Germans and pool chairs!

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

This cracks me up because I have seen it happening so many times! They sneak out at 5am to put their towel on the chair and then go back to bed.

Germans to reserve poolside chairs even earlier

German tourists can now reserve their poolside recliners before they have even left home.

The German arm of Thomas Cook, Europe's second largest travel company, has been deluged with inquiries since announcing that holidaymakers at nine hotels in Turkey, Egypt and the Canary Islands can book recliners in advance for a fee.

Germans are famous around Europe for rising early to reserve recliners near the pool with their towels, and then going back to bed or eating a lengthy breakfast.

This often annoys tourists from other nations, but they will be unable to take advantage of the new service -- it is valid only for tourists booking their trips from Germany, Mathias Brandes, head of communications at Thomas Cook in Germany, said.

http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-new...90727-dyht.html

[pedroh 21]

LOL

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I hate when people do that at the gym. Share and share alike.

[The_Dude 1,142]

My biggest question about German tourists is..... why do you insist upon wearing sandals.... with socks on?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

...and being herded into endless Hotel Miramars and Bellvueses and Bontinentals with their international luxury modern roomettes and their Watney's Red Barrel and their swimming pools full of fat German businessmen pretending they're acrobats and forming pyramids and frightening the children and barging in to the queues and if you're not at your table spot on seven you miss your bowl of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup, the first item on the menu of International Cuisine, and every Thursday night there's a bloody cabaret in the bar featuring some tiny emaciated dago with nine-inch hips and some big fat bloated tart with her hair brylcreemed down and a big ####### presenting Flamenco for Foreigners.

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

LOL

OMG ROFLCOPTER

That film is awesome!

[pedroh 21]

[Bobby+Umit 161]

Strange...

What is to stop someone from moving the towel and claiming "it was like that went I got here?"

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Strange...

What is to stop someone from moving the towel and claiming "it was like that went I got here?"

[pedroh 21]

don't mess with towels..

remember:

A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have

[_Simpson_ 250]

My biggest question about German tourists is..... why do you insist upon wearing sandals.... with socks on?

Hey now I do it every now and then, keeps your feet warm and all you have to do is slip on your sandles. My wife got a laugh out of it so much that she felt compelled to take a pic.

Edited July 28, 2009 by looking_up

[one...two...tree 2,762]

don't mess with towels..

remember:

A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have

[Philosykos 0]

I've never reserved a pool chair in my life -- but keep the stereotypes coming!

I can't stand that type of "German tourists" either, and running into too many Germans when traveling is what the Germans I know hate the most (that attitude is typically German, I think ) Oh, and I agree about the sandals (but don't get me started on how American tourists dress )...

Edited July 28, 2009 by Philosykos