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PlakChat / 2012 Season

« on: September 29, 2011, 12:05:58 PM »

Anyone else booked for next year yet?
We booked with Olympic last July for 2 weeks at Kostas next June at £392 a head, It would have been rude not to at that price  

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Holiday Companies / 2011 price hike

« on: January 31, 2011, 11:13:50 AM »

Olympic website now showing flights operated by Strategic Airlines.
They are an Australian company!
The plot thickens.
Grahame

Strategic does not operate any flights out of UK:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Airlines

http://www.flystrategic.com.au/

If this actually comes to pass then I imagine Stategic will be finding aircraft available for charter, but Olympic have been selling holidays by taking seats on charter flights and I doubt they have the customer numbers to be able to charter aircraft themselves.

I have a great feeling of foreboding.

Mike

Lets hope things don't go to pot, we bit the bullet yesterday and booked for Kostas in June with the January offers on the Thomas Cook website, we thought we might have a bit more protection than booking direct with Olympic. The Airline out of Humberside now is
Fly Hellas who I've never heard of before


Colin & Sandra

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Where to go / Plakias somewhere else?

« on: January 31, 2011, 08:12:54 AM »

Is there any other greek island, higher up than Crete (not hard) that won't be so hot in July  that has places 'like' Plakias? no high rise hotels and stuff like that? I need to go somewhere different this year :    : just for a change! any ideas?

             Barny.

What's important to you on your holiday?
Are you a far end user? Do you hire a car/moped or walk to the beach? Are you planning to go independently or with a travel company?
Do you mind a ferry journey / long coach transfer?
And you have to remember that anywhere in the Med. can be scorching if there is another heatwave, it's the whole area not just the southern islands, We were in Corfu at the back end of the heatwave in 1987 and it was nearly too hot to do anything.

Colin & Sandra

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Holiday Companies / 2011 price hike

« on: January 17, 2011, 01:35:57 PM »

Hi
Anyone else noticed that over the the last weekend both Olympic and Thomas Cook have slapped a £30 per head "price adjustment" on this summers bookings. I can't find anywhere on their websites to explain what its about, I have emailed Olympic and will post their reply if I get one.
 

All the best

Colin & Sandra

Are you saying this is for new bookings only or all bookings? I put my booking ref. nos. into the Olympic website and they came up with the prices agreed, although according to the Olympic brochure there are some conditions under which they can apply a surcharge post booking. To my knowledge they haven't done this during the time I have been buying from them.

It was only a week ago that they were advertising double online discount.

Mike

Only on new bookings, I have been watching the prices throughout Jan. hoping to pick up a bargain

Colin & Sandra

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Holiday Companies / 2011 price hike

« on: January 17, 2011, 12:38:36 PM »

Hi
Anyone else noticed that over the the last weekend both Olympic and Thomas Cook have slapped a £30 per head "price adjustment" on this summers bookings. I can't find anywhere on their websites to explain what its about, I have emailed Olympic and will post their reply if I get one.
 

All the best

Colin & Sandra

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Plakias / Doughnuts

« on: July 23, 2010, 10:48:49 AM »

Has any one seen any one actually having a massage? We were on far end beach for a week begining of July and never saw any one take them up on their offers, thought it was quite expensive imo!

Also at the far end first two weeks of July, there was about 4 people over that period that we saw had a massage, you seemed to get about 25 - 30 mins. The problem was they had trouble removing the oil afterwards, some people were having to rub sand on then have a lengthy dip to remove it.

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PlakChat / ATM in Plakias

« on: May 29, 2010, 03:00:02 PM »

Does anyone know what the approx. cost of using the ATM's is, we're undecided whether we will take all Euros with us, or just a few and draw the rest out as we need it.
We seem to remember using a machine in Paros a few years ago and getting ridicules charges

Many thanks

Colin & Sandra

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PlakChat / Beer, Beer we want more beer

« on: May 26, 2010, 02:17:33 PM »

If I get there this year it will be later in the year guys, Late Aug/early Sept so just get it warmed up for me OK?

george...

That was warmed up? not worn out !!!

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PlakChat / Beer, Beer we want more beer

« on: May 26, 2010, 01:49:10 PM »

Mythos is my favourite by far, followed swiftly by another!!!

That wouldn't be the Levicon would it, and I might add 'My' table??  

george...

It certainly would be, hope your not there from 29/6 we may have to fight for it

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PlakChat / Beer, Beer we want more beer

« on: May 26, 2010, 01:13:06 PM »

there are certain times when you really need that beer, coming off the beach on a hot day, at the end of hard days walking (or in the middle)

so which one do you go for?

Mythos is my favourite by far, followed swiftly by another!!!