Book Your Sunbed Ahead Of Your Holiday

Thomas Cook are trialing a scheme that will allow you to pay £22 to book a specific lounger.

The service will available at three hotels next month and then rolled out to a further 30 hotels in the summer.

You’ll be able to pick your preferred sunbed location from a map that will allow you to work out when each spot gets sun and shade. Not all sunbeds at the trialled hotels will be bookable.

What do you think? Would you make use of this service? Is it just another way to make money for the holiday companies?

This image is a mock-up of the pool plan Thomas Cook customers will have access to before they jet off

The new service comes in the wakes of a number of videos posted online showing British holidaymakers racing to sunbeds early in the morning.

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Dominic Sawyer

Dominic has been writing on the web since 2000. He has a BSc (Hons) degree in Biological Sciences from Nottingham University and his research thesis has been published in journals. With a foundation in painstaking research he found his passion for travel and has worked in the sector for 20 years. He has written a book about travel and has extended his expertise to consumer research across the travel and leisure sector.