They are loud and careless — splashing, horsing around, breaking rules and hogging pool towels.
The resort fee includes pool towels, chairs and umbrellas, a happy-hour drink at Bar Tanaka, and a continental breakfast.
Pacific Dry Goods of Hayward, Calif., makes the brightly colored towels and other products including sponges, pool towels, baby bibs and cloths to take camping and traveling.
That means having supplies accessible for kids to pack their own camp bags, and designating a place for flip-flops, bug spray, sunscreen and pool towels.
The government is, indeed, concerned about resort fees, which are mandatory surcharges added to your hotel bill for everything from use of the hotel gym to pool towels.
Maybe they bring you back to the Hemingway Bar at the Ritz or remind you of the pink-and-white striped pool towels at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Unfortunately, by 6 p.m. the space around it had been cannibalized by the rooftop restaurant, its bar area filling quickly with professionals at happy hour (around this time, requests for pool towels were repeatedly ignored).
The Honolulu property, which introduced the technology last summer, has reduced theft of its pool towels from 4,000 a month to just 750, saving more than $16,000 a month, Mr. Serbin said.
The Astroturfed roof of the fort has the possibility to be a glorious place to lounge but the two hot tubs are embarrassingly close to each other and there are no pool towels, so you have to remember to bring some from the room.
