Finally, a home for abandoned unicorn rubber rings, blow-up palm trees and disused lilos has been set up.
Welcome the Majorca 'sanctuary' for inflatables whose services are no longer required.
As holiday season now fades to be a memory that will resurface only on Timehop, thousands of blow-ups have been left unattended by holidaymakers.
Of course, when you're soaking up the 30-degree heat, lounging on an inflatable in the middle of a pool is a great idea. When it comes to packing them back in your suitcase, maybe not.
However, the Hipotels Gran Playa de Palma hotel has opened a service which hoards these magnificent creations and allows other holidaymakers to 'adopt' the abandoned floats. The scheme will run for the next three months.
The initiative follows a survey of 2,000 holidaymakers, conducted by OnePoll for Hotels.com, which revealed nearly half of Britons purchase inflatables when abroad, but only 28 percent take them back.
Detailed research from the guys with clipboards and stopwatches has revealed that six hours and 52 minutes are spent playing with inflatables each summer.
Other items commonly left behind, or lost, on holiday include: sunglasses, toiletries, magazine, adapters (for plug sockets etc), books, goggles, t-shirts, towels and underwear.
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On average, holiday-goers purchase one inflatable per year, with donut-shaped blow-ups being the most popular, followed closely by the traditional lilo.
The hoard of the hotel is impressive, but probably isn't unreasonable given that 12 million people visit the Balearic island from Britain each year.
Although this year did see the rise of the unicorn inflatable, perhaps the most impressive was the giant inflatable chicken that appeared outside the White House - it even had Donald Trump hair.
The Trump Chicken first appeared in April during the tax march, but returned in August residing in Ellipse Park, just behind the White House.
Creator and documentary filmmaker Taran Singh Brar told Fox that it was all part of a 'visual protest'.
He explained: "It means that the president is too afraid to release his tax returns, he is too afraid to stand to up Putin, and he is playing a game of chicken with North Korea, and yet he wants a military parade in Washington DC?
"It seems kind of bizarre and signs of a weak and insecure leader. What they say is that an image speaks a thousand words and this image does very well at piercing through and presenting Trump as the ineffective leader he is."
And whereas many of us wouldn't venture past £20 for an inflatable that we'll only use for six hours and 52 minutes, this effort cost Taran $1,300 (£1,000).
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