Supersize your towel and guarantee the best spot on the beach on your honeymoon!

Super sized beach towels, able to occupy extra room on crowded shores and sun loungers are soaring in popularity, says high street store Debenhams.

Customers are using them to mark out more territory during holidays, providing a better defence against incursions from rival tourists fighting for space in the most popular resorts, experts believe.

The new towels are up to 65 per cent bigger than normal, and designed using distinctive, bold, bright colours, making it obvious that the space is already occupied, even when the owner isn’t there.

Just two of these towels, side by side, will occupy and block of more space than three normal sized towels did in the past.

The supersized towels measure 180cm by 90cm and cost up to £20. Until now, beach towels have measures just 150cm by 70cm – a 65 per cent difference.