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Holidaymakers managed to foil the plan of fellow Brits to secure sunbeds seven hours before their hotel pool opened.
Whilst enjoying a late-night chat on their balcony, Mandy Boyd and her mates spotted some men she thought were taking a cheeky dip in the pool.
However, on further inspection, the 34-year-old noticed the young men were attempting to secure the best beds at 2 am – seven hours before the pool opened.
The group of four girls watched on as the men pulled out their sun loungers to try and secure the best spots.
Mandy and her friends quietly waited on the balcony for the perfect moment to run down and take the towels.
The hilarious sunbed wars battle took place at the Aquasol Aparthotel, Palmanova, near Magaluf, Spain, with Mandy and her friends managing to get the last laugh.
Accompanied by her friend, Sally Willows, the pair went down to the pool and quickly snatched the towels left by the lads on Sunday night.
‘We’re just doing the Lord’s work,’ Mandy, of Bridgend, South Wales, said.
‘I hate it when people reserve sunbeds and don’t use them all day. I just find it really inconsiderate.
‘It was shocking to see them reserving beds at 2 am, especially when there was zero chance of those lads being up to enjoy them. We kept the towels but made sure we left them where they would find them.’
Fellow holidaymakers applauded the girls’ cunning plan to foil the cheeky plan.
One said: ‘Guarantee they wouldn’t have come down to the pool until about 11 am as well.’
‘You have taken sunbed wars to a whole new level,’ another added.
Another remarked: ‘B*oody hell girls, this is taking sunbed wars too far.’
The Sunbed Wars of 2025 appear to be in full swing as Brits head abroad, hoping to soak up a bit of sun.
Last month, crowds on a popular Turkish beach watched on as a tourist who decided not to buy a sunbed was beaten up by a resort worker.
The tourist, reportedly British, had been enjoying the sun at Damlatas Beach, Antalya, when he asked the employee how much a sun lounger rental would be.
After discovering the price, it’s said he declined, before placing his things on the sand – the employee told him to move his things away from the resort, but the tourist refused, and violence broke out.
And at a resort in Lanzarote, one woman screamed, ‘You picked on the wrong person’ and threatened to speak to the manager.
That encounter was caught on camera by Callum Lines, 31, after a Scottish woman marched over to a woman on a sunbed, declaring that she had taken her spot.
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