Beach resort launches online booking for deck chairs. Yup

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German resort introduces online booking for deck chairs
German resort introduces online booking for deck chairs




One seaside resort is so fed up of tourists fighting over sand space they've launched an online reservation service for deck chairs.

There'll be no towels at dawn at the resort of Sankt Peter Ording on Germany's North Sea coast.

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But you'll still have to get in early if you want to be comfy at the beach. While booking a holiday at the resort, you can now also book exclusive use of a beach chair, parasol and foot rest for a week for €40 (£29), or €8 (£5.80) a day.

According to the Daily Mail, the resort even offers a map to show where the best places to catch some rays are.

But, as the Daily Telegraph reports, the scheme hasn't gone down well with everyone.

Tom König wrote in Spiegel magazine: "It seems to me that in recent years a new type of consumer has emerged, who one might call a 'towel consumer'.

"The 'towel consumer' is the modern equivalent of that character who once made British tourists shudder, that terribly efficient even on holiday Teuton, who reserved the sun longer with his towel at 7.30am.

"When all such a fanatic had to make reservations was a scrap of towelling, things weren't so bad. But thanks to the internet, cloud and smartphone, the 'towel consumer' now has more computing power than the Max Planck Institute of Physics.

"He rolls his virtual towel out long before guys like me have even decided where we're going."

According to Wikipedia, Sankt Peter Ording is a popular German seaside spa and a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein.

It is the only German seaside resort that has a sulphur spring and thus terms itself "North Sea spa and sulphur spring".

Sankt Peter Ording is the largest seaside resort and has the most overnight stays in the state of Schleswig-Holstein.



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