A British tourist has demonstrated his ‘clever’ solution to avoiding the sunbed war on holiday by throwing his towel off the balcony – only to forget to use it because he was too drunk.

Darral Roblyn boasted about his trick to avoid “joining the morning idiots” by sharing a video of himself dropping his towel on the sunbeds below his room in Salou, Spain on August 19.

The 46-year-old father from Rhondda Cynon Taff in Wales had returned to his hotel at 6am after a night of drinking and had a brilliant idea how he could reserve a sunbed without having to jump into the morning rush.

After using the old golfer’s trick of licking his finger to check the wind strength and direction, the groundskeeper decided to drop his towel on the sun loungers directly below his third floor balcony.

However, the father of one admits that he was unable to capitalise on the success of his ‘brainwave’ as he was so hungover the next day that he did not get out of bed until 3pm and did not use the swimming pool.

Mr Roblyn said holidaymakers at the hotel were unable to spread their towels at dawn as the pool doors did not open until 10am, so everyone would rush off at the same time to secure the best bed.

He said: “One night I was out for quite a long time, hanging out with some friends and stuff, and I came back from a club, sat on the balcony, had a last drink and just had a little brilliant idea.”

“I thought we were only on the third floor, I could see the beds directly below me. So I checked the wind speed and direction.

“I did a test run first and the first one (towel) landed pretty well, so I thought I’d just try filming the second one.

“You get a bed, but the rush is actually for the best seats. It’s not really about the beds, it’s about the best seats in the sun, the most or least shady seats. The first row around the swimming pool and so on.

“It’s crazy. The frustrating thing is that they don’t stay there, they go out and put their towels there. Some of them stay there for four or five hours at a time.

“They confiscate the parasols. I just thought: no, I’m not going to take part in that. I’m not going to let that happen. So I thought I’d get around it in my own way.

“I think it’s quite selfish behaviour sometimes. It’s not just affecting the British, it’s a Europe-wide epidemic. It’s definitely a problem, I don’t like it. Basically, it’s a bit like a fight of all against all.”

“That’s a problem here on the beaches too. There are people who go down at maybe six or seven in the morning at dawn and put their deck chairs on the beach and then disappear somewhere for hours.

“I know that on certain days the police came down and collected everything with a tractor and disposed of it.”

He said that the beds he got before anyone else using this trick are his favorite because they are in the sun all day.

The father-of-one who lived in Salou for 12 years working in bars and as a DJ comes back every year to stay in the same hotel and says the war for sunbeds has never been worse than this year.

Unfortunately, when he woke up the day after grabbing the beds, he didn’t feel well enough to use them.

The 46-year-old, who is away for two weeks with his daughter Mia Roblyn (15), said: “I had such a hard night the night before that I didn’t wake up until about three in the afternoon.”

“I went downstairs, the towels were there, but I honestly didn’t use them. Cooking in the sun was the last thing I could have done when I woke up.

“I just wanted to show that you can outsmart the system. You don’t have to run around on holiday all the time setting alarms for the tanning bed.

“Just work smarter, not harder. I’m pretty happy that I solved it differently. I just thought outside the box.”

“Honestly, I think there should be a time limit on how long the towel can stay on the bed. I know that’s difficult.

“If you know you’re going to be there for more than an hour, you have to pack up your things. You can’t go down at nine o’clock, leave them there all day and come back at four in the afternoon.”