get a private apartment with some or a private villa
• Three things sprung immediately to mind...
  - You might not like where the beds have been allocated.
  - You might not like your neighbours.
  - If all the sunbeds have been allocated, and half the people fall into either of the above two categories then that'll be a management nightmare, which I don't think any hotel would want to contend with.
• As above, I'd be surprised if any would guarantee anything that isnt on your own terrace/ balcony. How could they be allocated other than by replicating room numbers on the sunbeds and then you may or net get one that is to your tastes depending on which room you are randomly allocated to.
  I've certainly found that being friendly to the staff, combined with good tipping, can result in them reserving your preferred beds for you. Certainly this worked well for us in Dubai and India where the wife likes one which she can move from sun to decent shade where as I prefer one in total shade all the time. Of course is still not a guarantee but works well enough.
• Yes I have heard of your wishes,and have been to one hotel that allocates sunbeds. Alexander the Great , Pathos, Cyprus.
  On the first morning you visit the sunbed king!he shows what is available. The front row , packed in like sardines was popular, but I was after a quieter spot with some shade, I was happy with our beds. If you kept alert and found out when people were leaving , a word on that afternoon meant you grabbed the requested spot before the next holiday makers arrived the following day.
  The beds had markers which correspond to your room , so the system seem to have worked.
  Now the info is of a few years back, so things might well have changed. But when I was at the Alexander , my BIL was at another hotel the other side of Pathos and he had reservations
  We only booked BB as the walk into Pathos was so short and lots of harbor side restaurants.
  To sum up, resevations may well have ceased, not Ai , but the idea certainly exists.
• The hotel I stay at in Ibiza is on the beach so if I can't get a sunbed I just lie on the beach and sometimes treat myself to a bed there. Not to everyone's taste I know.
• Sunrise pearl hotel and spa in protaras cyprus- not all inclusive though
• I think you will struggle with allocated sunbeds in AI family hotels. As another poster said, the Alexander the Great hotel in Paphos, Cyprus, is the only one I've ever come across. How about something like the First Choice Holiday Village in Ibiza? They are providing hundreds of extra sunbeds and an extra pool for this season. There is also a water park, which is a good attraction for any age group. There is also a new Thomson Sensatori opening in Ibiza this year. Don't believe all the hype about Ibiza, as 80% of visitors are not clubbers!
• WOW, really? I have never stayed in a hotel which hasn't had enough beds, or where you need to reserve them.
• The vast majority of Hotels I've stayed in have policies advising people that sunbeds can't be reserved, if I arrive at the pool/beach and find loads of sunbeds that are clearly not being used but have a towel on them the towels gets returned to the towel guy
  When the towels owners eventually surface, normally several hours later, I suggest that they ask the towel guy where their towels have gone
  But the time they have finished trying to get towels from the towel guy without the sacred towel card they're normally to exhausted to confront anyone else
• It's also more of a problem in the peak season, as families want 4 or 5 sunbeds together, and are prepared to get up early to ensure this. Also, some people just want the same sunbeds all holiday and come to think of them as "theirs" for the duration. I've seen people creeping down to the pool at 7am, and it's often beat 'em or join 'em! There was a hotel in Ibiza this year where people were leaving their towels on the beds 24 hours a day until the staff put a stop to it, after weeks of complaints. Hotels are very reluctant to confront people, especially the regulars!
• big problem is a lot of these a/I hotels were beach hotels and were not designed to have 90% of their guests staying in the hotel all day rather than heading off to the beach,many of them just don't have the room to accommodate the quantity of sunbeds needed and unless you are willing to join the 8.00 am stampede [we don't even make breakfast so no chance!!lol] youwill be out of luck. I was next door to the hotel in Ibiza [Miami] last year and there were nearly riots over the 24 hr bed reserving but it has been stopped now as they have added extra terracing,we went to the beach most days as it was only 100 yards from the hotel and I used to pop back for drinks etc,manager challenged me one day as I was leaving hotel with tray of drinks and snacks,passed him the tray and said find me 4 sunbeds and I will go and get my family from the beach,he passed it back and wished me a good day!!
• When we stayed in Meeru, Maldives, each room had 2 sun loungers with the room number stamped on.
  The room boy would move them to the beach or where ever you wanted.
  These days, where ever we stay, we just go to the beach. Pay for loungers.
• You could try looking for hotels that have 'swim up' rooms. You'll pay a bit more for them, but will get sun beds on your own terrace.
• I usually just read reviews on tripadvisor. If there are problems with not enough loungers someone is sure to mention it in the reviews.
  Of perhaps once you have a specific destination in mind select the forum for that destination and ask a question about which hotels have plenty of loungers, or name some hotels and ask if anyone who has stayed there knows.
  It doesn't seem to happen as much in USA in our experience. Only exception to that is a hotel in Vegas (Desert Rose) which had limited sunloungers and a lot of British guests who left towels on them. I object to the hogging as otherwise there would often be enough. In general it doesn't seem to happen in USA as much though, although that doesn't help with your query as you want All Inclusive and there's not much of that over there.
• Sensatori Sharm El Sheikh get a swim up room and you have your own lounger on the balcony before your swim up pool.