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German tourist wins payout after losing the 6am sunbed wars

The Independent·Amelia Neath·26 days ago
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A German tourist has won a payout of £850 after he was unable to secure a sun lounger at his holiday resort due to others reserving them with pool towels. The unidentified man, who was on holiday in Greece in 2024, said he had to wake up at 6am and spend 20 minutes trying to find a sunlounger for his family of four. After the holiday, he sued his tour operator for allowing guests to reserve sun loungers with their towels, arguing that it happened so often the loungers were unusable, according to the BBC . He said that his children were forced to lie on the floor because of this. The man told the court that the tour operator failed to enforce the resort’s ban on reserving loungers with a towel, stating that guests who were doing so were not confronted. At the district court in Hanover, judges ruled in his favour and said the holidaymaker was entitled to a larger refund on the package family holiday as it had been “defective”.…

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