ANOTHER OPEN LETTER TO PLAKIAS
My wife and I have been visiting Plakias every year for the past 16 years, this September will be our 17th, visit. If the sun bed situation at the Far End is still as described it will without doubt be our last. The Mayor and those responsible may think at the end of this season that the new arrangements made little or no difference to visitor numbers this year, the reason being that most of us have already booked, some of us reserve our accommodation for the following year before we depart.
The complaints will really start when people like us tell our hotel owner we are not booking for next year because of the sun bed fiasco. That will meand we will NOT require a hire car, we will NOT be eating in the restaurants, we will NOT be spending in the supermarkets and we will NOT be paying for SUN BEDS.
This letter may be one of only a few from people who bother to take the time and trouble to write and in my experience for everyone that writes many, many more people just whinge verbally and then vote with their feet and don't come back they book somewhere else for their holiday.
WE visitors can do very little to change the present situation, it is up to you the business community of Plakias to sort out the person or persons responsible for this situation before it has an adverse effect on your collective business
An open letter to the Plakias authorities
"The joys of Plakias are being eroded by greedy commercialism. What was once a quaint Shangri-la of a village is turning ugly and one fears for it's future as a quiet escape option.
For instance, there is now, on the sea front, the architectural nightmare of a housing estate, so ghastly, that visitors call it Stalag 13.
This season there were no sun beds at the far end until the second week in June (normally in place the first week in May) while the new Mayor decided which highest bidder would be awarded the licence. The winner then installed 41 parasols to a regulation measurement space instruction, so tight that you can touch the naked body alongside you. - men a foot away from the nearest boobs, women face to face with men's essentials, smokers blowing clouds all around and everyone getting up at dawn to secure the outside units of bed-parasol to avoid claustrophobia.
It looks like a giant blue sardine tin with humans as fish - all in the name of 5 euros a throw.
Who is responsible for this disgusting obscene development? May God forgive him for his greed.
Tourists by the hundreds are making alternative arrangements for future holidays.
Assuming Boxerlover hasn't already done this, is one of the Plakias residents going to arrange for this well-reasoned letter to be sent to the relevant authorities?
Mike
