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Another beautiful day on the cruise ship. Pool deck is the place to be. Warm Caribbean sun calls for sunbathing by the sparkling water in well maintained gorgeous ship's swimming pool. You grab your towel and walk there looking for the chair, preferably one close to the water. Of course, as it's usually case on mega cruisers there is a big crowd already there. You are trying not to pay attention on others and just go to find your, so much desired, place under the sun. Carefully maneuvering between chairs, you look around like an eagle, in same time trying not to accidentally kick somebody's drink or something like that. After a while you see that there is no free chair. By now you are getting frustrated, but decide to go around and look again. No success. What is interesting in whole story is that on only small percent of chairs somebody actually sitting or lying. On most of chairs there is no person just some personal stuff like: towel, book, magazine, bag or something like that. Simply: no chair for you! You, my dear reader in this case, are victim of chair hoggers. And yes, your perfect day on the pool deck is ruined.
And, no, you cannot sue them. We checked.
Where are those people and where they are?
Why they take those chairs if they not going to use them?
What you can do in this situation? Just pick up that romance novel, throw it overboard and sit on the chair? Then get into the fight when ‘owner’ get back?
 Talk to the pool attendance? Yeah, sure. Poor guy from Romania or India would probably help you but what he can do? Not much.
And what can we say about this behavior? It’s just rude. That’s what also thinks more than 60% passengers who were involved in similar situations. No wonder that sometimes this leads to conflicts among the passengers.
It is interesting that chair hogs problem drastically increases as the cruise goes by. Statistically speaking, it usually escalates by the last few days on the cruise.
What seemed like only a minor issue on the cruise industry becomes a quite problem. Think is in recent years ships are getting larger and larger and so are passenger capacities. Pool areas are not really expanding that proportionally and that is one reason why chair hogs problem escalating.
This is problem is not happening on cruise ships exclusively. Many land based resorts facing this annoying issue as well. Some of them are already making some action, sending attendants to tag chairs left unoccupied. Once tagged, the attendant waits for certain amount of time, and if the guests have not returned, the belongings are bagged and kept at the towel desk for pickup, and chair is free for use to someone else.
Cruise lines seems to still working on solution of this problem, but so far we didn’t see any effective. Who knows, maybe soon we will see PCP (Pool Chairs Police) patrols walking on the pool deck?
In meantime we have only one advice on this issue: Get up early! Yes, we know, you are on vacation and you should sleep as long as you want, no doubt. But unfortunately until cruise lines come up with some good solution for this problem only way to get a good pool chair is to arrive there first.
Happy cruising!
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