here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cIt was our first hotel-type holiday as a family as we usually do villa holidays,\u201d Ian, from Manchester, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach morning I was up for sunrise on the balcony around 7am and the first morning I noticed workers putting up barriers around the pool entrance.<\/p>\n
“Shortly after people getting there to mark their spot around 8am, before the pool opened at 10am.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome even brought a mug of tea, a book and their own ashtrays for the wait. I thought it\u2019d be a laugh to narrate it David Attenborough-style. Little did I know it\u2019d have the reaction it did.”<\/p>\n
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Ian’s clip has had over a million views on TikTok<\/p>\n
In the clip Ian films different times from 8am to 10am. At the beginning, there are just a few people \u2013 but as the clock ticks on, hoards of people arrive to wait.<\/p>\n
The gate was opened at 10 and the stampede were released, with some running to secure the perfect spot.<\/p>\n
Ian captioned the video: \u201cReal life sunbed nature watch in the hotel this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
It has since gained 22,700 likes and 2,200 comments from viewers. Carly commented: \u201cGod forbid I EVER end up in a hotel like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Matt added: \u201cI am struggling to understand the mentality of waking up early, to queue for a spot to lie down on.\u201d Nick said: \u201cMay this life never find me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dolly added: \u201cWhen looking for a hotel I actively search out whether or not this happens in the reviews – if it does I am going nowhere near it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ange joked: \u201cAnyone else read this with David Attenborough as the narrator?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian Foran observed holidaymakers queuing for up to two hours for their spot Katie Dollard and reg-msp Administrator…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2406,2465,104,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-384535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-holidays","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-spain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115116481306885947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Holidaymakers in queue for hours before sprinting to claim poolside loungers morning \u201csun bed war\u201d.<\/p>\n