You've always had to reserve and pay for the beach cabanas, and I agree that is reasonable.

I believe this thread is about the nicer chairs by the pools with the green cushions and individual pop up 'tents'. These chairs always seem to get 'reserved' early by people throwing a towel and book on them and then not showing up until mid day. I could understand some sort of fee (except for Diamonds of course) to keep them available for people that are actually going to use them, but not $50.